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 Mark Fussell & Stuart Dike |
Jezreel Valley village, nr Tel Adashim, Israel. Reported 19th September
HUGE UFO LEAVES ITS MARK ON ISRAELI
CORN FIELD
by Barry Chamish
On Sunday, Sept. 19, Tsafrir Meisel was
descending a hill near his home in the Jezreel Valley village of Tel Adashim when he saw
an unexplained clearing in a corn field below. He investigated and discovered what he
thought might have been vandalism to the corn crop. He phoned the local police station and
requested to speak to his brother-in-law, officer Gedalia Reiken. He told the duty officer
that hundreds of corn plants were crushed but since there were no paths to the field, the
incident might be one concerning an unidentified flying object. This phone call was
apparently monitored by the radio station Reshet Aleph but since it was the first day of
the Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashana, not many people heard the announcement of a possible
UFO landing when it was broadcast. Tsafrir told a neighbour what he saw and she called a
UFO enthusiast of her acquaintance, Oren Yosef of Tel Aviv, to inform him about the
"landing." Oren called two fellow UFO investigators, Gil Bar and me and we
arrived the next day with video and still cameras, nylon samples bags, and a tape
measurer. May I switch to first person? I was the first and so far, only journalist to
visit the site. It was absolutely fresh and untouched when I entered it. My, in fact our,
first impression was of utter awe. The corn was literally high as an elephant's eye, over
eight feet tall, and it formed a daunting
wall around an enormous formation, allowing us to sketch an exact impression of the site's
shape
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The object which made the indentation was by far the largest of the many UFO images and
circles left on Israeli soil since its UFO wave began in 1987. In the middle of the
formation were what we initially thought were wings, stretching an amazing forty meters
from tip to tip. Above and below the wings was were quarter circle protrusions, twenty
meters in length and fifteen meters distance from each other, which we assumed were images
of the body of the plane. Above the wings were two symmetrical protrusions, about two
meters in width, five meters long and situated 20 meters from each other.
The overall impression was of an ellipsoid shaped object with long triangular wings ending
in blunt tips and two exhaust pipes protruding just above the wings. I drew the image in
my mind and it looked like a classic UFO. There was something deeply bothersome about the
shape of the formation but I couldn't quite put my finger on it.
After creating an impression of the site, we began our search for clues. The first thing I
noticed were the corn cobs; the hair seemed burnt and when we removed the peels, the corn
was dried out, covered in a pink gummy fluid and even looked partly eaten. But to cut to
the chase, we later showed the many samples we had collected to local farmers and they
explained that the corn was past its prime and insects and fungi had attacked it. Corn
gathered from a hundred meters away had the same characteristics.
However, there was no denying that the corn stalks were bent dramatically, most right to
the ground, in a north-south direction. The northern wall of the formation stood straight,
while the southern side was swept dramatically downward. All other Israeli landing circles
that I was aware of, were round and formed by spiral swirling. This site was formed in a
one directional sweep.
Further, all previous Israeli circles had an abundance of physical evidence within,
including shards of nearly pure silicon, red oil and white powder. There wasn't an iota of
physical leftovers within the Tel Adashim site. Also bothersome was the massive size of
the craft. Most Israel circles were in the 4.5 meter diameter range. The largest previous
landing site occurred
in Kadima on January 15/95 and it was fifteen meters in length. The Tel Adashim site was a
whopping forty meters in length and that didn't fit the Israeli pattern. As I stood in the
deep corn canyon created by the craft, I realised that this was no landing site but I
saved my opinion until we sat down in a restaurant a few hours later.
Local residents saw our car parked in the middle of nowhere and stopped to check us out.
They ducked down and followed the short trail into the site. They were no less awed than
we were, even though this was not everyone's first UFO encounter. Dov Nir is friends with
small craft plane enthusiasts and in 1992 he had taken a series of controversial aerial
photographs of a
crop formation at Kibbutz Dalia. His brother-in-law Chaim related how three months before,
he saw a triangular UFO hovering over the Jezreel Valley which "then took off in a
flash and disappeared."
Last April, Israel's first verified crop formation occurred in a wheat field beside the
Jezreel Valley town of Bet Zarzir, barely ten miles away. Materials found within this site
are being investigated in the US. Preliminary findings by Dr. W.C. Levengood and Nancy
Talbott have verified that a most unusual event took place there. (I digress: The Bet
Zarzir incident is becoming weirder. Though the town is keeping a lid on the matter, a few
residents reported seeing glowing giants in their homes on the night the formation was
made.)
After we had completed our investigation, we began the drive back which was interrupted by
an overwhelming sense of tiredness. Oren and Gil had fallen asleep in minutes and I was
too weary to drive. So I pulled over at a restaurant and there we reflected on the day's
events. We, as well as the local residents agreed, this was not caused by human
intervention.
There was no path of any kind for the kind of machine that would be needed to create an
exact symmetrical image forty meters in length out of corn. Thus, Oren and Gil assumed
that a UFO landed there.
I asked Gil to draw the UFO and his impression nearly matched mine. He drew the kind of
classic craft seen many thousands of times world-wide. I then explained that the site
could not have been created by a craft landing. It was not feasible for the underside of a
UFO to be shaped so strangely. What we saw was a UFO in profile. The craft had most likely
created a pictogram of itself in the corn. The wings we thought we saw, were, in fact, the
middle rim of the craft. This bore the trademark of the Shikmona Beach incident of
September, 1987 when a craft burned its images onto the sands below and initiated the
current Israeli UFO wave.
It took a while but Oren and Gil were swayed by my logic. Oren noted, "The formation
at Tel Adashim was found on Rosh Hashana day so must have been made on Rosh Hashana
evening. The Shikomona Beach pictograph was made on Rosh Hashana evening as well, eleven
years before to the day."Gil added, "The Bet Zarzir formation was made last
April on the first night of Passover." I noted, "All the circles in the Kadima
area which led to encounters with giant beings occurred on the Sabbath."
Trying to make sense of the Israeli UFO phenomena seems to require be historical
references. The Jezreel Valley, which has produced two crop formations this year, has its
share of noted biblical sites. A few miles before Tel Adashim, we passed Mount Tabor,
where Jesus spent forty days in isolation before beginning his ministry. Had we kept
driving, it would have taken us ten minutes to arrive at Mount Megiddo (Har Megiddo), the
biblical site of Armageddon. end
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