Cropcirclenews.com has a detailed report about the Mayville,
Wisconsin crop circles from the research team of Jeffrey
Wilson, Charles Lietzau, Gary Kahlimer and Roger Sugden.
They took samples from the circles, and proved that they
were not
manmade. Now they report that the Wisconsin circles have
been investigated by a "Special Crop Circle Investigative Unit
in the U.S. Air Force."
Jeffrey Wilson writes, "We were surprised by the appearance
of a military helicopter circling the formation very low to the
ground?After about 40-45 minutes, I noticed that we were
also under surveillance on the ground?I noticed a man in a
camouflage uniform watching us with binoculars.
"After I informed the rest of the team that we were being
watched, the uniformed soldier got into his car, drove down
the hill towards where we were parked, and slowly passed us
noting our license plates. He drove to the end of the block,
turned his car around, drove back to where we were standing
and parked his car. He got out and walked directly into the
formation?As we chatted with this soldier from the U.S. Air
Force?he told us that he was part of a Special Crop Circle
Investigative Unit in the U.S. Air Force, and that they had
been looking into this formation for the past couple of weeks?
He further told us that this team had investigated two crop
circles that appeared near ?Downing, Illinois? last summer
(2002), but that he hadn't participated in that investigation?
but others had?He stayed in the formation about 10-15
minutes, at which point he seemed satisfied, and he returned
to his car and immediately got on his cell phone, and left."
Besides taking grain samples from the circle and having them
tested, Wilson says, "I went to investigate several nearby
Indian mound formations and gather information about the
area from the local chamber of commerce?Dodge County,
Wisconsin happens to have one of the largest concentrations
of existing Indian burial and effigy mounds in the United
States. In relation to the crop circle formation, there are
more than 500 Indian mounds within a 15-mile radius?The
area is an extinct glacial lake carved out during the last Ice
Age 12,000 years ago, and had been used by Native
Americans since at least that time as a sacred hunting
ground?Ledge Park is also the site of a series of Indian
petroglyphs ? at least one of which was conclusively
determined to align to the rising of the sun on the solstices.
"Directly under the crop circle formation however, and in
much of the general area is a vast formation of limestone
deposits, which have been continually mined for at least the
last 150 years. Crop circles around the world have been
noted to occur along aquifers, or water-bearing rock
formations, notably limestone?Crop circles have also been
noted to appear near some sort of body of water?Not only
does the formation occur directly above a limestone aquifer,
but directly at the bottom of the hill, west of where the
formation appeared is a drainage ditch. East of the formation,
just one field away, is the north branch of the Rock River.
"Crop Circles have also been known to form in close proximity
to power lines, and again this circle site is no exception ? less
than a hundred yards from the circles runs a power line, and
just up the hill, the closest transformer box was less than 100
feet from the workshop where Mr. Rantala watched the crop
circles form."
Thanks to Colin Andrews, one of the original crop circle
researchers, for sending us this story. His book
Crop Circles: Signs of
Contact is a must for anyone interested in this subject, but
hurry?there are only 3 copies left!
For an excellent, detailed report on the Mayville crop circles,
click here.
