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date: 95-06-01
Journal of The Inquiring Skeptics of Upper New York
Volume 1, Issue 6
1st Symposium on Anomalous Phenomena: Part 2, John Burke.
This past April the student union (UPAC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute hosted The 1st Symposium on Anomalous Phenomena. This was the 3rd annual UFO/anomalous phenomena symposium held by UPAC. Last month I wrote about Robert Hastings' talk: ``UFOs---The Hidden History.'' The second talk by Dr. Bruce Maccabee was cancelled and replaced with short presentations by the remaining three speakers. This gave me an chance to talk with John Burke about his upcoming talk ``Crop Circle Phenomena,'' which was attended by myself, Peter Huston and Daniel Forrest and about 100 other people.
Mr. Burke's talk was about his investigations of crop circles in England and New York state. For those not familiar with crop circles, they are formations made in cereal crops such as wheat. The formations range from simple circles to Celtic crosses, spirals, scorpions, handicap access signs, Micky Mouse, and Mandelbrot sets. They usually form at night, and have been the subject of various television shows such as -[encounters]- on the Fox network.
Many theories from meteorology to UFOs have been suggested to explain crop circles. One of the earliest investigators of simple crop circles, Dr Terrance Meaden, proposed a plasma vortex similar to ball lightning. Crop circles really took off as a phenomena in the late 1980's, and over the past few years a number of individuals have come forward who claim to have made many of those circles. This has not, however, dissuaded all investigators.
John Burke believes that crop circles are formed by a chaotic plasma vortex which descends from the ionosphere and strikes the ground. His talk was a chronology of the strange effects he and his associate Dr. W.C. Levengood have found in the circles themselves and in the grain recovered from the circles. Among the effects reported are:
John Burke and Dr. Levengood are co-authors of the ``H-Glaze'' Report which details these effects and attributes them to a plasma vortex that heated iron particles from the Perseid meteor shower and deposited them on the wheat while the crop circle was forming. The wheat was protected from most of the heating effects by the ``Leiden frost effect,'' which is a well know physical effect that allows, for example, a physics professor to place his wet hand in Moulton lead. The evaporating water insulates the hand (or wheat) from the heat of the hot lead (or plasma).
Since Burke's talk I've had on opportunity to do a bit of research on crop circles. I wish I could claim to have spent weeks in the library digging out dusty journals and months traveling to the English country side visiting crop circle formations while they are still ``hot.'' The truth is much of what I found was handed to me by other crop circle watchers who happen to read some of the same Internet mailing lists as I do.
The most relevant report comes from The Crop Watcher, which is published four times a year in the UK, and is available from the publisher[Paul Fuller, 3 Selborne Court, Tavistock Close, ROMSEY, Hampshire, SO51 7TY, $10.00 full year subscription (make checks payable to ``Paul Fuller'' and not ``The Crop Watcher.''] or over the World Wide Web at: http://www.duke.edu/ ~dpk/iufog/zines.html. Issue 23 includes an article entitled: ``Dr W.C. Levengood, John A. Burke, Lab Report No 18, the FE3 Project and the H-Glaze Report'' where we learn of the exploits of Robert Irving who claims that the circles were hoaxed, and the hoaxers spread fine-grade iron filings over the wheat. When they were examined 10-12 days later, the iron filings had oxidized into a "glaze" over the wheat and soil. Irving has offered his samples for independent analysis if Burke and Levengood do the same. So far (11 months later) they have refused to respond.
Somehow, this is not too surprising. Two things struck me most about John Burke: the strength of his desire to believe that crop circles were something other then hoaxers, and the inconsistency of his methods and procedures. The first is evident from his claim that 90% of all crop circles are ``real'' in the sense of not made by people. He states this even when showing pictures of crop formations that are obviously meant to look like something, such as spiders, scorpions, wheel chairs and Micky Mouse (I'm not making this up---ask Peter or Daniel).
The second observation comes from the way his talk was peppered with ``we found this in a couple sites,'' and ``that in a couple of other.'' The description was that of a fishing expedition---find a circle and look for something, anything, odd about it. If you find something (anything) it is a ``real'' crop circle, otherwise it is fake. I questioned Burke at length about his control groups and control samples. In short, he has none. If a circle is know to be faked then it is found to be fake. Otherwise, it is real no matter what others (including confessed haoxers) may say. Consistent with this attitude, several of the effects, such as static charge and ground voltage gradients, are by their nature small and difficult to measure accurately. At one point Burke showed a chart of static charge in a wheat field. The samples where taken along two lines vertically and horizontally in the field. On the chart 4 samples were different (higher or lower) then the others---imagine the 4 end points of a cross. Over this chart Burke drew a spiral vortex form. Why a spiral and not a diamond or cross---which are just as consistent with the data? I suspect because a spiral is consistent with the plasma vortex theory. (Interestingly enough, the author of The Crop Circle article had similar questions and doubts about methods.)
On the whole Burke's talk was informative. He did clear up the stories about ``magnetized grain'' (as stated above, it wasn't), radiation (only found at one or two sites, nothing consistent), and genetic abnormalities (one of the early samples was abnormal, that's all). He was also an entertaining speaker whose talk did include real science (the Leiden frost effect, self-organizing systems, ground water geology), and he was polite enough (or at least eager enough about his theory) to engage in a half-hour conversation with an admitted skeptic.
His thesis, however, struck me as a case of self-confirming research, that is research to confirm a previously held belief, instead of to test (potentially disproving) a hypothesis. During our conversation I could not find any results that would refute the plasma (or some other anomalous phenomena) theory of crop circles. Burke rejected outright the claims by hoaxers to have made the circles---he just doesn't believe them.[I can imagine little that would be more frustrating then faking a good crop circle, and not being believed by the ``experts.'' ``Sorry, but you didn't make this circle because we found anomalous readings with our hyperspacial electrostatic meter.'' ] Even when the shapes look a lot like pictures he writes it off as ``chance'' similarities created by the plasma vortex.
The desire to believe was perhaps most evident in a picture taken at a New York state crop circle. This was of what Burke described as `a vortex or dust devil that was not visible when the picture was taken.' The slide showed typical farmland with a black, crooked line along the bottom edge. Peter and I looked real hard at this slide. I tried to see the a vortex in the shape of the line, but to my eyes (and those of Peter) it looked like a piece of lint on the lens. Burke admits he has not had the picture checked by experts.
Next Month, Kevin Randle on the ``UFO crash at Roswell.'' Oh, and regarding micro-meteorites it would be surprising if microscopic analysis did not find any. Micro-meteorites are very common and easy to collect. One method suggested to me is to leave out a pan of water, and run a magnet through it.
-Michael Sofka
Although the wording of this month's question is Peter's, he assures me that its spirit and nature are consistent with the questioner's correspondence and conversations. -The Editor
Question: Dear Mr. Psychic. I recently planted new grass in my yard, and noticed that every time I water the lawn it rains, and when I don't water the lawn it doesn't rain. This happens regardless of the weather report. Could this be due to the negative PMFs (Psychic Magnetic Field(s)) you mentioned in your last column.
Answer: No, I don't think that is your problem. All the PMFs I detect from your letter's aura are positive. Even if the natural PMFs of the tree used in making the paper were positive a negative field from your own hand would be detectable in trace quantities.
Instead, I suspect that simple physics is involved. Yes I, David ``the Mighty'' Quinne, resident psychic of the Inquiring Skeptics of Upper New York, do recognize and use the powers of science where they are appropriate. We have, after all, come a long way since the middle ages when a problem such as yours would be attributed to a mischievous imp or daemon.
Today, due to progress in the physical sciences, we can say with confidence that your problem is due to fluctuations in the Orgone energy caused by your garden hose. Orgone energy, as discovered and documented by the great psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich, is the \'elan vital or life energy force that permeates the Universe. Orgone energy can be manipulated by devices such as the ``cloud busters'' used by the Orgone Institute to relieve the draught in California. I would talk with you more about Orgone energy, except that I recently started a class action suit against the Orgone Institute on behalf of Midwest flood victims. In the meantime, I suggest you water your grass using only bottled water carried to the garden in a metal bucket. If it still rains wrap the bucket in aluminum foil.
-David Quinne
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date: 95-06-14aa
MessageID: 3rn868$mjd@martha.utk.edu#1/1
references: <USE2PCB979372343@brbbs.brbbs.com> organization: I need to put my ORGANIZATION here. newsgroups: sci.physics.fusion MARSHALL DUDLEY (mdudley@brbbs.brbbs.com) wrote: : This brings up something which caught my attention about a month ago. I read : somewhere that if you stare at the blue sky you can see "orgone energy" as lots : of little tadpole or sperm like things zooming all over the sky. I had never : noticed this and not believing in orgone energy I dismissed it. However about : 3 days later after jogging, I laid down on my back to rest and rested my eyes : while looking at the blue sky, and behold there they were. I almost jumped out : of my skin. Playing with the focusing of my eyes they appeared to be about 40 : feet away. I thought these were pieces of crud floating on your eye's lens. I see little vaguely bacterium-like dots. If I think about it, the light and dark bands look kind of like a Bessel function, e.g. from diffraction. If they appeared 40 feet away no matter where you were, they aren't real.
MessageID: 1995Jun14.182829.5707@nosc.mil#1/1
sender: news@nosc.mil references: <USE2PCB979372343@brbbs.brbbs.com> organization: NCCOSC RDT&E Division, San Diego, CA newsgroups: sci.physics.fusion mdudley@brbbs.brbbs.com (MARSHALL DUDLEY) writes: >This brings up something which caught my attention about a month ago. I read >somewhere that if you stare at the blue sky you can see "orgone energy" as lots >of little tadpole or sperm like things zooming all over the sky. These are white blood cells. Try it sometime when you have an infection or fever -- you'll see lots more. Mark
MessageID: USE2PCB979372343@brbbs.brbbs.com#1/1
reply-to: mdudley@brbbs.brbbs.com newsgroups: sci.physics.fusion x-mailer: USE2PCB Gateway version 1.10 jac@ds8.scri.fsu.edu (Jim Carr) writes: -> I don't think anyone ever claimed it was a hoax. It was more along the -> lines of delusion. If you thought they existed, you saw the effect. -> If you did not belive, you saw nothing. This was a result of the fact -> that all observations were made in the dark under conditions where -> various vision artifacts can make you think you see things (the reason -> particle detection with scintillators and 'telescopes' could only be -> done for 10 minutes or so at a time). The absence of double-blind -> conditions during the experiment meant the observer always knew what -> sort of observations were expected, and it helped if you believed that -> it was great that a fellow Frenchman had made this great discovery. -> The effect was seen by too many people for it to be a simple hoax. This brings up something which caught my attention about a month ago. I read somewhere that if you stare at the blue sky you can see "orgone energy" as lots of little tadpole or sperm like things zooming all over the sky. I had never noticed this and not believing in orgone energy I dismissed it. However about 3 days later after jogging, I laid down on my back to rest and rested my eyes while looking at the blue sky, and behold there they were. I almost jumped out of my skin. Playing with the focusing of my eyes they appeared to be about 40 feet away. Well I was about to dismiss this as some sort of self delusion when my granddaughter got and lost a helium balloon at O'Charleys resturant. My 21 year old son, and myself were watching the balloon as it slowly disappeared into the wild blue yonder. At this point my son said in a very serious voice, "dad, I think something is wrong with my eyes, I am see all these squiggly things when I look at the sky." Now mind you I never discussed this with him, and he had no idea I was seeing, but ignoring, the same thing. Thus the possibility of self delusion seemed to be disproven. A couple of weeks later I was at a meeting with 6 other people and mentioned it to them. 5 of them replied that, yes they had seen it as well, and a couple said it was energy. At this point I am befuddled. How can a phenomenon be so easy to see with your naked eye, yet I have never read of it in any scientific journal. I have no idea if it is real, psychic, an aberration of they eye or what. Marshall
MessageID: DA65Lp.D8M@world.std.com
organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
keywords: optical phenomena, floaters, artifacts
newsgroups: sci.physics.fusion
summary: Science eliminates "magical/psychic" hypothesis
In Message-ID: <USE2PCB979372343@brbbs.brbbs.com>
Subject: Re: Merriman's "Regionalization" counter-examples not valid
Amazing. And it appears that some of these people attempt to put down
cold fusion and other solid state phenomena using hand-waving "magic
arguments"
Here is a suggestion for how science will resolve
Marshalls-orgone energy-tadpolelike things.
. You might get a book Marshall -- on the eye.
Then get a small penlight and your
son and enough time to examine the blood vascular system which is in
front of your eye's retina. It actually is scaffolded there in the
stereoconstellation of the orbit ALL THE TIME but is never seen because it
MOVES with your eye's retina and therefore disappears (except for the
"floaters" or blood cells within the vascular tree which move and
are therefore seen). [go read the classic texts on what the
"frogs eye tells the frogs brain"; key names: McCulloch, Pitts,
Lettvin]
to see the vessels:
The flashlight should be depressed gently between the eyeball
and the skull above the central axis of the eye. Maybe a millimeter or
two depression, and then if you move the flashlight back and forth so that
the light is the vector fixed to the central retina, and so that
the SHADOW of the vessels -- made by the penlight --
impact the retina, then the blood vessels will suddenly appear, and be seen to
disappear into your blind spot. When the penlight is stopped moving,
they will disappear because the eye-brain does not see non-moving
objects.
Psychic energy indeed. Get a book and study this, and how the
retina deconvolves it all. Then you might go and really read up on
cold fusion this time. ;-)X
Best wishes.
Mitchell Swartz (mica@world.std.com)
MessageID: cary-150695133407@macsac01.svl.trw.com#1/1
references: <USE2PCB979372343@brbbs.brbbs.com> organization: TRW ASG followup-to: sci.physics.fusion newsgroups: sci.physics.fusion In article <USE2PCB979372343@brbbs.brbbs.com>, mdudley@brbbs.brbbs.com (MARSHALL DUDLEY) wrote: > This brings up something which caught my attention about a month ago. I read > somewhere that if you stare at the blue sky you can see "orgone energy" as lots > of little tadpole or sperm like things zooming all over the sky. I had > never noticed this and not believing in orgone energy I dismissed it. However about > 3 days later after jogging, I laid down on my back to rest and rested my eyes > while looking at the blue sky, and behold there they were. I almost jumped out > of my skin. Playing with the focusing of my eyes they appeared to be about 40 feet away. It's just crud floating in your eyeballs. I've noticed them since I was quite young. As I got older I see more, and they have joined together (they used to be separate dots, now they're strands). I used to wonder what they were until I read about it in one of my science classes. -- Cary Jamison cary@svl.trw.com
MessageID: 3rolsf$jb4@Owl.nstn.ca#1/1
sender: news@nstn.ns.ca references: <3rn2gq$fr7@Owl.nstn.ca> <Summers- 1406951227530001@ethyl-the-frog.arc.nasa.gov> organization: Nova Scotia Technology Network newsgroups: rec.games.frp.misc Summers@Ethyl-the-Frog.arc.nasa.gov (David P. Summers) wrote: Now as the background was developed, and as I began to focus on the effect that relatively common magic might have on a technological society, I began to chafe a little at the GURPS rules. Certainly a world with Magic would be very _different_ in many fundamental ways. How would these things affect both everyday life and mass society? Adding a few new spells did not seem to adequately deal with these concerns. So, as a related thought, I began to work on an integrated theory of magic/psionic energy in the world. It was already sort of determined that there was some sort of "energy" that had been released in some sort of vague cataclysm. Very Rifts, although I might add that it did predate Rifts. So, I began to work with this, and I came across Wilhelm Reich's orgone theories. I immeadiately realized their potential as a sort of integrated theorey of magic. Life contains orgone energy, accumulates it, and this energy is related to intelligence and what we might call sentience. Orgone is released and controlled by sexual activity, and is released by death. Obviously these characteristics make it a perfect form of "magical" energy. There is more to the theory as well, and I won't bore you with all the details. Suffice it to say that it integrates race, psionics, and magic to my satisfaction, and links it to the rest of the world as well. Instead of a mass of tickytacky, I had a crystal with facets, if you'll forgive the metaphor. The system needed to match. And so I was faced with the task of totally redesigning about 3/4 of GURPS's rules, which seemed pointless for a system that I was only marginally interested in anyways. Just don't like those bell curved systems that much. So, here I am, looking for a new system. >This would go a ways toward indicating if Hero would be good. >Chaosium has a basic rolelaying system which is the foundation >of all their games, but I don't know if they have published it seperately.
I don't think so. An interesting thought though. Have they done anything in the SF arena? > I've heard that the system in Over the Edge would make a decent >generic system.
Very good, but not very good at handling detail and widgets. Anyways, interesting thoughts. I appreciate them. tONYpACE
date: 95-06-16aa
MessageID: Pine.OSF.3.91.950616091313.5740I- 100000@kemi.aau.dk#1/1
references: <USE2PCB979372343@brbbs.brbbs.com> content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII organization: DAIMI, Computer Science Dept. at Aarhus University mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: sci.physics.fusion On Wed, 14 Jun 1995, MARSHALL DUDLEY wrote: [...] > This brings up something which caught my attention about a month ago. I read > somewhere that if you stare at the blue sky you can see "orgone energy" as lots > of little tadpole or sperm like things zooming all over the sky. I had never > noticed this and not believing in orgone energy I dismissed it. However about > 3 days later after jogging, I laid down on my back to rest and rested my eyes > while looking at the blue sky, and behold there they were. I almost jumped out > of my skin. Playing with the focusing of my eyes they appeared to be about 40 feet away. [...] Marshall, I think that must be ZPE you are seeing, energy flicking in and out of existence before your very eyes. CAN YOU PROVE IT ISN'T? Seriously, everyone has a lot of muck floating in the vitreous humour inside the eye. You normally don't register it, except occasionally when a biggish bit floats past your vision. I guess when you look at a bright and featureless expanse like the sky, you start noticing them. No need to invoke "Aw, gone!" energy or even 'cold fusion' - unless you find some helium, of course. Just think, if we had cold fusion in the eye, the old dream of x-ray eyes would become reality (Steve Jones tells us there must be x-rays). -- Dieter Britz alias britz@kemi.aau.dk
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