High-Speed Camera Captures Mysterious Flying Object | The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch

High-speed camera expert Burdett Anderson came to the ranch to help us with an experiment in the East Field. It’s another location that may be just as critical as the mesa to solving this mystery.

Travis: So, Burdett, this is the area where we saw that anomaly in the photogrammetry data that we showed you.
Burdett: Right.

Travis: So what we’re gonna do is we’re gonna play some acoustic sounds and look, uh, you know, with the high-speed, if we see anything odd.
Burdett: Okay.

If we produce a frequency, one line of thinking has it that we may activate something here in response to the emission of that sound frequency.

So we’re gonna sweep the frequency range a bit and see if something changes up over our heads.

Travis: So we’re going to project some frequencies to see what’s happening there.

We’re also gonna launch some rockets, just to probe the area. While we’re doing that, we’ll run the high-speed cameras on that as well.
Burdett: Absolutely.
Travis: Let’s get to work.
Burdett: Right.

Travis: For tonight’s experiment in the East Field, Eric is going to broadcast a range of acoustic frequencies using a device known as a tone generator. He’ll also be continuously scanning for RF radiation with his spectrum analyzer. Meanwhile, Burdett will use his high-speed cameras, which record 2,000 images per second, to look for anything strange, and more evidence that this unbelievable legend could be true.

We’re set up right in the middle of the photogrammetry anomaly.
Burdett: Dead center.

What we’ll do first is the sound and the rocket and run the high-speed for a couple of intervals.
Travis: Does that make sense?
Burdett: Works for me.

Travis: Okay. Thomas, if you want to… you and Caleb go launch the rocket. Y’all go ahead.
Thomas: Hold it there for a sec. We’ll put the igniter in.

All right, we’re loaded.
Ready, Burdett?
Burdett: High-speed’s ready. We’re recording right now in 2,000 frames per second.
Eric: Want to try the sound?
Travis: All right, standby for sound.

[Medium-pitched tone playing]

Travis: We’re hot in five, four, three, two, one!
Perfect! Look at that! Right up through the anomaly.

[dramatic music plays]

Travis: That rocket went perfectly through the anomaly, didn’t it?
Thomas: It did.
Caleb: It went straight up.
Burdett: Uh… okay. Can you look at this and tell me if it’s a bug or a bird?

Travis: Where?
Burdett: Right here. Watch this.

[eerie music plays]

Burdett: There’s something screaming across right after the rocket.
Travis: How far… Dude, that’s going a long way. Look at this thing.

Travis: That field of view is across the whole mesa, so that’s about a half a mile. And it’s at 2,000 frames a second, so he just went a half a mile in… 1.12 seconds, I believe.

Eric: Wow. That bird’d have a jet pack. [laughter] That ain’t a bird! Holy crap!

Right after we fired a rocket in the East Field and Eric began broadcasting a tonal frequency, Burdett Anderson’s high-speed camera recorded the fastest moving UAP we’ve ever documented on Skinwalker Ranch.

Travis: When did this happen in relation to the launch itself?
Burdett: It would’ve been about six seconds after the launch.

And it lasted for a period of a little over one second. That means it went from there to there…
[snaps fingers] Like that.

[ominous music plays]

Travis: Guys, that’s 3,600 miles per hour. What in the heck is this?

We just captured something moving at 3,600 miles per hour, right there, six seconds after we launched a rocket.

Something goes over this close to us at 3,600 miles per hour, you would think you would hear the atmospheric movement. You would think you’d see a wake behind it.
Burdett: No.
Travis: Guess what that’d have to be for that to happen?
Burdett: Yeah, it’d have to be frictionless.

Travis: The characteristics of this UAP were just like the so-called “Tic Tac” that was recorded in 2004 by the U.S. Navy.
Travis (male voice): It had no visible exhaust or wake either. And it also seemed to be surrounded by some kind of force field, and it disappeared in the blink of an eye. And you were at 2,000 frames a second.
Burdett: Yes.

Eric: Guys, we may have just seen something show up as a response to the rocket and the sound. I can’t help wondering which of the two, if either, is the stimulus.

And so what I’d like to try is a purely sound experiment.

Travis: Okay. So I need about eight minutes of download time left and then see what I can do to reset for light.
Burdett: We got about ten minutes?
Travis: Yes, sir.

Burdett: Okay. Are you comfortable with that?
Travis: Yeah.

For our experiment, Eric is going to be broadcasting a range of individual tones at various frequencies.

Frequencies are measured in units known as hertz.
[high-pitched tone sounds] Higher-numbered frequencies have a higher pitch…
[tone lowers] …while lower-number frequencies, a lower pitch.

We have no idea which frequency might trigger a phenomenon to occur, so Eric is going to play a number of them, and we’ll see if any cause something strange to happen.

Travis: All right, we’re about ready to start. Have at it!
Ready for frequency one.

Eric: Okay. Now.
[high-pitched tone sounds]
[tone stops]
Eric: Okay. That’s like tinnitus, right there!

Travis: Going to 380.
[low-pitched tone sounds] I feel like I’m hearing a harmonic of that.
Burdett: So you’re getting two tones?
Travis: Yeah. That’s interesting.

This is 385.
[medium-pitched tone sounds]
[tone stops, echoes]
Travis: Oh, did you hear that? It was resonating like a crystal glass. When you turned it off, it was still going.
Burdett: I could hear it echoing…
Travis: Did you hear that?
Burdett: Yeah.

Travis: So what’s half of that? Let’s try 192.
[low-pitched tone sounds]
[tone stops]
Travis: Oh, dude, I could feel that one. Did you feel that, Caleb?
Caleb: Oh yeah.
Travis: That’s the one. 192 was the biggest one so far. I could feel that in my feet.

Travis: Ho! Y’all see that? Right above us, right now. Something just jumped… came right across the sky.
Caleb: Really? See it moving?
Travis: Tiny, tiny brightness, yeah.

That was amazing. Just after Eric played the tone at a sound frequency of 192 Hz, another UAP appeared and then vanished.

Travis: Let’s keep an eye. John Dover told us that the indigenous people of this region used sound frequencies to open portals centuries ago. And also, that they claimed to see UAPs flying in and out of the mesas. Could we have just experienced this?

Whatever that lower one was, the ground was like that. You could feel it in your feet.

So that’s pretty neat, but when you turned it off, the valley was still ringing. That’s interesting. That’s neat.

Eric: Now that we have the specific frequencies that create special effects on the environment, I’m excited to see what kind of experiments we can do to stimulate the phenomenon and maybe even, as some put it, to open portals of one kind or another.

Really makes me interested in coming out here to do, specifically, focused sound experiments.
Yeah. Specifically for sound. That’s exactly right. Don’t worry about anything else, just focus on that.

This has been a heck of a successful experiment. We did capture something during the experiments, moving at 3,600 miles per hour, which, you know, that’s not something you see every day.