The experiments took place in an inhabitated island near Newport Rhode Island, his name is plum island.
It's in this place where some government experiments took place, one of them goes totally wrong killing within weeks large areas of trees turning them blown.
The cause, Gypsy Moth caterpillars. In this area in mainland the trees can we heard emitting sounds from inside. The sound is from their poops dropping to the ground, not from them crunching on leaves. This insects were genetically modified according to some researchers.