Tuesday, August 05, 2003
Investigator says Livingston County Crop Circles aren't a hoax
HOWELL TOWNSHIP, Michigan - Hundreds of people are flocking to a farm to see three crop circles. It may sound like a script from Hollywood, but it's happening in Livingston County.
Mike Esper discovered the crop circles -- 51 feet, 10 feet and 8 feet in diameter -- as he drove a combine around his farm's wheat field three weeks ago.
Esper, 55, called a crop circle researcher to examine them. The expert, Jeffrey Wilson, studied the circles for three days. He determined they weren't an act of man, were not a hoax, that they were the result of some unexplainable natural phenomenon.
People continue to descend on the farm about 50 miles northwest of Detroit every day, with Esper often giving tours to curious visitors. But for some, the circles a few miles from downtown Howell are treated like shrines.
During his investigation, Wilson found dozens of wheat stems with holes in the middle. He said the electricity associated with crop circles generates heat and that heat turns the moisture in the stems to steam. It expands and it blows out the holes.
Stems that are still in the ground with holes in them aren't the result of a hoax, he said.
Wilson said he has seen at least 130 crop circles since 1996. He first took them seriously while a graduate student of physics and chemistry at Eastern Michigan University.
"Throughout my career, I've always been interested in things people didn't have explanations for," he said.
Wilson, 33, investigated his first circle in Ohio. He borrowed a device from EMU that detects radiation and, along with a friend, found a sheriff had roped the circle off as though it were a crime scene. He talked his way past the yellow tape.
As he moved closer to the center, he noticed a pattern that he would find at every other circle: Radiation levels were higher in the middle.
He didn't know why, but Wilson began measuring the electric field and the electromagnetic field within the circles. He noticed the circles often appeared near transformers attached to power lines.
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