Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Jun 27, 2012 18:34:41 GMT -6
I went to take mom to her doctor's appointment and saw this. I took a video with my cell phone and uploaded it to youtube after we got back from our appointment... It looks like those videos and photos of crop circles... but it's grass weeds and wildflowers.... and it's only in front of our house so it couldn't have been the wind... OMG OMG OMG OMG...
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Jun 27, 2012 19:20:34 GMT -6
I think I'm going to be sick...
~is swearing in English and German repeatedly in disbelief and feeling numb... whole body trembling... I'm going to have a good stiff drink and lie down I think... God almighty... a UFO was in front of my house...
Holy Jesus...
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Jun 27, 2012 19:23:03 GMT -6
Even dad the eternal skeptic has no idea what the h*** caused it... even HE doesn't have a theory or an idea...
When we got back from mom's appointment I asked him if he was out in his wheelchair wheeling around the yard last night (which is something he NEVER does...) he laughed and said, "No... why were you dreaming about that last night?"
...oh my God...
|
|
|
Post by Morgan Sierra on Jun 27, 2012 20:27:18 GMT -6
That is weird. The grass sure is flattened. It wasn't from people stomping around because it flattened it onto that blue cart thingy. When did you first notice it? This morning when you got up? What was the weather like last night? Are the stems of the plants broken and bent or just kind of pushed over?
|
|
|
Post by skywalker on Jun 27, 2012 20:33:17 GMT -6
I remember Steve posted some photos of a place in Austin where something similar to that happened. The grass and weeds were flattened down like that. I'll have to look into that one and see if they ever figured out what caused it.
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Jun 27, 2012 20:54:48 GMT -6
I just noticed it when I went out to take mom to her doctor's appointment at around 2:15 pm alaska time... it's almost 7 pm alaska time right now...
I just went outside and shot another video of it...
I wiped off the lens of my cell phone camera with alcohol hoping for a better quality video but it doesn't look a whole lot better... ~sigh~
I have NO idea what caused it... it was raining last night...
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Jun 27, 2012 21:54:25 GMT -6
|
|
|
Post by skywalker on Jun 27, 2012 22:45:14 GMT -6
Ok, I have a theory about what might have caused the flattened grass. I think that it's possible it may have been caused by a combination of rain and high winds.
If you have rain pouring down and getting the grass soaked so that it is heavy with water then a strong gust of wind comes blowing through it is possible that it could have caused the grass to be flattened out like that.
It seems that most of the grass is flattened parallel to the house in a direct line with the driveway. So if the wind were blowing down the driveway it's possible that when it got to the house it would have all been channeled down the side of the house and in between the trees so that it would have picked up speed right in that area and that could explain why the grass is flattened right there and just behind the house but not out in the open field later on. It also wasn't flattened in the forests on either side of the house because the trees would have broken the wind. It just happened in that one area where the combination of wind blowing from just the right direction and the house causing the wind the be funneled down the side made it pick up enough speed to blow the grass and weeds over.
Closer to the house the grass was still standing because there would have been a little bit of a boundary layer there where the wind was slowed down a little. It's kind of like in a river where the current is strong out in the middle but not so strong near the bank.
Also the grass and weeds that were pointing in different directions could have been caused by turbulance that made the air go in different directions...possibly because of the four wheeler and other obstacles that were there, but also because as the wind reached the back of the house it would no longer be funneling through but would kind of explode out in all directions.
Anyway, that's what my theory is. I've seen grass and weeds that looked like that before after hurricanes and thunderstorms (which we have a lot of down here) but usually when I see it it is covering whole fields, not just one localized area. There have been some hurricanes I've seen that flattened entire forests of trees so grass wouldn't be a problem if the wind were strong enough.
I think that is what might have caused it. That's the explanation I also suspected for the flattened grass that Steve once posted photos of that occurred in Austin, Texas. It's a unique combination of wind, rain and just the right conditions.
Of course this is only an educated guess since I can't actually go up there and look at everything myself. Lorelei did a pretty good job filming everything with the camera though so I was able to get a pretty good look at it though.
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Jun 27, 2012 23:24:53 GMT -6
Wow !
Lorelei, what is the green thing between the tree and the trailer at about 1:47 in the video (reply #6)?
At 1st I thought it may have been caused by an animal foraging through your yard like a moose or something but then like Morgan mentioned it doesn't explain the dolly . It looks like there is a path in front of the dolly and also it looks like something next to the house was removed. Did you have something setting there before ? Is anything missing ? Even the grass around the wheels of the dolly appear to be wrapped around it. Dont know. I wish like Morgan said we could go and check it out but you're soooo far away darn it.
Very strange. There may be a legitimate explanation . Is there hunters around there ? Maybe a game warden came through or the police while y'all were gone?
|
|
|
Post by randy on Jun 27, 2012 23:49:37 GMT -6
some weird things happen i went outside one time last year after a rain shower and noticed a square patch of dry ground in the middle of my drive way with nothing is sight to account for it. another time i looked out and saw a brown flat object traveling down a ranch road infront of my house like a paltform of wood about 3 ft above the ground following the road trace moving fast. Interesting that thing.
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Jun 27, 2012 23:50:10 GMT -6
Ok, I have a theory about what might have caused the flattened grass. I think that it's possible it may have been caused by a combination of rain and high winds. That's possible too .
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Jun 27, 2012 23:53:15 GMT -6
I dunno what the green thing you're talking about is Cliff... it's all just trees and weeds around the trailer... If it was caused by wind channeling down the driveway then why is it that all of the weeds growing on the side of the driveway are still standing?? (see second video... "Grass 2") Only the weeds and grass growing in front of the house were affected...
|
|
|
Post by skywalker on Jun 27, 2012 23:59:47 GMT -6
If it was the wind and rain like I suggested then it should not just be localized to that one area. If you happen to travel somewhere tomorrow or the next day keep your eyes open and see if there is any other grass that has been flattened like that anywhere. If it shows up in other areas too than that would prove it was caused by the wind and rain. If it is only directly over your house than I wouldn't be so sure.
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Jun 28, 2012 0:12:02 GMT -6
If it was the wind and rain like I suggested then it should not just be localized to that one area. If you happen to travel somewhere tomorrow or the next day keep your eyes open and see if there is any other grass that has been flattened like that anywhere. If it shows up in other areas too than that would prove it was caused by the wind and rain. If it is only directly over your house than I wouldn't be so sure. That's exactly what I did when I drove mom to her appointment. I told her to look at the weeds on the side of the road. None of them were like the ones in front of our house. It's just in front of our house... nowhere else...
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Jun 28, 2012 0:12:28 GMT -6
Of course I was telling this to the blind old lady and she was just agreeing with me but... at least I saw that they weren't lying flat...
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Jun 28, 2012 0:25:58 GMT -6
Oh the advantages of living in the Land of the Midnight Sun. It's 10:25 pm and still daylight...
|
|
|
Post by skywalker on Jun 28, 2012 7:53:48 GMT -6
I just looked at the Google Earth photo of your house. There are a lot of trees around it, even blocking the direction coming from the driveway. I don't see how the wind could get through all of those trees and flatten all that grass. I'm going to have to change that silly wind theory and think about it some more. Did anything weird happen last night while you were asleep? Did you even sleep?
|
|
|
Post by paulette on Jun 28, 2012 8:52:23 GMT -6
Do you have deer, moose or something that could have come and bedded down?
I have seen a micro-burst of wind flatten selective parts of my garden years ago. The back yard was fenced (approx 4 feet high) and it knocked some areas down and left others. I imagined something like a little eddy (micro tornado) of wind touching down in my back yard. If it was a UFO IMO the grass would have been flatter and maybe knocked down in a circular pattern.
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Jun 28, 2012 10:11:33 GMT -6
What remains after logical conclusions have been exhausted are the less logical ones. Either a bear came in and rolled around in some bearish frolic or something 'else' flattened it. We have no idea what causes crop circles..or the bare patches in Africa that they're calling 'fairy circles' for lack of a better idea. www.livescience.com/21228-mysterious-african-fairy-circles-mystery.htmlOdd things are going to happen more often and wow Lorelei..you get to be in the mix Listen...keep your eyes and ears open and have a camera ready and a tape recorder and a baseball bat or maybe a taser ...I think a Pulitzer will go to first evidence
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Jun 28, 2012 11:40:25 GMT -6
Do you have deer, moose or something that could have come and bedded down? We have lots of moose who could have bedded down in front of the house... maybe a cow and up to three calves... moose don't travel in herds though. The cows have been known to have triplets but usually not more than two. I have never seen any bears in this area- most of them go to other areas... We've seen a lot of snowshoe hares this year too... Who knows... it could have been a dust devil... I have no idea... but it's only in front of my house... Sky, I did sleep last night. Hard. I of course needed medication to do so though... lots of it... The weeds and wild wheat and grass were between 1 foot and about 4 and a half feet in height... and now they're all flat in certain areas. Only one small area and they've fallen in about four different directions...
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Jun 28, 2012 14:29:38 GMT -6
With your first reactions (above), I'm reluctant to give my opinion ;D . My first thought was also Microburst, but I have never heard of any that totally ignore everything but grass, ya know?? To me, it looks like something tried to land. The totally flattened pattern didn't happen because whatever it was did not sit still long. IMO. Maybe they even tried to wake you up! But no response. Supposedly our "friends" are so able to make us fall asleep, that I often wonder about the other end of the spectrum? My main question is, are you Ok, Lorelei? Your reaction was hard and fast and really surprised, and I wonder if you've gone on to examine yourself. Or if you've recollected something from last night, and it blipped into your mind and then disappeared as quickly when you saw the grass and wildflowers? I can imagine a certain anxiety right now, but I also know the feeling of heightened awareness that shows up in our heads when something is truly unusual . Steve has made a comment this year about fewer sightings in daylight. It may seem that way. . . I also wondered about a possible recent visit at Lois' home. That reflection on her neighbors house. I just sometimes imagine something sitting there above a home that we can't always see, but sometimes it affects light properties, or the way we feel. Etc. Am I so dense that I can't understand your meds to sleep? No, what is so weird to me is that you are "with it" the next day and perfectly coherent ;D. You must know exactly how to get some sleep and feel refreshed! I hope you are able to talk to Steve or Ron somehow in the next 24 hours. I am bothered that you are bothered and I just want to wrap my arms around you. Can you give yourself ~hugs~ for me? Please? Otherwise I need to kick some momma cow bu_ _ and tell her to keep her young'uns out of your yard! The next question we ask ourselves is: If we are "visited", would we really not want to know at all? Sounds good, sometimes. . . . Love ya, girl ;D. Be checking for your next post. . .
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Jun 28, 2012 15:16:07 GMT -6
With your first reactions (above), I'm reluctant to give my opinion ;D . My first thought was also Microburst, but I have never heard of any that totally ignore everything but grass, ya know?? To me, it looks like something tried to land. The totally flattened pattern didn't happen because whatever it was did not sit still long. IMO. That was my initial knee-jerk reaction too when I saw that bigger area farther down the driveway... Oh I dunno. I didn't take my medicine the night before last night... but I was having high anxiety again... checked on my parents a couple times... I was very tired and I hadn't taken anything... no night cap either. I just went right to sleep which is kind of unusual for me... I'm fine now... just a little nervous. I mean- it's just grass and weeds, right? There's nothing scary about grass and weeds... I keep telling myself this... they're not going to bite me... ;D Nope. No recollection of anything weird the night before. Nothing. Just going to bed and falling asleep unusually quickly without medicine... Yea, I've been wondering about her too... and Cliff had a sighting also recently... It took awhile for me to calm myself down and a few private messages with skywalker... and a couple stiff drinks also... followed by lots of nervous pacing around the house and mom and dad were staring at me. I suppose they were expecting me to explode and spatter blood and guts all over the walls or something... I sent Steve an e-mail. He asked me for some still photographs- as we all know he is still really busy working on another new case and he is also working on his book with Mary... I'm getting ready to send him the still photographs... ~hugggggggz~
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Jun 28, 2012 15:19:36 GMT -6
I went to take mom to another doctor's appointment again today- dad was in the dialysis clinic already so he had taken the car and I was going to take mom in my car. I noticed that the grass next to my driver's side door had also been flattened and I *thought* I made a video of it before I moved my car but it wasn't in my cell phone so... I guess I didn't push the save button or something... ~sigh~ I just shot this video a little while ago. I went up on the road and checked things out. A few of the weeds and grass and wild wheat were leaning towards and away from the road in places but there were no big flat patches anywhere...
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Jun 28, 2012 16:07:25 GMT -6
yeah, like something used the road . They DO bite (kind of). I meant examine yourself for any new marks ;D sigh. Ththanks fffor reeeespponnnding ssososo quickly! (I meant to tell you I have felt really shakey lately )
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Jun 28, 2012 16:44:07 GMT -6
Lorelei..I know it's easier said than done but stay as calm and logical as you can. Don't know yet it is anything other than strange wind..for all we know..it's fairies goofing around at night. There's just about as much proof of their existence as aliens. I'm thinking they don't bite..I never saw the mouths do anything other than take up face space but they are tool friendly. If it is the landing of a ship..it's past already and there's not any way of knowing it. You also might not have been as asleep as you think you were. Try being as calm as you can at bedtime and giving yourself an hypnotic suggestion to remember. I've had that work for me some before. I hope it's something more simple..less threatening..huggggs..
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Jun 28, 2012 17:30:21 GMT -6
And I hope it isn't threatening at all ;D. Gee, even Randy is talking a bit lately about "them" having some nice qualities . I'm glad you talked to Skywalker; I didn't mean to leave him out. There's just nothing like a nice man who knows about this stuff; I feel better just knowing their around. YOU TOO, CLIFF. ;D
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Jun 28, 2012 21:49:03 GMT -6
And I hope it isn't threatening at all ;D. Gee, even Randy is talking a bit lately about "them" having some nice qualities . I'm glad you talked to Skywalker; I didn't mean to leave him out. There's just nothing like a nice man who knows about this stuff; I feel better just knowing their around. YOU TOO, CLIFF. ;D Knowing "they're" around? hehehehe gotcha back... oops... I said gotcha... ~smirk~ Yea I know what you mean... I'm glad they're around too... there are not many of them in ufology...
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Jun 28, 2012 22:03:26 GMT -6
Lorelei..I know it's easier said than done but stay as calm and logical as you can. Trying... True that... could have been the wind... but why was my yard affected a whole lot more than other areas? Yep. But I've never seen fairies standing around inside my living room... and a fairy never got up in my face and stared at me and made me go to sleep... so... I am not letting them enter into the equation... not from my standpoint at least... ~nods, feeling her skin crawling~ But... I was talking about the grass and weeds not biting... not the aliens... hehehe... I'm going to go with the wind theory. It makes me feel better... ~nods~
|
|
|
Post by lois on Jun 28, 2012 22:09:57 GMT -6
Lorelei .. First of all was there wind and rain the night before? The grass seems to of been very tall. This would flatten easier than short grass . I see too many objects in the grass to understand the landscape around you. Wish you could get a whole photo of the entire yard, Do you have a second story. I think you do from past post. Take a photo if you can from above .. Is this behind your home or in front of your home?.. How close is the road to the house?
I just found this thread tonight. I miss a lot of thread as I don't always read the last 50 post.
If not rain or wind .. I would asked next did you hear anything unusual during the night. I know you said you take meds which help you sleep. So maybe a sound may not of disturbed you?
I have watched the video three times now. It still wants me to ask to see the whole landscape..
I have no idea. Is anything scorched? I will leave it at that.. Will be back again if I think of something like another question... ..
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Jun 28, 2012 22:40:50 GMT -6
Lorelei .. First of all was there wind and rain the night before? I know it was raining, sprinkling, but it wasn't particularly windy at least not that I noticed... I had the window open all night... it may have picked up after I went to bed... you see I have no windows in my current bedroom so... ~shrug~ It was very tall... some were as tall as 4 and a half feet I guess... we don't keep up around our yard obviously... we never really have but yea... Our house is built on the side of a hill. It appears to be one story from the front of the house, which is where the grass was flattened. The door I showed is the front door. It's a heavy-duty Sweedish Door, larger than your average door and much better at keeping heat inside... The basement is underground on the front side of the house, then it's on the ground level on the back side of the house... I got up on the ladder as high as I felt comfortable and filmed it too in the third video I posted... I'm not sure how close the house is to the road... maybe 40 feet? ~shrug~ Nothing is scorched that I can tell...
|
|