AudioBlog: A 1991 Crop Circle and UFO Investigation by ParaNet:MICAP

In 1986, Jim Speiser of Fountain Hills, Arizona, got the urge to
create an electronic forum dedicated to a discussion of paranormal
topics. He started a BBS (bulletin board system) using six personal
computers located at various locations in the U.S. and Canada
linked together with a Fidonet system. People would dial a number
that would access a computer through a modem, and they could read
and post messages and access files. Speiser called his new BBS “The
ParaNet.” In the summer of 1991, there was a “spin-off” of ParaNet
named the Multi-national Investigations Cooperative on Aerial
Phenomena, and ParaNet published a magazine called Continuum to get
their investigations reports out to the public. The first case in
the Volume 1, Number 1, September 1991 issue involves an
investigation of a simple crop circle in a cornfield in Iowa that
led researchers to other reports of strange activity in the area.
The case became far more complex than a simple crop circle report,
and this has ended up becoming a two-part blog. In the first part,
we’ll look at the investigation and three witness accounts, and in
the second part we’ll look at one more account, the conclusions,
and the aftermath, which included poltergeist activity reported to
have been experienced by one investigator at his home. Read more