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From: Nancy Talbott <address withheld>
Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 12:32:52 +0000
Fwd Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 03:33:05 -0400
Subject: Crop Circle Research


[Non-subscriber Post]

Sirs:

A friend recently sent me parts of a number of emails from UFO
UpDates discussing, apparently, the physical abnormalities found
in crop circle plants and soils by the BLT Research Team.  In
particular, a question from a Tony Spurrier asking about control
studies.

Yes, control studies have been conducted; BLT has made circles
with feet, planks & rope,and cement rollers, then sampled the
crop as we normally do to look for the regularly-found plant
anomalies.

We did _not_ find (1) node elongation of the plant stems, (2)
expulsion cavities at the nodes of plant stems, (3) altered
redox ratios (measurements of mitochondrial respiration rates),
or (4) altered germination characteristics in the downed plants
when compared with controls taken elsewhere in the test fields.

We DID observe node bending, up to 45 degrees at 3 weeks after
making the circles, when circles were made in young, vigorously
growing wheat;  since node bending can also occur in the "real
McCoy," this study indicated that such node bending cannot be
considered significant _unless_ one knows how old the crop was
at the time the formation occurred, and fairly exactly _when_ it
was madel--so that one can distinguish between node bending due
to phototropism/gravitropism and the causative eneregy system.

Another finding obtained from time to time with crop circles is
what we call the "spillover" effect, where plant (and also soil)
changes are found extending out into the standing crop outside
the visible downed confines of the 'circle'.

In our control studies we did _not_ observe this finding either,
altho in many cases in several countries we have observed this
spillover effect extending up to 300' outside the downed crop
area, and in some cases these effects decreasing in degree as a
function of sampling distance away from the edge of the downed
crop out into the field (in accordance with the well-known
Beer-Lambert Principle in physics, which describes the
absorption of EM energies by matter).

Furthermore, the contention which has been raised by some
individuals, that downed crop is the result of
over-fertilization and subsequent rain or weather damage
(so-called "lodging") has also been examined in a control study
we conducted in Maryland in 1997.

One test plot was over-fertilized 100%, the other left as the
farmer had fertilized it; this was wheat, for commercial
harvest.  Again, none of the normally observed physical
alterations in the plants were obtained in the man-made circles
(which were constructed during the early, mid and later growth
stages) _except_ for the node bending  effect, which was most
significant in the young wheat.

There was absolutely no weather damage observed in this
particular control study, even though the test strip was 100%
over-fertilized and there were severe storms throughout the
growing season.  We do, however, believe that "lodging" does
occur in heavily over-fertilized areas of the field (areas where
tractors turn around and accidentally drop and re-fertilize the
turning areas), particularly at the edges of fields....
However we would guess that this situation occurs much less
often than many farmers seem to think.

We _do_ observe randomly downed crop (non-geometric "crop
circles") in _many_ cases to exhibit the same plant
abnormalities as those discovered in many crop circles.  We have
tested many randomly-downed (or "chaotically-downed") areas of
crop, both by themselves and in conjunction with the "geometric"
circles, often finding the same types of changes observed in the
geometric circles, but usually to a more severe degree:  node
elongation, for instance, in the geometrically-downed areas
seldom exceeds 100%; in randomly-downed crop sampled in Maryland
and elsewhere we have found node length changes in excess of
200%.....same sorts of differences in expulsion cavity incidence
and other parameters.

Hope the above helps clear up Mr. Spurrier's questions....if
people are interested in learning about the work done by BLT
they can reach our office by fax (617/492-0414) or phone
(617/492-0415) or by mail:

BLT Research,
Box 400127,
Cambridge, MA
02140, USA.

Unfortunately I don't have the time to answer all e-mails.

Please do not post my email address.

Sincerely,
Nancy Talbott
Field Research Coordinator
BLT Research Team Inc.