The standing tree stumps all seem to show rapid tree growth in the direction where the craft had been and not on the opposite side of the trees. These stumps have been cut since the 2006 Rodeo Chediski fire. Both the standing stumps and trees that were cut lying on the ground showed unusual rapid tree growth only on one specific side of the tree pointing to where the epicenter of where the craft had hovered and not on the opposite side of the tree. This type of discovery could not have been made before 2006. The Rodeo Chediski fire destroyed most of the trees on the ridge where the UFO encounter took place. Once these trees stumps were cut sometime after 2006 the evidence of the rapid tree growth appeared easily visible as these tree stumps were like standing tabletops to view in their entirety across the entire surface of the cut stump. Prior to this date only small pie shaped samplings could be done to look at the tree ring growth of the tree without killing the trees. Pie shaped samples had been done by crew boss Mike Rogers, randomly in 1992 on several sides of all the trees surrounding UFO encounter spot. No specific information was being sought by Mike Rodgers at that time except to determine if rapid increase growth had occurred, Why? because in 1992 Travis Walton and Mike Rogers went to the site with the film crew wanting to film the site in the middle of a snowstorm. Both Travis and Mike had a hard time locating the site under several feet of snow. An additional problem prevailed for them. They determined that the area where they thought the UFO had been witnessed, the trees seemed to have grown much larger than the surrounding forest. This made it extra difficult for them to locate the spot in the middle of the winter. They eventually found the spot, but noted the trees were larger in comparison to the surrounding forest. This forced Mike Rodgers to head back to the site in the spring and begin sampling some of the trees in the area to determine why that area had rapid tree growth. In 2014, long after the Rodeo Chedeski fire, these older tree stumps were cut, now offering a unique tabletop view of the rapid growth rings now exposed. With a top-down view these rapid growth rings showed clear directionality that could not have been understood before these tree stumps were cut. It became quite clear that the rapid growth was different on each of these trees surrounding the epicenter of where the UFO craft had been hovering. The rapid growth seemed to face where the craft had been hoveering and not the opposite side of the tree. This discovery inspired Ben Hansen, a former FBI agent, to look for other scientific papers documenting rapid tree growth, and what might cause it. He found a scientific paper on Scott Pine trees surrounding the Chernobyl nuclear accident that showed an equal increase percentage of rapid tree growth over a 15-year period of time. This amount of rapid tree ring growth is unique and does not occur with just increase sun light. According to Ben’s scientific research, he showed that this occurs because of the tree’s exposure to higher amounts of increase radiation over the first 15 years before that rapid growth drops off and returns to normal. For some reason, increased radiation encourages tree wood pulp to grow 33.3 % faster as the tree attempts to kick off the increase exposure to radiation. The increased growth also resists wood rot, so it was still visible after 45 to 50 years of time that has elapsed since this 1975 UFO encounter. Unless the tree stump is deliberately destroyed by other means. It appears from our 2024 December visit with pod caster Patrick James that someone attempted to destroy this evidence once and for all. Thanks goodness our 2014 site review documents our discoveries, as we suspected vandalism would happen. We suspect this destruction took place in or around November 2021.