Friday, November 28, 2003
Fairfield researcher categorizes crop circles as 'authentic'
FAIRFIELD -- The mystery behind Rockville's famed crop circles just got deeper.
A Fairfield man's non-profit organization has concluded, based on six months' research, that the massive crop circles discovered in a wheat field off Suisun Valley Road and Rockville Corners last June are not the work of human beings.
"There are strong indicators that these crop circles are authentic and are not hoaxes," said Steve Moreno, director of Fairfield-based PsiApplications during an exclusive interview with the Daily Republic on Sunday.
"My sense is that there some yet undiscovered energy behind them - what that might be is not now known."
After their discovery in an 80-acre wheat field June 28, the world seemingly beat a path to the site which researchers say is the largest set of crop circles yet found on Earth, topping even those found in Great Britain.
Working with Cambridge, Mass.-based BLT Research Team Inc., Moreno said his organization has made two primary conclusions about the Rockville circles:
-- The unique size and shape of the formation is so complex that it would require someone to have an extremely advanced working knowledge of Euclidean geometry to produce them.
-- The stalks of wheat found inside the circles feature "nodules" on their stems that all seem to have been abnormally lengthened. Moreno said researchers have only been able to duplicate the lengthening of the nodules - similar in function to human ligaments - by subjecting them to electromagnetic (in this case microwave) energy.
Moreno, who said he will publicly detail his findings during a Dec. 3 press conference, said the wheat stalk's exposure to the radiation may well be tied to reports by eyewitnesses who claim to have seen "balls of light" over the wheat field where the circles were later discovered.
The research, Moreno says, makes the statements of a group of Vacaville men who claimed in a local newspaper to have built the circles not very believable.
"Numerous obvious holes existed in their explanation of how they made the circles" Moreno said. "These holes not only exist as inconsistencies but also appear as possible lies."
Moreno added that the Vacaville men, whose identities were never made public, were given a chance to privately and anonymously recreate a circle. They never showed up for the demonstration.
All of these points, combined with the application of a series of scientific test protocols that can help researchers screen for possible hoaxes, are what led Moreno and colleagues to draw their conclusions, he said.
Moreno stressed that while he and his colleagues are confident of their conclusions, their research is just a jumping-off point for more scientific and scholarly work on the subject.
"Our hope is that this work stimulates a hotbed of discussion on this subject in the scientific community," Moreno said.
For Larry Balestra, the farmer who owns the field where the circles were discovered, the research is interesting but he still thinks there's a chance human beings may have been involved.
"They're going to have to prove it to me one way or another," said Balestra, who has been farming in the area since 1986. "Still, I'm glad they're doing the research. I'd like to get to the bottom of this."
Reach Jeff Mitchell at 427-6977 or jmitchell@dailyrepublic.net.
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