- Hi, Jeff....
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- Nancy Talbott
- BLT Research Team, Inc.
- Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)
- web-site: www.bltresearch.com
- ph: 617/492-0415
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