- 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)
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- Details: Farmer had been planting tobacco in a lower
section of this field until 8:30 pm Saturday and, when he left, no circle
was present. The following morning was "Decoration Day," a day
when local residents routinely visit their cemetery to tidy it up and place
fresh flowers on the graves. Residents arriving at the cemetery discovered
the circle across the road from the cemetery, up near the crest of the
ridge above the tobacco field. Farmer and first visitors to the circle
report no tracks or footprints leading into, or near, and state that the
lay of the crop was very tight to the ground.
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- Photo (below) by Steve Hardin was taken on Monday, 6/13/05,
from the road that runs between the tobacco field and the cemetery.
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- There are no houses immediately adjacent to the field
and, so far, we have no reports of EM interference or unusual animal behavior
occurring that Saturday night. This is the first crop circle reported to
BLT in this area of the Blue Ridge section of the Appalachian Highlands
(Yancey County has the highest average elevation in N.C.). Because the
hay was mature, the farmer has now cut the field.
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- On Sunday (6/12) a local resident drove by the field
at about 7-7:30 pm; it was close to dusk and storm clouds were gathering
in the distance, but it was not raining and examination of his digital
photos seems to indicate that the flash on his camera did not discharge.
Multiple small semi-transparent "orbs" and a few brighter and
more opaque light balls appeared on several of his photographs. If, in
fact, the flash on his camera did NOT go off (look at the bottom of the
photo for any evidence of more light on the weeds in the forefront), then
these "orbs" cannot be explained as moisture droplets in the
air close to the lens reflecting the light from the flash. Photo below
by Marc Witson:
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- BLT thanks The Crop Circle Connector, Steve Hardin, Marvin,
Robbie & Matthew Rnefro, Marc Witson, Normn Gagnon and Chris Bohn for
help with this report.
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- Nancy Talbott
- BLT Research Team, Inc.
- (www.bltresearch.com)
- em: bltresearch@comcast.net
- ph: 617/492-0415
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- Update From Nancy Talbott
- bltresearch@comcast.net
- 6-20-5
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- Hi, Jeff....One additional piece of info:
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- June 19 - Update on "orb" photo in the BLT
Green Mt., NC crop circle report: a friend who has PHOTOSHOP has looked
at the "orb" photo included in the original BLT report and says
that she can determine that the flash DID go off. If this is so (the photographer
doesn't know for certain whether it did, or did not, go off) then the "orbs"
are much more likely to be caused by small water droplets in the air close
to the lens of the camera, which are then reflecting the light from the
flash.
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- Nancy Talbott
- BLT Research Team, Inc.
- (www.bltresearch.com)
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