- Dear All:
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- Location: Huntingburg, Indiana (USA)
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- Date Occurred: June 10, 2006 (? - farmer's
best guesstimate)
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- Discovered: June 25, 2006 while harvesting
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- Crop: Wheat (fully mature)
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- Fieldwork: BLT Research Team's JoAnne
Scarpellini will evaluate formation for sampling (farmer has already cut
the entire field, so analysis may be limited)
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- This is the first definitely geometric
crop circle reported here in the USA in 2006, and it has several interesting
characteristics:
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- (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.
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- 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):
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- Here's the 2005 North Dakota formation
(again, note the randomly-downed crop nearby):
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- 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):
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- Additional info will be posted on the
BLT web-site when fieldwork has been carried out.
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- Nancy Talbott
- BLT Research Team, Inc.
- P.O. Box 400127
- Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)
- [www.bltresearch.com]
- ph: 617/492-0415
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