Unusual Soybean and Cattle Corn Formations in Ontario
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CCCRN NEWS
E-News from the Canadian Crop Circle Research Network
August 23, 2005
Two new interesting "formations" just reported to CCCRN
Ontario in the last few days....
Dresden, Ontario - August 20
Found by farmer. Circular patch, approximately 5.2
metres
(17 feet) diameter, in soybean. Plants appeared "dead",
not flattened or swirled. "V-shape" inside circle of
unaffected
plants. All other plants in 100-acre field appeared
normal.
Farmer theorized it may be "spot-bombing" re Monsato.
Similar to the soybean circle found last year at
Staples,
Ontario (again possible lightning damage).
Lynden, Ontario - August 15
Found by CCCRN Ontario representative Joanna Emery.
Irregular shape (RDA), approximately 7.6-9 metres
(25-30 feet across), in cattle corn. While not
geometric in
shape as most previous formations in cattle corn here in
Canada and the US, some of the same unusual features
have again been seen - highly ruptured nodes, with
multiple
large cavities on some stalks (none seen in stalks
outside
of formation), some stalks "sheared off" or snapped at
second node, some stalks still standing and unaffected,
some stalks flattened at ground, some stalks pulled up
by
the roots and some areas of layering. There is also a
9-metre (30-foot) "path" of flattened stalks ending in a
small egg-shaped bare patch of soil about 3x4.5 metres
(10x15 feet) in size, making the formation a sort of
"quasi-
dumbbell" shape.
Both "formations" are being listed in the Other Circular
Phenomena in Canada Archive on the CCCRN web site, as
they are not "standard" crop formations given their
unusual
physical characteristics. Additional information and
photos will
be posted soon.
There is also a third possible report, which having not
been
confirmed on the ground yet, is still being listed as a
rumour.
A "round, 13-segmented formation" was found in a
satellite
image of a farming area in Richmond, British Columbia on
August 19 (south of Vancouver and west of the
Abbotsford-
Agassiz-Mission "hot spot" the last few years), using
Google
Earth. A subsequent search using the similar
GlobeXplorer
program found the same feature in the same (enclosed)
location, although that image was dated June 2, 2004,
making it more likely this is some sort of permanent
farming or irrigation-related feature. Two of the Google
Earth and GlobeXplorer images can be seen here:
http://www.cccrn.ca/richmond05a.jpg
http://www.cccrn.ca/richmond05b.jpg
On-site confirmation of whatever this feature actually
is to
come soon. Regardless, this process shows the value in
using
satellite imagery, either to obtain aerial images of
known
formations, or even the possible discovery of new ones.
Meanwhile, we still wait for "normal" crop circle
reports for this
year...
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