UPDATE - TREE CIRCLES IN NORTHWEST TERRITORIES
An interview with the primary witness, Earl Hope, who
first saw the two circles in tall poplar trees near Nahanni
Butte has provided some further details.
They were first seen by the witness while flying on May
26,
not in August. They have now been listed as two separate
formations, as the second circle is some distance from
the
first one, approximately 1 kilometre (0.6 miles). In
both
circles, all trees are snapped and flattened radially
inward
with the tops pointing toward the centres, lying on the
ground "like matchsticks." The sizes are estimated, as
previously reported, to be approximately 151 metres
(500 feet) and 91 metres (300 feet) diameters. Described
as "perfect circles" with well-defined edges and no
other
damage seen to trees nearby. Witness did not see
anything
which looked like a sinkhole or similar depression in
the
ground, re the biologist's comments in the original
article:
http://www.nnsl.com/frames/newspapers/2004-08/aug6_04al.html
There is also another report of other similar circles,
about 100 kilometres (62 miles) farther north from this
location near Cli Lake. First seen a few years ago but
still there according to another firsthand witness, a
member of the local Deh Cho First Nations community.
Three circles closer together, each estimated to be up
to possibly 200 metres (600 feet) diameter, in birch and
mixed trees, again being described as "perfectly
circular"
in shape but with the trees flattened both inward and
outward.
Efforts are being made to find photographs of these or
any other formations. The witness of the more recent
circles near Nahanni Butte did not have a camera at the
time of the sighting, but is willing to go back to try
to
obtain photos, possibly within the next month or so;
they
are still a fair distance from where he lives in Nahanni
Butte (the closest settlement) in this remote wilderness
location.
While blowdown, where trees are snapped and flattened
from storms, is common in these forest regions, such
areas tend to be, as might be expected, random swaths
of damage. The same applies for twisters or dust devils.
Unless permafrost or other mechanism does somehow
play a role, then how to account for the radial lay or
circular shapes?...
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