1)
THE CROPCIRCLES THAT VISITED THE HOUSE:
THE CASE OF VALERA FRATTA
After
a series of ufo and ball of light sightings in the immediate area, a series of
anomalous non geometrical crop circles appeared in the field in front of the
house of our cropcircle observers for the area, at Valera Fratta, near the city
of Lodi. The observers found a
circle whose center was totally carbonized, while the other laid areas – and
only these areas – were affected with rust, which gave these areas a bleached
colour with respect to the rest of the field.
Within
the laid, rust-affected areas, we observed a very striking phenomenon of
selective shearing: the plant stalks had been cleanly sheared by an unknown
process.
Within
the laid areas we also found plants with enormously swollen stalks.
One
of the most interesting finds were the “dandelion spirals”: dandelion plants
with the tops sheared off and the stems slit lengthwise and rolled into 2 twin
spirals. In spite of being cut up, no wilted areas were visible and the
spiralled plants were green and growing.
Shortly
after the arrival of these formations, our observers found some of the plants in
their garden, such as this rosemary bush, twisted into a spiral shape.
Shortly
afterwards, one of the observers went into the bedroom in the evening and was
surprised to see a small, brilliant ball of light in the space between the
closed shutters and the window.
He called his wife who saw the same thing. She tried moving around the room to see what would happen. The ball of light followed her movements. The couple commented: "Our impression was that the ball of light was alive".
2)
THE NONGEOMETRICAL FORMATION WITH A GEOMETRICAL SUBSTRUCTURE:
THE RESCALDINA CROPCIRCLE.
The
circle at Rescaldina (near Saronno) which arrived during a violent summer night
thunderstorm, is a representative of a new type of formation for Italy this
year: something which is halfway between a geometrical formation and a weather
damage splotch. In spite of the fact that its edges and lay are disorderly and
imprecise, it has a clearly evident twelve-point geometry matrix, consisting of
its 12 bays which form the perimeter, each of which is connected with one of the
12 central vortexes. Moreover, a second semi-geometrical formation next to the
circle envelops a small adjacent worksite in the same way another worksite only
a few kilometers away is enveloped by a twin formation.
3)
MINICIRCLES AROUND THE TREES IN THE TICINO RIVER PARK.
Very
few geometrical cropcircles came to the region of Lombardy during the 2005
season. An exception is a row of small perfect circles in the grass around the
trunks of these trees in the Ticino Park parking lot.
4)
MACHINE FAILURE IN THE RODANO FORMATION.
Shortly
after a group of citizens in the town of Rodano, near Milan, began to study
cropcircles,a series of non geometrical circles formed close to their homes. Not
only were the formations interesting because they “grew” considerably over a
period of nights, but because the circle in the photo caused machine failure in
almost all machines brought into the circle. Fausto, one of the members of the
group, told us:
“When
I turned on the videocamera in my cell phone it became burning hot, it heated up
like that in just a few seconds, then it cooled off to the normal temperature.
When I finished filming I went to the bank with my Bancomat card which I’d
taken into the circle with me. I entered the pin code and the sum I wanted when
the Bancomat went crazy: it did not give me the money but it answered “sum
paid” and gave back the card. When I got home I tried to recharge my cell
phone but the message “recharge impossible” appeared on the screen.”
Not
far from Rodano, in the town of Balbiano, appeared “the healing cropcircle”
where three different people suffering from different and severe illnesses were
healed – at least temporarily – upon coming into contact with the laid wheat
of this non geometrical formation. One of these people felt an electric
discharge go through her body each time she entered the field.
5)
“VALENTINO’S FIELD”, A CIRCLE WHICH INDUCES REGRESSION AT CERNUSCO,
MILAN.
“Valentino’s Field” is a frame-shaped formation with horizontal bars connecting the right and left sides of the frame, and covers the entire field. It belongs to the new wave of circles which are halfway between a splotch in the field and a geometrical formation.
It
has many interesting characteristics: a complex, regular multi-layer lay,
perfect tufts surrounded by a cushionlike base, yellow, “baked” areas, areas with sheared stalks, and
brusque changes in the intensity of vibrational waves emanating from the
terrain.
One
of its most interesting characteristics is that it induces a state of
spontaneous regression in visitors who enter the eastern section of the field.
The regression is accompanied by scenes and sensations of long ago and
in particular of ancient Egypt.
6)
THE CIRCLE WITH THE HOLES AT CISLIANO (near Milan)
This nongeometrical circle is anomalous in that , along the axis of its bar-like shape , we have found at least 20 holes which arrived the same night as the circle in a field which no one had entered previous to our arrival.
The sides of the holes in the compact clayey terrain show clear signs
of the sharp instruments used to extract carrots of earth along with the plants,
of which there remains no trace.
We have removed the sides of some of the holes so that the marks of the unknown instrument used o dig them are more evident.
7)
THE CIRCLED TRAFFIC CIRCLE
A ring with irregular borders circled the traffic circle in the town of Cusago, just outside Milan.
Its width was about the same as that of the road in the
traffic circle. It had a multidirectional lay and during the following weeks it
lengthened alongside the road leading
out of the traffic circle, into the field adjacent to the one around the traffic
circle. The traffic circle road meets a dirt road and with time the formation
lengthened out along both sides of the dirt road, reaching a final length of at
least half a kilometer.
In the center of one of the last additions we found an oblong object about 8 cm long, extremely thin but very resistant, made of a network of fine wirelike strands. When handled, a pulsation could be felt. It has been sent to an English lab for further analyses.
7b ) THE CIRCLED TRAFFIC CIRCLE: CIRCLES CUT INTO MAIZE
The Italian "second season", which comes in autumn, brought a total novelty to the Cusago traffic circle: a series of non-geometrical circles, not laid, but cut into the maize through the use of an extremely precise unknown cutting instrument.
This second series of circles in maize overlays the same area that was laid in wheat during the early summer cropcircle season.
The cut-off portions of the plants have either been removed or cut up into smaller portions and placed in a number of piles near the center of most of the circles. New sheared-off areas are continuing to appear every few days in spite of the fact that we are at the end of October and Italian second season has generally finished at this time.
Clean shearing One of the piles of cut up maize
8)
THE MYSTERY OF SANTA MARIA ROSSA.
At
Monzoro on the periphery of Cusago stands the ancient church of Santa Maria
Rossa which has been converted into a theater. Cropcircles have always appeared
in the fields in front of and around the church as far back as anyone can
remember. These irregular formations often have unusual characteristics. This
year, numerous wheat stalks have been sheared off and/or burnt when the crop was
laid.
9)
THE FIELDS OF SIGNOR MARIO, REVISITED FOR GENERATIONS.
| The
many fields of Signor Mario, whose farm is at Terzago, are in the area of
Abbiategrasso, and every generation of his family has been witness to the
arrival of non geometrical formations in these fields, even in corn/maize. This
is one of his fields which receives the most visits. |
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10)
DAIRAGO: THE BOOMING PICTOGRAM.
The
formation at Dairago (near Milan) is one of the very few geometical figures to
appear in northern Italy in 2005. Unusual sightings are not new to the area.
“Il Giornale”, a national newspaper, reports: “ a farmer from Dairago
remembers how his son saw a type of spacecraft landing in a field at dusk and
shortly thereafter taking off again”.
We
learned from a family from Dairago that on May 29 2005 a friend of theirs who is
a biologist witnessed a brilliant orange light hovering in the air for 10
minutes over the same field in which the pictogram was found on the morning of
June 18.
The
family explained that the pictogram was 200 meters from an old spring and well
and that the terrain is full of springs, which is a characteristic common to
many areas visited by crop circles.
While
a friend from Milan was visiting and photographing the formation from his car
roof in the middle of the afternoon, he was frightened by the noise of loud
“booming” coming from the terrain. Unable to see anything that might be
causing the noise, he went on with his photography while the booming continued.
Although
we arrived at the field only after it had been harvested, the lay was so precise
and adherent that the design was still clearly visible.
after harvest
11)
THE TRICOLOR CIRCLES AT PAROLA.
Perhaps
the most surprising formations of the 2005 season in northern Italy is this
group of irregular circles near Parma. They attracted so much attention when
they appeared alongside the via Emilia that traffic was blocked.
While
the ordinary cropcircle is green like the surrounding field, the circles at
Parola are tricolor: the green is the corona of alfalfa around the circle; the
shiny yellow is the vine which wove around the alfalfa at the edge of the circle
like basketwork, creating the effect of a yellow halo ; the black is the soil
inside the circle where a great number of plants, roots and all, have been
removed. Some of the plants that have been left inside the circles have one or
more stalks sheared off by an unknown process.
Our
observers noticed that the fine yellow vine which sprouted and wove itself so
precisely around the edge of the circles in one single night, could not be found
anywhere else in the field or in the neighboring fields.
This
type of circle has continued to appear in the same area throughout the months of
August and September and in particular, near the house of one of our observers,
who noticed that the plants in her garden were radically altered, more
flourishing, bigger, and flowering out of season.
sample of the vine which outlined the circle in yellow
12)
TWO CIRCLES WHICH TRANSFORMED THEMSELVES.
The
phenomenon of formations which transform themselves with a completely new lay or
by adding or eliminating laid portions is quite common in northern Italy.
Two
examples from the 2005 season:
1) Albairate (near Abbiategrasso)
Photo A: a first incisive wavelike lay
Photo B: a few weeks later, a new “airbrush lay”, much fuzzier and
extending into the entire field.
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| Photo A | Photo B |
2) Cisliano (near Abbiategrasso)
First came a single bar-type formation ....
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Photo A: a week later, two more bars parallel to the first |
Photo B: a week later, the 3 bars are united by curved lines |
13)
FORMATIONS SOUTH OF THE PO RIVER
Our
cropcircle observer for the OltrePo’ area, Paolo Centolani, observed these
formations which have traces of geometrical features and all of which have
elongated nodes.
During
the summer of 2005 there was a record number of this type of formation
throughout Italy.
14)
A CROPCIRCLE HOAXED IN ITALY BY AN ENGLISH GROUP.
A
group of professional cropcircle makers from England made this formation in the
shape of a foot in the periphery of Milan.
This
plank-laid effort makes an interesting contrast with authentic circles: while an
authentic formation remains green and untrampled, the laid area of this one
stood out brown against the surrounding green field, with chaotically downed,
broken stalks and no elongated nodes.
