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Gray, Nr 378 Old Gray Station Rd. Gray,
Tennessee. 37615 USA. Reported 13th May
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Images John Myers 2013
We live
in North Carolina and have been
hoping to have some crop circles
appear here. This week we heard
about one nearby in Gray, Tennessee
and drove over there the next day
with two friends.
When we got there, the young man who
first discovered it, said it showed
up one morning in the grass field
behind his house. There were no
paths entering it or human
footprints anywhere when he walked
over there to look at it. We found
swirls in the ground lay, opposing
directional lays, and a “box”
pattern in the grass. Afterwards we
flew over the formation and here are
the pictures we took. Please post
these on CCP on the page you already
have for this formation.
Diagram John Myers Copyright 2012
I decided to explore the geometry and see if there was anything interesting. I have attached my photos and my geometry sketch for you to see that I first drew out by hand, scanned into the computer and then added colours in photoshop. While it looks symmetrical at first glance, the gaps in the outer circles are not the same width. I overlaid the original photo on top of my diagram in photoshop to make sure. Then I discovered that if I extended the lines from the edges of the gap in the large circle on the left side of the formation into the centre smaller circle, the lines met in the centre. when I used the compass the measure the width of the pie slice and repeat it around the circle, I found there was an octagon shape!
On the other side, the gap was slightly larger. When I extended the line from the edge of the gap in toward the centre smaller circle, the line formed a tangent to the circle instead of entering the centre. By continuing this around the inner circle using tangent lines, an 8-sided star appeared!
Finally I noticed that the inside diameter of the larger circle could be placed between the two circles, thereby forming 3 circles in a row of the same size.
I was really excited to discover all this geometry in this relatively simple formation. There is no doubt in my mind that this is a genuine formation, based on all of the above – the beauty from the air, the interesting weaves, bent nodes, and the geometry.
John Myers |
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The first U.S. Crop (Grass) formation
reported in 2013 was found in a hayfield in the rural southern town
of Gray, Tennessee, in the extreme north-eastern section of the
state. The design is reported as consisting of two "half-moon"
shapes facing in opposite directions connected by a "bar" of some
kind, with two complete circles "inside" each of the half-moons.
The "high" grass in which the crop formation appeared is described
as having been pushed down, but with "no tracks, human or machine,
anywhere near the strange diagram." Nancy Talbott, BLT Research
(www.bltresearch.com)
Appears to be two partial circles each with an inner circle and a
bar connecting them. Will send better pictures when they are
available.
Images Tim Blumberg Copyright 2012
Timmy Blumberg |
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Gray, Tennessee (U.S.) Near the
address 378 Old Gray Station Rd. Gray, TN 37615 USA. |
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Hay (Grass) |
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May 13, 2013 |
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The BLT Update on the Gray,
Tennessee crop formation.
Some interesting news has surfaced about another
odd event which occurred in this same very rural town just 3 days
BEFORE the crop circle appeared. It turns out that a 40-50 pound
chunk of very white "ice" (which the media is calling, without any
formal analysis I might mention, a "megacryometeor") came crashing
down into another field in Gray, TN on May 10th. Three boys outside
playing heard what they described as a noise which "sounded like a
rocket" and then found a 1-1/2 to 2-ft. diameter pile of ice
embedded 4-6 inches into the ground. The ice pile was bigger than
their beach-ball, with which they'd been playing. You-tube clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?=C5dsPBmAz5k
In addition an Asheville, NC crop-circle
enthusiast who visited the Gray, TN circle on May 18th has sent me a
number of good close-up photos of the plants and the lay. Because
her visit was 5 days after the formation was reported as having
occurred, and because NODE BENDING can NATURALLY OCCUR in young,
vigorously-growing plants (due to the plants' natural recovery
processes called photo-tropism and gravitropism (see Item 3(a):
http://www.bltresearch.com/plantab.php)....we
don't know in this case whether the node bending was caused when the
formation occurred, or afterward.
IF WE HAD PHOTOS FROM DAY 1 OR DAY 2 AFTER
THE FORMATION which also showed this node bending we would
have some good evidence that this formation was NOT
mechanically-flattened. Because these photos were not taken until 5
days later, we cannot be certain.
However...as I was examining other of these May
18th photos I did find what look to me to be a few "expulsion
cavities" (holes blown out at the plant stem nodes), more evidence
of node bending generally....AND clearly broken plant stems (which
could have been caused by visitors to the formation prior to these
photos being taken). But I thought the CCC readers might find these
photos, and comments, useful.
I think the 40-50 pound "meteoric ice" fall just
3 days earlier--in such a very small & rural town as Gray, TN--to be
a very curious coincidence.
Nancy
Talbott
BLT
Research Team Inc.
P.O. Box
400127
Cambridge, MA 02140 (USA)
ph: 617/492-0415
www.bltresearch.com
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Diagram Roger J. Sugden Copyright 2013
This is
the first (Grass)
formation known in the
USA. I'm sure you
already have an aerial
photo. I spent two days
there and talked much
with the landowner. It
formed in tall grass and
the flow is quite
interesting. I happened
to be in Tenn. at the
time and I was the only
one to investigate this
form other than the
usual tourist ..I do
hope this is the start
to a good season here..
Roger
J. Sugden
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