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Upon entering the circles I saw straight away why the
farmer was not a happy man. At first glance, the crop seemed to have
been burned to the ground. Contrary to what one may expect in a
formation in young crop, the damage was enormous and beyond repair. The
plants had been destroyed, harvesting this crop at the end of the season
was out of the question. These plants would not grow back to the sun,
they were dead...
I feel it is almost impossible to provide a clear image of what I
saw. First of all, as mentioned above, the majority of the plants in all
three circles had been badly scorched, burnt, or even entirely turned to
black dust.
The perimeter of the circles (the standing edges) were remarkably dry
and lacked colour. The plants were significantly shorter; the contrast
with the healthy green of the rest of the field was shocking. Within
this ring of shorter, dehydrated, and scorched plants was a small
flattened ring of burnt plant remains
What struck me most was the soil. There were countless ridges, as if the
soil had been handled with some sort of (shallow) plough that had lifted
and subsequently thrown back the clay. The ridges formed a spiral, but
not a perfect one. Some ridges became one, others suddenly split up into
several new ones.
This handling of the earth caused many plants to simply disappear
underneath the clay. There were quite a few piles of warped clay and
plants; upon opening them the buried plants became visible. They were
still green and moist, as if they had survived the suffocating heat by
hiding themselves.
Many plants had literally put their head in the soil
When I pulled the plants out, they turned out to be buried deeply into
the ground. What kind of force can do this
Other plants had been pulled out of the ground totally and thrown back
again. They were reasonably green and probably still alive.
I found quite a lot of tightly twisted and turned
bundles of wheat plants. Most of them were dead, only some were still
green...
In all of my 14 years of
experience as a crop circle researcher, I had never before seen anything
like this. I was shocked to see the damage, it was as if 'weapons of
mass destruction' had been used here. It wasn't until the next day that
I learned about Phillips' involvement. What a shame that - once again -
the crop circle phenomenon has been used this way...
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and Field Report
Janet Ossebaard Copyright 2008
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