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Thunderstorms may have caused crop circles!
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| Story filed: 15:45 Sunday 7th July 2002
| Editorial Staff
Posted on 08/01/2002 7:04:27 PM PDT by vannrox
Thunderstorms may have caused crop circles
Meteorologists are investigating whether fierce thunderstorms caused crop circles in parts of Canada.
Environment Canada officials say swirling vortices of air or downbursts may be behind circles in fields in New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island.
The severe weather on Thursday and Friday also uprooted hundreds of trees and damaged a number of buildings.
Canada.com reports that Environment Canada's Mike Campbell said: "What we believe is a lot of air had rushed out of the thunderstorm and when it hit the ground it swirled around. It just whipped up the crops and flattened them into circles."
Derrick Blacquiere, a resident of Prince Edward Island, says he saw several funnel clouds create deep depressions in a neighbour's wheat field, flattening grain into circular patterns up to six metres in diameter.
Mr Campbell says crop circles caused by sudden bursts of wind have been reported in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and in the Western provinces.
The most recent was reported last year in Port Hillford on the eastern shore of Nova Scotia.
Story filed: 15:45 Sunday 7th July 2002
TOPICS: Canada; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: air; aliens; circles; crop; discovery; paranormal; storm; swirling; thunder; ufo; unexplained
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To: FormerLurker
Ping!
To: goodieD
I saw a TV show about a couple of guys who were doing these kinds of things..they showed exactly how they did it...don't remember all the details.. but my goodness... aliens...really! A rope. Mark certain distances on it. One person anchors, the other walks a certain # of steps at given distances tramping down the grain.
To: hopespringseternal
As an art form, I think it's great, as long as the farmers aren't peeved about it.
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08/02/2002 8:08:30 AM PDT
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goodieD
To: hopespringseternal
A rope. Mark certain distances on it. One person anchors, the other walks a certain # of steps at given distances tramping down the grain.and you can do an awful lot more if you have two ropes and three people...
To: john in missouri
Wait'll the geometry teachers get into this as a class project ....
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08/02/2002 11:07:59 AM PDT
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sphinx
To: spetznaz
Looks like either lightning or field voles did that.
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