A skeptical Alaskan looks at Rainmaker’s latest claims.
On August 22–23, 2026, the California-based company Rainmaker flew two “Elijah” drones over the Kenai Peninsula and released roughly 374 grams of silver iodide into the clouds.
According to its own “validation report,” the three-hour operation generated an estimated 57.6 acre-feet, about 19 million gallons, of “net new” precipitation.
The company calls this the first time any firm has “provably” produced rain or snow in Alaska and points to seven radar “seeding signatures” on the PAHG NEXRAD as proof, using methods it says follow NCAR guidelines.
Yet Rainmaker had previously stated it was not conducting commercial cloud-seeding operations in Alaska. Now the same company is publicly celebrating a multi-million-gallon experiment in a state where it maintains no office, no permanent staff, and no local point of contact.
Alaskans who might want answers, about potential effects on fisheries, snowpack, wildlife, or simply who authorized the flights, have nowhere obvious to turn. Accountability is thin when the operator is thousands of miles away and the only detailed accounting comes from the operator itself.
The numbers rest on a 27-member radar ensemble that subtracts a 5 dBZ “background” and then integrates the remaining reflectivity. Signatures B and C are said to have produced more than half the total. Whether those radar patterns truly separate seeded precipitation from ordinary Gulf of Alaska weather remains an open question that independent Alaskan scientists have not yet had the chance to examine.
The drones operated between 3.57 km and 4.27 km.
Rainmaker frames the Kenai flight as a “proof of concept” for larger projects in the Colorado River Basin and the Great Salt Lake, plus future glacier “restoration.”
For many Alaskans, the more immediate issue is simpler: a private firm conducted atmospheric intervention over public airspace in Alaska, produced what it claims is 19 million gallons of extra water, and did so after indicating it would not run commercial seeding here, all with virtually no local presence or clear channel for public questions.
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HELL YES!
Even if you don’t like Bronson, you need to rank him 2nd.
Please don’t let me down.
Thank You 🙏 years of educating Alaskans for this moment.
So far Bronson / Bernadette is a great 1-2 and we should easily win.🏆 in November
The Governor’s seat is the prize everything else is secondary to the Governor seat for @907Honest
I want Bernadette or Bronson Period
This is how you vote to get that result.
Alaska We Got The Poo On Us — Bear Scat Edition
VOTE YES ON 2 TO END THE POO.
Ranked Choice Voting is a pure Alaskan dumpster fire. 🗑️🔥
Here’s how this nonsense actually plays out: 🤦♂️
Imagine you’re at a remote fish camp on the Kenai and it’s time to pick the camp dinner. 🎣🍲
The options are:
Fresh King Salmon steaks 🐟🔥
Dungeness crab boil 🦀
Last week’s leftover Bear Scat stew 🐻💩
Wild blueberry cobbler 🫐🥧
Everyone votes. 🗳️
49 people go hard for the King Salmon steaks (Hell yeah!) 🙌🐟
24 lock in on the crab boil (Solid!) 🦀👍
17 somehow pick the Bear Scat stew… (What the actual hell?) 🤢💩
10 people actually want the blueberry cobbler (Really?) 🥧🤷
Blueberry cobbler gets the fewest votes, so it’s gone. ❌🥧
But those 10 cobbler fans all ranked the Bear Scat stew as their second choice. 🥈💩
New tally: 📊
King Salmon: 49 🐟
Bear Scat stew: 27 💩
Crab: 24 🦀
Crab is eliminated next. ❌🦀
And every single crab voter? They ranked the Bear Scat stew as their next pick. 🤯
Final score: 🏆
Bear Scat stew: 51 💩
King Salmon: 49 🐟
Wait… WHAT IN THE ACTUAL TUNDRA?! 🥶🛑
The thing almost nobody wanted just beat the clear favorite. 📉
The people who were craving those perfect King Salmon steaks (and would rather starve than touch last week’s Bear Scat) never even got their second choice counted. 🚫🍽️
The least popular option wins simply because it hung around long enough while everyone else’s votes got secretly redistributed in the back room. 🕵️♂️🔄
That’s Ranked Choice Voting. 🤡🗳️
Your first-choice vote can be thrown in the burn barrel. 🛢️🔥
Someone’s third or fourth pick can decide the winner. 🎲🎯
It’s not “majority rule.” ❌⚖️
It’s last-man-standing by mathematical sleight of hand 🪄🎩 — like winning the Iditarod by being the only musher who didn’t freeze to death. 🐕❄️🥇
And who shoved this mess on Alaska? 🤷♂️🏔️
Outside dark-money networks 💸🌑 — including the Arabella Advisors machine and its billionaire-funded web of NGOs 🕸️💰 — poured millions into forcing Ranked Choice Voting down our throats in 2020. 🤮💵
They spent a fortune to make our elections more complicated, more confusing, and easier for the Bear Scat candidate to sneak through. 🥷💩
Alaskans never asked for this. 🙅♂️🛑
We don’t need it. 🚫
We don’t want it. 😠
This November we finally get to take out the trash. 🗓️🗑️
Vote YES on Ballot Measure 2 ✅🗳️
to REMOVE and REPEAL Ranked Choice Voting from Alaska once and for all. ✂️🛑
Let’s get back to simple, honest elections where the candidate with the most votes actually wins. 🇺🇸🥇
YES to ENDING DARK MONEY 🛑💸
YES to ENDING ARABELLA ADVISORS 🛑🕸️
YES to ENDING RANKED CHOICE VOTING 🛑🗳️
YES to ENDING SOROS IN ALASKA 🛑💰
YES on 2. ✅✌️
Dear Alaska,
The witch Murkowski has spoken: "Voter impersonation is a crime and should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law."
BUT SHE WON'T PASS THE SAVE AMERICA ACT! 🤡🤡🤡🤡
🚨BOMBSHELL: Alaska poll workers were just EXPOSED for allowing @JamesOKeefeIII to potentially vote with NO ID REQUIRED under Sen. Lisa Murkowski's brother, Brian's, name.
God bless James for doing so much to save our country.
We need armies of people from the Lower 48.
Arizona Owes Me - @AZGOP
Idaho Owes Me - @IdahoGOP
Oregon Owes Me - @Oregon_GOP
Hawaii Owes Me - @gophawaii
Colorado Owes Me - @cologop
Nevada Owes Me - @NVGOP
Michigan Owes Me - @MIGOP
Minnesota Owes Me - @mngop
Georgia Owes Me - @georgiarepparty
I have helped each one of these States stop RCV, stop a petition of RCV, or pre-educate people about RCV before consultant class can use their propaganda on people.
Now it's America's Turn to Help Alaska Rid Ranked Choice Voting Once and For All. Share my posts, Share Anti-RCV content.
YES ON 2 in November to END RCV, END THE MESS VOTE YES ON 2 IN NOVEMBER.
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If you’re here illegally, we will hunt you down and send you BACK.
ICE is NOT going away. We will continue arresting and deporting illegal aliens from our nation:
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