Beyond Skinwalker Ranch: Mysterious Portal Exposed by Rocket Launch

Well, I think what we want to do is talk to you about why we want to go back to someplace we found so interesting.
And you may recall Rocky Mountain Ranch.
Oh, yeah. PAUL BEBAN: Yeah?
Rocky Mountain Ranch first came across our radar when we were reading the book Hunt for the Skinwalker. ERIK BARD: Yes.
ANDY BUSTAMENTE: Inside that book, there’s a ranch referenced in Colorado, but the ranch is anonymized in the book.
We were able to actually uncover the true location of it and connect it back to researcher, Katie Paige, who was actually a child on that ranch.
And a big part of her experience there is what led her to become a well respected UFO researcher.
Now, we went there and we took Katie back to the ranch the first time in 40 years?
– 40 years– – Wow.
–at least.
There was just such an abundance of data that came out of this.
We have a lot of jumping off points to go back to.
MOCEAN MELVIN: During the 2023 investigation, while exploring an area on Rocky Mountain Ranch that has been a hotspot of activity, Andy and the current owners heard the strange humming sound that Katie reported hearing as a young girl.
WOMAN: What is that noise?
ANDY BUSTAMENTE: That doesn’t sound like a plane or a drone.
That’s a pitched hum.
MOCEAN MELVIN: This led the team to conduct rocket tests.
Something caused the first rocket to go wildly off course from its normal flight path.
ANDY BUSTAMENTE: Greg, is that it?
Is that it? GREG: Yeah, there it is.
Holy [bleep].
What’s it doing over here?
GREG: Wow.
ANDY BUSTAMENTE: This is way off course.
MOCEAN MELVIN: The second rocket failed in mid-air.
[rocket whooshing] The team speculated that this might have been caused by passing through an aerial anomaly.
MAN 5: It’s like it hit a wall up there.
MAN 6: She’s dropping.
[music playing] TRAVIS TAYLOR: And this thing tumbled?
– Yes. – Like it hit something, yeah.
ERIK BARD: Yes.
There was a noticeable bump.
All right, guys. Well, good luck.
Thanks.
ANDY BUSTAMENTE: Morning, guys. PAUL BEBAN: Morning.
MIKE TURICIK: How are you? – Good to see you again.
PAUL BEBAN: Good to see you.
MOCEAN MELVIN: Andy and Paul have called in Skinwalker rocket experts.
Allen Isdell and Mike Turicik from Loc Precision to help them conduct a rocket test at the landing site, an area where they think there could be a possible portal above Rocky Mountain Ranch.
We’re excited to have you back.
This area specifically that we’re set up on is one of the strangest from our first experiment here.
Yeah. No, the last year was– I mean, that was a very odd launch.
Good flight up, no ejection charge, right?
Rocket never separated, no parachute.
That was not common.
And since then, we’ve confirmed that there’s multiple sources of data that show that there’s some kind of anomalous activity somewhere around here.
So we’ve actually opted to have two launch sites and two different rockets that we’re trying to launch into the same area.
MOCEAN MELVIN: The plan is to launch two rockets from two different locations, both aimed at the airspace above the landing site where the data the team has collected suggests there could be a portal.
Going in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.
[music playing] [rocket whirring] GREG: Good flight.
All right.
Watch for an event.
It’s out. Come on.
ANDY BUSTAMENTE: Look out. – Come on.
ANDY BUSTAMENTE: Look out.
MIKE TURICIK: Give me your chute.
Give me your chute.
[music playing] Oh!
Oh my goodness.
ALLEN ISDELL: Yeah, that’s twice.
Twice.
Outside of here and Skinwalker, 95% or better success rate.
PAUL BEBAN: Uh huh. – Oh, wow.
OK.
Here, 50/50.
I was going to say.
ALLEN ISDELL: Right at apogee, you know, it’s perfect.
Nice arc over, everything looked good.
And then we should have had our chute deploy– nothing.
What caused that to not deploy?
This may have been right in the exact same spot.
PAUL BEBAN: Exactly.
I mean, here we have two instances separated by time, and we have very similar results.
This is weird.
There’s something going on up there.
Let’s see if the next one will do better.
MOCEAN MELVIN: For the final launch, the team sets up their next rocket about 350 feet south at the cistern.
Having already targeted the aerial anomaly from the landing site itself, the plan is to launch the second rocket directed at the same area in the sky, but this time from a different angle to see what additional data it might collect.
All right.
The grand finale.
We’ve got our largest payload, too, that we’ve ever flown here.
So, I mean, whatever aerial anomaly might be here, we’re looking at hitting it right now from a completely different angle.
And by going up 3,000 feet, we potentially have the opportunity to hit it going up and then again coming back down.
Right.
That is a massive– Look at that thing.
–massive rocket.
That is taller than you, Allen.
[laughing] Well, are we ready to put it up in the air?
ANDY BUSTAMENTE: Yes, absolutely.
I can’t wait.
MOCEAN MELVIN: The eight foot tall Loc VII rocket can reach an altitude of up to 3,000 feet.
The Loc VII is equipped with a trifield meter, spectrum analyzer, Geiger counter, and GPS tracker.
If this launch is successful, it would collect more data than any rocket experiment executed on Skinwalker Ranch.
[beeping] All right, we’re good.
All right, let’s do it.
[music playing] All right.
Sky clear?
MIKE TURICIK: Yes, sir.
[music playing] ALLEN ISDELL: Pad’s armed.
Going in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.
[music playing] [high pitched buzzing] [rocket whirring] PAUL BEBAN: Holy smokes.
ANDY BUSTAMENTE: Wow.
Good flight.
ANDY BUSTAMENTE: That is right over our heads.
ALLEN ISDELL: We’re at apogee.
It’s down.
Oh, nice. We got a chute.
Wow.
Woo.
I’ll tell you what, my heart was in my throat there for a second.
I was like– Hands up.
It’s right over us. ANDY BUSTAMENTE: Yep.
ALLEN ISDELL: It’s a beautiful thing.
ANDY BUSTAMENTE: Still coming down right at us, though.
Make sure you got a clear path if you need to move.
MIKE TURICIK: You got it.
ALLEN ISDELL: Let’s see, into the trees.
Clear the power lines.
She’s on the ground.
MIKE TURICIK: In the trees.
ALLEN ISDELL: Yep, she’s on the ground.
All right. – Beautiful.
Greg, you ready, man?
Yes let’s go.
[music playing] ANDY BUSTAMENTE: We had a textbook launch that’s going to bring back the largest payload of data that we’ve ever had in any of our previous investigations.
Not only is today going to inform Paul and I’s ongoing investigations here in Rocky Mountain Ranch, but it’s also going to inform the investigations that are happening at Skinwalker Ranch.
There she is.
[music playing] Yeah, the payload should be fine.
Everything looks good.
[music playing] What’s the matter?
It’s saying we hit 1,300 feet.
But the other one was 1,400, right?
Yeah.
It looked a lot– And that appeared to go a lot higher.
It sure seemed like it.
So that’s– obviously, that’s completely off.
The altitude definitely seems wrong.
The range– distance from launch pad to where it landed– I mean, this is saying it’s less than 1,000 feet away.
That’s definitely more than 1,000 feet.
PAUL BEBAN: That looks like more than 1,000 feet.
And that’s more like half mile.
So, I mean, what is this telling you right now?
I mean, the GPS is not functioning properly.
There’s definitely something going on with that.
Yeah, we’ll have to download the data and see.
Yeah.
PAUL BEBAN (VOICEOVER): So we got a clean launch and landing here.
But already, we’re seeing that there’s some kind of problems.
Even when it seems like everything has gone perfectly, the ranch seems to be interfering with our instruments once again.
I mean, we just can’t figure out what’s going on here.
PAUL BEBAN: All right. ALLEN ISDELL: How’s she look?
Aw, man.
Pretty awesome.
Hot rocket coming.
Here you go.
[music playing] Looking good.
Well, everything is in tact. ANDY BUSTAMENTE: Look at that.
MIKE TURICIK: Intact and running.
Everything’s running.
Yep.
Fantastic.
I think we can safely say this was the single most successful rocket experiment– Right.
–on this ranch or Skinwalker Ranch because every payload they put up like this– Yeah.
–I think has been affected in some way.
We got our rocket and our instruments.
– All back. – First.
Well, wait until you hear.
So we got good flight, good recovery, weird data.
What?
Yeah.
GPS data is going all over the place.
ANDY BUSTAMENTE: No way. – Yeah.
OK.
So what looked like a pretty awesome launch still had some anomalous readings in the GPS arena?
Yeah.
Let’s pack up and take it back to the shop.
Sounds good.
PAUL BEBAN: OK.
We called in Loc Precision because of the results that we just got from the Terra Exploration Team.
I’m very comfortable with that approach.
You’re being led by your data.
That’s what we say here all the time.
What got us excited about this experiment was that we had a repeatable experiment.
We put a rocket through the same aerial anomaly at a different point in time.
But in both cases, there was systematic failure of the rocket.
And in this case, with the payload on board, we also had some sort of electrical or digital corruption.
I got to tell you, Andy, that point is not wasted on us.
TRAVIS TAYLOR: No.
ANDY BUSTAMENTE: So we came prepared for this, which is why we launched a second rocket right from the cistern aiming at the same anomaly.
ERIK BARD: OK.
So here’s the live feed from inside the rocket.
ERIK BARD: Yes. Man, that’s awesome.
The data is working.
[rattling] OK.
TRAVIS TAYLOR: Oh. Oh.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
ANDY BUSTAMENTE: Yep, right here.
There ERIK BARD: Right there.
There’s a blip.
That gets my attention.
And, you know, the spectrum analyzer is interesting.
It went– it had a 1.7, and it jumped to 1.4 when the trifield meter jumps.
ANDY BUSTAMENTE: Yes.
Now, that is interesting.
I don’t know what the assignable cause for that would be.
Now, let’s assume that this is right in the peak location that you were launching the rocket toward this weird thing here.
Before it gets to that point, you’re seeing a 1.7 gigahertz signal on the spectrum analyzer.
And then instantly, at some point, we see a burst in the EMP on the trifield meter.
You see it shift down to 1.423 gigahertz.
That would mean that you had a frequency change.
And since frequency is telling you what changing energy is happening, then that tells us that you went through some sort of anomalous region that would be reminiscent of a portal.
What we have found here with this return to Rocky Mountain Ranch is that this landing site could really hold the key to whatever else is happening on the entire ranch.
Great work.
Fantastic work, guys.
Thank you for that. ANDY BUSTAMENTE: Thank you.
TRAVIS TAYLOR: Good stuff.