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