Monday, July 21, 2008

More crop circle weirdness


Over the past several years, we've seen a small but consistent amount of malfunctions in our cameras and electronic equipment when we go into crop circles during our tour in England. It's happened to camcorders, measuring devices, and laptops. This year was no exception. The first video shows Dan, an electrical engineer and one of the tour participants, explaining how his electronic compass failed in the Ridgeway formation. This happened on July 14th, 2008. The compass recovered about one hour later and worked fine for the rest of the tour. But for most of the time in the formation, it would not find true North and had North and South only ninety degrees apart, instead of one-hundred and eighty.



The second video shows Dan measuring the wavy looking Westwoods formation with our electrostatic meter. While filming him, my Sony camera starts blurring and then refocusing, as if it can't lock onto the objects in its field of view with the auto-focus feature. It's never done that before, anywhere. A few minutes later it was fine and remained so for the rest of the tour.



Once again, crop formations are creating mysterious effects on our equipment. These anomalies don't happen everyday, but at the same time, I've never seen them happen anywhere but in crop formations. And that goes for most people whom I've talked to who have experienced the same, strange phenomena.

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