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Thursday, July 17, 2003

Magnetic anomaly in US agriglyphs

Crop circles which appeared in a Knobel, AR, wheat field on June 7 near a small cemetery got big attention. A group form Boston that studies crop circles around the world even made a trek to the tract of land, twice. BLT researchers said soil samples show magnetic levels 9 times higher than before the circles.
According to a report by Nancy Talbott, one of BLT's founders described it as a "mini-triple Julia formation." The center circle was around 31 feet in diameter, with three circles in each "arm" of decreasing sizes down to eight feet in diameter. Circles in arms spaced approximately 10 feet apart had a slight curvature clockwise, according to the research. Crop lay was reported to have been clockwise in all circles.
She took soil samples from the location where the formations were found and control samples some 500 feet away from the site.
"These samples yielded the highest concentration of magnetic material ever reported by the BLT Team in a crop circle," Talbott reported. While normal soils seldom exceed 0.4 milligrams of magnetic material per gram of soil, the soil at Knobel measured 30.29 mg, the report stated.
"The fact that under the microscope we can see both spherical and partially ablated particles here, the fact that there were no magnetic particles found in the control soils, and the fact that the concentration in the circle samples was so great, all indicate that this formation was not mechanically-flattened" Talbott said.
The research team has hypothesized that microscopic particles of meteoric iron which are entering the earth's atmosphere constantly as meteors burn up in the upper atmosphere. Those particles get drawn into a descending plasma vortex system.
"The idea is that the meteoric debris is both drawn into the descending plasma vortex by its strong magnetic field and then heated to a molten state by the microwaves emitted by the spiraling plasma," Talbott wrote in the report. "The molten, and now magnetized particles then form spheres and particles with partially rounded surfaces as they cool on the way down to the earth's surface and are left in the soil in the crop circle area as the plasma vortex impacts the field.
Talbott also noted that interviews with witnesses revealed that energy was emanating upwards to at least 800 feet above the formation.

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