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From: Michael Christol <mchristo@mindspring.com>
Date: Sun, 08 Feb 1998 10:57:02 -0600
Fwd Date: Sun, 08 Feb 1998 14:51:06 -0500
Subject: Re: Archeologists & UFOs


>Date: Sat, 07 Feb 1998 23:24:29 -0400
>From: "Stanton T. Friedman" <fsphys@brunnet.net>
>To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <updates@globalserve.net>
>Subject: Re: UFO UpDate: Re: 'UFO Sphere/Orb' over Brooklyn, NY


>> Date: Fri, 6 Feb 1998 14:58:06 +0000
>> To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <updates@globalserve.net>
>> From: u9501676@bournemouth.ac.uk (Simon Cleggett)
>> Subject: Re: UFO UpDate: 'UFO Sphere/Orb over Brooklyn, NY


>Ted Phillips has collected more than 5000 physical trace cases
>wherein people saw the saucer on or near the ground and
>subsequently the rings or circles were observed. I think there
>needs to be a far better definition of what is meant by
>circles.. NOT crop circles but not collections of stones either.

>Which pictures?

>Stan Friedman

Hi Stan...

Back in 1967, I investigated a "burned circle" in a farmer's soy
bean field.  I took samples of the dried bean plants and the soil
within the circle.  The circle was about 30 feet across.

The farmer described hearing a noise like squeeling tires, and
thought some young people may have been using the straight
stretch of roadway by his house to drag race.  Coming out on his
front porch, he heard a slight "pop" sound and caught a glimpse
of a flash of light out of the corner of his left eye.  He turned
his head toward the flash and sound, to see what he described as
a beer can shaped object rising straight up out of his soy bean
field (approx) 100 yards from his front porch.  He described what
appeared to be a trail of flame emiting from the rear of this
object.

He then stated that the object rose to an altitude of
approximately 100 feet, tilted over in a horizontal position, and
preceed to exit the area very quickly toward the North.

An associate of mine, who had access to a small Cessna later flew
over the field and took photographs.  They showed  a "V" shaped
pattern of "burned" soy bean plant tops in the direction which
the farmer said the object departed, or North.  The "V" pattern
was about the width of the circle at the edge of said circle, and
stretched out about a 100 feet as it narrowed in the direction
the object disappeared.

The farmer said the object was completely out of sight in no more
than 30 seconds at most, growing smaller as it proceeded in
direct flight North.

Getting back to the samples I took, I sent them to NICAP along
with a description of the incident.

About six weeks later, I received a return letter from NICAP,
thanking me for sending the plants and the report, advising me
they would contact the gentleman themselves to continue the
investigation.

That was the last I heard from them.

I did not follow up on the investigation.  I had photographs,
soil and plant samples and a tape recording of the conversation
with the farmer. He had my phone number in case any such event
occurred again.

I have never heard from him again.  I would suspect that it is
highly likely that this person is deceased today, nearly 30 years
later.  He was in his late 50's to early 60's back then...I can't
remember right off of the top of my head.

Just thought you might like to hear about this case from my "UFO
ARCHIVES."

<G>

REgards, Mike