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INTERNATIONAL CROP CIRCLES OF 2000 |
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Oro-Medonte Township, nr Orillia, Ontario, Canada. Reported 10th August.
Updated Monday 28th August 2000
Image The Orillia Packet & Times/Julie Langpeter Copyright 2000
On August 14th,2000 at around 12:30 PM I had the privilege to visit a set of three crop circles in Orillia, Ontario. The circles had appeared overnight between August 9th and 10th. The farmer, Mr. Garnet Horne, found the circles on the morning of Thursday the 10th. They had not been there on the evening of the 9th. He was excited and awed by what he saw and immediately called over his brother to help him prove what had been obvious from the very beginning. There were no human footprints and there was no trail through the grain. In Canada, farmers do not use tramlines like they do in England. Even small animals leave a trail through grain when passing through it and humans tend to leave rather large ones. But here, in the area of these three precise circles, there was absolutely no evidence of human activity.
Garnet and his brother measured the circles themselves and found that the first and largest was 70 feet in diameter, the second was 50 feet and the smallest was 30 feet in diameter: 20 feet difference between each. The grain was a combination of oats and barley.
By the time I got to the circles there had been hundreds of visitors and the grain had been tramped down and flattened with unruly haphazard individual stalks standing up but bent. It was not a tidy formation. However, according to Garnet Horne, it had been. As he began to describe the sweep and wave of the fresh formation, I realized that it had been of a high caliber, just like the ones I had seen freshly laid in England.
When I first arrived, I was alone and went about studying the circles the way I had learned in England. I did not find any blown nodes and I did not find any bundling. However, I noted that the grain had been seeded very sparsely in comparison to the seeding in England. There just was not as much to work on. I noted that all the seed heads were pointing in the same direction and that the force that created these circles was moving in a counterclockwise direction.
I also noted that within a short distance of the formation were three microwave communication towers that one could see, and one even taller than those was situated just behind the forest. Since microwave energy has been associated with the circles by science, I thought this might be important.
After doing a study, I sat in the center of the second circle and found the energy to be very calm. Soon, I was joined by Garnet and a couple of reporters from Orillia. As I shared what I knew of the phenomenon and mentioned the fact that cameras often don’t work in brand new circles because of remaining energy interference, Garnet remembered that on the morning that he discovered the formation, his two dogs refused to enter the circles. Later that first day, when more people came and entered, the dogs did too, but not when they originally encountered the phenomenon. This bit of information also helped to confirm the validity of the circles, not to mention the fact that Garnet Horne was obviously mystified by them. He has challenged people to come into his field and try to copy the formation in another corner to prove that the circles could not have been formed with board and string. So far, no-one has taken him up on it, possibly because most of the people visiting the site have embraced the mystery and do not need any more proof than what the see in front of them.
Report by June Mewhort
Preliminary Report - August 14, 2000
A set of three crop circles has been reported in Ontario, at Oro-Medonte Township, near Orillia. A copy of an article
from The Calgary Sun follows. Reported by June Mewhort. Further details, ground report, images to follow. This is the
third (reported) formation so far for 2000.
Saturday, August 12, 2000
Crop circles puzzle farmer
By CP
ORO-MEDONTE TOWNSHIP, Ont. -- A central Ontario farmer refuses to believe aliens or Star Wars weapons are responsible for
three, neatly-formed circles that have appeared in his grain field.
"I try to live in the real world," Garnet Horne, 59, said yesterday.
At first, the family suspected the three circles -- 23, 15 and 12 metres in diameter -- were a prank.
"I figured some jackass tramped it down to get our goat," Horne's older brother, Donald, said.
But there was no pathway leading to or from the three circles.
"We got right down and looked for footprints," said Garnet. "Not a heel mark, nothing. It isn't human. It's got me beat."
Inside each circle, the barley and oats have been flattened to the ground in a symmetrical, counter-clockwise swirl. Around the
circular edges the flattened grain meets a perfectly upright wall of unharmed oats and barley.
"It's not aliens and it's not somebody tramping it down, said Garnet. "I can't explain it."
Garnet first spotted the circles while driving by the field at dusk Thursday. "It scared the wits out of me," he said.
This is not the first time crop circles have appeared west of Orillia, Ont., near Bass Lake.
In 1992 and 1993, circular patterns appeared about 3 km north of the Horne farm in a corn field.
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UPDATE #1 - ORO-MEDONTE TOWNSHIP, ONTARIO CROP CIRCLES
Attached is a preliminary diagram of the cluster of three circles found August 10 at Oro-Medonte Township, Ontario
(oromedonte00.gif). Based on aerial photo from The Ottawa Citizen newspaper (will have copy as soon as possible, and
trying to obtain additional images). Plus a ground report
from June Mewhort to come soon, as well as CPR-Canada's Ontario coordinator, Drew Gauley, as soon as he can get to the site.
Farmer reports no tracks or pathways; the circles look quite good in the aerial - clean, crisp swirls, sharp edges, etc.
The Ottawa Citizen article ran August 12 in the print paper, but I can't find an online copy on the web site yet. A relatively simple,
but elegant formation.
Paul Anderson.
UPDATE #3 - ORO-MEDONTE TOWNSHIP, ONTARIO CROP CIRCLES
Following is another ground report, from Drew Gauley, Ontario director for CPR-Canada, as well as an article from The Packet & Times newspaper
(Orillia, Ontario). Additional ground photos and video footage also taken. Aerial photo and previous reports are on the CPR-Canada web site.
Paul Anderson
On Friday August 18, 2000, myself and Henry McKay (previous MUFON Canadian Director and more recently, a self motivated consultant of
Accultural Studies) visited the Horne family farm to witness the crop circles for ourselves. Upon our arrival, the Horne's weren't home, but a
neighbour pointed us in the direction of the field. From the road we could see some indentations in the field and some pathways leading in.
Closer inspection revealed no pattern to the fallen crop. We found out later that there had been so many visitors that this area had been
trampled by people looking in the wrong spot!
After picking up two articles from the Orillia Packet we noticed some details in the aerial photo and realised we had looked in the wrong part
of the field. So back we went! Fortunately, one of the Horne's was in the field talking with a couple from Toronto. We greeted them as they
left and introduced ourselves to ____ Horne (an older brother to Garnet who is also a farmer). He told us that he estimated over 1000 visitors
to the field by that point. Combined with a some additional facts (it had been over a week since the formations appearance, there had been
rain recently and it was beginning to rain as we spoke) we proceeded with a general inspection. We decided that the basic info had been
gathered (dates, measurements, orientation, etc) so I tried to keep my video camera dry as we got a guided tour from Mr. Horne.
The circles themselves all had a neat rotation, with a tighter whorl in the centre where the crop was almost "weaved" together as a result. The
edges were well defined and all were "perfect" circles. No samples were collected although Mr. Horne did mention some people had previously
taken some. The field is in close proximity to a number of towers, both electrical and radio transmitter/cell phone.(?) Although the circles are
close to the edge of the field and forest border, nothing unusual was noted on nearby trees. Of note is his retelling of the strange bang his
brother and son experienced in their truck the night of the formation. Mike Bird of the TSPC spoke with Garnet Horne who recounted the story
and he passed it to me. I believe Garnet tends to the field and was driving up the service path that runs east/west adjacent to the field
when he noticed the formation. He went back home to get his son to show him. They headed back at around 9 o'clock when on the same path they
heard what sounded like a large "wallop" hit the truck. At first they thought it was a branch hitting the side or undercarriage of the truck
and then it occurred to them that it could also be a gunshot. Garnets son did up his window and they got out of there ASAP. Back home, they
checked the truck and there was no sign of any impact. Needless to say it caused them quite an inexplicable scare. I spoke with Nancy Talbott
yesterday and she is interested in receiving plant samples regardless of the time that has passed and the weather. I'm unable to visit again any
time soon, so I have sent out a request to interested folk who could do the collecting. Apart from awaiting a response to this question, I'm
also hoping to hear back from the Horne's as to whether harvesting has taken place yet.
Drew Gauley
CROP CIRCLES NO HOAX: EXPERT
By Joelle Kovach The Packet & Times
After a weekend visit, a paranormal phenomena expert says the crop circles at a local family farm were not created by humans.
"I don't think they're a deliberate hoax," said Henry McKay, a one-time Canadian director of the Mutual Unidentified Flying Objects
Network (MUFON) and crop circle researcher since 1965. Had human pranksters tromped the circles, it's likely they would have chosen a
site visible from the roadway, McKay said.
But the circles at the Garnet Horne family farm, on the edge of Orillia, are concealed from the road. McKay also studied circles discovered in a
farmer's field near Bass Lake in 1993. He attributed the Bass Lake circles to wind damage.
He says the ones in Horne's fields are far more precise in their dimensions and placement. The three circles are exactly 23, 15 and
12 metres in diameter. Drew Gauley, the Ontario director for Circles Phenomenon Research Canada, accompanied McKay from Toronto to Simcoe
County to see the crop circles. Gauley said it would have been preferable to view the circles soon after they first appeared on Aug.
10.
As a result, he reserved judgment on how they were created. "It's important to be there before rainfall, before 1,000 visitors," said
Gauley. Horne estimates that 1,000 visitors have stopped by to see the circles in about 10 days. Some of the curious have come from as far away
as New York, Kitchener and Ottawa. And they were still coming Sunday; someone had even erected a roadside sign to indicate the
location of the circles.
"I can't get over the people who have come," Horne said. Among those who visited on the weekend was Clynt King. Circles cropped up in his wheat
field near Hagersville last summer, and he has taken an avid interest in the topic since. Equipped with what looked like a measuring wheel, King
set out to take the dimensions of the circles. While the circles in his field were transpersed with symbols resembling runes, there were
three circles off to one side that were similar to those in Horne's field. King has no doubt of the circles' origins. "People from other
planets put them there," he said matter-of-factly. "They use microwave energy from the Earth." Gauley said he had visited King's circles in
July, 1999, and they displayed a more intricate pattern. "It was more of a pictograph."
Canada's prairie provinces are famous for crop circles, Gauley said. But in more than 30 years of study, McKay has only seen 10 crop circle
fields in Ontario. Most of them occurred a few years back, he said. He said he didn't come across any bits of evidence in Horne's field to
merit further study of the circles. In 1971, he said he found depressions in the earth in a crop circle field in Trenton, Ont. They
suggested to him the presence of a tripod undercarriage.
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