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US Crop Circles

2007

Found : June 29, 2007 - Location: Wilbur, Washington

Occurred: June 28, 2007 (?)- Crop: Wheat

Photo: Peter Davenport
July 04, 2007

Crop Circle in Lincoln County

I represent the BLT Research Team, a group of scientists and fieldworkers who have been studying the crop circle phenomenon here and abroad for 15 years. Over the years this research has led to the publication of 3 papers in the scientific literature outlining physical changes discovered in crop circle plants and soils caused, we believe, by exposure of the plants and soils to very unusual energies. There is evidence that the plants/soils have been exposed to microwave radiation, unusual electrical pulses, and strong magnetic fields, but the source of these energies remains an enigma.

An associate called me several days ago about this crop formation and emailed me a few photos. From our experience over the years, this event does not look man-made and we have asked him to go back to the formation and look for elongated apical (top) nodes and expulsion cavities (holes blown out in the plant stems) and also described how to carry out a magnetic drag of the soils. Although visual examination of a crop formation is usually not enough to determine it's authenticity, careful observation can be a good indicator, if you know what to look for.

If there is anyone in the area locally who would be willing to help with some additional field-work, please do contact us by email, or phone, as soon as you can.

For the scientific research, see: www.bltresearch.com

Nancy Talbott, BLT Research Team Inc., Cambride, MA

June 14, 2007 - ARKANSAS

June 14 - New NE Arkansas Crop: Wheat (fully mature, but stunted) (photo: Fred Martin)

We are very lucky to have been informed about this formation in fully mature wheat, since harvesting has already begun. BLT fieldworker JoAnne Scarpellini called the office today from the site, where she is carrying out a basic field examination, and reports some interesting details. There are 4 tiny (18 inch diameter.) swirled circles inside the standing sections on each side of the flattened "arms" which can barely be detected in this photo. Also, one of the "arms" is not flattened but is outlined with a "very thin" line of laid crop on either side of what would have been the 4th "arm"). The crop in the 3 flattened arms is all laid out toward the perimeter ring. But the thin outlines of the 4th arm (5-6 inches wide) are laid differently, both lines flattened in toward the centre from the outer ring. The measured overall diameter of the outer ring is 129 ft. by 132 ft., with the width of the ring varying, overall being approximately 6 ft. wide.

The formation is situated on a slight ridge with homes belonging to two of the farmer's relatives about 200 yards. away. The field can be clearly seen from one of these houses and, so far, we have not heard of anyone there having observed anything unusual. However, a dog belonging to the relatives in this home "went crazy" on Tuesday night (June 12-13), barking and waking the family in the middle of the night. Interviews with the various family members have not yet been carried out in-depth, so more information may be available from them later on.

This field was sown (rather than planted or drilled) and there are no tractor-lines. No weed-killer was applied during sowing so there are many weeds and morning-glories (patches of green in the photo) throughout the field. Jo-Anne reports that most of the weeds, etc. do not appear to have been affected by whatever flattened the wheat, and some of them are taller than the wheat itself. [Because of very cold weather early in the growing season, the mature wheat is stunted and only 14-16 inches tall.]

This is the third formation to be found in the same general rural area during the last five years. In 2003 a pristine 3-armed, 10-circle "spiral type" formation was discovered in Knobel, Arkansas (also in mature wheat) by a local crop-duster.

Nancy Talbott - BLT Research Team Inc.- http://www.bltresearch.com

First Week of May, 2007 - Epps, West Carroll Parish, Louisiana

Epps is close to one of the oldest and largest Indian mound complexes in the United States, Poverty Point Mound. Poverty Point Mound other US Sacred Sites

In the first week of May 2007, more than 25 circles about the same diameter
were discovered in an Epps, West Carroll Parish, Louisiana wheat field. Each circle was
about 10 feet in diameter and defined as "bowls" in the wheat by the fact that the wheat
had grown in various shorter heights to create each circle. Image �2007 by Bill Duckworth.

Jeffrey Wilson, ICCRA: �The crop formation near Epps, Louisiana, is extremely unusual for a crop circle event. Instead of the wheat plants in the circles being flattened and swirled down like you would ordinarily see, the 25 circles that are spread out across this particular wheat field � the plants inside the circles are still standing upright. The circular bowl-like shape is created because the wheat plants in the circles are about 5 to 7 inches shorter than the surrounding wheat.

May 29, 2007 - West Asheville

Images Danny Tetrault Copyright 2007

May 29, 2007 10:57 am

It appeared over the weekend, intriguing local residents and begging the question: what is it?

�I don�t know, man. I�m hoping somebody can check it out,� said Danny Tetrault, who lives in the area and noticed the geometric design this weekend.

The pattern, possibly 100 feet or so long, looks like two interlocking circles, with small circles inside those. It�s a crop circle, which depending on your point of view is the work of alien spacecraft or mischievous pranksters wielding grass flatteners.

Want to judge it for yourself? Here are directions: Go to Patton Avenue in West Asheville. Go past the Deaverview Road stoplight. Take a right on North Bear Creek (just after La Copa De Oro). Go over the tracks and up the hill. When you see a large hilly field on your left, park just before Hillside Drive on the left. You will see it from there.

John Boyle

Lindy Tucker made it to the crop circle yesterday and collected some plant samples and took many photos. She also made measurements with her Trifield meter - which showed nothing unusual. She noted many broken and smashed plants in the formation - and only a few people had been to the formation at that point. We'll see what the node measurements turn up, but it doesn't look too good right now...

Jeffrey Wilson, Director

ICCRA � Independent Crop Circle Researchers� Association [International]jeff.wilson@asmnet.com or jeff.wilson@adelphia.net

www.cropcirclenews.com 734-891-2689 (cell)

External link from Citizen Times

May 14, 2007 - Geometric Wheat Formation in Madisonville, Tennessee.

Wheat pattern about 150 feet in diameter with crop laid down in counterclockwise circles
discovered on May 14, 2007, by Monroe County Sheriff's Department Patrol
Captain Bryan Graves while flying. First aerial photographs on Tuesday, May 22, 2007,
� 2007 by Mark Boring, Co-owner and Editor, Monroe County Buzz.

The formation was first discovered on May 14, 2007 by the Monroe County Sheriff's Department by Patrol Captain Bryan Graves while he was flying. Mark Boring took the photo above on Tuesday May 22 through the plexiglass of the plane he was flying in during very hazy conditions. The formation is approximately 157 feet in diameter (square), is in wheat, and all the circles are swirled counter-clockwise. There appears to be some kind of triangular symbol etched into the central standing centre. Here is a preliminary schematic of the formation:

The large four outer circles are all approximately 41 feet in diameter; the central circle is 45 feet in diameter with a 19 foot standing centre (with the three small pathways creating a triangular shape; the four smaller circles are all 23 feet in diameter; the long pathways are all 15 feet in length while the shorter pathways are all 8 feet in length. The pathways out to the circles are actually flattened pathways and are part of the formation and were not created by visitors� walking through the formation. There are no tramlines in this field, and when originally first sighted, there were no pathways at all leading into the formation. By the time Mark Boring took his photos, there was a pathway which led from the edge of the field into the circles.

The area surrounding Madisonville is quite interesting for a number of reasons. From looking at a topo map, there are quite a few local place names that give some indication of the local geology and environment: Rocky Spring, Hopewell Springs, Tevis Spring, Reed Spring, Sweetwater, etc� Yes, the area is host to many springs! Also, Craighead Caverns is located next to Madisonville, and between Madisonville and Sweetwater is located a registered US Natural National Landmark called �The Lost Sea� which is a 4.5 acre underground lake in a cavern, claimed to be the largest underground lake in the USA. Yes, the whole area is pretty much all limestone!

The area surrounding Madisonville is host to many, many archaeological sites, including one, Icehouse Bottom, which has been a habitation site for the past 9,500 year, making it one of the very oldest human habitation sites in Tennessee. Later cultures continued to use the site, and according to James B. Stoltman from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in his paper titled �Icehouse Bottom and the Hopewell Connection�, Stoltman presented a revelation that pottery shards found at Icehouse Bottom were characteristic of Ohio Hopewell Pottery, and that pottery discovered from within the Seip Mound and Harness Mound (part of the Liberty Earthworks) both located in the Paint Creek Valley in Ohio had the identical distinctive minerals and grain size as those produced at Icehouse Bottom � showing that over 2,000 years ago, those locations were part of the same extensive trading network.

The area surrounding Madisonville also became the centre of the �Overhill� Cherokee culture, with many, many Cherokee towns and villages locating themselves along the Little Tennessee River and Tellico River. The town of Tanasi and later, the Great Echota, were considered to be the �capital� of the Cherokee Nation. It was there that the explorer DeSoto, visited in 1540, probably one of the first white men the Cherokee had ever seen. Just to the south of the Madisonville crop circle site are two additional former Cherokee mound and village sites � the Great Tellico, which was also known to the Cherokee as �the mother city� and Chatuga, its �sister�. Here is a map of the Madisonville crop circle site along with all of these ancient archaeological mound and village sites:

Unfortunately, now nearly all of these ancient town and village sites are completely under water since the Tennessee Valley Authority dammed up the river to create several large lakes.

Madisonville has more recently during the last few decades experienced many eyewitnesses seeing what is known locally as �the birdman� � I only have sketchy details at this point as to what this town has been seeing, I�m hoping to follow-up on that over the weekend.

My wife Delsey and I, and most likely several additional ICCRA members will be traveling down to Madisonville, Tennessee this weekend to sample and survey the formation. Here�s one more photo from Mark Boring:

May 11, 2007 - Red Bluff, California - Image Red Bluff Daily News Copyright 2007 photo by Rebecca Wolf

Naisha Ahsian writes: I happened to be in Ashland, Oregon when I found out about this formation. I was there presenting about "crystals, crop circles and earth energies" at the International Crystal Conference. No coincidences here! I decided to drive down and take a look. I've been in formations in your neck of the woods, but have never visited one in the US, so I was intrigued.

The formation was in Oat, and had been harvested on the 18th (I was there on the 21st). However, I went in anyway, as I wouldn't miss it for the world :)

I could only find the two largest circles, as the third and smallest was completely shaved from harvesting. Fortunately, there had been a good deal of trampling in the field before harvesting, so the lay that had been walked on had been preserved from the combine.

The second largest circle had a radius of approximately 14 ft. I say approximately, because the farmer had laid the crop in lines to dry, and they ran directly through the centre of the circle, so I wasn't able to get an exact fix on the edge or the centre. Also, I was oddly disoriented in the

formation and needed to do the measurement a couple of times to be sure. I was also measuring alone, so the tape was a bit difficult to fix.

I also took measurements with my compass and found that magnetic north varied by 4 degrees to the east in this circle when I placed the compass to rest in the centre of the circle. In fact, I had to put the compass down, as it began to spin all over the place when I entered the circles.

The crop had been well trampled, so some was saved from the harvester. I did collect samples of this, and found consistent bends of about 45 degrees in the third node, and in the fourth where they had escaped harvesting. While there were no out gassing holes, there was a slight brown burn scarring on the outside of these bright green bent nodes. The nodes on the oat in the circles was quite swollen. I'll take further measurements of the samples I collected, if that will help. I can also upload some photos of the oat samples, though they're a bit ragged.

There were no similar markings, swelling, or bends in the crop outside of this or the largest circle.

The largest circle was most discombobulating for me. I couldn't find a decent edge left from the harvester, so I finally gave up on a radius measurement of this circle. It appeared to have a radius of approximately 26 feet. The weird thing is that there appeared to be a variance of 6 degrees to the west in this circle (?!) when the compass was at rest in the centre(?) of the formation.

I spent about an hour in the formation and was seriously surprised at the disorientation I experienced. I've been in large formations in the UK that had nowhere near the effect on me that this small series of circles had.

There did not seem to be any difference in the soil moisture within and without the formation, as all was bone dry from the California weather.

Another odd, yet anecdotal note; I experienced the same "buzzing" and vibration in my teeth that I often experience when driving under high tension power lines. There were no high tension power lines in the immediate area, though there is a large trunk line about 2 miles north.

I wish I had been able to get to the formation when it was fresh, but I'm glad that I was at least able to get this for you, for what its worth. - Naisha Ahsian

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Hello, my name is Dylan Darling and I am a reporter at the Record Searchlight newspaper in Redding, California. There have been some "crop circles" found in a field about 30 miles south in Red Bluff, California. I was wondered if there was a crop circles expert I could talk to about them.

�Three crop circles could be seen in the field across the street from Helser Chevrolet on Adobe Road in Red Bluff Friday. Red Bluff police said they were aware of the circles but had not received any calls on the matter and were not investigating.�

I tracked down the location of the field, and it is located alongside the Sacramento River:

I�ve contacted Steve Moreno (a founding member of the ICCRA) who is Director of PsiApplications, and Ruben Uriarte (ICCRA) who is also a MUFON CA state director. They are on their way to do an on-site investigation, so more details will be pending. Right now, the only details we have is that the crop circle was first reported on Friday, May 11, 2007 and that there are three circles in the field. Lots more work to do�

Red Bluff, California is notable as being the location of where Ishi, �the last wild Indian in North America,� came out of the wilderness (just to the west of Red Bluff) back in 1911; Ishi was the last remaining member of the Yahi tribe. There were Indian mounds that were excavated in Red Bluff (the Tehama-Red Bluff Mounds) back in 1907, and there are more than 250 recorded ancient settlement sites along the Sacramento River in Tehama County. Red Bluff is located about 40 miles south of Mt. Shasta and 40 miles west of the Lassen Volcanic National Park.

UPDATE:-

I talked to both reporters involved with the Red Bluff, CA event yesterday, and Steve and Ruben are on their way. We should get much more info on this report later. The reporter who took the original photos estimated that the largest circle was 70 feet, but I�m not sure I trust that estimate yet. It also appears that the crop is hay � but that is also uncertain as she could not confirm. Linda Howe did a story on Red Bluff, CA back in January about there being over 30 cattle mutilations there on one ranch in Red Bluff during the past 10 years.

More details to come�stay tuned.

Jeffrey Wilson, Director
ICCRA � Independent Crop Circle Researchers� Association [International]jeff.wilson@asmnet.com or jeff.wilson@adelphia.net
www.cropcirclenews.com 734-891-2689 (cell)

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2006

October 14, 2006 Beloit, Kansas - Linda Moulton Howe Reports a very large single circle (one of the largest in US) was discovered around 11 a.m. on the morning of Saturday, September 9, 2006, along Highway 9 in Beloit, Kansas. Beloit is about 90 miles northwest of Lost Springs. http://earthfiles.com/news/news.cfm?ID=1156&category=Environment

Four months ago (June 2, 2006) Linda reported about two circles suddenly showing up on , in a wheat field owned by Merle and Diane Ecklund in Lost Springs, Kansas, which is a bit south of Herington and north of Wichita. [ See 061106 Earthfiles.] Both circles were estimated to be about 28-feet in diameter. Biophysicist W. C. Levengood examined wheat from both circles and found fundamental biophysical and biochemical changes in the plants that he hypothesizes could only have resulted from interaction with a spinning vortex of plasma and other energies.

Beloit, Kansas is northwest of Herington and Lost Springs, Kansas,
the site of two wheat circles reported on June 2, 2006. Beloit is also about
70 miles northwest of the U. S. Army's Fort Riley in Manhattan, Kansas.

Dear All:
Location: Huntingburg, Indiana (USA)
Date Occurred: June 10, 2006 (? - farmer's best guesstimate)
Discovered: June 25, 2006 while harvesting
Crop: Wheat (fully mature)

Characteristics: A 100 ft.+ diameter circle with a 2 ft. wide, approx. 80 ft. long pathway with 2 shorter straight pathways going off long path, creating a "key" effect.

EM Effects: Manager of nearby airport, Travis McQueen, reports a major power failure at the airport one night a week or so prior to the discovery of the formation; farmer David Ring reports that his son (who lives nearby) also experienced power problems around that same time. However there were storms in the area, so the power problems may be associated more with the weather than with the formation.

Fieldwork: BLT Research Team's JoAnne Scarpellini will evaluate formation for sampling (farmer has already cut the entire field, so analysis may be limited)

This is the first definitely geometric crop circle reported here in the USA in 2006, and it has several interesting characteristics:

(1) As in several other cases over the years, and in particular as in the North Dakota case last summer, it's quite near a local airport;
(2) As in the North Dakota 2005 event, there is ALSO randomly-downed crop very near this new formation;
(3) And, as in the North Dakota 2005 event, there was a major power outage at the airport (and in the local community) around the time the farmer thinks this formation occurred;
(4) ALSO, this new formation has what looks like a curving "tractor" line, or "2-wheeler" marking going off one side of the circle which--according to the farmer David Ring--WAS NOT CAUSED BY THE TRACTOR, but is part of the formation. BLT field personnel observed a similar marking in 2005, at the Weaverville, North Carolina formation in grasses;
(5) Finally, there is a long, narrow pathway going off the circle with a "key" effect near the end, reminiscent of other crop circles in the past here in the US and abroad.

This 2006 Huntingburg, Indiana photo, below, was taken by Travis McQueen-Manager of the local airport (note randomly-downed areas near the circle as well as the curving double-lines which go off the right side of the circle which the farmer states were NOT caused by the tractor, but were apparently part of the event itself):
Below -Here's the 2005 North Dakota formation (again, note the randomly-downed crop nearby): Below -And here's the 2005 Weaverville, NC circle with the curving "2-wheeler" tracks going off one side (the BLT Team came to the conclusion that these tracks, too, were a part of the original formation and not caused by a tractor or 2-wheeler): Additional info will be posted on the BLT web-site when fieldwork has been carried out.

Nancy Talbott
BLT Research Team, Inc.
P.O. Box 400127
Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)
[www.bltresearch.com]
ph: 617/492-0415

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2005

August 12, 2005 - Canisteo, Steuben County, New York

Canisteo, Steuben County, New York, is west of Elmira and southeast of Buffalo.

One of two corn circles in which plants were bent two feet off the ground, as shown in this photo,
up to five feet above ground in interlaced "canopies." Canisteo, Steuben County, New York, discovered
on August 12, 2005. Photograph � 2005 by James Brewster, National Weather Service.

"The Canisteo corn stalks were not flattened all the way to the ground, but were kind of bent over probably a foot or two up to about five feet off the ground. The partially bent areas were very circular.

The National Weather Service meteorologist said he had never seen anything like it, even when he was in his training on what storm damage does to crops. He spent quite a bit of time out looking in fields in Nebraska and what storm damage does to fields out there. He said he had never seen anything that appeared like this in Canisteo, which is why he remarked they must be crop circles. So, it's definitely unusual.

Jeffrey Wilson, Director, Independent Crop Circle Researchers Association (ICCRA), Williamsburg, Ohio

August 19, 2005 - Northwood, North Dakota

BLT has received photos showing a lovely new "thought bubble" type crop formation in a wheat field near Northwood, North Dakota. Similar formations have occurred here in the States in years past and quite a few of this basic design have been documented in the UK over the years. A North Dakota pilot flying out of a nearby airfield has stated that he flew over this field early last Friday (Aug. 19th) and did not see the formation, but that it was there when he came back in to land later that day....thus suggesting this one may have occurred in daylight on the 19th, within a few-hour time period.
The aerial image, below, shows a track into the formation which was made by the pilot once he had landed, there being no pathways in, or other tracks seen, upon this initial investigation. The crop is fully mature, tightly-planted wheat and now most of the field has been cut (the farmer left a small amount of standing crop around the formation itself). The largest circle is approximately 70' in diameter, the smallest 6-1/2' in diameter and the crop lay is counter-clockwise in all five circles.

Field investigators report that it appears that many of the circle "centers" are not in the geometric center of each circle and that the 4 smaller circle-centers are lined up in a straight line, with the larger circle's center being considerably angled away from this line. Apical (top node beneath the seed-head) node elongation and some node-bending are being reported, but so far no expulsion cavities (holes blown out at the lower nodes) have been seen. Initial reports indicate that the plants were bent over at the base, rather than broken (as would be expected in such mature, dry crop if the circles had been mechanically flattened).

The farmer reports that the crop lay was very hard to the ground and the photos below show both this and one of the tightly-swirled centers.

Additional investigative and sampling will be carried out over the weekend and we hope to be able to post a full report on the BLT web-site when the field and lab-work is completed. -- Nancy Talbott BLT Research Team, Inc. Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) web-site: www.bltresearch.com

My Thanks to Mike Nichols �2005 for the above photo

August 18, 2005 in Northern Colorado - This has been identified as a "Maze" in Corn (mazie), constructed as an entertainment for tourists. Egads

Nancy Talbott

BLT Research Team Inc.

August 21, 2005 - Illinois (Coles County)

According to the Director of ICCRA, Jeffrey Wilson, "I'm off to eastern Illinois (Coles County) tomorrow -- two crop circles in corn were reported to me today (having been spotted on Sunday August 21). Both circles have unusual radial lays, with the large circle having a very slight spiral. The larger circle is estimated to be between 50'-60' in diameter, and the second is approximately 15' in diameter and is spaced about 100' feet from the larger circle. The smaller circle was discovered after the farmer went flying to take an aerial photo of the first circle. The farmer and the local sheriff's department both reported finding no trace of tracks or footprints anywhere surrounding the formation. They also did not find any abrasions or scrape marks on the corn stalks (although the abscence of any evidence of mechanical damage didn't stop the sheriff from declaring it vandalism). The circles are in a remote area in a floodplain near a river, and not visible from any roadways. Here is a photo of the large circle:

Several ICCRA members and myself should be there sometime in the early afternoon tomorrow to do a full survey, and I should be back by Sunday night with additional details to report. At this point the farmer isn't allowing any visitors (except the ICCRA team) and wishes the location and his name to remain confidential.

ICCRA, Independent Crop Circle Researchers� Association [International]

(cell) 734-891-2689

(email) jeff.wilson@asmnet.com jeff.wilson@adelphia.net

www.cropcirclenews.com

July 24, 2005 - Herringbone "Weave" Found in Greene County, Ohio Crop Formation

A brand new lay pattern--seen for the first time anywhere in the world, so far as we know-- has been documented in a wheat field in Ohio. BLT fieldworkers confirm a clear "Herringbone" inter-lacing or weave throughout the whole formation, if in fact this IS a crop formation. The reason I raise the question is because the Ohio event in a rough SQUARE, without anything circular in sight. A possible UFO is reported on the same day the formation was discovered.

For more photos & field info go to UPDATES page on the BLT web-site, or

directly to: www.bltresearch.com/ohio.htm.

Crop Circle in Trevor, Wisconsin, June 23, 2005

: Photo by Steve Hardin � 2005

Location: Green Mountain, North Carolina (Yancey County)
Date Occurred: Saturday night, June 11, 2005
Date Found: Sunday AM, June 12, 2005
Crop: Hay, 3-1/2' - 4' tall, mature
Dimensions: A perfect 176'-diameter circle, w/precisely located center swirl (88' from center to edges, measured along 12 radii)

Linda Moulton Howe reports on a series of six circle patterns in North Carolina

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US Crop Circles - 2004

1. SEDALIA, MISSOURI: A 27'-diameter, 10-12" wide ring in a grass field, found June 15th. BLT fieldworker JoAnne Scarpellini investigated on June 18th and reported that the grasses in the ring were greener than the rest of the field, but were not taller or shorter than the rest of the grasses, and were NOT flattened, instead having the clear appearance of a common "fairy ring." Samples of the plants (and in particular the roots) were taken and were examined under the microscope for evidence of fungal spores. A few very light colored strands were observed, as well as what looked like fungi spots both at the surface of the soil and slightly sub-surface, but microscopic exam was not totally conclusive (perhaps due to heavy rainfall the night prior to the field visit).

2. BRANCHVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA: Four flattened circles, two 20-25' in diameter, two 5-6' in diameter, in wheat, found June 11th. No particular pattern was evident at ground level, and there were no connecting pathways. No photos were taken and when field was re-visited a few days later crop had been harvested.

Bye for now,
Nancy Talbott
BLT Research Team Inc.

Minnesota Crop Circles - http://www.mnmufon.org/cc2004.htm
: Utah Crop Circles - http://www.aliendave.com/utah_cropcircles.html

US Crop Circles - 2003

December 3, 2003

Dear International Contact Support Network:

Psi-Applications will be holding a news conference today in Suisun, CA, US
regarding updating the media and community on the Solano County crop circle
findings.

Please watch your local and national news regarding this today and this
week. This morning in the San Francisco Bay Area, KRON Channel 4 announced
a little bit of information about this and encouraged their viewers to
contact (e-mail) them about explaining what "plasma energy" is. However,
this afternoon or evening there may be more information given to the public
than what was covered this morning.

Congratulations to the team, which includes Steve Moreno, Ruben Uriarte,
Michael Miley, Rob Mitchell and others, who have been working on this
important project these past few months, which is advancing information
about crop circles to the public. Let's hope the media takes them more
seriously this time around. Good luck to them.

Sincerely,

KATHY (KIT) VAQUILAR - kitkatshado@earthlink.net

International Contact Support Network

October 4, 2003 - Ohio Soybean Crop Formation.

Photo by Dan Music and Jeffrey Wilson � 2003.
Paint Creek Island, near Bainbridge in Ross County, Ohio, formation
in soybeans about 30 miles from the Serpent Mound pattern (refer below)- both probably occurred
around same date of August 24, 2003.

This is similar to a 1994 formation reported in Wiltshire, England and a 2000 formation reported in Kalispell/Whitefish, Montana, USA.

Photo by Jeffrey Wilson and Roger Sugden � 2003

Serpent Mound soybean formation first discovered August 24, 2003, was 271 feet from top of large ring
to bottom of small, ringed circle, all oriented east to west. The diameter of the "Eye" in the Vesica Piscis was 74 feet.

2005 Update by Linda Moulton Howe

Crop Circles appear in Ann Arbor, Michigan and Saratoga Springs, New York.
"A Field Report - Ann Arbor, Michigan. US. Photos & Data from Jeff Wilson. A
field of randomly downed wheat with some clean geometric shapes thrown in
for good measure. The farmer only gave Jeff one hour for fear of attracting
attention to it. Perhaps he's seen what happened to the field in Rockville!"

"A Randomly-Downed formation was reported in Sarasota Springs, NY. The event
was accompanied by a "humming sound" that had a definite "harmonic" quality
and globes of light, orbs hovering above the formations. It is reported that
a lamppost nearby had been knocked to the ground, the metal at its based
twisted, but without visible signs that it had been hit by a car."

It's a mystery: Crop circle found on Howell Twp. farm (Michigan)

Swirls of trampled wheat discovered in farmer's field

Friday, August 1, 2003 BY TOM TOLEN News Staff Reporter � 2003 Ann Arbor News

Jeopardy answer: "Visible phenomena - some by admitted pranksters, and others, unexplainable - in which geometric designs appear suddenly in farmers' fields, the most recent cases being in Howell Township, Michigan."

Correct question: "What are crop circles?"

Farmer Mike Esper, who discovered the mysterious circles when he was combining wheat on a Mason Road field west of Burkhart Road last week, suspects pranksters, rather than visitors from outer space, are responsible for his crop circles.

Two circles were found in a field of wheat. One is about 55 feet in diameter, the other about four feet.

"I got my suspicions (that) maybe kids did it, but they did a real good job," he said, adding "Nobody's owned up to it yet." It was the first time Esper has seen a crop circle on his land in 40 years of farming.

Crop circle enthusiast Drew Sulkowski of Howell agrees that pranksters probably are responsible for these circles. "It was fake, no doubt about it, it did not have any of the hallmarks of real crop circles," he said after visiting the field.

Crop circle investigators Jeffrey Wilson and Todd Lemire, who visited the site Tuesday evening, are not so sure. They believe the complexity of the circles make them appear authentic.

"I can say now that nobody's pushed (the wheat) down with a board," said Wilson, who has visited more than 100 crop circles around the world. "There is some complexity out there." He visited the site with Lemire of the Michigan Mutual UFO Network.

After spending a couple of hours at the site, they were intrigued.

"We found some concentrated plant anomalies that are unhoaxable. One of the tests is that in genuine circles, there is a blown node collar on the growth node of the stem," he said. Whatever energy hits the field causes the water in the grain to heat up very rapidly and explode out the side of the plant.

"In a short time out there, we found at least 20 stems. Hoaxers cannot duplicate the effect," Wilson said.

Wilson also was impressed with the complex weaving inside the crop circle. "You can get hoaxsters to do limited weaving, but it would be nearly impossible to get the kind of weaving we saw," he said.

Wilson said it appears the U.S. Air Force is now interested in crop circles. When he went to a site in Wisconsin last week he was questioned by investigators from Scott Air Force Base in Illinois who arrived in a helicopter. Wilson says he also observed a military helicopter fly over the Howell Township site Tuesday but it did not land.

While Wilson has no personal theories on the source of crop circles, he says they could be natural electromagnetic occurrences. Other hypotheses that have been proposed include extraterrestrials from other planets, beings from another dimension or other earthly entities of which humans are not yet aware.

Esper still thinks it was a prank. If the prankster steps forward, he said he won't press any charges. "It's not that big a deal, it only knocked down five bushels of wheat worth $3 a bushel."

Joanne Esper, said she has been teasing her husband about his possible brush with the paranormal. "I told him they're coming to get you," she joked.

While crop circles have been reported around the world, few have appeared in Michigan.

When two crop circles were spotted last October in a Saginaw County corn field, international experts believed it to be the first report of the circles from Michigan.

Tom Tolen can be reached at ttolen@livingstoncommunitynews.com or at (810) 844-2009.

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Ten-circle crop formation discovered in wheat on June 7, 2003,
Knoble, Arkansas.

photo � 2003 by Caleigh Catt.

"UPDATE about June 7, 2003 Knobel, Arkansas Fractal Crop Formation:

Paige Catt reports that "someone from St. Louis tested the soil in the Knobel fractal formation ... LOTS of magnetic particles. At first, Todd (Young, farmer) was real sceptical, but where the circles were, was the only place the magnetic particles were found." She also reports that the camera she used to take the photographs no longer works and she wonders if the electronic Sony was somehow damaged by energies still in the atmosphere when she and her father flew over the formation."

September 20, 2003 researchers Ruben Uriarte and Steve Moreno gave the BACF (in Berkley, CA) audience the latest update on the mysterious Solano County crop circles from the summer of 2003. Appears they were real after all based on the evidence. Teenagers tried to claim the Rockville formation. Details below.

Brad Zweerink/From The Reporter Michael Miley standing in the Vacaville crop circle.

Kathy Vaquilar (refer below) writes, "We have seen cut-off stalks in corn circles before....in Germany, in
Holland....and once here in the States (Kansas, several years ago).....but
not exactly like this. I really think it's much too soon to make ANY
statements about this until a lot more fieldwork has been done. Do
encourage people just to describe what they are seeing, rather than make
judgments."

"Unlike the smoother finish of two wheat field circle designs discovered last week in Fairfield, the circles discovered in a Vacaville corn field on Sunday (July 6) look more like bald patches on a mangy dog.

Blue Ridge Aeronautics pilot Lou Tobin first spotted the Vacaville circles around 6:45 p.m. Sunday in a field at the northeast corner of Alamo Drive and Leisure Town Road. He and his wife were flying up from Southern California." By Tiffany Sakato/The Reporter

A Vacaville reporter visited the formation and reported " the corn stalks were not woven down or methodically compressed, but haphazardly knocked over. About 30 percent to 40 percent of the stalks appear to have popped back up."

Rockville, CA in Solano County - discovered June 28, 2003

KATHY (KIT) VAQUILAR (for International Contact Support Network -ICSN-internationalcsn@yahoo.com) writes, "Info has been coming in, but the results are still inconclusive as well as
the story by THE VACAVILLE REPORTER's Catherine Moy (refer below). She may have jumped
the gun with her own conclusions without checking all the facts. According
to Ruben Uriarte and others, we have a report that according to today's SF
CHRONICLE, the Fairfield District Attorney and Police Department view this
hoax story with skepticism. One of the details in their story may not hold
up as far as the moon having been bright the evening the boys made their
crop circles. Investigators are looking into this and other details."

Two members of the local BLT Research Team regarding the Vacaville crop circles wrote the following:

Howdy, Here (above) is some evidence of an anomalous nature from the corn field circle near Fairfield. I met Steve Moreno there yesterday and we identified this phenomenon throughout the circle in both standing plants and downed ones. It seems most dense to about 15ft away from the circle (in standing plants) but there is similar evidence to about 150ft away from the site... The two leaves shown in the jpeg are from the SAME plant, the left is the top leaf and the right is the next one down. There were more marks on these leaves but I wanted to keep the file small. One can overlap these leaves and the holes will line up. In fact, leaves from other parts of the circle are similarly marked and can also be overlapped. I don't think this was done by a couple of kids with a board... Ted RoeRuben Uriarte wrote:

"The stalks of corn have been cut horizontally at different lengths throughout the formation, but it strikes me that we did not find any imperfect cuts so far. What is also of curiosity is that the other researchers are pointing out that much of the mass or corn stalks are gone as if some one removed them, but this observation is being investigated. Some one would have gone through a lot of trouble to remove the corn mass in such a remote area. What I thought was most unusual was that the corn stalk around the perimeter wall of the some of the circles were bent inwardly. ... We do not know as of yet how old it is. ... Steve [Moreno] is a dedicated investigator/researcher and I have been working very closely with Steve and several other outside researchers including as you know Nancy from BLT. Steve has been working closely with the farmers and the local media. Both Steve and Robert Mitchell have some excellent video documentation of our work and witness testimony. ... As you can see, this has been a collaborated effort with Steve and number of other individuals. ... listed below is the approximate dimensions of the corn circle...

left antenna = 86'L x 10'w . It narrows to 8' at top.
right antenna = 60'L x 8'w. It narrows at 7' at top.
First Circle = 86'D
Pathway to 2nd circle = 86'L x4'w
2nd circle = 60' D
Pathway to 3rd circle = 30'L x4'w
3 rd Circle= 57'L
Pathway to 4th circle = 25' L x 6'w
4 th circle = 40'L
Pathway to 5th circle = 33'L x 5'w
5th Circle = 23'D
Pathway to 6th circle = 23'L x5'w
6th circle= 20'D
total length from left antenna to small circle is approximately 569'.

Teens, not aliens, behind crop circles in wheat field by Catherine Moy(07-11) 10:14 PDT ROCKVILLE, Calif. (AP) -

Throngs of UFO enthusiasts, new age followers and assorted believers in the paranormal have been flocking to the Sacramento Valley to take in the dozen or so crop circles that mysteriously appeared in a wheat field two weeks ago.

Some brought hope that the circles would help cure their ailments and others looked for spiritual insight, while many sightseers credited aliens for creating the circles.

But it now appears the most simple explanation is at hand for why a sleepy farming community halfway between San Francisco and Sacramento has been turned into a tourist destination: four bored Fairfield teens confessed to The Vacaville Reporter.

"Man, we had to rest sometimes," one teen told the paper of the quartet's hours-long handiwork conducted during the wee hours of June 28. "My back got tired and I laid down in the field."

The paper said in an editor's note that the confession "rang true."

"Because three of the four are juveniles, and three of the four are already on probation for unrelated matters, we decided their request for anonymity was reasonable," the paper said.

The teens told the paper they were inspired by a documentary they had watched discussing the 400-year history of crop circles. Armed with a 30-foot rope, planks of wood and tape, the teens created a connected series of circles by pressing down on the wheat.

One teen stood in the center of the circle holding the rope. A second would hold on to the other end of the rope. They would then use the wood to flatten the wheat. The biggest circles measure 60-feet in diameter.

The teens' parents said they were aware of the boys' prank. One mother even bought the movie "Signs" to celebrate their feat.

The circles wiped out about $500 worth of wheat. But Larry Balestra, the field's owner, told the paper he had no intention of pressing charges. In fact, he told the paper he's preparing to sell $12 alien T-shirts.

Still, Balestra said he was little disappointed to hear the teens had claimed responsibility.

"It's sad," Balestra told the paper, "because this made so many people happy."

KATHY (KIT) VAQUILAR writes, "I finally went out to the Solano County field with Ben Adley and Elina Linna last night, July 6, 2003, after 8 pm. We each have our perspectives, butnoticed how badly trampled the formations and field were in. The circlesthemselves were quite barren and stripped of wheat. We noticed cracks in the hard, bare earth near the centers of each circle.

And still there were people who came to see them, making jokes about the woo
woo factor as they walked in. A TV crew van was parked nearby. People
continued to take samples of stalks for themselves, a couple of them
nibbling the wheat kernels that were intact. Fourth of July weekend stories
abounded about what people had done to the field, including one report that
someone actually drove his motorcycle into it for a photo op or a family
made one circle their personal picnic spot, while others left their business
cards in the center of one circle."

She also recommends this well done report below...(from www.rense.com )

BLT Preliminary Report On Rockville, California Crop Circle
By Nancy Talbott   - bltresearch@comcast.net    7-5-3

Hi, Jeff....
I see that you already have two dismissive comments on your site about the new California pictogram's "authenticity," neither one of which provides any supportive data for the opinions stated....and one of which is simply incorrect. "Real" crop circles are not always "geometrically perfect" and, as we've been pointing out for many years, opinions about genuineness which are offered without any reference to established scientific data, are not helpful for those of us who are trying to understand the phenomenon.

A number of people who alert the BLT Research Team of newly-discovered crop circles notified us of the Rockville, California pictogram several days ago. One of our independent fieldworkers, Reuben Uriarte (MUFON), along with colleague Steve Moreno (Psi-Applications), arrived at the site July 3rd to begin an examination of the new formation and to carry out sampling. Here is the preliminary BLT report:

BLT Field Team:   Ruben Uriarte, Steve Moreno

Location:    Balestra farm, Rockville, California

Date Occurred:    Night of June 27-28, 2003

Date Discovered:   6 am, June 28, 2003

Crop:   Mature wheat

Crop Lay:   Clockwise in all circles; only one layer observed throughout

Formation Characterists: Long (overall length approx. 425 ft.) "pictogram" style formation made up of 14 circles (one of which is double-ringed) and associated pathways, and one "grapeshot." Largest single circle is 147 ft. in diameter, smallest is 12.5 ft.   This is the largest formation yet reported in the U.S.

Anomalies Reported:   Unusual aerial light phenomena observed by local witnesses in the area of this field on the night the formation is thought to have formed, as well as continual barking by local witness's dog that same night.

Initial field examination of the plants reveals no obvious apical node (first node beneath the seed-head) elongation, and no expulsion cavities (holes blown out at the plant stem nodes).
No compass anomalies found and no cell-phone failure observed inside formation.
Initial magnet drag does not appear to have recovered magnetic material around circle perimeters.
Multiple measurements of individual circle diameters, however, does reveal that some of the circles are, in fact, ellipses. These ellipses contain only one visual epi-center (one area from which the spiral flow emanates), however, with no additional epi-center beneath the top layer of flattened crop. [Two starting points are normally required to create an ellipse.]

Cursory field sampling of plants and soils was carried out, but because of the in-flux of visitors to the site and the consequent damage to the already dry, brittle crop, a thorough sampling was abandoned.

COMMENT:   Based on the scientific data obtained over the last 12 years on similar events studied in 8 different countries by the BLT Research Team, the lack of apparent apical node-length increase and the fact that no expulsion cavities are present, combined with the failure to recover any magnetic material, suggests that this formation may be man-made. However, the discovery that some of the measured circles are in fact ellipses--with only one visual epi-center present, and the reports by local witnesses of unusual aerial light phenomena and animal disturbance, may indicate otherwise. Unfortunately the heavy volume of visitors to the site before a thorough sampling could be carried out, and the consequent destruction of the crop itself, makes a thorough laboratory examination unfeasible.

RESULT:   Inconclusive.

ADDENDUM:   Field-worker Steve Moreno, while flying over the site to photograph the pictogram, discovered another, smaller crop formation in a nearby field. This smaller formation had not yet been discovered by the public and Steve and Ruben were able, after gaining permission from the field's owner, to begin an in-depth examination and sampling effort in this smaller event on the morning of July 5th. It is hoped that they will be able to complete the BLT field protocol in this formation.

Nancy Talbott
BLT Research Team Inc.
( www.bltresearch.com )

March 1996 - Laguna Caynon, California -where the sacred land (of the Tongva Tribe - The Gabrielino Tongva Indians are the original inhabitants of the Los Angeles Basin) and gravesites were being bulldozed.

Minnesota Crop Circles - http://www.mnmufon.org/cc2004.htm

Utah Crop Circles - http://www.aliendave.com/utah_cropcircles.html

According to David Kingston, the earliest record of a crop circle formation in the USA where we can attribute a location to it, comes from Iowa in the 1880's:

>Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa - A family of witnesses on a farm described seeing a flying object that was �lit up like a birthday cake�. The object proceeded to fly over them until they lost sight of it behind a nearby hill, whereby they retreated to their cyclonic cellar for the night. The next day they found a large circle in the grass field behind the hill with several burned areas. Several neighbors also reported seeing the object in the air.

The third earliest report on record in the USA that has been found was also located in Iowa:

>Mount Pleasant , Henry County, Iowa - Around 10:00 AM, on June 3, 1920, an eyewitness sees a �shiny-blue translucent egg-shaped� object �the size of a fire hydrant� fly out of the sky and land silently about 15 feet away from him near a riverbank. It sat quietly for about 15 minutes before flying slowly away. A single, flattened circle in the grass was found where it sat.

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