- Primary Witness: Robbert van den Broeke
- Secondary Witness: Nancy Talbott
- Event Date: Night of October 19-20, 2006
- Event Time: Around 12 Midnight, Oct. 19-20th, 2006
- Location: Field on outskirts of Hoeven, Holland
- Weather: Cool (low- to mid-50s F), clear sky, no precipitation
- Crop: Grasses
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- Madelon v/d Broeke standing in one of the four
smaller circles of a new
- "Celtic Cross" crop formation, Oct.
20, 2006.
- Photo: " Peter v/d Broeke
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- For 10 years Robbert v/d Broeke, now 26 years old, has
been at the center of a slowly-evolving series of events which very literally
beggar the imagination. Growing up with his family in the rural southern
Holland village of Hoeven, he began (at about the age of 16) experiencing
increasingly strange encounters with light-balls, crop formations occurring
around him, peculiar "dreams," poltergeist-like situations, various
entites manifesting, out-of-body experiences and occasional UFO appearances
in close physical proximity.
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- As a small boy it had been obvious that, although quite
intelligent, Robbert was different from other kids, not "fitting in"
at school and unable to pay attention to his lessons, usually preferring
his own company to that of his classmates. His parents, at first afraid
that their son might be delusional, arranged for in-depth psychiatric observation
and testing by trained medical personnel-but to no avail. Extensive examination
revealed no psychiatric pathology and no evidence of mental or physical
disease.
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- I (Nancy Talbott) first learned of Robbert and his family
in 1997 because of an incident involving a large light-ball (BOL) and some
white powder which the BOL had left behind. I was asked if the BLT Research
Team could identify the powder and we were able to establish, through EDS
and infrared spectroscopy, that the material was a very pure magnesium
carbonate.
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- Following a lecture in Amsterdam in 1998 I spent some
time with the family and, since then, have stayed at their home for several
weeks during the ensuing summers. These visits and my ongoing communication
with Robbert and the family have exposed me to situations I would probably
not have believed, had I not experienced them first-hand.
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- Among other things, in 2001 Robbert and I witnessed three
brilliant, incredibly forceful tubes of light creating a crop circle in
the field behind his home (see www.bltresearch.com, "Eyewitness Reports,"
Case #1). It was the first time I had ever seen a crop circle being created
and, I expected, it would be the last. But now, five years later, it has
happened again.
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- Robbert and I usually spend time out in the fields near
Hoeven when I am in Hoeven. On the night of October 18th we visited a "special"
field--"special" because Robbert has had multiple events occur
there over the years. We were taking photographs (digital and film), curious
to see if we would get any of the photographic anomalies Robbert regularly
obtains on his visits alone.
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- Almost immediately Robbert began to get strange light
anomalies on his digital camera, as did I. The strangest of my photos (digital
and film) were of Robbert's face. indistinct and with a diffuse light around
it.
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- Large light anomaly, L side of photo. Nancy is
standing next to the tree.
- Note clarity of photo, except in region of anomaly.
- Photo: " Robbert v/d Broeke
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- Bright light anomaly & pink-purple BOLs.
Clarity of overall photo has changed.
- Photo: " Robbert v/d Broeke
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- Digital close-up of Robbert's face. For a period
of 10-15 minutes all photos
- I took of Robbert looked like this. Photo: "
Nancy Talbott
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- Film close-up of Robbert's face, taken during
same time period. Image here is
- also fuzzy, but color is more accurate. Photo:
Nancy Talbott
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- On the afternoon of October 19th we returned to the field
briefly, but didn't stay very long and didn't take photos. To get to our
car we have to walk right along the edge of the field where the new crop
circle occurred later that night-and that field appeared completely normal
in the late afternoon.
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- On the night of October 19th we returned at around 10:00
10:30 pm and began taking photos again, this time expecting that
we would get anomalies (since we had the night before). The temperature
was a little chilly, with light wind, but it was dry and the sky was clear.
There was some dew on the plants in the fields, but the road and path along
the edge of the fields were totally dry. Almost immediately we both began
to get peculiar photos.
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- Purple/yellow light streak photographed near
"special" field just prior to
- crop circle forming on night of Oct. 19-20th.
- Photo: Robbert v/d Broeke
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- The only photo taken that night of the field
in which the crop circle occurred
- an hour or so later (note BOL). Photo: Nancy
Talbott
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- It was around midnight and Robbert and I had begun to
walk back toward the car, along the dikes which line these fields. Suddenly
Robbert grabbed my arm and pointed out over the field closest to our car,
saying "there, theredo you see it?" He described a "black
cloud" coming down close to the field and, then, a "black spiral
going down into the ground." I peered into the darkness in the direction
he was pointing and, at first, saw nothing but the blackness in front of
some trees at the end of that field.
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- Then I did see a dark movement of something coming down
into the field very close to us, just as he said he was certain that a
new crop circle was-at that instant-forming. Neither of us heard or smelled
anytthing unusual and we experienced no sign of exposure to unusual EM
energies. I suspect that Robbert's eyesight is better than mine, or perhaps
he is more attuned to the crop-circle-making energy than I, but for whatever
reason he could see exactly where the new circle was being created. And
it was no more than 30 ft. in front of us.
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- Nancy (w/BOLs) standing in one of the 4 small
ancillary circles of a "Celtic Cross"
- crop formation, immediately after it had formed.
- Photo: Robbert v/d Broeke
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- As Robbert watched the black spiral descend into the
ground he experienced a feeling as if "something open[ed] around his
heart," and that we were suddenly in the presence of a "higher
consciousness," something perhaps "telepathic" and "very
sweet and gentle." As we walked down a short earthen ramp into the
field I could clearly feel the first small circle when I got to it, because
the grass was flatter there and also because I got a tingling feeling in
my feet.
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- Diagram of new formation. Center circle measured
6m in diameter, the 4 smaller
- circles 1-1/2m diam. each. Grass was flattened
counter-clockwise in all.
- Diagram: " Tommy Borms
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- New "Celtic Cross" formation as it
appeared early in the morning of Oct. 20th.
- Photo: " Peter v/d Broeke
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- Close-up of one of the four 1-1/2m diam. smaller
circles.
- Photo: " Peter v/d Broeke
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- The next afternoon (Oct. 20th) I drove back to the field
to take a few more photos and was surprised to see a man and a woman in
the field near the new crop circle. We had told no one about the new formation
(other than Robbert's parents). As it turns out the woman, a lovely lady
from Belgium who is known locally to be sensitive to spiritual matters,
had awakened in the middle of the previous night knowing that a crop circle
was occurring at that moment-near Robbert, in Hoeven.
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- Her feeling was so strorng that she and a companion had
driven in the middle of the night directly to Hoeven, arriving just after
dawn and somehow finding Robbert's house. Mr. v/d Broeke had just come
back from photographing and measuring the new formation and, impressed
with this woman's sweetness, confirmed for her that there was, in fact,
a new crop circle and telling her the location.
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- Woman who somehow "knew" crop circle
was forming in Hoeven the night of
- Oct. 19-20th & drove from Belgium to see
it. Photo: " Nancy Talbott
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- Over the next several days and nights Robbert and I returned
to these fields many times. We obtained dozens of photo anomalies, on both
our digital cameras and my film camera (and when it was raining and when
it was dry). The last night of my stay in Hoeven (October 23rd) two large
orangey-colored BOLs appeared to follow us out of the crop circle field
and up to our car.
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- A bright streak & 2 large BOLs appear on
this photo.
- Photo: " N. Talbott & R v/d Broeke
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- Orange BOLs appear to be following us out of
the field as we walk to
- our car. Photo: " Nancy Talbott
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- Orange & purple BOLs outside driver's-side
window of car, as NT starts
- engine to go home. Photo: " Nancy Talbott
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- Robbert and I both perceived this crop circle occurrence
as very different in "tone" from the one we had watched appear
in 2001. The energy involved this time felt gentle and soft (we both used
the term "sweet")-and much more subtle than the incredible force
we felt attended the 2001 tubes of light. And both of us had the impression
that his event was more in keeping with what we would "expect"
to be related to the crop circle phenomenon, as we comprehend it generally.
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- Robbert has, over the years, seen many crop circles form.
I have now experienced two of them forming. It is interesting to me to
note that the attendant visible light phenomena (or lack thereof, as in
this case) varies widely from instance to instance. Sometimes there are
visible light-balls involved, and sometimes these are small, other times
large; they can be white, or yellow or in one case pink-purple in color.
Some of these light balls are clearly spheres (3-dimensional) and some
of them have changed shape as the crop circle occurs. Some of them have
hovered and some have been surrounded with a "halo," and in the
daytime they have appeared to affect the air around them by producing the
same "mirage" effect often associated with desert images. And
sometimes only flashes of light have been seen and, on a few occasions,
brilliant tubes of light shooting down from the sky.
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- Does this mean different causative agencies are involved?
Is there more than one crop-circle-making energy??? Could there be many???
Or are the visible light effects simply different, perhaps depending upon
time of day/night, geographic/geological location, local weather conditions
or some other factor(s)?
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- Other questions which intrigue me involve the intuitions
we (and other eyewitnesses around the world) report in these situations
regarding the perceived quality or tone of the "energy" associated
with each event. And, how did the Belgian woman know that a crop circle
was occurring miles away from her home exactly when it, in fact, was?
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- And, increasingly-not just because of my knowledge of
Robbert's case--I have to consider the likelihood that many situations
(if not all) currently designated as "anomalous" or as "paranormal"
phenomena are related. Anomalous many of these events surely are. But I
hope to be able to present reports in 2007 which more clearly delineate
the inter-connectedness of many such situations, as well as pointing out
the fact that a new paradigm, a fresh concept of "reality" is
needed.rather than labels (such as "paranormal") which suggest
that no progress can ever be made in our knowledge and/or understanding
of such events.
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- To some extent all of these strange situations manifest
physical properties which can be studied and, I am certain, better understood
eventually by our scientists. And, if there is an aspect to these events
which is non-physical, rigorous work on the physical nature of these events
will without doubt clarify this, too.
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- For a more detailed account and more photos, see www.bltresearch.com,
"Updates" section.
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