From: Larry Hatch <larry@larryhatch.net>
Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2002 15:50:59 -0700
Fwd Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2002 07:15:53 -0400
Subject: Re: Metal Orbs & Crop Circles in US? - Hatch


 >From: Patricia Beatty <pbeatty@nyc.rr.com>
 >To: <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
 >Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2002 17:35:25 -0400
 >Subject: Metal Orbs & Crop Circles in US?

 >[Non-Subscriber Post --ebk]

 >I'm looking for information on a 9" metal orb that was retrieved
 >at the site of a large crop circle in 1978, Illinois from a
 >farmer and his son.

 >The two witnesses were repairing a roof on a building on their
 >farm and stopped to watch as three metal orbs, following a
 >distinct pattern created a crop circle. The farmer contacted the
 >USAF and told them what he had seen from his roof with his son.
 >Within an hour or so men arrived and the farmer was paid five
 >times the value of his crop to permit the USAF to burn his field
 >of oats. The farmer relinquished the metal orb to the
 >representatives on loan, telling them that when the orbs were
 >done with the pattern in the crops, one hit the other mid-air
 >and fell to the ground in the center of the crop circle.

 >I've been trying to run down information on this story for a
 >piece that I'm working on. I work for Intercontinental News
 >Media Service in DC.

 >We have two other reports of seeing these same metal orbs with
 >very good corroborating witnesses that include a group of
 >Houston Police Detectives who swore that three of these orbs
 >chased two young men in tandem all over a field one evening
 >while they watched in shock, the orbs knocking the men to the
 >ground repeatedly, diving at them, pursuing them and finally
 >flying off in a group of three when the two men lay on the
 >ground sobbing.

 >The next story came from two hostesses off of an American
 >Airline Flight between Florida and California in which three of
 >the same type of orbs came through the hull of the plane then
 >appeared to check each row for what the other witnesses clearly
 >stated was a search for someone in particular. Finally, two of
 >the orbs found two people in different areas of the plane while
 >the hostesses and one pilot who had been asked to come to
 >witness what was happening watched in terror. Two of the orbs
 >moved into the rows on either side of the plane, hovered in
 >front of the shocked passengers, appearing to communicate with
 >one another. They left the same way that they came in and
 >weren't seen again.

 >My deadline is running out and I can't even get a reply on this
 >information. Have you guys ever heard anything about these
 >circle makers?

Hello Patricia:

If you can provide approximate date and place in Illinois, I
will see if I can look up the same or similar event in my
database. You cannot look up individual cases via my website
directly, I need to do that.

http://www.larryhatch.net/

I'm pretty sure the case is not listed as described. I would
remember something like that. Could you kindly tell us the
source also?


Please respond go my email address:

<webmaster@larryhatch.net>


Good luck

- Larry Hatch