The team decided to drill between the two boreholes to get right to the meat of what's in the mesa. They planned to be delicate about the process to not damage whatever is in the earth. As they drilled, they came across sandstone. The first day, they got to 45 feet depth and had another 45 feet for the next day.
A Tesla coil engineer, Cameron Prince, arrived to test the bubble utilizing Tesla guns. They hoped to probe the "force field" aspect of the bubble. They chose to shoot through the tesla gun at the 35 feet level and hopefully the electrical output would be attracted to the grounded tower and make a straight beeline to it. They hoped to see if the bubble and the "blob" at the 35-foot level are connected.
A 33.33 MHz signal began. It happened other drilling times. It was coming from the sky. They think the signal was coming from the sky and bouncing off the mesa. It could have been two signals - one from above and one from inside the mesa. When the antenna was aimed at the triangle, it was stronger. Travis assumes there might be an interaction with the blob.
The electric discharge in the center of the triangle amplified the 33.33 MHz signal. This was baffling to the team. When they stop the electrical testing, the signal stabilized. They were pushing the blog region and it seemed to be the center of the signal communication. Travis had his usual response, "wow, that's weird!"
The next test, they shot the tesla guns at the blog and the boundary simultaneously. The 33.33 MHz signal pulsed stronger again. They began shooting rockets and one malfunctioned. Sensory boxes lost connections. The interferences with the tech has them baffled.
They suspect the blob is the "heart" of this phenomenon. When they shoot at the bubble boundary, the blob area responds. They felt they learned more about the blob with this experiment.
Blob - the strange area about 35 feet above ground inside the triangle/bubble area. They defined it once with a smoke experiment and set up a grounded tower there for experiments.
Bubble - a region defined with measurements that shows a dome-shaped gigantic area of phenomenon over the triangle and toward Homestead 2. The invisible boundary of it acts like a force field in some ways.
The drill got to 68 feet so far and had not hit the anomaly. They expected it to hit the defined area of anomaly inside the mesa. They decide to drill to 90 feet and look at the spoils.
Cameron Fugal flew in to the ranch in his helicopter. They decided to put Pete, their LIDAR expert in the helicopter and Kaleb took the hand-held LIDAR scanner to compare what is going on as they drill. Pete mapped from the helicopter above the bubble back and forth with the LIDAR scanner.
They finished the scanning and landed at the drill site at the top of the mesa. They reviewed the spoils that showed what was expected for the soil there. When they reached the 90-foot drilling mark, they brought the team together to study the spoils. Chris Roberts, their archaeologist on the team, said they found nothing in the spoils.
Travis said, it's like whatever was in there, moved.
They decided to drill again, this time near the borehole 2, but closer to the face of the mesa, right where they found the ceramics in borehole 2.
They reviewed the findings from the Tesla coil experiment and the electrical impulses were not hitting the grounding rod, but they should have. Some of the arcs were jetting off in a new direction, away from the grounded launch tower. The arcs were avoiding it. Maybe the blob affects electrical responses. As they shot at the grounding rod, they saw the arcs going up and away from the grounding tower, and the arcs made contact with something, showing a weird misty shape on the pics.
They reviewed the rocket launches to see if they were being affected by this blob area. The rocket they studied, shot up and curved away with no wind, and the smoke was not going in the right direction. The curve the rocket took was right at the same level as the tesla discharge at the grounding tower.
I appreciate them working on the parameters and the responses to stimuli, but it makes me think about how big their task is -
Say you run into someone who is crying. You can study their expressions, their tears, their gestures, their sounds, but what triggered the tears? Pain? A breakup? Loss of a loved one? Depression? A bad work review? The list goes on forever. How do you narrow it down? This is the team's dilemma.
The rocket seemed to be okay and then the tail of the rocket was hit by something that bumped it off course. The second rocket did the same thing at the same height, as if the motor was pushed one foot at the blob area and set it to veer off in the same way. Something in that spot affected an object (rocket) which makes it seem like a physical presence.
Of course, Travis wants to shoot off a lot more rockets.
The preview of next week's episode looks very interesting! Thanks Brandon, the team, and History Channel for allowing us in on the research with great transparency.