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The White Substance Enigma
On 18 May 2011 we were just ending our 7
day Power Places Expedition at West Kennet Long Barrow, when Heather
Clewett, my wife, shouts, ‘’What is that?’’ pointing at the ‘bent
grass’, as Michael Glickman calls it, in the field east of the barrow.
Since we are on a Non Crop Circle
Expedition, our dilemma’s begin. Do we change the rest of the group’s
last day program to chase circles, or do we stick to the original
itinerary? Do we take our group to the crop circle after we finish our
last day itinerary? We decided to stay to the original itinerary and see
if there was time to fit the crop circle into it along the way. However,
we did call a few colleagues, like Mark at the Crop Circle Connector, so
the information could begin to ripple through the croppies.
Later on that day, we took our group into
this strange formation with its unique pattern in about two feet high
young barley. It was clear earlier from West Kennett Long Barrow that
there was some kind of spiral or very narrow rings in the downed crop,
but once inside the circle, it was not obvious what the design was. For
some very strange reason, none of us which was 18 people, stepped off
the two tram lines that run through the middle of the crop circle. It
did not feel right to do this. Several people said, they did not want to
hurt the crop design. As a result of this, we did not investigate the
rest of the circle. We only investigated the crop in between the tram
lines and on either side of the lines. Also, we looked at the centre
where the money box and sign from the farmer is, and took a few photos
of our group members next to the sign.
After our group left the next morning on 19
May 2011, we decided to do some flying to make overhead shots of the
circle. When that was accomplished, we went back to the West Kennet crop
circle to further our investigation into this unique pattern. We were
the only two people in the formation and again it did not feel right to
step off of the two tram lines that run down the middle. Therefore, we
decided to concentrate on taking pole shots and looking more closely at
the centre. And, there it was. A pure white lacy looking substance woven
around the base of the few stalks that denoted the centre of the circle.
We are both almost certain that this white powdery lacy
looking substance was not there the day before, on 18 May 2011. Just
after our discovery two colleagues arrived, Glenn and Cameron Broughton,
and we showed them the substance. We looked at the adjacent tram lines
to the circle to see if there was any white substance, and found
nothing. It was only present on a few stalks of young barley in the
centre of the West Kennet circle.
What is this white substance? An enigma, a
natural occurrence, or an elaborate joke? Where did it come from? Is it
something obvious like milk? Or, fake snow that you spray on Christmas
trees? Or, fake spider webs that you spray on haunted houses for
children at Halloween time? Can it be a real spider web or a caterpillar
that made it? OR ????????
One thing is for sure, both Heather and I
will be ‘haunted’ by What Is It
for a long time.
Bert Janssen & Heather Clewett
http://www.BertJanssen.nl/
http://www.CropCirclesandMore.com/ |
