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The Dilemma Posed By The Crop Circle Phenomena

Mention crop circles to people and responses vary from smiles about pranksters creating them to thoughts that maybe these unusual formations could be caused by an unknown phenomenon which should be investigated. With the recent appearance of a crop circle in late June, 2006 near the Huntingburg, Indiana Airport their reality came close to home for the residents of southern Indiana, not just something heard about and reported from another part of the country or the world. While we know that many crop circles have been the result of pranksters, some have been found to have scientifically measurable characteristics which indicate something unusual happened to cause them, ruling out human intervention.

The Huntingburg Crop Circle attracted the attention of the Independent Crop Circle Research Association [ ICCRA ] investigation team composed of professionals who are dedicated to the scientific investigation of the phenomenon. Team members included Roger Sugden of Fort Wayne, Indiana, Jeffrey Wilson [ Director of ICCRA ] and Delsey Wilson from Williamsburg, Ohio, Ted Robertson of Bloomington, Indiana and Dr. Charles Lietzau from Detroit, Michigan. They spent July 1, 2006 in a sunny, hot wheat field gathering scientific data to determine whether the Huntingburg Crop Circle was man-made and looking for clues which might help understand how it may have been created if it was not man-made.

The team was looking for anything out of the ordinary. Measurements of radiation, electromagnetic energy, and magnetism were taken. Samples of wheat from both inside and outside of the crop circle were collected. This provided the scientists with samples and readings to help determine if there was anything unusual about the crop circle area.

Dr. Charles Lietzau [Ph.D, Zoology], a high school biology teacher, independent scientist, and researcher, who drove 500 miles from the Detroit, Michigan area to study the wheat in the crop circle, spent the day collecting samples of wheat to be studied later. He took both control samples from outside the crop circle and other samples from within the circle. Dr. Lietzau explained that the growth nodes on the wheat stalks in crop circles, that are not man-made by mechanical means, often have either been expanded lengthwise, bent or have even exploded as a result of whatever phenomenon created the crop circle. He gathers data which will determine if, indeed, something unusual happened to the wheat nodes. Dr. Lietzau said, “The data is the only authority.” According to Dr. Lietzau there have been crop circle formations reported in fields of soybeans, corn, wheat, oats, barley, rice, potatoes and even celery.