Círculos en el campo y otras formaciones. Estados Unidos

The following incident was investigated by Field Investigator Glenn Mc- Wane and member LeRoy Latham. The aerial photograph accompanying this report was furnished by Mr. Mcwane. The initial interview was obtained by Mr. Latham, and later Mr. Warren Barr, who owns the property involved, declined to allow his daughter Kathy to be interviewed further. On the night of the 13th of July pat Barr and her 17-year-old cousin Kathy Mahr were preparing for bed in the upstairs bedroom at the Barr farm home, 7.2 miles south of Garrison, Iowa.

Pat’s attention was caught by the sound of what seemed to be a low-flying jet and she went to the north window and looked out in the direction of a neighboring farm. She called to her cousin and both girls watched a strange object which appeared to be hovering over a large bean field on the Barr farm, Kathy’s description is as follows:

The object had a dull metallic finish which was easily discerned because of the two rows of lights that were arranged across the face of it at the midline. It appeared like two coffee saucers” placed rim to rim and rotated as it hovered. The sighting lasted for only a few seconds, after which the object left at such high speed that the girls did not know precisely which direction it went, except that it went past their window. The area where it had hovered was glowing red after the object disappeared from sight. Neither of the girls was frightened but were curious about the strange-appearing craft.

At breakfast the next day the girls told the Barrs about what they had seen and Mr. Barr tended to be skeptical and attributed the whole thing to “a figment of their imagination.” However, Later that morning he discovered, at the spot indicated by the girls, a nearly circular patch of ground in his bean field which was almost bare. The bean vines appeared to have been burned although there was no evidence of flame.

The area in the field which was “burned’ ‘is approximately 40 feet in diameter and was easily seen from the air. The local news media showed interest in the incident and a taped interview with the Barr girl’s which was played on a local radio station. Most of the residents seemed inclined to attribute the spot to a “fireball” or lightning. Mr. Barr does not rule out lightning entirety, and when interviewed said that he hadn’t informed authorities at first because he was skeptical.  pat Barr stated that she was convinced that the object she had seen had caused the damage to the bean crop and that it was an “air-flying object from outer space.”

It “wasn’t anything earthly,’, she said Mr. Barr told interviewers that he “would hesitate to guess,, at the object’s identity and the cause of the scar on the field, but did say that he felt it was “something unusual – I’ll put it that way.” Samples of the bean vines from inside the circle, near the outside, and from elsewhere in the field were gathered by Mcwane and are now being examined by an APRO consultant.

As in the past, there is a likelihood that the bean vines will furnish a clue to what happened, but the tests must be made anyway,  Tests for radiation at the site revealed nothing abnormal, and similar tests of the vine samples were also negative.

Una estudiante de secundaria invitó a su primo [esteticista] a una fiesta de pijamas. Las dos jóvenes aún estaban despiertas cuando escucharon el sonido afuera. Mirando por la ventana, vieron un objeto sobre el campo al otro lado de la calle. Estaba a menos de una milla de ellos. 

El objeto parecía un disco de metal gris, no brillante, pero con una franja de luz naranja-roja alrededor de la circunferencia. Esta luz permitía a las niñas ver claramente la forma: "un tazón poco profundo invertido con un fondo curvo". 

El objeto estaba "limpio "[sin protuberancias y luces separadas]. El objeto volaba directamente sobre la granja, sus vibraciones sacudían las ventanas del dormitorio. [Los padres ya estaban dormidos y no se despertaron]. 

Las chicas sintieron que el disco era "del Tamaño de un automóvil" y giraba en sentido contrario a las agujas del reloj, subiendo y nadando.

A la mañana siguiente, le contaron a los padres de una niña lo que había sucedido, pero no les creyeron. 

Esa mañana, sin embargo, el padre caminaba por el campo y se encontró con un círculo de una cosecha de soja seca de cuarenta pies (12,1 m) de diámetro que no estaba allí antes. Este lugar no solo era un círculo "perfecto", sino también un lugar adecuado para observar Ovnis. 

La cosecha afectada se veía así: "todas las hojas de cada planta colgaban de los tallos marchitos", como si, como sugirió un investigador de Ovnis de campo, "estuvieran expuestas a un calor intenso". 

Aparentemente, la mancha fue el resultado de "casi un touchdown" en lugar de un touchdown real, ya que las plantas no se rompieron ni aplastaron. 

Se ha tomado una hermosa foto aérea de este círculo, que se adjunta al presente informe (no publicado). 

El investigador de APRO tomó fotos y muestras de Suelo, y Walt Andrus de MUFON/APRO entrevistó a su hija [la única entrevista temprana de su prima fue realizada por periodistas]. Como era casi siempre, APRO "perdió la pelota" al analizar las muestras y solo informó que las plantas estaban secas, arrugadas y no radiactivas. 

Dr. J. Allen heinek incluso visitó el lugar, y más tarde fue citado:

"Todavía no sé qué es esto... Parece que el gran calentador se mantuvo a seis pies sobre el Suelo".

Vecinos de la familia relataron que esa noche sus perros hacían ruido. 

Van Horn es considerado uno de los mejores casos de "touchdown" de la historia. Esto se debe a que tiene varios testigos, confirmación inmediata de la huella por alguien que conocía con precisión el estado de los campos de su granja, falta de deseo de publicidad [en realidad, el padre que lo bloqueó todo], falta de motivación [en realidad, pérdida de cosechas valiosas], numerosos primeros investigadores con buena reputación y un efecto bastante grande y misterioso. En algunas escalas de evaluación de casos, puede ser el número 1.