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Img.696 (#I1.1): Here are two photographs of the same tornado, taken on 19th December 1969 at 17:15 by Mrs Diane Chittock, wife of farmer from Waikoikoi. This tornado appeared exactly above the Tapanui Crater and disappeared shortly afterwards, after moving a few kilometers further east. When I was studying the Tapanui Crater, tornadoes were completely unknown in this part of New Zealand (outside the Tapanui Crater), and even the oldest residents could not remember them ever occurring. However, over the last few decades, several such short-lived tornadoes have been observed above the Tapanui Crater, which, behaving like piloted vehicles, quickly disappeared as soon as they moved away from the crater's edge. The responsibility for the occurrence of this unusual atmospheric anomaly over the Tapanui Crater can be scientifically explained by the turbulent magnetization of the environment, which, in combination with electrically charged clouds, produces a dynamo effect that drives tornadoes. However, the behavior of these tornadoes, as reported to me by people who saw them, always resembles the flight of invisible vehicles piloted by someone with human intelligence. Other weather anomalies in the vicinity of the crater include the frequent occurrence of curtain lightning, ion winds, natural vocalizations in the radio program valleys, and unusually dense fog forming in the crater.Other weather anomalies in the vicinity of the crater include the frequent occurrence of curtain lightning, ion winds, natural vocalizations in the valleys of radio broadcast programs, and unusually dense fog forming in the crater.
(left) The tornado forms the beginning of its funnel directly above the Tapanui crater.
(right) A fully developed tornado moving eastward.
