Rocket Explosion Leads to a Stunning Sighting | The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch

BURDETTE: I’m going to take the color camera, and we’re going to put it right up here.
TRAVIS: We welcomed Burdette Anderson from a company called Photron Cameras to help us with a new experiment at the triangle.
Just hit the green button.
TRAVIS: He specializes in a high-speed camera system that can shoot thousands of frames per second.
Everything is talking correctly.
Our eyes basically detect somewhere between 24 and 30 frames per second.
The advantage of using a high-speed camera out here is if you have things that are moving that you’re just not quite catching, if you’re ready for it, you get a very good look at it.
My camera will shoot at 100,000 or a million frames per second.
TRAVIS: Let’s load a rocket.
Red one first?
TRAVIS: Yeah.
Our plan was to launch rockets up through the triangle where we’ve seen numerous UAPs and detected what we believe to be some kind of anomaly between 300 and 5,000 feet– OK, it’s on?
Yeah.
TRAVIS: –while Burdette photographed each launch at 1,000 frames per second with both color and infrared cameras.
Here we go.
This goes straight up.
Tell me when you’re good.
That’s fine.
TRAVIS: So we’re hoping that Burdette’s cameras will help us get a much better look at anything that might appear in the sky during our rocket launches tonight.
All right.
Copy you.
Erik, be advised the rocket’s hot.
We’re going hot now.
Copy you, Travis.
All right.
Here we go in 3, 2, 1.
[rocket firing] Hey, did you see that?
It turned before it could get to wherever the anomaly is.
Right.
TRAVIS: And how many times have we seen that happen?
Yeah.
It’s going to land right here behind us.
Right after the first rocket launched, I noticed that in midair, it suddenly veered a little off course like it ran into something invisible that deflected it.
Now, we’ve also seen that happen numerous times with other rockets and GPS devices at the triangle.
So I was really eager to immediately launch another rocket to see what would happen next.
5, 4, 3, 2, 1.
[rocket firing] BURDETTE: That is cool.
TRAVIS: Oh, that was awesome.
Boy, that went up pretty high.
That one may end up in the east field.
KALEB: Hey, we got a light that’s right there that’s moving. TRAVIS: Where?
Where?, Caleb?
KALEB: Right there, right above us.
TRAVIS: What? Really?
KALEB: Right there.
Where?
Yeah! We got it.
There it is, right there.
THOMAS: Nah, this was moving pretty fast.
What is that?
THOMAS: That’s not a plane.
Erik, we’ve got an orange light across the river on the southwest side moving pretty fast about treetop height.
THOMAS: Look at that.
It’s still plenty bright.
TRAVIS: Dang.
Yes, I do, Travis.
I will take a look.
I don’t know where it came from, but just after we launched our second rocket at the triangle area, probably the most prominent UAP I’ve ever seen appeared over Skinwalker Ranch.
Erik, we got something moving right over head of us right now.
It’s moving slightly northeast.
It’s orange, and it doesn’t look like a satellite.
Do you see it in the cameras?
Travis, I don’t have it.
Ask Erik if he’s got anything on the ADS-B.
Erik, is there anything on the ADS-B?
It would be going east-northeast right now directly over the ranch.
I’ve never seen an aircraft maneuver like this thing.
But Thomas was right to have Erik check his automatic dependent surveillance broadcasting tracker.
It monitors the signals that airplanes and jets are required by law to emit.
I’ve got eyes on the ADS-B map.
I get aircraft as far out as 130 miles.
There’s nothing over us.
There’s nothing near us.
It was clearly going due north, and then it doglegged, and it sped up.
THOMAS: Yeah, it came across, and then it turned.
Yeah, it’s still going.
Look at it.
THOMAS: So if that was a satellite, you’d expect it to start fading out.
TRAVIS: By now, it’d be fading out.
THOMAS: That’s no satellite.
TRAVIS: Did it just– it just vanished.
That thing stayed bright and just, pfft, went away.
Well, I don’t see anymore.
THOMAS: Well, I think we got to get that rocket up and see if we can make it– TRAVIS: Yep, I hear you.
THOMAS: –replicate it. – All right.
Going up.
Going in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.
[rocket firing] [rocket exploding] Oh, we got a malfunction.
Everybody, watch out.
TRAVIS: Oh.
Oh!
THOMAS: Oh. Oh, it’s on fire.
TRAVIS: We got a fire.
We got a fire.
It’s burned out.
The motor burned out.
Holy crap.
Let me see that.
THOMAS: What would cause that? What would cause that?
KALEB: What the heck would cause that?
The motor blew up.
It deflagrated inside the rocket.
I’ve seen experimental motors do that, Kaleb, but I’ve never seen a store-bought motor deflagrate like that.
– Yeah. – Got it.
KALEB: Hey, Travis.
Yeah.
We caught the malfunction on the high speed.
Oh, really? BURDETTE: Yeah.
KALEB: Yeah.
Hey, check this out.
There’s something on the camera.
BURDETTE: That’s something I’ve never seen before.
Check this out.
So as it’s going, look what you’ve got– TRAVIS: There’s something in the sky above the rocket right here.
BURDETTE: Yeah, look at that.
Look at the light.
TRAVIS: Whew.
No, no way.
[laughs] BURDETTE: Look at that.
THOMAS: I see blinking.
There is literally something– we may be looking at the anomaly for the first time, guys.
BURDETTE: Yeah, look at that. Look at the light.
TRAVIS: All right, now the rocket gets there.
KALEB: Look how it veers to the side.
BURDETTE: It blows up right there.
TRAVIS: And then the rocket blows up right when he hits it.
KALEB: Oh, [bleep]! – Yeah!
[cheering] TRAVIS: Heck yeah, brother.
Right here. Look at that.
THOMAS: Gah!
TRAVIS: Holy crap.
All right, Burdette, could you play it one more time?
I want to make sure I saw what I think I just saw.
After four years of investigating Skinwalker Ranch as a team, we finally got good visual evidence of something incredible at the triangle.
Just as we launched a rocket, Burdette Anderson captured some kind of blob-like feature on his high-speed camera that literally appeared out of nowhere and caused the rocket to explode.
It was something that none of us could see with the naked eye.
That cloud remained intact.
This isn’t an anomaly in the lens because it didn’t move.
Could this be the phenomenon that causes the energy spikes we’ve detected?
And is it related to the UAPs we’ve seen?
All I know is we may finally be getting closer to possible answers.
Think about all the rockets that hit about that same spot and veered off.
TRAVIS: So you can see it, right there.
There’s something in the sky.
KALEB: It’s already illuminated by the light.
TRAVIS: Yeah.
There’s not a cloud in the sky right now.
TRAVIS: There’s not a cloud in the sky.
THOMAS: There’s not a cloud. TRAVIS: And so what is it?
THOMAS: And there’s no dust.
And then, look.
It’s almost there.
Right there, it’s like it hits right on something or zap or whatever. – Boom.
Boom!
And it is exactly on top of that.
Oh, my God.
You can’t make it up.
Oh, yeah.
Usually, I can explain everything I’ve seen in a high-speed camera when I record it.
But when we shot the third rocket, as soon as that rocket started illuminating, we saw something that wasn’t there in the second shot.
I can’t explain what it is.
I’ve never seen anything like that come off a photron camera.
TRAVIS: Holy crap.
Oh, my God.
Well, Travis.
That’s only 30 feet– 30 or 40 feet, above us.
Oh, my God.
I couldn’t possibly know what this phenomenon was.
But we now have a clear location to focus our investigation.
OK, we caught something cool.
[laughs] TRAVIS: Right?
Yeah!
[laughter] THOMAS: That’s just more validation.
My gosh!
[laughs]