This mysterious stone was found by Roswell New Mexico resident Robert Ridge in the fall of 2002 while deer hunting in the El Capitan Mountain Range outside the city. He spotted the rock near some underbrush lying in a sand bar near the edge of a trail while tracking the deer. Through the next few years, he kept the rock in his pocket for good luck and started noticing positive changes occurring in his everyday life. Was possession of this strange stone responsible for these changes? He started to wonder about the possibilities.
In July of 2007 at the Roswell Civic Center while lecturing on our Roswell Skip Site investigations, my sister Debbie Ziegelmeyer and I were approached by Robert asking for our help to investigate the rock he had found. After examining the rock, we felt we needed to include our good friend Dr. Bill Doleman. Dr. Doleman was an archeologist for the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, and we had worked with him in the past on two separate SCI-FI Channel TV shows. We felt he was more than qualified to examine the rock, so we convinced Robert to follow us to Albuquerque and meet with Dr. Bill.
The examination included using an archaeologist eye piece for close examination of design structure, a magnet to examine its polarization, and UV and EMF experiments derived from tools from my portable kit. Upon conclusion of the examination, it was decided Debbie and I would take the research further by using 8×10 detailed prints of the artifact to try and find its origin and/or meaning.
The stone itself or “loadstone by comparison” is roughly 2 by 3 inches in diameter, red-ish in color, and will fit in the palm of your hand. The artifact exhibits strange magnetic properties with polarized areas more positive on one edge and more negative on the other. Using a small mechanic’s magnet, you can actually spin the rock in either direction depending on the placement of the magnet. The artifact also appeared to pulse an electrical current from time to time which was seen using a Tri-Field EMF meter. I witnessed needle fluctuations in the electrical mode while testing the artifact through different phases on the meter. When examining this artifact further, it was noticed the Crop Circle design actually follows the contour of the rock surface. We also discovered the coloration of the petite or surface color of the rock was the same in-between the three dimensional design grooves. This indicated to us the design cut did not appear very recent.
The design engraved on the artifact resembles precisely a crop circle which appeared in Liddington England in 1996, and another with a similar symbol in northern Arkansas in June of 2007. Pictographs with similar symbols were found on rock carvings in northern Arizona and thought to represent a supernova that exploded on July 5th, 1054 which was observed by the Native Americans at that time.