Brendan Jesus
A new fighter has entered the ring! At the time of writing this coverage, we have new and interesting allegations regarding the government and classified Ufology news. A whistleblower has come out with a report that alleges the Pentagon and a secret UAP program called Immaculate Constellation. This program was supposedly hidden from Congress. The whistleblower alleges to have come upon this information by accident.
In the report, this whistleblower describes credible-looking UAPs and has shared this report with members of Congress. There are also reports, via the whistleblower, about crash retrieval programs and craft reverse engineering. If Congress doesn’t know about this information, then what level of security do you have to have to actually see it? This is all very fascinating, but many of us still feel burnt about David Grusch’s subcommittee hearing (which was also Ryan Graves’s soft launch into public “disclosure”). What can this report do that a three-hour-plus-George-Knapp-in-attendance hearing can’t (or didn’t)? Only time will tell.
Now, it should be stated, that my pea brain is giving you this information based on the multitude of sources and reports I’ve read from. I have not read the whistleblower’s report, my Twitter feed is full of a wide range of people on both sides of the Ufology aisle, and, frankly, I don’t care at this point. After Grusch, we were left waving our dicks in the wind. It did nothing. I do not agree with the character assassination of Grusch, but I understand the frustration and lack of follow-through on anyone’s part. I’ve always said I will believe when I see something with my own eyes. I’ve had my experience, I’ve seen an undebunakble UAP. That’s all I need for myself.
You know what I also believe? That there’s an odd Mystery [going on] at Blind Frog Ranch!
Literally, A Pro
Jamie Dube pulls up to the Miner’s Shack in the Side-by-Side with Technology Expert Nick Letteral. Duane Ollinger, Chad Ollinger, Eric Drummond, and Charlie Boy are at the Miner’s Shack awaiting Jamie and Nick. Chad fills Nick in about the camera and solar panels they found on the tree. With just a quick glance at the camera, Nick is already certain it’s an expensive setup. He pulls out the cell card and tells the team it means whoever put it here can remotely access it without having to ever set foot back on the property.
Nick hooks the cell card up to his computer to try and get whatever information he can off of it. He also confirms the camera had a 360-degree view of the property and has the capability to detect individual people and focus directly on them. Duane has a sarcastic chuckle and thinks someone with deep pockets has been watching their every move.
After hooking up the cell card (which he also calls a cell modem occasionally), he tells them they only have one shot at this—once they turn it on, whoever controls it can remotely delete all of the data off of it. Nick asks the team if they’re ready; they unanimously say yes. With a deep breath, Nick logs into the cell card.
The data is swept from the card immediately. In a talking head, Nick says it’s clear what happened here. Whoever controls this setup was waiting for them to log in. This was expected once the camera’s owner saw Charlie Boy remove it. Someone wants what Duane has here. Duane sternly looks into the camera when he says that now is the time to get the box out of the cavern.
Boys In The Hills
Later that night, we join the four men at the Energy Zone’s drill site. They plan on lowering the heavy-duty chain (with a haul capacity of 200,000 pounds) incrementally down the hole. Once this is completed, Duane and Chad head to a trailer where their scuba stuff is stored. As the two gather the gear for tomorrow’s dive, Eric radios over.
“There are two men on the ridge above the Water Pit.”
Chad grabs his night vision gear from the trailer and looks up toward the ridgeline. Clear as day, two men are doing something. Duane takes a look and gets heated. The two men jump into Chad’s RZR and hightail out of there. Speeding through the dirt roads, they eventually get to a chokepoint that the two trespassers would have had to go through to leave the area.
Jamie pulls up to Duane and Chad. All three realize they didn’t get to this location in time and the trespassers are long gone. What Jamie does find is a pair of tire tracks leading out of the ranch. Duane calls it a night at this point and hopes Charlie Boy will find something on the game cams. Jamie, in a talking head, says you don’t have to be a police detective to know someone trespassing in the middle of the night, especially when they flee, can only mean one of two things: someone is spying on the project or someone is trying to steal something.
The next morning, Chad and Duane pull up at the spot where they saw the trespasser’s tire tracks. Near the location is a dead cow. Its cause of death is unknown, but it’s branded with pitchfork-like holes. Not too far from the dead cow is a SECOND dead cow, this one has been chewed on by an animal (not mutilated).
Back at the Miner’s Shack, the four men have a meeting of the minds to discuss their next day’s plan of attack. Chad will dive into the cavern and attach the chains to the box. He will then tether the end of the chain to a rope and pull the rope out of the cavern. From there, they will pull the tether out until they reach the chain. And once they have the chain, it’s pull-o-clock! Eric interjects about how the box will get stuck on some of the boulders in the path, so they will have to jackhammer some of the rocks in the path. But that’s a problem for a later day.
Dive On In
We join the team at the Water Pit the next day. Chad suits up in his scuba suit. Duane says a lot of time and money has gone into this project and that a million things can go wrong, but only one can go right.
Chad and cameraman Ryan Walsh dive into the water. But within just a few minutes, they resurface. The water is just too murky to see anything. Eric says the clay is at fault. Do you remember the windstorm from “No Dyin’ Tryin’ Today”? Well, that’s at fault here. The wind blew too many dust particles around, thus making the water nearly impossible to see through. This means the water could be clear in a few days, weeks, or months.
Once Chad is back out, Duane realizes he might need to reassess. He pulls Chad aside and has a very frank conversation. Since they have a LIDAR scan and one-way communication, Duane poses a very risky idea. Chad and Ryan will dive in and navigate their way to the box based on Duane’s directions. Duane reiterates this is Chad’s decision, but it doesn’t feel like it is.
Later that night at Chad’s family’s camp, he has a conversation with his wife regarding the dive. He’s always been a risk taker, but now being a husband and father to four kids, he looks at his life differently. She’s obviously uncomfortable with this dive, even though she implicitly trusts Chad. Even though Duane told Chad this is all his decision, Chad doesn’t feel like he can say no.
The next day at the Water Pit, Chad and Ryan suit back up for the blind dive. Emotions are high, and things are eerily silent. Duane tells Chad again this is still his decision, but Chad thinks the overall benefit of the dive outweighs the risk.
Chad says if they get to the box and have less than three-fourths of air left before getting to the box, they will turn around. In a talking head, Eric says this is the most dangerous experiment he’s ever been a part of; you don’t do dives like this.
“I think we all have gold fever.” — Eric Drummond
Charlie Boy whispers to Eric that he’s nervous as Chad and Ryan plummet into the water. Duane sounds incredibly somber as he directs Chad and Ryan through the cave. At one point, since Duane only has one-way comms, Duane asks Chad to tug on the rope if he can hear the directions. Nothing. Duane asks again. Nothing…it’s incredibly nerve-wracking and tense as hell!
Finally, Chad tugs on the rope. This is a huge sigh of relief. Chad makes it to the box and gets the chain and tether attached. Chad and Ryan eventually resurface and reveal it was a success! Once Chad and Ryan are out of the water, Duane attaches the tether to the end of his CAT excavator. He pulls the tether until the chain emerges from the edge of the water! Woohoo!
Later on, Charlie Boy says the trespassers did something to his camera to corrupt the footage from his trail cams. He looks through the photos but doesn’t have anything good or concrete.
Eric radios Duane from the Miner’s Shack and asks him to join. He’s looking through footage of Chad’s original dive to the box to get a feel of what kind of boulders they will be dealing with. At the Water Pit, the four men set up the underwater jackhammer they will have to use. The thing is 75 dang pounds! So, Chad rigged together a buoyancy jacket for the jackhammer, which will make it less heavy and easier to maneuver.
That’s when Chad says it’ll be a two-man job. “I’ll go with you,” says Duane. Pappa is coming out of retirement baby! Let’s gooooo!
Final Thoughts
What were the trespassers doing there? Something nefarious? Did they accidentally get onto the property and then skedaddle when they got noticed? Who knows. But their location to the ridge of the Water Pit is nefarious.
The scene of Chad possibly losing comms with the team on shore was frightening, but excellent television. I’m beyond excited that things seem to be going well and I hope this underwater jackhammering goes as planned! I NEED to see what’s in the box because maybe it’ll have some insight into the Mystery at Blind Frog Ranch.
