- Hi, Jeff....
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- 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 tyring to understand the phenomenon.
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- 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:
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- BLT Field Team: Ruben Uriarte, Steve
Moreno
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- Location: Balestra farm, Rockville,
California
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- Date Occurred: Night of June 27-28,
2003
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- Date Discovered: 6 am, June 28,
2003
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- Crop: Mature wheat
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- Crop Lay: Clockwise in all circles;
only
one layer observed throughout
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.]
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- RESULT: Inconclusive.
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- 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.
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- Nancy Talbott
- BLT Research Team Inc.
- (www.bltresearch.com)
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