Crop Circles Monroe County Eastern Tennessee

More crop circles appear in East Tennessee
May 7, 2008


http://www.volunteertv.com/strangenews/headlines/18699024.html



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<!-- endclickprintexclude --> </td> <td style="padding: 2px; text-align: center;" valign="middle"> </td></tr></tbody></table>Madisonville (WVLT) - Man-made or alien-aligned? For the second time in two years, a crop circle's appeared in Monroe County. (Tennessee)
Volunteer TV's Mike McCarthy's walked the crop circle.
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Beyond still-standing blades, there are others pushed in a perfect pattern.
"I don't know whether it's man-made or not," resident Johnnie Helm said.
It's the second Monroe County Crop Circle in two years. These lines and curves appeared in Johnnie Helm's 50-acre wheat field Monday morning.
"I didn't hear nothing. And I'm up and down all night," Helm said.
Her neighbor, Jean Merrell first spotted the bent blades.
"I always look out the window, and I thought, my goodness, what's in the field? What's happened?" resident Jean Merrell said.
The "what"? Well, the crushed crops form a triangle. At each corner a pair of circles, but "how" and "who" wilted the wheat is a crop quandary.
"I really don't think it's man-made. I don't believe anyone could do that, that quick and so perfect," Merrell said.
These thin lines are the only paths in and out. Helms says they're from crop fertilization and they've been here months. The new field phenomena's less than a half mile from last May's Crop Circle just outside Madisonville. Investigators ruled that design "non man-made." Crop circle researches came to investigate last year's design. As for this one, they want to come back.
"They'd have to be very careful, cause I ain't talked to the man I rent it to," Helm said.
For now the rows of curved crops inspire...
"I think it's something fantastic myself," Merrell said.
...Not scare.
"If it's aliens and they want me, they'll come and get me. Will you put up a fight? No. Why? I'll talk to them. What if you don't speak Alien? They better speak English," Helm said.
And Helm wants to know...why her backyard?
Investigators with the independent crop circle researchers organizations plan to scientifically test this design next week, but they still have to get helm's permission.
We've haven't revealed the exact location on purpose. Her land's private property. She doesn't want strangers trampling the crops. So public visits are off-limits, for now.

If any of you are able to go see it...DO!! We went to see the one in Mayville, WI near the Horicon Marsh. Just awesome!!! My camera wouldn't work when it was within 10 inches of the ground...move up just a little and it worked fine (was trying to take a pic of the wheat laying down, not broken).

Hey Peanut: this is a great link, lots of scientific evidence here:
http://www.enjoyhoriconmarsh.com/events_attractions/2003/cropcircles_fieldreport.htm



Initial Field Report of the July 4, 2003 Kekoskee / Mayville, Wisconsin Crop Circle Formation


[Aerial photo of Kekoskee / Mayville crop circle formation facing North.]



Introduction
On July 23-24, 2003, a private scientific research team documented physical evidence that confirmed Art Rantala’s eyewitness observation that the Mayville/Kekoskee, Wisconsin crop circle formation was not made by hoaxers.

The team consisted of Gary Kahlhamer of Horicon, Wisconsin, Dr. Charles Lietzau and Jeffrey Wilson of Michigan, and Roger Sugden of Indiana. Arriving at the field on July 23, 2002, we discovered and photographed the presence of several anomalies that cannot be duplicated by hoaxers.

Eyewitness Account
Art Rantala, a retired truck driver, on July 4, 2003 at approximately 7:30 AM Central Daylight Time (CDT), was up early making coffee in his workshop and watching a weather front that was moving across the Dodge County, Wisconsin area. His workshop is located a few miles from the town of Mayville and the village of Kekoskee, and situated at the top of a hill overlooking a wheat field across the street (owned by a Mrs. Schraufnagel, and farmed by a third party). Art poured his first cup of coffee at 7:35 AM CDT noticing the time on his coffee maker. A few minutes later (approx. 7:40 AM CDT), as the rain was falling, the wind picked up, and Mr. Rantala noticed that the bark began flying off a hickory nut tree that was about 10 feet outside his open, East-facing workshop window.

[View from Mr. Rantala’s workshop of the hickory nut tree with missing bark.]

He leaned out the window to take a closer look. Mr. Rantala then noticed that directly across the street, a group of trees “started swinging every which-way.” He said that as he followed the trees blowing around, his gaze naturally followed down to the wheat field where the circles appeared one by one, right in front of him.












[View of the circle formation from Mr. Rantala’s workshop window.]

The Northern-most circle, farthest away from the road (what we have named Circle #1 in order of appearance), formed first, appearing as a ‘black hole’ in the standing wheat that was created when the circle of wheat was flattened down. Next, the Southern-most circle closest to the road formed (Circle #2), followed by the one in the center (Circle #3). Mr. Rantala said all the circles were flattened in roughly 12 seconds, but no more than 15 seconds. Mr. Rantala’s important eyewitness observation to the crop circles forming may be the first ever recorded in the USA, and is certainly one of only a couple of dozen reported worldwide in the last 50 years. Mr. Rantala reported that there was no apparent means for the wheat to have been swirled and flattened – nothing unusual in the sky, no lights, no unusual sounds, and no unusual odors. Whatever the energetic force was that caused the circles to form, it was beyond the range of visible sight.

Plant Anomalies
Many of the plants inside these circles, though, bear witness to the formative energies in the form of ‘blown node collars’ or expulsion cavities. The joint or node collars were flash heated by so much energy, that their internal moisture turned to steam causing them to explode and rupture like popcorn. We also located plants with blown node collars inside ‘randomly-downed’ patches of flattened wheat that were also found in the field as far away as 500ft from the circle formation.


[View of one of the many blown node collars from the flattened stalks of wheat found inside the formation.]

Blown node collars have never been found in any hoaxed crop circles, nor in any control samples that have ever been studied. There is no known technology that is able to duplicate this blown node collar effect on thousands of plants in these downed areas of crop fields. However, this effect has been reproduced by putting stems into a microwave oven, and cooking them for a short time. The appearance, then, of these blown node collars is conclusive evidence - in itself - that these circles were not flattened by human-mechanical means.

We also discovered several wheat stems with ‘seed axis deformities.’


[View of one of the stalks of wheat found in the formation with a seed axis deformity in the stalk just below the seed head.]

These seed axis deformities are affected sections of the stalk just below the seed head, and have been twisted around in a ‘curly-q’ effect. This has been reported in only a few crop circles worldwide, and was first reported in 1999 in a crop circle formation in the UK near Avebury in Wiltshire County. This deformity has also never been found in standing plants or control samples.

We also followed the L-NEAT (Levengood Node Elongation Analysis Test) scientific protocol to determine if there was a statistical difference in the measurement of growth nodes of plants inside the circles as compared to the measured length of growth nodes of control plants taken from outside the circles in the standing wheat. This test positively identified the fact that the growth nodes of plants found inside the circles were statistically larger than the growth nodes of plants measured from outside the circles in the standing wheat. This elongation or enlargement of the growth nodes of these plants cannot be duplicated by any demonstrated hoaxing techniques. This positive result from L-NEAT test, then, independently and conclusively confirms that no human-mechanical means were used in the creation of these crop circles. [For the statistical data, see the Appendix.]

Our team also obtained plant samples and control samples for further analysis. We also understand that plant samples were collected by researchers from the University of Wisconsin - Eau Clare and Madison, and have been forwarded to biophysicist W.C. Levengood of Grass Lake, Michigan, and to Nancy Talbott of the BLT, Inc. Research Team of Cambridge, Massachusetts. We look to them to carry out many of the time consuming studies necessary to document the characteristics of the formative energies, but those laboratory results will take months, and we wanted to conclusively determine the authenticity of the formation while it was still fresh. Bent growth nodes in the past have been used as a determination of the authenticity of crop circle formations, but that methodology does not always work. Both phototropism and geotropism can cause node bending after crops are flattened, although it has been shown experimentally to take several days for those processes to exhibit a noticeable growth node bending effect. Because we arrived at the formation almost three weeks after it formed, we did not use node bending as a criteria for authenticity, nor as it turns out, did we need to.

Soil Anomaly and Sampling
Further, we carried out the collection process for obtaining soil samples and conclusively noted another anomaly. Roger Sugden did a preliminary field test of the soil using a magnet and discovered that the soil showed a high magnetic response.


[The left photo is of soil inside the formation which shows a HIGH MAGNETIC RESPONSE; complete, multi layer coverage of the probe. The right photo is of soil outside the formation used as a control showing a low magnetic response; demonstrating incomplete coverage of the magnet.]

As we continued the field test, we obtained soil samples on a North-South line across the formation, and we again tested the soil for this magnetic effect. Every sample from inside the circles was found to consist of soil that showed this highly magnetic response. We also applied this test to the control samples we obtained from outside the circles beginning with soil just outside the flattened wheat areas, and continuing to several hundred yards away to the back of the field. Only two of the samples close to the circle formation showed this property of being highly magnetic, while the others taken farther away showed signs of having some magnetic particles but at a much lower proportion. Using the statistical Fisher Exact Probability Test, the soil samples are significant at p = 0.0147. This in-the-field observational test shows that the soil inside the circles anomalously consisted of more magnetic particles than the control soil outside the circles in the same field. We are planning to further analyze the soil samples in a lab environment.

GPS Anomaly
The crop circle formation is located at approximately 43?31.81m N latitude, and 88?31.59m W longitude. This location was confirmed through using two different Global Positioning System (GPS) units. However, we were unable to conclusively obtain an approximate feet-above-sea-level measurement from within the formation. Our attempt resulted in a constantly changing measurement ranging from –242ft below sea level to over +1142 ft above sea level (the area is approximately +566ft above sea level). This effect on the GPS system was witnessed by the entire team and videotaped. The effect was not noted in GPS control readings taken from outside the formation. Noting the anomaly, we carried out a statistical test from several areas from within Circle #2 and compared them to readings taken with the GPS from outside the circles that conclusively determined the anomalous effect existed.

Considering that our team arrived nearly three weeks after the crop circles formed, we did not expect to find the presence of any residual Electro-Magnetic anomalies. In fact, we did conduct a preliminary Electro-Magnetic field measurement soon after arriving at the location. We took measurements from inside the formation and from outside the formation which showed no elevated measurements of either electric field strength or magnetic field strength. So, due to time constraints, and considering our past experience of not finding high E-M readings more than approximately 10 days after circle formation, we abandoned those tests. It was only later that we noted the GPS anomaly, which remains unexplained, and may not have been caused the presence of high Electro-Magnetic fields, but by some other undetermined cause.

Crop Circle Formation Description and Measurements


[Overhead aerial photo of the circle formation.]

The Kekoskee / Mayville, Wisconsin formation is interesting in several aspects – although Mr. Rantalla described the formation event as each circle flattening individually one by one, the three circles are related to each other through their design form. Circle #1 and Circle #3 are connected by a pathway that was part of the original formation -creating a classic ‘dumbbell’-type (two circles connected by a pathway) shape aligned in a North-South direction. Circle #2 was isolated in the field (and offset from the N-S alignment), but was related to Circle #3 in an interesting way. The obvious feature of Circle #3 is the standing crescent of wheat that has been created through the offset flattening of a circle of wheat. The obvious feature of Circle #2 is the standing circle of wheat which then creates a flattened ‘crescent.’ Although all the circles (including the standing one) when measured prove to be elliptical, when you compare the flattened interior circle’s diameter of Circle #3 with the diameter of the standing circle of wheat in Circle #2 along their NE/SW, they both measure 22’ in diameter. Circle #2 and Circle #3 are in alignment NE/SW. All the circles when measured along their E/W diameter were 42’exactly.

[Overhead aerial photo of the circle formation.]


http://www.enjoyhoriconmarsh.com/events_attractions/2003/cropcircles_fieldreport.htm

Yep...thats the one. The street is off to the right of the photo. They gave enough info in the news articles that it was easy enough to find.

It was wild. When DH came out of the formation he looked at me and asked 2 questions...what day/date it was and is he glowing. LOL joker hahaha

6d thought forms transfered into our 3d reality via 4d s/t..... in alignment with EM grid lines.... 'setting the new grid' as well as telling us 'our story' in their mathematical and symbolic formations....

There is a method to the madness... all is perception.... we see as much as we allow ourselves to see. Most of these are triggering ancient 'holy' sites established at specific grid nexi.... where 'windows' are naturally in occurance at specific times... which is why those stones were placed in those locations worldwide in tbe first place.... for neural transmissions.... etc.

All together these crop circles are said to be writing an encyclopedia of our history... or something like that.

NC Susan said:

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That's Ianua. Janus - the door keeper.



Kinda reminds me of a picture I was drawing last night.

The Latin word for door, ianua, gives us our word "janitor", traditionally the door-keeper. So the Roman god Janus (deriving his name from ianua) was the patron, not only of doors and gateways, but of new beginnings. Literally two-faced, he looked back into the old year and forwards into the new.



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Peanut said:

Yep...thats the one. The street is off to the right of the photo. They gave enough info in the news articles that it was easy enough to find.

It was wild. When DH came out of the formation he looked at me and asked 2 questions...what day/date it was and is he glowing. LOL joker hahaha

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[View of the circle formation from Mr. Rantala’s workshop window.]




Here is another foto from that link, Peanut..

(This is not what I thought Wisconsin would look like)




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crop circle mystery solved?

First is unknown alien

second is a HOAX


http://www.volunteertv.com/home/headlines/18959099.html



crop circle mystery solved?


Reporter: Lauren Davis
Madisonville (WVLT) - Two crop circles in two years. It has residents in Monroe County scratching their heads wondering what or who is causing the circles in their hay fields. Wednesday night, they got some answers.
Very curious Madisonville residents fill a local cafe. They want answers to the mysterious crop circles in their county. This one turned up last summer, then this one last week.
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Jeff Wilson is the director of International Crop Circle Research Association. Last year he investigated the crop circles off Rocky Springs Road.
He found higher-than-average levels of radiation and electromagnetic activity. The nodes of the wheat were also analyzed and found to show unnatural elongation, but he says last week's crop circles are a man made hoax--with a walking path to the circles and no radiation or irregular nodes.
"Either they use board as they stomp down the wheat as they go along or use garden roll where they flatten plants down," Wilson said.
Jeff says it's common after a non-man made crop circle appears to have copycats try to make another one similar in the same area, but he discourages it because farmers take a hit financially.
"Farmer's gong to lose several hundred dollars of wheat it's pretty extensive crop circle," Wilson said.
Johnnie Helms owns the 50 acre wheat field where the latest crop circle was found. She is upset about the recent vandalism on her property.
"I don't like it and if I find out who did it i'm going to prosecute em," Helms said.
So last week's circles are declared the work of a copy cat, but it still makes you wonder who made these circles last year. Jeff Wilson says it's very uncommon to have two authentic crop circles in one area