1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:29,320 The first part of this talk tonight is going to be about the scientific work that has been 2 00:00:29,320 --> 00:00:35,320 done on the crop circles primarily, and particularly the published scientific... 3 00:00:35,320 --> 00:00:44,159 Then after the break I want to get into some more, I can't say more interesting, but some 4 00:00:44,159 --> 00:00:47,359 more modern, some more current stuff that's going on. 5 00:00:47,359 --> 00:00:52,840 I'm going to briefly talk about the discoveries in the cattle mutilation... 6 00:00:53,840 --> 00:00:58,040 trace cases and the results of those examinations. 7 00:00:58,040 --> 00:01:03,600 And then this most recent trip that I've taken to Europe this fall where amazing... 8 00:01:03,600 --> 00:01:06,760 occurred involving of course Robert Vandenbroek. 9 00:01:06,760 --> 00:01:12,760 And I'm going to talk about him and the growing awareness that I have that... 10 00:01:12,760 --> 00:01:15,140 a role in all of these things. 11 00:01:15,140 --> 00:01:22,080 And furthermore, that there is an interrelationship that crop circles, UFOs,... 12 00:01:22,079 --> 00:01:24,359 poltergeist activity, etc. 13 00:01:24,359 --> 00:01:28,000 That these things are interwoven, are interrelated somehow. 14 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:30,759 At least that is my growing impression. 15 00:01:30,759 --> 00:01:33,719 So if we can have the lights off. 16 00:01:33,719 --> 00:01:36,120 Can you all see? 17 00:01:36,120 --> 00:01:38,200 Because this is about where I have to stand. 18 00:01:38,200 --> 00:01:40,200 I'm sorry. 19 00:01:40,200 --> 00:01:46,759 Briefly, BLT stands for Burke Leavengood Talbot. 20 00:01:46,759 --> 00:01:51,799 These are, this is the name by which we became known back in the very early 90s wh... 21 00:01:52,519 --> 00:01:59,719 John Burke, and we have a photograph, was a, is a New York businessman and was very... 22 00:01:59,719 --> 00:02:03,679 in electricity and electrical phenomena. 23 00:02:03,679 --> 00:02:08,879 He became aware of the crop circle situation at about the same time I did. 24 00:02:08,879 --> 00:02:14,359 And both of us learned about this guy Leavengood, William Leavengood, who was a... 25 00:02:14,359 --> 00:02:16,400 who was in Michigan. 26 00:02:16,400 --> 00:02:20,519 And John and I had exactly the same idea, which we went to Michigan and knocked on the 27 00:02:20,520 --> 00:02:22,960 door and said, Hi, my name's John. 28 00:02:22,960 --> 00:02:24,280 My name's Nancy. 29 00:02:24,280 --> 00:02:27,160 To find out what he was doing. 30 00:02:27,160 --> 00:02:29,680 Here's a picture of Lefty. 31 00:02:29,680 --> 00:02:34,160 It was clear from that early work that he was doing, went to the lab, we looked at 32 00:02:34,160 --> 00:02:39,719 exactly the process that he was using and realized that this was actual science. 33 00:02:39,719 --> 00:02:40,719 He wasn't kidding. 34 00:02:40,719 --> 00:02:47,960 He was actually doing absolutely normal scientific methodology and he was coming u... 35 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:54,280 It was formations like this that had gotten me interested and in particular the... 36 00:02:54,280 --> 00:03:00,960 set which absolutely stunned me that a formation of this sort could appear in the... 37 00:03:00,960 --> 00:03:08,439 I saw these myself before I knew anything about them as an invitation rather like a 38 00:03:08,439 --> 00:03:14,080 calling card that the British leave of the upper class British leave in trays in the 39 00:03:14,280 --> 00:03:21,280 vestibules of big mansions and houses announcing that, you know, Hi, I stopped b... 40 00:03:22,040 --> 00:03:27,240 That's how they hit me and made me think that there was a great deal more to be learned 41 00:03:27,240 --> 00:03:32,960 and instigated all of the work that we've done, I've done since. 42 00:03:32,960 --> 00:03:39,480 Here we have, if I guess you know this guy, if you don't, that's Reuben Uriarty in... 43 00:03:39,480 --> 00:03:41,640 this is Danny Lobb and that of course is Silber Hill. 44 00:03:41,640 --> 00:03:43,480 They're doing some sampling there. 45 00:03:43,519 --> 00:03:49,560 The way the BLT work has been done is by sampling plants and soils in the crop circles 46 00:03:49,560 --> 00:03:53,399 and also outside the crop circles for controls. 47 00:03:53,399 --> 00:04:02,120 A sample to us, a plant sample involves a hunk, say 15 plants or so, cut off at the... 48 00:04:02,120 --> 00:04:06,399 The soil work we were doing in the beginning was simply surface soil. 49 00:04:06,399 --> 00:04:10,879 Now we do some other things but back then it was surface soil and we would take hundreds 50 00:04:10,879 --> 00:04:15,919 of these samples inside the formations and then also outside. 51 00:04:15,919 --> 00:04:19,920 Here's a bunch of these samples coming out of the field in England. 52 00:04:19,920 --> 00:04:25,319 That's a very small portion of one formation sampling. 53 00:04:25,319 --> 00:04:30,680 Here in Holland, this was in one of Robert's cases that I was sampling myself, just to 54 00:04:30,680 --> 00:04:35,120 show you that all the plants in Europe have to be dried down because of opportunistic 55 00:04:35,120 --> 00:04:39,939 molds which have to be gotten rid of before the plants are shipped. 56 00:04:40,100 --> 00:04:44,459 So sampling is an expensive procedure when it's overseas. 57 00:04:44,459 --> 00:04:49,219 It's not cheap here but it's much more expensive overseas because you have to ren... 58 00:04:49,219 --> 00:04:53,459 or a facility of some sort in order to dry down these hundreds and hundreds and hundreds 59 00:04:53,459 --> 00:04:58,420 of plants as well as soils because it's very expensive to mail the soils when they've 60 00:04:58,420 --> 00:05:01,100 got a lot of moisture in them. 61 00:05:01,100 --> 00:05:08,180 In those early days before we really knew much of anything, Levengood didn't know what 62 00:05:08,220 --> 00:05:09,220 to look at. 63 00:05:09,220 --> 00:05:11,819 He had many ideas. 64 00:05:11,819 --> 00:05:15,900 One of the things that he noticed pretty quickly was that the knuckle-like... 65 00:05:15,900 --> 00:05:20,379 the nodes on the plants, seemed to be showing changes. 66 00:05:20,379 --> 00:05:26,460 And so he originally thought that if he took slices of this node tissue and examined them 67 00:05:26,460 --> 00:05:29,319 underneath the microscope, he might see differences. 68 00:05:29,319 --> 00:05:34,780 What he found were these enlarged cell wall pits, these tiny little black dots, which 69 00:05:34,859 --> 00:05:39,819 occurred in the sample plants but did not occur in the control plants. 70 00:05:39,819 --> 00:05:45,179 And at first he used that as a parameter, one parameter of an indication that this was 71 00:05:45,179 --> 00:05:49,139 not a man-made event, that this was something else. 72 00:05:49,139 --> 00:05:51,979 The microscopic work is very tedious. 73 00:05:51,979 --> 00:05:57,859 He in the not too far distant, not too long after that, discovered that other parameters 74 00:05:57,859 --> 00:06:03,019 much more easy, much easier to determine were the ones that he started to use instead and 75 00:06:03,099 --> 00:06:06,180 that was in particular this node length change. 76 00:06:06,180 --> 00:06:11,099 This is from a sample from a plant, from a formation, and this is a control node. 77 00:06:11,099 --> 00:06:16,740 Now this is a very extreme example of about 200 and some percent, but you can clearly 78 00:06:16,740 --> 00:06:19,259 see that those nodes are of different size. 79 00:06:19,259 --> 00:06:25,379 What we found most consistently around the world in crop circles, literally taken from 80 00:06:25,379 --> 00:06:32,379 about 17 different countries now, is that this apical node elongation is the most... 81 00:06:33,099 --> 00:06:36,740 finding that we have physical result that you can see with your eyes. 82 00:06:36,740 --> 00:06:41,579 The apical node is the top node beneath the seed head and here we have the formation 83 00:06:41,579 --> 00:06:45,379 plants and here's a batch of controls. 84 00:06:45,379 --> 00:06:50,939 It is also a mistake to think that when you have node elongation, you must also have node 85 00:06:50,939 --> 00:06:52,079 bending. 86 00:06:52,079 --> 00:06:55,879 This is not true as this example ought to clearly indicate. 87 00:06:55,879 --> 00:07:01,979 The node elongation can happen totally independently of node bending. 88 00:07:01,980 --> 00:07:08,340 In this formation in England about 95, the sampling diagram shows you the samples were 89 00:07:08,340 --> 00:07:13,379 taken directly across in both standing and down crop. 90 00:07:13,379 --> 00:07:18,420 The white here indicates the down, the gray is the standing crop. 91 00:07:18,420 --> 00:07:23,020 What we found in this particular case, and this is not typical of all crop circles, 92 00:07:23,020 --> 00:07:30,020 unfortunately they vary considerably, but in this case, this is node length and these 93 00:07:30,539 --> 00:07:32,819 are the sample numbers this way. 94 00:07:32,819 --> 00:07:39,819 All of these red bars indicate increased node length in all of the downed, the flattened 95 00:07:40,139 --> 00:07:42,000 plant samples. 96 00:07:42,000 --> 00:07:46,839 In the standing plants, we did not find node elongation. 97 00:07:46,839 --> 00:07:50,339 You might think that would be typical of all crop circles, but it isn't. 98 00:07:50,339 --> 00:07:53,659 The formations are a lot more complex than that. 99 00:07:53,659 --> 00:07:58,859 This is found frequently that the flattened plants will show the changes, the standing 100 00:07:58,859 --> 00:07:59,939 don't. 101 00:07:59,939 --> 00:08:05,100 But in many of the standing parts of crop circles nowadays, we see the same changes 102 00:08:05,100 --> 00:08:08,939 in the standing plants. 103 00:08:08,939 --> 00:08:15,939 We not only found that node elongation occurred in the plants, we discovered that... 104 00:08:17,300 --> 00:08:22,959 change would be distributed in many cases as a function of distance. 105 00:08:22,959 --> 00:08:27,899 In this case, let's say we're sampling right across, or let's say, no even better, from 106 00:08:27,939 --> 00:08:30,099 the center to the edge. 107 00:08:30,099 --> 00:08:36,139 What we found is that the node length decreased from the center to the edge as a... 108 00:08:36,139 --> 00:08:37,740 of distance. 109 00:08:37,740 --> 00:08:44,059 In other words, as each sample was taken farther and farther out, the node length... 110 00:08:44,059 --> 00:08:48,620 And furthermore, it did it in conjunction, or in accordance with a law of physics known 111 00:08:48,620 --> 00:08:54,899 as the Beer-Lambert principle, which describes the absorption of electromagneti... 112 00:08:54,899 --> 00:08:56,539 matter. 113 00:08:56,539 --> 00:08:59,419 And it does so, it's a mathematical formula. 114 00:08:59,419 --> 00:09:02,379 Here are some examples of the application of that. 115 00:09:02,379 --> 00:09:07,379 In this case, we have a flat center in the circle going to the edge. 116 00:09:07,379 --> 00:09:12,699 In this case, we have a standing upright center, and then the flattened beginning h... 117 00:09:12,699 --> 00:09:16,620 to the edge, and here in this case also. 118 00:09:16,620 --> 00:09:23,259 When you get this fit with the Beer-Lambert principle predicts, what you know is that 119 00:09:23,419 --> 00:09:29,419 physical change is related to the absorption of electromagnetic energy, not boards and 120 00:09:29,419 --> 00:09:32,460 planks. 121 00:09:32,460 --> 00:09:39,460 In Holland, 1999 I think this was, the Robert...