Crop Circles Reported in the News
October 13, 2011 - BARK RIVER-HARRIS-WILSON, MENOMINEE COUNTY, MI
Photo by Eric Adams, WYKX radio (Used with Permission)
Two approximately 125 ft. diameter crop circles swirled
counter-clockwise in corn were discovered by Mark Jorasz as he was harvesting a field near Harris, Michigan on the afternoon of October
13, 2011. The two circles are not
visible from any nearby roads. After
notifying his father John Jorasz, they examined the
circles extensively looking for tracks or traces of human activity – they found
none. The downed corn stalks in the two
circles were still intact, with each stalk bent to the ground - with no damaged
or broken stalks, no displaced leaves on the stalks and, out of the over ½
acres downed area – found only 1-2 ears that had become separated from their
stalks.
Each circle was in a different variety of corn (one in 90
day maturity corn, the other in 82 day maturity), so when discovered, one
circle was found to be a little more dried out than the other. One circle’s stalks were still green. There was no mold on any of the downed corn
stalks at the time of discovery.
The Jorasz’s believe that the
circles were made sometime between the afternoon on Monday, October 10, and
Thursday afternoon on the 13th when the circles were found because
they had harvested the field across the street on Monday and a paraglider flew over the fields and had not reported see
the circles then.
The Jorasz’s quickly agreed that
these circles were not the typical bear-made type crop circles that they have
encountered in years past. They
explained that bears in this region will forage into fields, sit down in an
area, and then as far as they can reach around them will proceed to eat the
corn – this leaves about a 6-9 foot “circle” of damage before the bear moves
on.
This damage too was unlike the wind damaged flattening they
have encountered as recently as September 30-October 1 when a major windstorm
that dumped as much as two inches of rain came through the area. John Jorasz noted
that most of his corn fields’ rows were planted East-West which was
perpendicular to the direction of the recent windstorm’s winds which blew
generally North-South. This caused much
wind-flattened corn in many of his surrounding fields. The corn rows in the field in which the crop
circles were in were planted North-South, and so were unaffected by the recent
storm. There has been no rain in the
area since that time.
The field which contains the two crop circles is quite
isolated, with forested wetlands bordering the field to the east and west –
each of the forested areas containing tributaries of
Cedar River
which is located about 1.5 miles away. Advent Creek runs less than ¼ mile away from the location of the
circles, before flowing into the
Cedar River
. The circles are located about 8.5 miles from
the shores of
Green Bay
in
Lake
Michigan
. According to John Jorasz, the field may contain springs because the
soil seems to take longer to dry out than surrounding fields.
According to a Water Investigation report published by the
Michigan Department of Environmental Quality, Office of Geologic Survey written
by Kenneth Vanlier in cooperation with the USGS
titled “Water Investigation 2: Ground – Water in Menominee County” – the area of
ground which contains the field with the crop circles is composed of a least
two separate layers of limestone both containing aquifers.
The two crop circles are aligned generally East-West, and
are located on a slight incline with one circle approximately 1-3 feet higher
than the other. There is a slight ridge
to the east of the circles in an adjacent alfalfa field. The whole of
Menominee
County
has been heavily glaciated
during the last Ice Age, which has left the entire area comprised of Drumlins
and Ground Moraines on a NE-SW alignment which can be seen easily on satellite
photos. The crop circles were not
aligned to this general flow of the landscape.
The areas to the south and east of the crop circles are part
of the Hannahville Indian Community, Band of Potawatomi Reservation.
There have been three local news stories about the Harris
crop circles:
“
Crop Circle
Mystery at Local Farm”, Daily Press,
October 14, 2011
http://www.dailypress.net/page/content.detail/id/532882/Crop-circle-mystery-at-local-farm.html?nav=5003
“Crop Circles Discovered in the U.P.”, TV 6 Fox News,
October
14, 2011
(Updated to include video) http://www.uppermichiganssource.com/news/story.aspx?id=674632
“Crop Circles? Family Remains Baffled by Mysterious Patterns
in Field”, Daily Press,
10-15-2011
(This article makes
reference to a crop circle reported in nearby Escanaba, Delta County, MI – July
24, 1965 which the Jorasz’s found reported on our
ICCRA website: http://www.iccra.org/bystate/Michigan/ICCRA%20-%20MI%20-%20Escanaba,%20Delta%20County%20(July%2024,%201965).htm )
http://www.dailypress.net/page/content.detail/id/532898/Crop-Circles-.html?nav=5003
Thanks to Eric Adams from WYKX radio for calling the ICCRA
to notify us of the crop circles, and to John Jorasz for taking the time to discuss the crop circles with us.
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May 12, 2011 - SACRAMENTO COUNTY, CA & MADISONVILLE, TN
The ICCRA has recieved two reports of crop circles here in the USA. The first is in Sacramento County, California: two roughly circular areas flattened in field grass, where the grass has turned a golden-yellow color, leaving the surrounding grass a dark green. This was first spotted last Thursday, May 12 by Anne Brackett who took cell phone photos on the first day, and video the second day. One of the ICCRA founders, Steve Moreno is investigating. We'll have imagery and video, plus more details posted soon.
The second, also first spotted on May 12 by a deputy in the Monroe County Sheriff's Dept., is a geometric crop formation in early green wheat in Madisonville, Tennessee. Madisonville had a formation that the ICCRA investigated and authenticated in 2007. This newly reported formation is located in the same field, in nearly the exact spot, and has nearly the same design, with only a few details different. As Madisonville also had a hoaxed formation in 2008 located across the street as the 2007 formation, we are eyeing this one with some suspicion, but another founder member of the ICCRA, Roger Sugden is enroute to do an investigation. We do have aerials of this, and will hopefully have permission to post soon. Below is a tenative diagram of the design.
If you'd like to review the 2007 & 2008 Madiaonville formations, check out the report. (pdf - almost 5MB)
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March 20, 2011 - TLAPANALOYA, TEQUIXQUIAC, MEXICO
The First Crop Circle Formation in North America has been reported in TLAPANALOYA, TEQUIXQUIAC, MEXICO on March 20, 2011. Single circle in wheat or maybe oats. Two additional single circles reported in an nearby field. Tlapanaloya is located approx. 35 mi. north of Mexico City. Reported to the ICCRA by Ruben Uriate via Victor Camacho. Victor is sending local investigators to the scene...hopefully more to come!
Strange appearance of circles in crops of oat, in the town of
TLAPANALOYA, Tequixquiac, MEX.
20 MARCH 2011
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