Approximately August 28, 2004

BLT Research Team Inc Update 15/07/2004

Hillsboro, Ohio
Date Found:  7/5/04
Date Occurred:  7/4/04 (most likely)
Crop:    Maize  (Sweet Corn)
Description:  Owners report to BLT that approx. 20'x30' of randomly-downed corn was discovered by them in a small garden.  Crop lay is primarily in one direction.  Local meteorologist states that, in his opinion, event not caused by weather damage, pesticide application, insect infestation, animal damage or mechanical flattening.  Owners report no EM effects noted the night prior to discovery (no TV interference, cell phone failure, flickering lights, unusual smells or sounds, failed batteries, and no animal disturbances).  Owners request that location be kept private.

Eagle Grove, Iowa
Found:  7/3/04 (first event)
Occurred:  7/2/04
Crop:  Oats
Description:   BLT fieldworkers inspected oat field 2 days later, finding multiple (approx. 18) irregularly-downed patches of flattened oats scattered across field.  No clear apical node-elongation visible, no expulsion cavities, no compass anomalies noted.  Crop in majority of patches is laid very flat to ground in a N-S direction; a few patches, also laid in only one direction, but E-W.  Owner reports that his dogs barked and were agitated during the night of July 2nd, when event occurred.  No other EM-type effects reported that first time.

A 2nd BLT fieldworker arrived a few days later to find that many more patches of crop had been flattened, with the owner stating that immediately after first field-team had left a large "X" of flattened crop had occurred, with additional damage occurring on several subsequent nights.  Owner now reported 2 dead tractor batteries (but states that one of them was low to begin with), and that both his pigs and his horse were acting strangely and appeared distressed.   Fieldworker found that the place where farmer reported finding the "X" was now obliterated with randomly-downed crop over entire area, again laid consistently in one direction only (no swirling or patterning in the lay).

Two days after the 2nd fieldworker visited the site the owner reported that his wife and step-daughter, who were watching TV at about 11:30 pm, suddenly noticed that the dogs were again barking loudly.  Upon looking out the window they observed what the step-daughter (age 13) reported as about a "soft-ball-sized" white light-ball hovering low over the field motionless for more than 2 hours.  No TV interference was observed but the phone and computer would not work.  Additionally, the BOL did not light up the crop beneath it, in spite of the fact that it was quite low over the field.  Because the owner was out of the house at his night job the wife and daughter were somewhat frightened and decided to go to sleep in the same bed until the owner returned.  When the owner did return at about 2:30 a.m. he drove right past this field and saw nothing, except that his horse had moved as far away from the oat field as the electric fence around his pen would allow.  The next day the phone and the computer worked properly.

BLT personnel are returning to the site to carry out additional field-work.

Litchfield, Minnesota
Date Found:   7/11/04
Date Occurred:  7/9-10/04  (?)
Crop:  Barley
Description:   BLT fieldworkers found, again, an extensive area of randomly-downed crop in numerous patches alongside the road.  One of the field-team, a meteorologist, reported that there had been heavy thunderstorms in the area during the time event is thought to have occurred and it was his basic impression that this downed crop was most likely caused by rain & wind damage.  However, he reports that the plants were bent at the base rather than broken, and that he did observe what looked like apical node elongation in the downed crop as opposed to the controls.  Crop was laid at various angles throughout, with abrupt boundaries between standing and downed crop.  No EM anomalies reported by owner.

New Milford, Connecticut
Date Found:  7/13/04
Date Occurred:  7/12/04
Crop:  Maize (sweet corn), approx. 5-1/2' tall
Description:  Owner reported to BLT that she found an approximately 20'x40' patch of absolutely flattened corn plants in the middle of her garden in the morning of the 13th July.  There is a 7' tall chicken-wire fence around the garden and there was no storm the night before (this fact verified by a local Connecticut meteorologist).  Plants are bent at their base generally, with some snapped 2" or so above the ground and are all lying very flat to the ground and in the same direction.  The overall area of flattened plants in very nearly square, with 5 rows of plants downed.  Owner noticed no EM effects the night before.  

It is of particular interest that the flattened plants to do begin at the EDGE of the garden, but instead have an edge of standing plants along 3 sides (with a large woodpile bordering the 4th side).  She reports that a tarp which is covering the woodpile has been raised straight up about 1 ft., suggesting to her that whatever energy came straight down into the corn patch pulled up the tarp as it exited.

Nancy Talbott
BLT Research Team Inc.
(www.bltresearch.com)