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N.D. CROP CIRCLES AUTHENTIC |
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Posted Aug 22.05
Northwood, N.D., phenomenom is
referred to as a 'thought bubble'
Word of the crop circles that were discovered near the Northwood (N.D.) Municipal Airport has traveled all the way to Cambridge, Mass.
The Northwood crop circles, which are in what's referred to as a "thought bubble" formation, are being studied by BLT Research Team Inc. a nonprofit organization that was formed for the purpose of studying crop circles.
Although field representatives were still working at the site, BLT President Nancy Talbott informed me via e-mail this week that the Northwood crop circles are authentic, not man made.
Authentic means the circles meet the standards researchers at BLT have developed through 15 years of examining several hundred crop circle formations in countries including England, Sweden, Norway, Israel and Canada.
BLT scientists believe crop circles are caused when the plants are exposed to brief, intense heating, possibly by microwave radiation. The heat causes the plant stems to soften all the way down to the base of the plant, which then bends over without breaking.
Super heating
BLT uses local people to collect samples at the site of crop circles. In this case, it is relying on Brad Jenson, Manvel, N.D., and Echo Butz, a Northwood resident.
The first thing BLT looks for at the site of crop circles are elongated apical nodes on the plant stems.
"When sample plants from inside the formation are compared with control plants taken outside the flattened areas, these differences in node length can be quite dramatic, in some cases up to 250 percent over the controls," Talbott wrote in an e-mail.
Talbott said the nodes are elongated when the moisture inside the plant stems is heated.
"Just as in your microwave oven, the moisture turns to steam and - in order to escape and release the built-up pressure - the upper node stretches as the steam seeps out, leaving behind these elongated nodes," she said.
BLT has also found abnormalities in the seeds collected from within crop circles. In crops where the seeds have not yet fully formed, the plants are sterile, Talbott wrote. But in crops where the plants are fully mature just the opposite occurs.
"In a majority of these cases we find that the seeds will produce markedly enhanced growth (growing up to five times the rate of normal) and, more importantly, enhanced yield," according to Talbott.
If that's the case, farmers may want to check into BLT's research.
BLT scientists believe the enhanced growth and yields are caused by electrical impulses.
These scientists also have found that the soil within the crop circles contains hundreds of tiny spheres of magnetic iron.
"Levengood and Burke (1995) hypothesize that microscopic particles of meteoric iron (which are falling to the earth all the time as meteors enter the earth's outer atmosphere and break up) are caught up in the descending turbulent atmospheric plasma energy system they believe is creating the crop circles," Talbott wrote.
Talbott, a music producer with a research background at the University of Maryland and Harvard College, John Burke, a New York businessman interested in geomagnetic and electromagnetic theory and W.C. Levengood, a Michigan biophysicist, are the "BLT" in the BLT Research Team.
In talking to people in the Northwood area, Talbott also surmised that the crop circles were created on Thursday and not Friday as most residents there had estimated.
She said that the crop circles typically occur between 2-4 a.m. and that it causes electromagnetic interference locally. She said that quite a few Northwood people told her that there were power outages on Thursday night.
To summarize, BLT scientists hypothesize that microwaves, unusual electrical pulses and strong magnetic fields combine to create the crop circles.
"There are, of course, people who make some crop circles," Talbott said. "But they do not make all crop circles ... and the ones they don't make provide enormous opportunity to learn more about what we call 'reality' ."
Friendly folks
Talbott said studying crop circles is a slow process because there's very little funding available for organizations like BLT, which relies mostly on donations from the private sector.
"There is also the problem of ridicule, caused mostly by the fact that the mainstream media has refused, by and large, to inform the public of the factual information available, preferring instead to bore the public to death with notions about little green men," she said.
I have to admit I'm guilty, but the media aren't alone. Remember the movie "Signs."
In conducting her research, Talbott has also had the opportunity to talk to some of the people from the Northwood area and was greeted with the usual North Dakota nice.
"My impression of the local people is that they are considerably more intelligent, and curious, than in many situations we've worked in, and that they are also extremely nice people," she said. "If I ever move to North Dakota I know exactly where I want to go."
If you are interested in reading more about BLT and its research, visit the organization's Web site at www.bltresearch.com.
.:Story originally published by:.
Gran Forks Herald / ND I Rona Johnson - Sep 03.05
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