- Attached is the Field Report on the Knobel, Arkansas
"mini" triple Julia formation. Altho the plants were cut immediately
after the formation occurred, soil samples have revealed a massive amount
of magnetic material....and we've got several anomalous daytime photos,
taken two days after the formation occurred, which seem to indicate energy
emanating straight upwards to at least 800' above the formation. Aerial
photo of the formation is also attached.
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- Nancy Talbott,
BLT
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- BLT RESEARCH TEAM INC.
- PO Box 400127
- Cambridge, MA 02140
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- ph: 617/492-0415
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- -FIELD REPORT-
- KNOBEL, ARKANSAS CROP CIRCLE - June 2003
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- Event Location: Knobel, Arkansas
- Date Occurred: June 6, 2003
- Date Found: June 7, 2003
- Crop: Mature wheat, ready for harvest
- Date(s) Investigated: June 16 and June 25, 2003
- Field Personnel: JoAnne Scarpellini
- Formation Characteristics: A 3-armed fractal-like
spiral consisting of 10 circles, the
- center circle approx. 31' in diameter, with 3 circles
in each "arm" of decreasing
- sizes down to 8' in diameter. Circles in arms spaced
approx. 10' apart, and
- with a slight curvature clockwise. Crop lay was reported
to have been
- clockwise, in all circles.
- Associated Phenomena: Several reports from local residents
of unusual aerial
- light phenomena about 2 weeks prior to formation being
discovered. A bird's
- nest (of a tree-nesting species) was found, unscathed
and with eggs intact, on
- top of the flattened crop in one of the spiral-arm circles;
the nearest trees estimated to be approx. 550' away. Multiple daytime
photo anomalies,
- including an unusual object in one and "fogging"
in at least two aerial shots
- directly over the formation at about 800'.
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- Field Investigation (6/l6/03): Because farmer Todd Young
had cut the field almost immediately after he discovered the formation,
Ms. Scarpellini's first visit concentrated on interviews with adjacent
home-owners and local reporters who had visited the formation. Local residents
and reporters who did enter the formation reported crisp edges to all the
circles and the presence of the undisturbed bird's nest in one of the "arm"
circles, with several eggs inside it, completely intact. Several people
were located who had taken photos, altho very few of these were taken inside
the formation on the ground. Unfortunately none was taken of the bird's
nest.
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- Field Investigation (6/25/03): Ms. Scarpellini returned
on the 25th to obtain negatives of some of the "anomaous" photos
and to take soil samples. The farmer, Todd Young, stated that he had disced
the field, down to about 2-3 inches, and planted soybeans, but he was able
to locate where the formation had been. Scarpellini then took soil samples
from what had been the central circle and from each of the three circles
in one of the "arms" (a total of 10 lb. of soil). Controls soils
(3 lb.) were taken 500' distant from a presumed edge of the spiral. No
magnetic particles were evident on the surface.
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- Magnetic particle concentration: These samples yielded
a much higher concentration of magnetic material than would normally be
expected in soils --3.30 mg/g soil. [The highest concentration one might
expect to find in "normal" soils is 0.4 mg/g soil.] This distribution
level was the same in all of the circle samples. The particles, which
were magnetic, have a considerable range in size, with many clearly visible
to the naked eye. Ms. Scarpellini's microscopic examination revealed a
mixture of irregularly-shaped rust-colored particles mixed in with smaller
spherical, and partially ablated (rounded), shiny black particles. An
SEM/EDS will be obtained to determine the sizes of the particles and their
elemental content.
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- NO magnetic material whatsoever was found in the control
soils.
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- COMMENT: Without plant samples to examine we have only
the soil results (and possibly the anomalous photos) to help us determine
this event's causative agency. Because a large number of crop formations
world-wide, in which the plants have been found to contain anomalies, have
also revealed magnetic particles in their soils in excess of "normal,"
we know that this parameter is a good indicator of authenticity. The
fact that under the microscope we can see both spherical and partially
ablated particles here, the fact that there were NO magnetic particles
found in the control soils, and the fact that the concentration in the
circle samples was so great, all indicate that this formation was not mechanically-flattened.
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- W.C. Levengood and John Burke, in their 1995 paper ("Semi-Molten
Meteoric Iron Associated with a Crop Formation," J. Sci. Exploration
6:2, 191-199) hypothesize that microscopic particles of meteoric iron which
are entering the earth's atmosphere constantly as meteors burn up in the
upper atmosphere, get drawn into a descending plasma vortex system. [Plasmas
have strong magnetic fields associated with them and they also emit microwaves
when they spiral.] The idea is that the meteoric debris is both drawn
into the descending plasma vortex by its strong magnetic field and then
heated to a molten state by the microwaves emitted by the spiraling plasma.
The molten, and now magnetized, particles then form spheres and particles
with partially rounded surfaces as they cool on the way down to the earth's
surface, and are left in the soil in the crop circle area as the plasma
vortex impacts the field. This theory is the most reasonable yet offered
to explain the presence of these magnetic particles in so many crop circle
soils, all over the world. The hypothesis that a plasma energy system
of some sort is involved is also borne out by years of laboratory work
documenting the typical changes to plants at crop circle sites.
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- Additionally, the "fogging" effect in several
of the aerial photos (photos taken at about 800' up in the air above the
formation) is very similar to other cases in England, cases where the laboratory
work again indicated a non-mechanical source of the crop formation. There
are a number of indications that, in some crop formations, there is some
sort of remnant energy...an energy which can interfere with battery function
(cameras, watches, cell phones, etc.) as well as animals and sometimes
people, and which appears to linger in some cases for several weeks after
the original event. There is growing evidence that, in some cases, this
energy extends UPWARDS into the air above the circles....perhaps in this
case to 800' above the crop surface. More work on the negatives may provide
additonal information.
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- Whether the unusual aerial light phenomena reported by
at least two local residents two weeks prior to the arrival of the circle
was in any way related to it, is unknown.
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- RESULT: Probably genuine (not mechanically-flattened),
but without the plant work we cannot be certain.
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- Nancy Talbott
- BLT Research Team Inc.
- (www.bltresearch.com)
- ph: 617/492-0415
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