Skinwalker Ranch: New Rocket Test Triggers Signal and Strange UAP Sighting
Bringing Back a Veteran Investigator
Travis Taylor and the team decided it was time to call in someone who knew the ranch better than almost anyone else: retired Army Colonel John Alexander.
Alexander was a key member of Robert Bigelow’s NIDS team, which investigated Skinwalker Ranch for nearly two decades starting in 1996. The hope was that his past experience with bizarre cattle incidents and strange phenomena might shed light on what the current team has been facing—especially around the now-infamous “triangle” and Homestead Two.
Travis explained that during many recent anomalies, they’ve detected a mysterious RF signal around 1.6 GHz. He asked Alexander if anything like that showed up during the earlier investigations, and what he knew about the idea of portals on the ranch.
Alexander recalled an incident near Homestead Two, where something moved through the trees and Russian olives—visible only as a distortion in the air, not a solid object. The NIDS team eventually floated the idea that a portal to another dimension might be responsible for some of the ranch’s strangest activity.
His warning to the current team was blunt:
“You’re operating under the illusion that you’re in control. You’re not. There’s an it that’s in control.”
Testing the Portal Theory at Homestead Two
That night, the team returned to Homestead Two with a familiar plan: try to provoke phenomena using a rocket launch.
They set up:
- A rocket to fire into the air above the site
- A spectrum analyzer to monitor RF activity, especially around 1.6 GHz
The rocket launched cleanly, but the parachute failed. It came crashing down near the homestead. At first, it looked like just a mechanical failure—until Erik’s instruments lit up.
Right after the crash, the spectrum analyzer suddenly picked up a strong 1.60000 GHz signal. No one on the team was transmitting at that frequency.
The signal appeared, pulsed like some kind of communication, and then vanished.
Once again, a major anomaly at Homestead Two lined up perfectly with that same mysterious 1.6 GHz frequency they’ve seen during other strange events on the ranch.
The Next Day: Erik Finds Something Disturbing on Camera
The following day, Erik reviewed the surveillance footage from the new cameras installed around the homesteads. He’s used to seeing plenty of normal “noise” on the cameras—bugs, dust, and small debris drifting past the lens.
But this time, he found something different.
On one of the night-vision cameras near Homestead Two, right after the rocket experiment, an object drifted slowly into view:
- It appeared to be glowing or illuminated
- It moved behind one tree and in front of others, proving it wasn’t just a bug near the lens
- It left a faint luminous trail behind it
- Its movement was slow, irregular, and “organic”, almost like a balloon—but with no wind visible in the trees or grass
Based on the parallax and distance to the trees, the team estimated it was at least 30 feet away and roughly the size of a volleyball.
Not a Bug, Not a Balloon: What Is It?
As the team replayed the footage, they compared it to:
- Bugs streaking quickly past the lens
- Floating debris
- Balloons drifting in the wind
Nothing matched.
Key points they noticed:
- The camera’s frame rate (~24 fps) should have captured a normal object cleanly
- The object appeared to change apparent shape depending on its angle—sometimes more circular, sometimes more elongated, like a cigar
- It moved with what looked like intent, not just random drifting
Travis pointed out that this behavior and shape were similar to the “Tic Tac” UAP from the famous 2004 USS Nimitz encounter. In that case, pilots reported an object that:
- Looked cigar-shaped from some angles
- Appeared more spherical from others
- Changed apparent shape as it maneuvered
The Skinwalker object seemed to exhibit the same kind of ambiguity.
A UAP Linked to the 1.6 GHz Signal?
The timing made the footage even more unsettling.
On the same night and in the same area, the team had:
- A rocket launch at Homestead Two
- A sudden, unexplained 1.6 GHz signal that appeared and then disappeared
- A strange glowing object drifting through the scene on camera
Travis connected the dots:
- They’ve repeatedly measured unknown signals around 1.6 GHz when phenomena occur
- Now, they’d captured a visible object in the sky at almost the same moment that the mystery signal spiked
His conclusion was cautious but clear:
“I’d say you’ve captured a UAP on camera here, Erik—and we don’t know what it is.”
Next Steps: Digging Deeper into the Data
Erik wasn’t satisfied to just call it weird and move on. He planned to:
- Run image processing on the footage
- Analyze the object’s trajectory, brightness, and shape frame by frame
- Correlate the exact time stamp of the object with the RF data from the 1.6 GHz signal
For him, this event reinforced one thing:
Skinwalker Ranch is not a simple “haunted property” or a single-phenomenon hotspot. It’s a complex, layered problem involving:
- Unexplained RF signals
- Apparent UAPs
- Historical reports of portals and distortions
- Decades of sightings, injuries, and anomalies with no clear source
The team left the session with more questions than answers—but also with some of the clearest visual evidence of a UAP they’ve captured so far on the ranch.
