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Ipuacu, Santa Catarina State.
Reported 8th November.
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Preliminary report about the
first Brazilian crop circles
A. J. Gevaerd,
editor of the Brazilian UFO Magazine
Ufology is mostly
all about going to places to examine the facts in locu, examining
all the situations involved and looking at the witnesses’ eyes,
subsequently, checking the truthfulness of the facts. In the
particular case of the first Brazilian crop circles, reported at the
morning of Sunday, November 09th, 2008, it couldn’t be any
different. Investigating this case meant seeing what the inhabitants
of the little Ipauçu county and other areas in the nearby
countryside felt.
It was necessary
first to get acquainted with details involving the crop circles in
the area of the State of Santa Catarina, south of Brazil, and then
to testify that they are in no way the product of human action, far
less a natural phenomenon, such as meteorological or atmospheric
effects. These conclusions are confirmed by agronomists, engineers,
journalists, professors from several fields of knowledge and, above
all, by the humble and savvy small farmers in that region, who were
as astounded at the facts as the aforementioned specialists. A great
deal of information on the circles is already available at the
internet, especially on Brazilian UFO Magazine website [www.ufo.com.br].
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A. J.
Gevaerd (centre) measuring the secondo circle in Ipuaçu (wheat),
November 9th, 2008
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I now
outline a few details of what I and my colleagues found.
1. No
indication of a hoax has been found. There were no
footprints, no human signs of any kind or tire tracks, as
can be confirmed by the first people who saw the phenomena
on Sunday morning and afternoon, November 9th. Presumably
the circles were formed between 10 p.m. Saturday and 2 a.m.
Sunday, but so far this has not been precisely determined.
On November 11th, when UFO Magazine editor-in-chief A. J.
Gevaerd arrived at the site, only 2,5 days after the event,
a great deal of rain had fallen over the patterns, which
nevertheless remained almost intact. But still many people
were – and still are – visiting the site, which has resulted
in relative damage to the first circle and mild damage to
the second one. That, however, did not hinder analysis. |
Above,
photos of the first circle in Ipuaçu (triticale), November 9th, 2008
Above,
photos of the second circle in Ipuaçu (wheat), November 9th, 2008
2. The circles are
identical, a detail which helps to discard the human action
hypothesis. The first crop circle, nearest to town, about 2
km from the downtown area, was made on a triticale field.
Triticale is a rougher type of wheat. The second circle,
about 5 km away from the first one, was found on a bed of
wheat. Both were 19,6 to 19,8 m across – 9,8 to 9,9 m radius
-, had a visible centre and were surrounded by a ring of
untouched plants, 1,5 to 1,6 m thick, and by yet another
ring of plants equally crumpled, 2,1 to 2,2 m wide, after
which the ordinary plantation is found.
3. All of the plants were crumpled in clockwise direction,
both within the circle and in its outer ring. They are
individually bent a few degrees to the right in order to
make up a near-perfect spiralled pattern. An important
detail is that the folded plants are in separate from the
non-folded one precisely or “surgically”, i.e., in the
contact area between them there are no “half” folded plants
or plants that seem to have been touched. This is a most
familiar pattern that has been seen in crop circles
worldwide.
4. The plants have been folded up only once, about 2-3 cm
from the soil, and all along the stalks (which in the
triticale case, with sturdier stalks, may reach up to 80 cm,
and 60 cm in wheat stalks) there was no signs of further
folds or ruptures. In other words, some kind of “power” did
fold up all the plants at one particular spot and did not
touch them again. I believe that, if those stalks could be
unfolded at the indicated spot, they would stand up freely
because no damage has been caused to them. But I am afraid
that unfolding them would be irreversible, as if the plants
had actually been broken. |
Agronomer Otacilio Pasa
exams wheat plants with Gevaerd and the pattern of fold and unfold
plants (November 9th)
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5. In the
triticale circle, the land is slightly tilted, some 4-5 degrees
west-eastward. On the wheat plantation, however, the tilt is
somewhat bigger, some 6-7 degrees, also west-eastward.
Nevertheless, one can still visually see that the pressure, or
whatever “power” was used to crumple the plants, was equally
intense both on the higher and the lower extremities of the crop
circles. There were no variations whatsoever. Both circles were
found on the top of small hills.
6. The first crop circle is 1 km away from a small cemetery, and
the second circle is about 2 km from another one. I believe that
it is only coincidence, as there are many small cemeteries in
that part of the countryside. The two circle formations are
quite near the neighbouring dirt roads – 50 to 70 m away – and
have not been made in the open field. That seems to indicate
that whoever or whatever made them wished them to be seen and
visited. |
People visiting the
circles almost destroyed them. And Gevaerd registering the patterns of
the second circle (November 9th)
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7. One of the
things that most impressed me was that the second sign, on the
wheat plantation, some 7 km from Ipuaçu’s centre, appeared on
the outskirts of the farm, just on the borderline between this
and the neighbouring estate, to the West. There was wheat to be
plucked in the area where the circle was made, and the pattern
was bound to have looked more obvious. If it had been produced a
few more meters away to the West, within the neighbouring farm,
it would not have been seen, as it is pasture plantation and had
already been plucked. Any crop circle in that area would have
been overlooked, also due to the difference in the plants’ mass
as well as is colour. The produce is nearly dead now, dried and
darkened, and the wheat was golden, lush and sturdy.
8. The scenery in the land is mesh of small mounds and low
hills, some preservation areas and a great many cultivated
areas, especially with wheat, triticale, corn and pasture
plantation. The colours and the overall aspect of the
plantations, especially this being the harvest season, all
golden – from light to vivid and bright, alternating unevenly in
360-degree radius, reminded me of the English landscape where
most of the crop circles are found. Both sceneries look very
much alike, both in colour and its variants, as well as in the
ground aspects and the concentration of native forests. Except
that in England, the mound and hills are lower, apparently.
9. The plants around the circles had been plucked before I
reached the site, and the plantation owners and the harvester
operators had decided to preserve the patterns. In the first
case, the triticale was plucked on Monday morning, November
10th. In the second case, the wheat too was plucked early in the
morning, the very next day. Still, I was able to obtain
subjective reports from several people. Curiously, some of them
claimed to have “felt things” when they were around or within
the circles. Newsman Ivo Luis Dohl confided that he felt
“something very strong and intense when I got close to the first
circle, on Monday, and again when I visited the second circle.”
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The outer ring and the
interior of the second circle in wheat (November 9th). Notice the
scenery in the background, similar to England's
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10. UFOs and small lights – probes, as we call them – have been seen
hovering over the site and nearby areas by a great number of
people, from Wednesday evening, November 5th , to Monday, after
the circles were seen, on the 10th. "They seemed to be looking
for something”, a witness said. Many citizens of the little town
of Ipuaçu have had sightings. Some, less than 1 km away from the
site of the crop circles, others in the town area. There was a
notorious incident involving 4 members of a family who were
going back to their farm, about 3 km away from the second
circle, at 2 a.m. on Sunday. The witnesses reported that they
all saw a small but intense red light coming from the circle’s
spot and flying over the road, eastbound. |
Gevaerd interviewing
newsman Ivo Luis Dohl, one of the first persons to have found the crop
circles
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11. Just a week
after the first circles, on the morning of Sunday, November
16th, in the nearby city of Xanxerê, some 30 from Ipuaçu, it was
found a new “circle” close to that town. But immediately it
became clear that it was a fake perpetrated by unknown
individuals. The patterns of this “circle” are absolutely
different from the original ones in Ipuaçu. It wasn’t
symmetrical in any form, was produced with many imperfections.
Local police is trying to discover who did it, but, whoever it
was, certainly the “circle” was made to discredit the real ones.
The perpetrators didn’t succeed.
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The fake circle found in
Xanxerê (November 16th). Details totally differente from the original
ones
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12. While all
public and media attention was drawn to that fake circles in
Xanxerê, in that rainy morning of Sunday, November 16th, two
legitimate news circles, perfect and with exactly the same
characteristics of the original ones in Ipauçu, back a week
before, were found, one in Ipuaçu again and the second in Ouro
Verde, another 20 km from that town. They both looked precisely
identical do the original ones, although the new Ipauçu circle
is much smaller. These new crop circles are being investigated
right now and, such as the very first ones, witnesses reported
strange balls of light – bluish at Ouro Verde – and sounds,
which didn’t happen before at that area. Before closing, I want
to stress the fact that there is now a “fever” around the issue
in Western Santa Catarina and he hopes this will encourage
people to report further incidents. |
The new circle in Ipuaçu
(November 16th), much smaller the the original. And newsman Ivo Dohl
shows its details
The new circle in Ouro Verde (November 16th), as big as the the
original and under investigation right now
Additional remarks: While staying in Ipuaçu, I collected
an abundant amount of material for analysis, about 500
photos and a lot of testimonies. So far, no measures
have been taken for electricity, magnetism, radiation or
any other, due to a lack of adequate instrumentation. 12
samples of plants and soil from both the first two
circles will be submitted for analyzes shortly. The
results will be released in 30 days. It was thanks the
journalists from Western Santa Catarina, especially
newsman Ivo Luis Dohl, for their promptness in
collecting information and taking the photos, that this
case could come up.
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We
finally had the first crop circle in Brazil ever. I am at the
location investigating. See some photos attached. I will get a
full report in a couple of days.
Location
- Ipuacu, Santa Catarina State, south of Brazil.
Estimated date and time - From 10 pm Saturday 8th to 02 am
Sunday 9th, November 2008.
Description
- 2 independent figures separated by 5 km from each other. Each
figure is a circle with aprox. 20 m diameter with a external
ring. Many witnesses reported lights.
I will
get more details and photos soon.
A. J. Gevaerd,
Editor, Brazilian UFO Magazine
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