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From: Jim Deardorff <deardorj@ucs.orst.edu>
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 1997 23:46:58 -0700 (PDT)
Fwd Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 08:43:26 -0400
Subject: Re: Teens find crop circle in Nebraska

> To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <updates@globalserve.net>
> From: Mark Cashman <mcashman@ix.netcom.com>
> Subject: re: UFO UpDate: Teens find crop circle in Nebraska
> Date: Wed, 16 Jul 1997 22:38:45 -0700

> >  From: UFO UpDates - Toronto <updates@globalserve.net>, on 7/16/97 10:08 AM:
> >  From: RSchatte@aol.com
> >  Date: Wed, 16 Jul 1997 03:13:51 -0400 (EDT)
> >  To: updates@globalserve.net
> >  Subject: Teens find crop circle in Nebraska

> >  Although some people speculate the circles are the imprints left by
> >  alien landing craft, more plausible explanations include human
> >  pranksters and a natural phenomena called ion plasma vortices, which are
> >  brief, intense flashes of microwave energy that are drawn toward the
> >  Earth by magnetic fields.

> I couldn't find a single valid physics reference to
> "ion plasma vortices", which, based on the description above,
> I frankly find much harder to accept than ET UFOs. One wonders where
> they came up with this.

> Mark Cashman

This is the "solution" to crop circles pushed by Dr. W. C. Leavengood of
the Pinelandia Biophysical Laboratory of Grass Lake, MI.  Although he's
done a lot of good work in examining peculiarities of bent-over stems from
numerous crop-circle formations in the past 5 years, and identifying
anomalies that can't be hoaxed, it seems totally wacky to assume that some
natural phenomenon labeled "ion plasma vortices" caused all those
intricate patterns (hoaxes excepted) and prefers England and didn't start
operating until around the 1970s.  He ought to call it "UFOs" instead,
and be done with it.  But by calling the source mechanism "ion plasma
vortices" he has been able to publish a few papers about it in peer
reviewed journals.  One is in _Physiologia Plantarum_ 92 (1994), pp.
356-363.

Jim Deardorff