“I looked all around the pattern in my hay field and there were no
tracks anywhere. But some tall grass was going clockwise and some was
going counterclockwise. How is that possible?”

- Connie Osborne, Land Owner, Gray, Tennessee

Gray, Tennessee (upper right red circle), is 21 miles northwest of Johnson City.
Madisonville, Tennessee (lower left red map marker) - where wheat formations
occurred in 2007 and 2011- is 3.5 hours southwest of Gray, or about 200 miles.

The Gray, Tennessee, crop pattern was reported May 13, 2013,
in 4-foot-tall grasses growing in Connie Osborne's hay field along 
Old Gray Station Road about 21 miles northwest of Johnson City and about
200 miles northeast of Madisonville, TN (lower left red marker), where previous
large wheat formations below were reported in the same wheat field
on May 15, 2007, and May 16, 2011, southwest of Knoxville.
Aerial May 14, 2013 © by Siri Karta.

      
Left:  May 15, 2007, Madisonville, Tennessee, wheat pattern
about 170 feet in diameter with crop laid down in counterclockwise 
circles and a triangle in the center circle of standing wheat.
Aerial image © 2007 by Mark Boring, Monroe County Buzz.
For more information, see 2007 Earthfiles.   Right: May 16, 2011,
Madisonville, TN, pattern in same wheat field as the May 15, 2007, formation.
Aerial image © 2011 by Mark Boring, Monroe County Buzz.

May 31, 2013  Gray, Tennessee - At 8 AM Monday, May 13, 2013, in Gray, Tennessee, 18-year-old Tim Blumberg went to the mailbox to place a letter his mom wanted mailed. He was surprised to see a pattern in the nearby hay field that was not there the day before. The Blumbergs are neighbors of Connie Osborne, 62, who was born in Carter City, Tennessee, only twenty-one miles from Gray, where she moved in 1979. Connie works for Host Engineering where she is a solder tech. She solders printed circuit boards for hard drives. The lowest part of her 8 1/2 acre farm is a field of eight different grasses that she grows for another neighbor to harvest as hay for his animals in exchange for his taking care of her property. That hay field is about twenty feet lower than her house and is dotted with large slabs of limestone that are part of the limestone beneath her hayfield and land.

Slab of limestone in Connie Osborne's hay field in Gray, Tennessee.
The hay field and her property are on limestone with a creek 
and spring running through it. Image © 2013 by Roger Sugden.

This Google map perspective shows the North designator in far upper right corner and the
site of the crop pattern at the yellow pointer in lower left. The land owner is Connie Osborne
and her house, the white rectangle pointed towards Old Gray Station Road, and her garage, 
the nearly vertical other white rectangle, are near a natural spring that flows from
the South Fork of Cedar Creek over the limestone land.

In the aerial photograph below taken on May 14, 2013, a day after the crop pattern first emerged overnight, the top tree line is the creek that runs under Old Gray Station Road in the northwest along Connie's land. A smaller natural spring branches off the creek toward her white-roofed house and darker-roofed garage in lower right of the photo. In the crop pattern that includes eight species of grasses, the far right partial ring in a northwesterly direction has a 4-foot-wide curving path to the small central circle. The middle bar connects the southeast partial ring that has a narrow 16-inch-wide straight path to that ring's small central circle. The grasses are laid down counterclockwise in the northwest ring and clockwise in the southeast ring. Those opposing flows meet in the center of the connecting bar.

Aerial photographed on May 14, 2013, one day after the pattern was first 
seen at 8 AM by neighbor Tim Blumberg. Image © 2013 by Siri Karta.

Helicopter aerial of the hay field pattern was on May 21, 2013, by Connie Osborne's son, 
David Jones, nine days after the formation was first reported on May 13th. The chalky 
areas of the downed grasses might be caused by reflective limestone dust. Another
explanation from Jeff Wilson, Director of the ICCRA points out: “I believe that the
difference in the colors or reflectivity in this photo is due to the way in which
the grasses are recovering. The flatter grasses reflect more light and appear brighter.
The rest of the grass is starting to stand back up and is less reflective.” The top ring 
with narrow straight path to its small central circle is in a southeasterly direction connected
by the wide bar to the northwest ring that has a 4-foot-wide curving path to its small
central circle. The standing grasses are 4-feet-tall. The grasses are laid down 
counterclockwise in the northwest ring and clockwise in the southeast ring, 
flowing into the connecting bar where the opposite flowing grasses
meet at the middle. Aerial image © by David Jones.

I talked with Connie Osborne on May 27, 2013, about her coming home from work on May 13th, seeing the big downed area in her hay field and wondering who entered and damaged it. Connie stressed that she walked the entire perimeter of her 8 1/2-acre hay field looking for car tracks, bicycle tracks, shoe tracks, any tracks - but she found nothing. Then she told me that a series of odd events had begun happening in Gray since the night of May 3rd to 4th, ten days before the large, 208-feet-long by 99-feet-wide pattern appeared in her grassy field. Four friends called to tell her about a strange blue light hovering in the night sky. Then on May 10, 2013, a 50-pound ice ball fell out of the sky into a field only a mile or so from her hay field, source unknown. Then the morning of May 13th, the pattern emerged in the tall grasses. And finally on Saturday, May 25th, her good friend Robin Wheelock had an unusual encounter with glowing orbs inside the crop formation.

Interview:

Play MP3 interview.

Connie Osborne, Hay Field Land Owner, Gray, Tennessee:  “Friends of mine - and it's three different ladies from three different areas - had mentioned they saw this strange blue light. And they said it was the weirdest thing. And it just like hovered and just stayed there. And they watched it for a good while and they did not know what it was.

DID THEY SAY WHAT COLOR BLUE?

Just a light blue.

AND NO SOUND?

No sound.

THAT WAS MAY 3RD.

Yes, ma'am.

May 13, 2013 - Large Pattern 
Appears in Connie's Hay Field

This was the first aerial taken on May 14, 2013, a day after the pattern appeared 
in Connie Osborne's hay field in Gray, Tennessee, near Old Gray Station Road. 
The large 208-feet-long by 99-feet-wide formation is in the lowest part of the
land on limestone through which the South Fork of Cedar Creek and 
natural spring flow. Image © 2013 by Siri Karta.

TELL ME HOW THE PATTERN IN YOUR HAY FIELD CAME TO BE DISCOVERED.

Well, May the 13th was a Monday morning, and I get up to go to work. I looked down there
(in grassy field), but it just looked like the wind - I thought maybe the wind had just blown it 
(4-foot-tall grasses) down. So I went on to work and the neighbor's son, Tim Blumberg - he was putting a letter in the mailbox and he noticed it. Then my next door neighbor, Wayne, he came out and looked at it, too, and said, ‘What if it's a crop circle?’

I didn't realize until I came home and I can see the field as I'm driving down the road and I wondered what in the world has been over there in that hay field. I physically walked down there and could not believe my eyes.

COULD YOU SEE TRACKS OF ANY KIND - HUMAN OR OTHER - LEADING INTO OR OUT OF THAT PATTERN?

No, ma'am. I thought the same thing and I walked - it's about 8 1/2 acres - and I walked the whole property line. I could see my tracks where I walked down to it, but there were no tracks anywhere.

IT IS SITTING THERE RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE HAY FIELD. THERE ARE NO TRAMLINES.

No.

AND THAT'S 4-FOOT-HIGH HAY GRASS, RIGHT?

Oh, yes, it's up to my waist.

THE PATTERN IS QUITE INTRICATE.

Yes! One end it goes counterclockwise and on the other end, it's clockwise. And in the circles, it's clockwise half way around and counterclockwise the other way in each circle. And in the middle, both of the U-shaped parts - the one from the left is laid down and then the one from the right is laid down over top of the left. It was just weird how it was done.

IF THERE IS NO SIGN OF TRACKS ANYWHERE AROUND THE PERIMETER OF THIS PATTERN IN 4-FOOT-HIGH HAY FIELD GRASS AND YOU ARE LOOKING AT THAT KIND OF COMPLEX COUNTERCLOCKWISE AND CLOCKWISE PATTERN, WHAT DO YOU THINK COULD HAVE DONE THIS?

I have no idea (laughs)! I would love to find out, but I have no idea - it just appeared unexplained.”

Roger Sugden, ICCRA Researcher, 
Investigates May 14-15, 2013

Further north in Indiana, Roger Sugden, a professional photographer and artist, is a member of the Independent Crop Circle Researchers' Association. ICCRA investigates American crop formations and he has driven hundreds of miles at his own expense to photograph and study crop patterns that include three in Tennessee that have emerged in mid-May since 2007. The first two near Madisonville, were reported on May 14, 2007, and then four years later on May 16, 2011.

Madisonville, Tennessee (lower left red map marker) is 3.5 hours southwest
of Gray, Tennessee (upper right red circle), or about 200 miles.

Now this month of May 2013, in the early morning of Monday, May 13th, at 1:30 AM, Roger was outside looking at the night sky wondering about Madisonville when two circular clouds connected by a cloud line caught his attention. Right then Roger wondered if that cloud pattern was a signal that a crop circle might be in Madisonville?

So on Wednesday, May 15th, Roger set off on a 600-mile-journey out of intuition, got to Madisonville on May 16th, and learned there was a crop formation, but not in Madisonville. So the next day on May 17th, Roger drove another 3 1/2 hours northeast to Gray, Tennessee.

When he got to Connie's hay field around 2 PM on May 17th, he walked off the 208-feet-long by 99-feet-wide hay grass pattern and sketched in his diagram the clockwise and counter-clockwise patterns of intricately laid down grasses. Roger knew the trip was worth it. He was inside the beauty of a genuinely mysterious crop formation so similar to the cloud shape that provoked him to travel to Tennessee.

Interview:

Roger Sugden, professional photographer and artist and member of the Independent Crop Circle Researchers' Association (ICCRA), Fort Wayne, Indiana: “What struck me was some giant broadleaf  plants, sort of like the stems of rhubarb, and they were absolutely untouched! The grass simply went around them, flowed right around them.

Broadleaf plant inside the Gray crop formation where the grasses have swirled down
around it, but the big plant is untouched. Similar anomalies have been found
in English, Italian and other crop formation sites of the world since 
at least the early 1990s. Image on May 17, 2013 © 2013 by Roger Sugden.

WE'VE SEEN THAT IN ENGLAND OFTEN GOING BACK TO THE 1990S WHERE WHATEVER THE ENERGY IS COMES DOWN IN A FIELD MAKING THE CROP FORMATIONS. IF IT IS A WHEAT FIELD, THE WHEAT IS DOWN OR UP, BUT THERE CAN BE THISTLES OR BROAD LEAF, AS YOU ARE DESCRIBING, THAT ARE TOTALLY UNTOUCHED AS IF THIS IS MOLECULE-SPECIFIC ENERGY.

Yes, that's exactly what it looked like. They were untouched and I saw multiple sites of that in there (Gray hay field pattern), including standing grass where (other grass) just flowed down right around it like it (grass) was water.

Clockwise and Counterclockwise Grass Flows

Inside the formation, there are different layers and there are certainly different directions of flow. The northern circle goes counterclockwise and in the southern circle, it goes clockwise as just the opposite. The northern circle is counterclockwise and the southern circle is clockwise on the outer and interior.

Then, what is fascinating is the middle part that connects the big circles, almost at the center - the flow is coming in from the circles, coming in from one circle and stops at the center. Then it comes in from the other circle and stops at the center where this solid bar section is.

Grass in Square Pattern

4-foot-tall grasses laid down in a squarish pattern surrounded by a 
herringbone pattern. Image on May 17, 2013 © 2013 by Roger Sugden.

Herringbone “weave” throughout the Gray, Tennessee, hay field first found
at 8 AM on Monday, May 13, 2013, in Connie Osborne's field of grasses where
no pattern had been the day before. May 17, 2013 image © 2013 by Roger Sugden.

And there is a little square on the inside of the circular flow. The flow comes down on one side, goes across, comes at the other side and makes a nice little square flow and inside that square, about 6 or 8 feet square, it goes a different direction that is the flow of the outer circle!

FOUR 90-DEGREE TURNS IN THE 4-FOOT-TALL GRASS?

Yes, that's exactly what it is. It's quite impressive.

Grasses flowing on ground around untouched standing grasses, 
a phenomenon of crop formations in the world since at least the early 1990s
described as “compartmentalized energies” that can preserve standing plants
while other surrounding plants are put down to flow like water around
standing plants. May 17, 2013 image © by Roger Sugden.

THIS IS A FORMATION THAT FROM YOUR EXPERIENCE COULD NOT HAVE BEEN MADE BY HUMANS?

From what I've seen, I don't think it could just because if someone would come in here and just make this with a board, these giant broadleaf plants would be crushed, absolutely crushed. They are untouched. And I saw multiple sites of that in there, including standing grass where it flowed right around the broadleaf in multiple areas, not just one.

There are people who want to do testing on this. I've got soil samples and plant samples that are going to be tested. But from what I've seen, I don't see how anybody could make this.

WHAT IS THE INTELLIGENCE BEHIND THE CREATION OF CROP FORMATIONS?

Oh, that's a $64,000 question! I think it's an unknown, but I believe that our consciousness - we're all connected with everything! And whatever energies there are, whether come from ancient mound sites or from our own selves - we're connected with it.”

Mysterious Orbs in Gray Grass Formation

After Roger spent a couple of days studying the intricate Gray, Tennessee, grass pattern, he returned to Indiana with samples for ICCRA to test. But unusual energies persisted in Connie Osborne's hay field. Her good friend, Robin Wheelock, who was born and raised in Gray, took some North Carolina researchers into the hay pattern on May 25th. Robin was standing in one of the circles while they were videotaping when what happened next still gives Robin goose bumps.

Interview:

Robin Wheelock, long-time resident of Gray, Tennessee, and author of ©     From Death Row to Freedom:  “We went down to the crop circle, the guy (Rick from NC) was filming it on video. There was one area in the crop circle where we could stand and white orbs would come around.

SO YOU MEAN WITH YOUR OWN EYES ...?

On the camera. You could not see them with the naked eye.

WERE THEY MOVING IN THE VIDEOTAPE?

Yes.

ABOUT HOW BIG WERE THEY SAY IN RELATIONSHIP TO A PING PONG BALL?

He (cameraman) said whenever I got out there, that there was three of them (white orbs) that came. And one was sitting on top of my head. And then I had one on each shoulder. The one on top of my head was about the same size as my head. [ Video frames showing the glowing orbs around Robin Wheelock will hopefully be added to this Earthfiles report in the first week of June 2013. ]

YOU SAW THIS WITH YOUR OWN EYES ON THE VIDEOTAPE?

Yes. The one orb that was on top of my head came down and set over my heart for a little bit and then it's like it scanned all the way down my body, all the way down to the ground. And then just took off.

YOU WERE NOT AWARE OF ANY OF THAT AT THE TIME?

Just the chill bumps on my arms. (laughs)

YOU WERE AWARE OF SOMETHING AFFECTING YOUR SKIN?

Yes.

BUT YOU DIDN'T KNOW WHAT IT WAS UNTIL HE (cameraman) NOTIFIED YOU TO LOOK AT THE VIDEOTAPE?

After I came back up to the camera, I'd see it. After the three orbs and me, it's like the camera went dead. There were squiggly lines in it and the camera went dead and there was no audio.

SO THAT WAS TWELVE DAYS AFTER THE GRASS PATTERN WAS FOUND. EXPLAIN AGAIN WHAT YOU WERE FEELING PHYSICALLY?

There were chill bumps on my arms and my skin. I mean the hair on my arms was standing up because of the chill bumps.

DID RICK BEHIND THE CAMERA SAY, ‘DO YOU SEE ANYTHING AROUND YOU’?

Yeah, he was asking me that and I told him, ‘'I'm not seeing anything.’ And he said, 'Well, you've got three orbs on you.'

Then he started telling me where they were on me, but I already had the chill bumps. (laughs)

WHILE YOU WERE STANDING THERE AND YOU WERE FEELING THESE GOOSE BUMPS ON YOUR ARMS, HE WAS TELLING YOU THAT YOU HAD THREE GLOWING ORBS AROUND YOU THAT YOU COULD NOT SEE, BUT YOU WERE FEELING THOSE GOOSE BUMPS ON YOUR ARMS. DO YOU REMEMBER HAVING THOUGHT VOICES IN YOUR MIND? OR IMAGES RUNNING THROUGH YOUR MIND? OR ANYTHING THAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN COMMUNICATION FROM THOSE GLOWING ORBS?

I have a heart problem, OK. I have a leaking valve and it causes my heart to get out of rhythm. I had gone on Friday and had an echo cardiogram done. And then this happened on Saturday (May 25, 2013) where the orb set on my heart. The thought that was running through my mind is - maybe it's healing my heart? (laughs) Or scanning for the problem? Or knows there's a problem? I have a peaceful, calming feeling.

AFTER  THIS GLOWING ORB SETTLED OVER YOUR HEART FOR AWHILE, DID YOU FEEL ANY DIFFERENCE IN THE WAY YOU FELT?

Heart-wise, not until the next day when my heart had gone back into rhythm. I felt very drained of energy.

WHAT GOES THROUGH YOUR MIND ABOUT WHAT THEY ARE?

I really don't know.” 

The natural spring that runs near Connie Osborne's home has been where many fossils and ancient implements such as a stone ax have been found that has been dated back to the Woodland period around 1,000 B. C. to about 1500 A. D.  - a 2500-year period of time that also includes the mysterious Hopewell intelligence that built thousands of earth mounds throughout the Midwest with a central focus in Ohio and going south into Tennessee. The Gray Fossil Site Museum is full of artifacts. In England, crop formations have also focused on ancient stone circle and mound sites always provoking the question: is the intelligence behind the global crop formation phenomenon knowledgeable about Earth's past, present and future? If so, what do the modern day crop formations link to in the flow of time that persists in the plant skin of Earth?

More Information:

For further reports about  crop circles and American mounds, please see Earthfiles Archive from which some reports are listed below:

• 11/07/2012 — Crop Circle Schematic of Photon Wave-Particle Duality?
• 10/30/2012 — Part 2: High Strangeness in 43-Circle-Corn Pattern Near Ancient Mounds of Chillicothe, Ohio
• 10/29/2012 — Updated Part 1: High Strangeness in 43-Circle-Corn Pattern Near Ancient Mounds of Chillicothe, Ohio
• 10/02/2012 — Crop Circle in Tlapanaloya, Tequixquiac, Mexico
• 08/31/2012 — Two 2012 U. K. Crop Formations of High Strangeness
• 06/08/2007 — Part 3: U. S. Crop Formations, Wheat Pictogram in Madisonville, TN
• 08/28/2006 — Part 2: Five Circle Pattern in Geneseo, Illinois, Soybeans
• 07/23/2005 — Mystery of Six Grass Circle Formations in North Carolina
• 10/17/2004 — American Crop Formations: 1880-2004
• 09/17/2004 — Updated: Part 1 - High Strangeness in Canadian Cattle Corn
• 09/10/2004 — Update on Miamisburg, Ohio, Corn Pictogram - Balls of Light?
• 09/05/2004 — Part 2 - Hillsboro, Ohio Corn Plant Anomalies
• 09/04/2004 — Hillsboro, Ohio Corn Formation - High Strangeness in Soil and Plants
• 09/02/2004 — Updated Photos: Big, Impressive New Corn Formation in Miamisburg, Ohio
• 08/09/2004 — Pictograms in Poland
• 07/15/2004 — Updated: Part 1-Beyond Hillsboro, Ohio, More Corn Down in New Milford, Connecticut
• 07/06/2004 — Mysteriously Downed Oat Plants in Eagle Grove, Iowa, and Downed Corn in Hillsboro, Ohio
• 10/17/2003 — 2003 "UFO Flap" in Ohio
• 09/17/2004 — Updated: Part 1 - High Strangeness in Canadian Cattle Corn
• 06/08/2007 — Part 3: U. S. Crop Formations, Wheat Pictogram in Madisonville, Tennessee
• 08/28/2006 — Part 2: Five Circle Pattern in Geneseo, Illinois, Soybeans
• 07/23/2005 — Mystery of Six Grass Circle Formations in North Carolina
• 10/17/2004 — American Crop Formations: 1880-2004
• 09/22/2004 — Miamisburg and Serpent Mound, Ohio Crop Formations: Geometries Compared
• 11/01/2003 — Another Soybean Formation in Ohio
• 10/10/2003 — Updated - Ohio Hunter's "Deer Camera" Photographs Mysterious Glowing Disk
• 10/05/2003 — Part 3 - Paint Creek Island, Ohio Crop Formation Photographs
• 10/03/2003 — Part 2 - Military Interest in Serpent Mound and Seip Mound Formations?
• 10/02/2003 — Part 1 - Another Soybean Formation Near Seip Mound in Ohio
• 09/12/2003 — Second Soybean Crop Formation in Ohio is Manmade. Special USAF Investigation Unit Involved? 
• 10/01/2002 — Part 2 - September 2002 Maize Circles Update: Canada

Websites:   

Gray, Tennessee Fossil Museum:  http://www.etsu.edu/naturalhistorymuseum/

Woodland Period:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodland_period

Archaeological Institute of America, Hopewell:  
http://www.archaeology.org/online/features/hopewell/who_were_hopewell.html

Hopewell Indian Mounds, Chillicothe, Ohio:  
http://www.touring-ohio.com/southwest/chillicothe/hopewell-indian-mounds.html

Independent Crop Circle Research Assoc. (ICCRA):  http://www.iccra.org/

Silent Circle 2012 Crop Circle Reports: http://www.silentcircle.co.uk/cropcircles2012.html

English Crop Circles, Current and Archived:  http://www.cropcircleconnector.com

Lucy Pringle:  http://www.lucypringle.co.uk

Andreas Mueller, Germany:  http://www.kornkreise-forschung.de/  (Cropcirclescience.org)

American Crop Circles, ICCRA:  http://www.cropcirclenews.com/

“Isaac” and CARET Document:  http://isaaccaret.fortunecity.com/

Canadian Crop Circles, CCCRN:  http://www.cccrn.ca/

Dutch Crop Circles, DCCA: http://www.dcca.nl

Italian Crop Circles:  http://www.zimbio.com/Crop+Circles/articles/OtTQ69cg6RV/Italian
+Crop+Circles+2010+Season

Poland Crop Circles:  http://www.ufocasebook.com/ccphenomenapoland.html

http://www.cropcircleresearch.com

http://www.x-cosmos.it

http://www.bertjanssen.nl