© By Diane Harrison AUFORN INVESTIGATION MAY 17th 2003 |
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Team members left to right
Daniel Sims, Robert Frola, Jan Stone, Diane Harrison photographer Our pilot, Bill of Caboolture War birds Flying School On the morning of May 17th 2003 the AUFORN team headed out to do another interesting investigation. Some Queensland ufo groups may have heard of the Crop Circles? which appeared on Kel & Sandra Gowen property over night May 15th 2003 said to have happened in the early hours of the morning. Even though this case had all the signs of a natural kind of phenomena accruing, the only way one can be sure was to go to the Glasshouse MT property and do a proper investigation. |
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The Auforn team arrived at the property at 11.05 am Saturday morning and were greeted by Sandra and Kel Gowen. Kel guided us to the location on his 40 acre lot which 10 acres was under sorghum. The sorghum appeared at first glance to have been affected by some kind of mysterious crop felling. On first observation it was very hard to ascertain exactly how much of the crop had been affected, so Jan and Robert and I thought it best we hire a light plane and do a flyover. Kel thought this was a great idea has he had not seen any photographs from the air of his field. We left the Gowen property at 12.45 pm arriving at the Caboolture Airport at 12.55 pm we booked our flight for an hour. We took off from the airport at 1.15 pm and headed north. The observation of the crop formation from the air was a little bit of a let down but it was what we had expected. However it was a great flight and Bill our pilot gave us a grand tour of the region and the views of the Glasshouse Mountains were magnificent. |
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We returned to the Gowen property around 2.30 pm to do a full ground inspection of the sorghum crop. What we had to determine next was what had caused the crop to fall over. On closer inspection of the crop it was observed the sorghum did not look to healthy in parts and with help of the photos taken from the air we were now able to pin point each and every part of the crop fall. With advise sort from Bill Chalker the previous night, it was easy to work out what we should be looking for . However I have to be honest we all wanted a crop formation like the fabulous Wiltshire formations in the UK but darn it did not workout to be this way." | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
We spent quite a few hours walking the field observing and taking measurements and taking spoil samples from different parts of the affected area of the fall and as you can see from the above photo the sorghum appears to have fallen flat in no distinctive swirling pattern which is said to be common in most crop circles. We know quite a few people reading this report will say this is not always true and in some case they are correct but a large majority have the swirling pattern in them.
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