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Owen Valley Home Center, Owen Valley, Indiana, USA. Reported 30th June.

Updated Tuesday 20th February  2001 

Images Jag Copyright 2000

Initially, these circle were denied by both media and research groups. My  friend first discovered them from an airplane in June. We have been able to  locate two circles of a 6-7 crop circle formation. We don't understand how  something so large, can be denied existents. Part of the formation, (one  circle), can be seen from the highway. Sorry I remain anonymous, but I won't  be humiliated in this small town. I will send one picture now, and one with  another email right afterwards.

Reported by Jag.

Wow, crop circles in Indiana? We this from the air today. Just found your  site. Hopefully we can photograph next week and find the one on 67, I'll  inform news papers tomorrow. The formation was of a set of 5 circles. I have  drawn out a map or graph, with directions and form.

Reported by Jag 

UPDATE #1

This is to "Jag" who reported the formation "Owen Valley Home Center, Owen Valley, Indiana". I live in Clay County. I went to these circles on this site when I found it a few days ago and lo and behold, #1 on the list was Owen County. Wow. Anyway, so today (July 27), we took a road trip to the field indicated in your map posted on this site in your report. Guess what. there is a definite crop circle at the roadside. you can see the entire thing from the road because a small segment of the circle is on the edge of the field, meaning and open space. it's a fairly large circle (60 ft. diameter? we didn't measure). this circle wasn't on your map. the corn is entirely flattened inside the circle. the circle has a definite edge. the corn is flattened in a
counterclockwise spiral. 

so we went to the newspaper office (Spencer Evening World). they told us they'd done a story on crop circles recently and gave me a copy of the paper for July 21, 2000 which contained this story. the story is by Scot M. Lawson and is entitled "Crops yes, circles nope". it says "a rumor zipped on the internet to new England, back to Chicago and then to a traveling UFO/crop-circles phenomenon investigator on Interstate 70 led to an exploration of corn fields west of Spencer........Armed with a hand-drawn map (anonymously sent--the return address said "Classified") and a farmer's assistance, that investigator took to a field in search of the wonder....John P. Timmerman, of the Chicago-based J. Allen Hynek Center For UFO Studies (CUFOS), was traveling from a St. Louis UFO convention to his Ohio home when he received word of possible crop circles near Spencer." It goes on to say that him and the farmer (Bill Fulk), searched acres of corn for hours w/out finding a real circle, they
concluded that areas of corn that hadn't grown as high because "in drainage areas of cornfields where CPC-pipe is used, the corn doesn't grow nearly as tall....from the air, it might look like a crop-circle, both agreed." get a copy and read the whole thing. I can't figure out from the article where the guy got the map or if that was the sole way he heard of these circles. the roadside circle we saw today was definitely not what the article
talks about. it was a real crop circle, although it remains to be seen whether or not it is a hoax. 

I will return to the site in the next few days and take pictures w/ a real camera and get measurements and the like. I noticed 2 different footprints at the site as well as hoof prints along the side of the field, but these could or could not be related to the construction of the circle. the corn stalks were bent flat to the ground. some were bent at the bottom of stalk, some were broken at bottom of stalk, and some were pulled out of the ground. some of the leaves were already starting to whither today. I don't know how long this circle has been there. drive by and take a look. 

Reported by Jag.

In June of the year 2000 a pattern consisting of four circles was first witnessed from an airplane by people flying over a cornfield in rural south central Indiana. The four crop circles and the ‘path’ which joined the two smallest were not at all visible from the nearby road. Later in mid July of that same summer an additional circle formed in the same field. This new circle was larger than the first four, happened to lie in a straight line with the other circles, and extended out over the edge of the standing corn making it possible to view inside the largest new circle as one drives past it on the highway. The entire formation is shown below.

Though crop circles are on the increase they are at least still relatively rare in the United States. I am sure that many are never reported. Of the ones that were, eleven known formations occurred in the U.S. last year. Last year’s formation was the only one reported in Indiana. The nearby ones occurred in Bainbridge, Ohio and Linesville, Tennessee. The last known report that a crop circle had appeared in Indiana was in 1996 when three were discovered that year. Another was found in 1987. All four Indiana agriglyphs were found in the northeastern portion of our state. Last year’s (2000) formation is unusual in that it happened in South Central Indiana. As far as I know, it is also unusual in that it is the only one found in maize (corn) this year in the entire United States. Never before has a series of crop circles this size (a circle measuring 100 feet) been found in a cornfield. The other Indiana circles were made in wheat fields. I would imagine that it requires more energy to down corn stalks due to their thicker stems. Crop circles appear often in the same fields through the years and tend to evolve into more complex patterns. Most remarkably it has been documented that whatever is making these patterns seems to respond to human thought. It is my opinion that when we study and encourage the phenomenon the more likely it will continue to manifest.

A description of the Indiana Crop Circle formation which occurred in the year 2000:

I think that the diameter of the circles being 100,70,60,50,34 and the path 90 by 4 feet was part of an intentional design. The probability that the measurements for five out of six diameters just happened to occur in multiples of 10 is very unlikely a chance event.

The longest axis of the entire formation points due magnetic east seemingly unaffected by the nearby road and the northern side of the field, which lie in a more Northwest/west and Southeast/east angle.

The 100’ 70’ and 34’ diameter circles all had counterclockwise lays. The 60’ and 50’ foot circles had a combination of counterclockwise and clockwise lays. This rare occurrence is known as contra-rotated swirls. Thus most of the circle floor of the 50’circle is the usual counterclockwise lay and the outer 8-10 feet wide rim is swirled clockwise. There is no noticeable edge of demarcation that separates the two planes of rotation. Interestingly enough, the other circle measuring 60 feet contains this complex lay in reverse orientation - that is the center lay is clockwise and the outer rim is counterclockwise!

The corn stems lay tightly to the ground either with their roots in place or torn from the soil. The majority of them were found to be in some intermediate condition between these two extremes. The largest circle has a strange rectangular shaped swath extending about 12 feet from the circles edge. In this area the corn stalks contained a series of multiple bent nodes (3 to 4 per stalk) and at an angle anywhere from 12 to 45 degrees. Most of the nodes had "expulsion" cavities. This to me is the single strongest point that proves that the formation is not a hoax. When I consider all other observations and conclusions pertaining to this formation collectively, I know that this was not made be any type of ordinary natural phenomenon or human technological means.

Other isolated areas outside of the circles show plant stem abnormalities of basically three types. The first and most commonly noted aberration consisted of corn stalks that appeared to have been literally blown apart at the lowest node in the stem. Typically about a foot above the ground these nodes seem as if they were cleanly sliced in half. I would estimate there to be hundreds of these. A very significant finding is that in a few localized areas the nodes had been incompletely severed so that the rest of the stalk was still attached by a few strands. It appears that whatever energy had cut the stalks had done so in a directional manner as the top half of the corn plants all had fallen over in the same direction, all the broken stalks were oriented to pointing east. It is clear that this occurred some time ago before I had observed this for the part of the stalk still rooted in the ground had grown to a larger diameter as compared to the upper portion.

Whatever energy had caused the nodes to separate it was very clean and accurate. I would not expect that wind could accomplish this for the neighboring plants just inches away were totally unaffected.

Likewise deer or other animals if they were ever inclined to chew on corn stalks would not make such a clean and uncrushed slice that ends exactly at the node.

The second pattern of aberration in the randomly downed crop was similar to the 12foot swath located at the edge of the 100 foot circle. This pattern consisted of corn stalks that were bent over at the base at a 45-degree angle with the uppermost three nodes bent at 12 to 45 degrees. The lowest nodes had strange wrinkles on the stem side facing away from the bend as if small splits and had occurred after being stretched. Also on the side opposite to the bend were found expulsion cavities that caused the stalk material to flare outwards.

Yet another pattern found was a randomly oriented mishmash of completely downed corn plants. This pattern was the least frequent of the three.

I did not notice any definite unusual physical sensations or other effects while in the crop formation. At that time it was October and around dusk about two to four months after they first appeared so perhaps the residual energies were not as intense. I do get the feeling that there is a subtle, invisible presence that resides in and around the circles. I think that at the mind level there is link of consciousness. This has not been a solid physical sensation but an almost a knowingness that there is ongoing energy present reacting to me as we I react to it. To me circles represent a sacredness that I am inclined to try to respect.

I took photos with a compact automatic camera (an Olympus Stylus Epic). The lights, orbs and ghostly fog were not visible at the time.

What causes the appearance on developed film of these orbs and fog? I do not know for sure.

For the orbs, logically I would think of dust on the camera lens- I have cleaned the camera’s lenses to try to see if it made a difference in the amount of orbs being photographed and yet the orbs continued to appear in the photos. If dust stuck to the lens were the case then I would expect the same orbs to appear in the same place on the film in all shots. They are not in all of photo frames nor do they appear in the same location in the pictures. I used a flash at night and the flash was built in so each time the method of photographing was pretty consistent. The number of orbs, their size, their intensity all vary. In some of the photos I hardly moved the camera angle from one shot to the next and in most of the shots there is nothing unusual seen. It was not raining then either.

For the mist and fogged out areas of the film (sometimes only at the edges) I have no common explanation other than there could have been a fine unseen mist in the circles. This mist again was not visible at the time and I would probably have noticed it. I used the beam of the bright flashlight I have to check for this. One photo shows a reddish purple tinged fog. I am at a loss to explain this strange coloration, as there were no other bright lights shining around me let alone one that was red. I have viewed the negatives with the help of a professional photographic shop expert and he concluded that whatever appeared in the photos was coming through the lens as light, as a normal object would do and not a result of the film or development processing. Notably, the areas of fog do not extend beyond the margins of the negative, as would likely be the case if it had resulted from an error in the developing process. At this time the unusual photos are undergoing state-of-the-art scientific analysis in another lab that specializes in this sort of thing.

At this time I would say that these photographic anomalies are the result of real yet transient objects or light sources most likely plasmas.

Connecting the smallest two circles in the 2000 formation is a straight line or "avenue’ which measures 4’wide by 90’ long. This avenue linking the circles has been interpreted symbolizing ‘Speaking with’ or "communication". This type of communication as found in Hopi Indian symbols, often represents a two-way exchange between a deity and humanity. Many of these formations appear at sacred sites high in electromagnetic energy.

-Theodore Robertson 1/30/01

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