What Did They Hit?! Drilling Reveals Bizarre Obstruction (S6) | The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch

This morning, things on Skinwalker Ranch appeared to be going a lot better than usual with our drilling operation out at the mesa. The team had gotten more than halfway up through the second of two boreholes that are positioned on either side of a massive, potentially metallic object, which is surrounded by several smaller anomalies. So, once Borehole 2 is finished, we can insert scanning devices into both boreholes, and hopefully, identify what these potential objects could be.
ALEX: Thomas, you got a copy? THOMAS: I do, Alex. Go ahead. Running into, uh, some issues over here.
I’m going to have to pull out.
You say you’re pulling out?
-Yeah. -Uh, what’s the problem?
Yesterday, I was cutting through this hard spot around 380 feet in.
-Right. -And then I hit this spot, 470 foot in, and I hit something.
Took me every bit of two and a half hours to get 67 inches, and I’m not moving at all now.
And it’s not even biting, it’s just rotating smoothly.
Well, shoot.
I’ll– I won’t delay you anymore, I’ll let you get the pipe out.
I’m going to go over to the spoils pit and see if that bit is damaged -when it comes out of the hole. -Okay.
THOMAS: The drillers experienced so many issues drilling on our second hole. And now, whatever we’re running up against is extremely hard. It really makes me wonder, what’s making it so hard for them to drill into the mesa? There it is.
Oh, my gosh.
Only one tooth on that bit is worn down.
The way that you guys were describing it, I thought the teeth would have popped off or been wore down to a nub.
That’s exactly what should have happened.
-That’s got all the teeth. -Mm-hmm.
That cutting side one, the inside’s off of it a little bit.
ALEX: Well, I don’t know what I could have been into.
I was not moving at all.
And it was acting almost bald.
It felt like I didn’t have any teeth on the end at all.
KYLE: It makes kind of a screeching noise, like if you’re rubbing a knife on a plate or something.
Something smooth.
And that would usually be when there’s no teeth on the end of that bit.
THOMAS: I am absolutely shocked.
Because this drill bit isn’t seriously damaged, it leaves me with a lot of questions as to what was so hard that this drill bit couldn’t drill through?
Is he drilling up against those anomalies that the GPR data shows buried in the mesa? Does this mean that we’re drilling into some type of metallic object? Or is it something else that’s causing this strange behavior with the drill? I’ll get out of your way and let you guys get this changed out.
ALEX: Yeah, we’ll change out these bits and I’ll keep you updated.
THOMAS: Okay. Thanks, guys. EASTON: Is it moving at all?
I don’t think so.
Yeah, it’s a pretty hard layer I’m in right here.
Alex Swanson and his crew stayed late to see if they could break through it and finish the hole. So, we were closely monitoring the process with our spectrum analyzers and radiation detectors. THOMAS: Thomas to Erik, do you copy?
ERIK: Yeah, Thomas. What do you got? Uh, they’re drilling through something -extremely hard right now. -Copy that.
We’re going to monitor down here. Copy that.
TRAVIS: And while drilling continued, archaeologist Chris Roberts was still methodically sifting through the drilling spoils for any clues that might help explain just what’s buried inside the mesa. CHRIS (over radio): Hey, guys. You got a copy? THOMAS: Yes. Go ahead.
Yeah, I got some things over here I think you’re gonna want to take a look at. You want to come over here to the spoils site? Absolutely. We’ll head right over.
Sam, Jim, if y’all don’t mind, keep an eye on this and let us know if it changes dramatically or whatever.
-Yeah, absolutely. -All right, we’ll be back in a bit.
ROYSTON: Okay.
-TRAVIS: Hey, Chris. -CHRIS: Hey, guys.
-Thanks for coming over. -TRAVIS: Yeah, man.
CHRIS: Something I wanted to show you that I really can’t believe that we found inside the mesa.
What the hell is this?
What is that?
CHRIS: It’s ceramics.
What?
Travis, flip it over. Flip it over.
Do you see the two different colors?
-TRAVIS: Yeah. -We’ve got a glazed surface -and we have a porous surface here? -Yes.
L-Look at the patterning.
TRAVIS: Yeah. It’s like a crosshatch pattern in it.
ERIK: Yes, absolutely.
That’s manufactured, guys.
Yeah, that-that is absolutely pressed into place and then baked.
Could this really be a manufactured ceramic material?
How did it get deep in the mesa?
Is this what damaged the drill and made the beacon signal spread? And is it connected to the 1.6 gigahertz signal we just detected? This right here is a edge fragment -right there. -TRAVIS: Mm-hmm.
CHRIS: That– so that’s a finished edge.
-KALEB: Yes. -THOMAS: Oh, my gosh, -look how perfect it is. -TRAVIS: It’s beveled.
TRAVIS: Holy crap.
That’s beveled for something– it fits into something else.
CHRIS: It’s flat, it really doesn’t have a curve to it.
It’s not a vessel, it’s not a, a plate, a cup.
Basically, it’s a tile, right?
But it’s too thin for a floor tile, too thin for a roof tile.
You said “tile,” and that’s ringing some bells for me.
-Think about what we were told at the University of Utah. -TRAVIS: Yeah.
Right? It’s a lot like the space shuttle tiles.
Holy smokes.
TRAVIS: Three years ago, we had the metal pieces that were extracted from the mesa examined at the University of Utah. Okay.
TRAVIS: And there, metallurgy expert Dr. Ravi Chandran helped us conclude that they had a manufactured design that was similar to the protective coating used on spacecraft. It’s like a glass, it’s like a ceramic, uh, composite, right?
Yeah, so, that makes a lot of sense.
So, could this ceramic material be what the drill was hitting, and is it what kept the bit from heating up?
If so, what the heck is buried in the mesa on Skinwalker Ranch?
Have we punctured through something that’s coated with this ceramic?
What is that ceramic doing in there?
KALEB: So, that’s the question is like, what would you use metal and-and ceramic like this in conjunction?
TRAVIS: I don’t know.
A spaceship?
You said it.
-There’s space-age material right there. -THOMAS: Yeah.
ERIK: Yeah. 470 feet -into a mesa in the middle of the desert. -TRAVIS: Yeah. Yeah.
TRAVIS: How did it get in there?
THOMAS: Well, we do have a video of a UAP flying through the mesa.
Who knows?
Was this some kind of high-tech vessel that maybe didn’t make it all the way through and got stuck in there?
ERIK: I smiled at it when you said it, but I got to tell you, I’m taking it more seriously now.
Watch how this thing emerges, and watch the path that it takes.
TRAVIS: In 2022, we captured unbelievable video of a glowing UAP flying into the mesa in the east field and then reemerging on the other side, like it flew right through solid rock. So, knowing that there’s a massive object in the mesa and seeing these strange materials in the drilling spoils really makes you wonder what might have happened here.
THOMAS: Well, guys, the sum total of everything that we’ve seen up there, we’re seeing signals spread.
You couple that with the metal we’re pulling out of there.
You’ve got ceramic material, you got metal, -you got magnetic rocks. -Right.
-TRAVIS: Yeah. -All these things could be related to what’s in there, right?
I think it’s a hundred percent connected.
ERIK: I want to take a radiation measurement.
I’ll-I’ll get the gamma ray detector.
KALEB: No, that’s freakin’ awesome, though.
ERIK: Let me get a control measurement here.
Okay, so…
control measurement: 37.
So, I’m seeing 37 to 68.
-Okay. -ERIK: Yeah, that’s a normal reading.
Seems like it got a little more excited.
-TRAVIS: It is more radio– 105. -THOMAS: 105.
TRAVIS: Whoa.
THOMAS: Whoa.
It is radioactive.
-What in the hell is this stuff? -Wow.
TRAVIS: Wow, on top of everything else, this stuff has given off unusually high amounts of radiation.
So, could that be a clue that whatever’s in the mesa might have caused the radiation damage to the plants and animals in the nearby field?
We’ve got to figure out exactly what this really is.
Dude, what’s going on in there?
-Unbelievable. -It’s fantastic.
All-all thanks to our archeologist -who knows what he’s looking at. -Heck yeah, dude.
-ERIK: That’s a hell of a job. -TRAVIS: Heck yeah.
TRAVIS: We got to get this thing to a lab and get it tested.
ERIK: I want to sit down with this and get some quality time with an S.E.M.– scanning electron microscope– and figure out what this is.
Hey, well, let’s get to it.
-Immediately. All right. -Let’s go. Let’s go.
THOMAS: Thanks, Chris.