(05-26-2023, 01:42 PM)quintessentone Wrote:(05-26-2023, 01:33 PM)F2d5thCav Wrote: I've seen a genuine anomalous one.Actually, I was recently reading the history of farm animal mutilations and the satanic cult members and/or the crazies (practising on animals before moving on to humans?) who admitted to the mutilations explained that by stepping on large pieces of cardboard they were able to leave no footprints. Whether that is true or not somebody would need to test it.
It was nothing special, just a circle about 10 feet in diameter.
This was in a field in southwestern Germany. I was able to spot it from a vantage point on a rise above the field.
Okay, the circle was near the edge of the field, so I went to look at it.
First thing I noted is that it was impossible to get to the circle without leaving a path in the high grass around it. My trail was the only one going to the circle, so that, for me, ruled out human or animal action.
The grass was all "swirled" in one direction, IIRC, it was counter-clockwise. All grass inside the circle had been flattened.
My conclusion was that a small cyclone had briefly touched down ("dust devil" type of wind). Though, at some 10 feet in diameter, I would not have wanted to be nearby when that kind of wind kicked up.
I had no technical instruments, so I could not check for magnetic or radioactive signatures. Even so, it was weird enough seeing something like that. The area was fairly populated, so it was hard for me to accept my own notion of a small cyclone unless a brief spat of violent weather kicked up when most were asleep.
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That would work, but not really. In fields of grasses, it would just push over stalks in a wider path, not disguise the path at all - far from it, it would make the path that much more prominent.
Where it might kinda sorta work would be on bare earth. While it would mask the footprint outlines, it would not eliminate surface disturbances that would indicate someone or something was there. An experienced tracker would spot it right away. For example, I can track folks and critters in the woods without any footprints present, just by the trail of turned and scuffed leaves they leave behind as they go along.
There are very few ways to avoid leaving a trail. Cardboard strapped to the feet will work for a while to eliminate a scent trail (think bloodhound trackers), but not a sight trail.
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