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   SUBJECT: CROP CIRCLES NEAR MILITARY AREA                     FILE: UFO1230    
      
      
      
      
        I would like to inform my fellow researchers with some curious and   
   valuable information I have gained through the years living in the   
   mountains of southwest Virginia.  For years the Air Force has flown   
   countless training missions  in the Appalachian   
   mountains without any formal declaration to the people of this area.  For   
   years the F-4s have used these mountains as a playground and tactical   
   training area .  The sightings of training missions range from large   
   transports practicing for air drops over the small town of Pound Virginia   
   to treetop level dog fights .  There is never any public admittance that   
   this area (specifically Wise, Scott, Lee and Russell counties in Virginia)   
   is designated a training ground for the Air Force.  The people don't   
   really mind, in fact most of us feel privaliged to have the government   
   involved in our area.  The citizens of this area have gotten use to  being   
   waken up to the sound of F-4s  ripping over their house at 3am in the   
   morning.  There have only been a handful of accidents over the years and   
   as far as I know civilians have never been affected.  You are probably   
   saying "so what" the military trains in mountains all over the country.   
   Well friends I haven't told you the half of it yet.   
      
      
        Having so much military traffic in our skies for so long  we  become   
   accustomed to seeing strange sights in the night sky.   There have been   
   several important sightings and occurences in this region including the   
   events at Wytheville Virginia which gained national attention.  The   
   incident  I will report on is the most significant to me personally.   In   
   the summer of 1987  I was living on the family farm "Horse Gap" on  rt.23   
   outside of Pound Virginia.  When returning home from work late on even   
   ing I noticed several sets of lights coming at high across a small ridge   
   on the north end of the farm.  I was not use to seeing jets at night lit   
   up so brightly, usually they ran with no lights for training purposes.   
   At  an altitiude of about 750' they passed over me at just below mach 1.   
   You learn to judge the relative speed from years of sonic booms and low   
   level passes.  As they passed over there was no doubt they were jets by   
   the roar of the engines.  The only confusing part was the very bright lig   
   hts that didn't seem to be standard equipement of the planes usually   
   spotted in this area.   
      
      
        The same night at about 11:30pm another jet or group of jets passed   
   over our house.  The exact direction was impossible to determine as they   
   were out of sight by the time I could run outside.   The excitement of   
   this soon passed and after telling a few people who were interested in the   
   training flights I forgot all about it.  The next references to time   
   elapsed is my best guess, I didn't see at the time any reason to make a   
   date of  unusual sighting.   Approximately 10 days later I discovered a   
   ring in an unkept field about 275 yards from our house.  The date was July   
   19, 1987.  After examing the ring and feeling confident it was the genuine   
   article and not made by animals or a hoax, I called two friends who had   
   been to several of these circles before.  They confirmed it fit the bill.   
   The grass  (4')  was bent in a counter clockwise direction but not   
   crushed.  The spiral pattern had a definite center and a diameter of   
   between 12-14m.  Over the next few days the grass turned brown but didn't   
   die, it recovered and continued to grow.   
       
                    
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