[GeoStL] STLtoday article: Investigators ponder occurrence of crop circles here
- From: "the people in our house" <sydstyr@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2006 08:30:26 -0500
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Forget lunch -- I want to know where to find THESE.
Do you think there is a .1 light year mile rule among aliens? Crop
Circles -- waypoint in a universal treasure hunt game?
"Go to the planet Earth. Look for a field of new six-sided snowflakes about
in the middle of their "North America" near two large bodies of water. One
will be different from the others. From there, project a waypoint 8.5 light
years towards Sirius ..."
C'mon you East Siders -- surely SOMEONE knows where to find these.. PLEASE
tell!
Nancy
>
> This STLtoday.com article -- "Investigators ponder occurrence of crop
> circles here"-- has been sent to you by: "> Crop circles? In Belleville?
>> http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/metroeast/story/B02506B0DDBEDFCE862571DC0014184F?OpenDocument
>
> Here is the story.
>
>SOMEWHERE NEAR BELLEVILLE
>
> The UFO people discovered them first.
>
> It was early August, around the time that tips of strange lights in the
> sky
> came in. Field investigators from the Colorado-based Mutual Unidentified
> Flying Object Network, or MUFON, flew over in a plane after hearing those
> reports and got photographic confirmation in early August.
>
> There was no doubt about it.
>
> Thirteen crop circles, varying in size between about 50 feet to 15 feet
> across, were visible among the soybean plants on the sloping banks of a
> gully that splits a farm near Belleville.
>
> Lacking expertise to continue the inquiry, the UFO people turned to an
> outfit that specializes in this sort of thing.
>
> That's right.
>
> BLT Research Team Inc. of Cambridge, Mass., prides itself on searching for
> a scientific explanation for crop circles. The name has nothing to do with
> bacon. It comes from the three founders' initials. Since the 1990s, BLT
> has
> been looking into the bizarre patterns that sometimes materialize in grain
> fields.
>
> BLT researchers have been looking into the Belleville circles for the past
> month.
>
> "Fully one half, at least, of the crop circles I've seen are fakes," High
> Ridge resident JoAnne Scarpellini said with confidence as she hiked along
> the Belleville site Thursday. She's the group's Midwest investigator. If
> there has been a report of a crop circle within 500 miles of St. Louis in
> the past decade, she's been there.
>
> "We don't think these are man-made," she said of the Metro East circles.
> They were tested for magnetic anomalies and subjected to a Geiger counter,
> but results were negative. A report notes that cell phones worked properly
> and neighbors reported no unusual animal behavior or electromagnetic
> effects, which Scarpellini said are a possibility at crop circle sites.
>
> The exact location is still hush-hush, because the landowner did not want
> gawkers trampling her fields. No other scientific or law enforcement
> groups
> are known to be investigating the site. A reporter was given a tour after
> a
> promise to keep the location as vague as possible.
>
> So what's BLT's explanation? Alien invasion? Bizarre weather event?
>
> Nancy Talbott, the group's president and the "T" in BLT, said she's not a
> scientist but has been working with researchers to legitimize the field of
> study. She said she had produced outdoor country music festivals before
> getting into crop circles.
>
> "People immediately jump to this other-worldly explanation," she said in a
> phone interview. "It might be a natural phenomenon."
>
> Scarpellini, 73, agreed that the circles' origins remain a mystery. "We
> don't know," said Scarpellini, who said she retired years ago as a
> researcher for Washington University School of Medicine. "One theory
> that's
> been proposed and worked over is a plasma vortex that's controlled and
> manipulated somehow."
>
> In the month since the Belleville circles were found, the soybean plants
> that weren't destroyed have continued to grow, spoiling the circles'
> well-defined edges. But they are still visible.
>
> A few weeks after the Belleville circles appeared, a group of circles
> showed up in soybean fields in Geneseo, Ill.
>
> Scarpellini visited those circles as well.
>
> "It doesn't bother me," she said of the negative reaction to the group's
> efforts from skeptics. "Certain people have trouble accepting any
> explanation. I was always interested in this sort of thing."
>
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