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Dan Rockwell
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It took me a few minutes to figure out what the problem was but luckily I had been to the site earlier and remembered to bookmark it.
Circles crop up in Iowa
By JOANNE BOECKMAN
Register Staff Writer
08/10/2002
Close encounters of the crop kind - they're out there.Crop circles, the shapes within a farm crop created by flattened plants, have been reported in Iowa, one as recently as last year near Iowa City.
Interest in the phenomenon has been heightened by the newly released movie, "Signs," starring Mel Gibson as a farmer who finds an elaborate design in his field.
The movie puts its own spin on alien forces creating crop circles, but real-life theories are just as intriguing.Plasma forces, vandals stepping on boards or some other unidentified natural phenomenon - and yes, even aliens - are ideas batted around by cerealogists, or those who study crop circles.
"The bottom-line explanation is, they are an anomaly," said Beverly Trout of Mitchellville. She is the Iowa director of the Mutual UFO Network, a worldwide nonprofit organization of volunteers who investigate suspected crop circles.Mufon members - 3,000 worldwide, 32 in Iowa - also look into UFO sightings, animal mutilations and suspected landing traces.
Trout does believe in aliens, but she stops just short of saying aliens create crop circles."We need to look at crop formations for what they are, rather than what we'd like them to be," she emphasizes.
Trout prefers to approach formations as scientifically as possible.She and other Mufon members look for obvious signs of a hoax by examining the area for footprints or tire marks and checking for broken plant stalks or stems.
They take measurements, record observations and gather several plant and soil samples within and outside the formation. The samples are sent to a lab for analysis.
Trout said Mufon members are meticulous about checking crop circles because the last thing they want is to be scammed.It's the scams that have received the most publicity, especially in England, where two men first claimed to be creators of crop designs.
A few years ago, they showed the media how they attached a rope handle to a wide board to make the circles. Holding onto the rope and putting their feet alternately on the board, they flattened stalks as they walked in a spiral.This also was the method for making the crop circles for "Signs."
Trout speculates that authentic crop circles have been around for hundreds of years all over the world, but only in the last few years have people begun to report them - perhaps because of the attention generated by hoaxes.
One source said about 200 crop circles are reported annually around the world. Colin Andrews, a scientific consultant for the current movie, claims 80 percent of circles are hoaxes.
"He has absolutely no way of knowing that," said Nancy Talbott, president of BLT Research Team Inc., which tests the plants and soil from crop circles."You'd have to sample them all to know that," she said, "and it's never happened."
Talbott, who lives in Cambridge, Mass., has a grant from Laurance Rockefeller for work on crop circles. She said she has stopped sampling in England because of the large number of hoaxes there.
"We're interested in phenomena, not hoaxes," she explained.Her network of scientists - which until recently included Michigan biophysicist William C. Levengood, the "L" in BLT - has analyzed crop circles in Holland, Germany, Israel, Australia, Canada and the United States, as well as England, for the last decade.
While the majority of formations appear in cereal crops such as rye, oats, barley and wheat, they also have been discovered in vegetables, soybeans, carrots, rape (canola), corn, reeds, grass and others.
The crop circles reported in Iowa tend to be simpler than the elaborate designs seen abroad.In August 1995, a teardrop-shaped formation was found in a cornfield near Arlington, Ia. It measured about 11 feet in diameter and was unusual because the cornstalks were all pressed into the ground toward the center. None were broken.
In 1996, farmer Brett Anderson was harvesting a soybean field southwest of Nevada when he encountered an area of flattened beans. Two weeks later, he found another formation in a cornfield.Last year, Ed Williams was combining his wheat near Iowa City when he discovered a circle there.
The formation in Anderson's soybean field was slightly ovoid, about 30 feet in diameter and surrounded by a 31/2-foot-wide ring. The beans were flattened in a counterclockwise swirl, tightly twisted in the center. The seeds were intact within the pods.Anderson, now 44, said he was impressed that the plant stems were not broken.
"Normally when they're ready for harvest, they're dry and they break," he said. "They don't bend." A scientist observed the roots were bent in the opposite direction from the plant stem, Anderson said.
Two weeks later, a teardrop-shaped formation was discovered in Anderson's cornfield. It was 35 feet at the widest point. Stalks were swirled counterclockwise.Two more teardrop-shaped formations were found in hayfields on adjoining land.The following year, Anderson was baffled by something else that happened during the harvest.
Soybeans planted where the corn had been the year before were green where the crop circle had been, and the seedpods were not mature. The rest of the crop was brown.
"What was amazing is that the stems had twice the nodules. They should have taken more nitrogen - nutrients - from the soil, but these plants were stunted," Anderson said.
In Iowa City, Williams thought at first that a weather phenomenon caused his wheat to lie clockwise in a circle within a ring about 60 feet in diameter.
He called his brother, an airline pilot, and they talked about microbursts, or strong winds that occasionally down planes.A climatologist told Williams the configuration was too large for that.
Two agronomists from Iowa State University drove over to look at the formation. One of them, Dr. Stan Henning, dismissed it as man-made.
No tracks showed up, he said, because it was dry. Someone could have walked in the tracks - called tramlines - made by Williams' tractor when he sprayed the field a few weeks earlier.
"It looked more like something more mechanical than the wind," Henning said. He also found weeds in the circle that looked to him as if a board had scraped over them.
Williams, now 54, wasn't convinced. He was puzzled by the intricate herringbone weaving of the straw within the circle. Besides, he said, "it wasn't a perfect circle. It was flattened at one point. If someone had done that with a rope, I would have thought it would be better than that."
Trout said by the time Williams called Mufon, the Iowa City field was too degraded for her to determine whether it was a hoax.
Crop circles that are not confirmed hoaxes demonstrate similar characteristics after testing, Talbott said.
If plants are young at the time an unexplained crop circle forms, there is interference with the reproduction qualities of the plant, she said. If they are mature, the seeds weigh less but grow larger, even up to seven days without light or water.
There is evidence that the plants have been exposed to a complex energy system, similar to a microwave, because only the moisture inside the plants was affected, and the plants were not burned.
Also, in the unexplained crop circles, nodes on plant stems closer to the center of the circle are longer than those toward the outside of the circle, another indication of microwave energy.[b/]
Biophysicist Levengood also has discovered the presence of tiny, nearly pure spheres of iron in the soil where crop circles occur. He theorized a magnetic field draws particles in, heats them to a molten state and disperses them in a rotating fashion in the formation.
"We've done studies after flattening the crops ourselves, and none of the plant aberrations and magnetic material stuff occurs," Talbott said. "The pranks-with-planks bit is not what's going on."What BLT scientists have found points to some sort of plasma, or energy system, Talbott said.
"The real question is: Is it spontaneously generated, or is it manufactured?" she asked.
Her theory of a plasma hitting earth - something similar to a lightning strike - might explain why some Iowans claimed they witnessed bright white lights in tubular shapes over the farm fields where the crop circles were later found.
Anderson, the Nevada farmer, has his own notion of unexplained crop circles.
"My theory is that either there's a lot of science yet to be discovered or we do have visitors from outer space."
http://www.dmregister.com/news/stories/c4788998/18925544.html
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Has anyone thought of the possibility that ETs are using hightly advanced scalar EM waves to make crop formations from many, many light years away, trying to communicate with us?
Given the potential of what scalar EM waves are capable of, it's not really that far-fetched.
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Dan Rockwell
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It's possible G/M
Here's one crop formation that hasn't gotten too much press for some reason.
The 2002 'Alien Face' Formation
Articles: Paul Vigay takes a preliminary look at the 2002 'Alien Face' formation.
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On Thursday 15th August 2002 I first heard that there had been an 'impressive' new formation discovered just to the west of Winchester (Hampshire, UK). Lucy Pringle immediately flew over the formation, confirming its location at Crabwood Farm, between Pitt and Sparsholt (SU 445295) and emailed me some initial photos - which as you can see are immediately recognisable as an 'alien face' with a circular grid containing some kind of binary data sequence.
 If this one is a fake, it's a good one because of the complex binary sequence.
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Going back to our spiral of binary digits in the crop formation disc, we obtain an initial grouping of 01000010 01100101 01110111 01100001 01110010 and so on, spiralling out from the centre. (see diagram). We can translate these binary sequences into their decimal equivalent and thus look them up in the ASCII character set to see what letters they correspond to.
Doing this for the whole 'disc' we get the message "Beware the bearers of FALSE gifts & their BROKEN PROMISES. Much PAIN but still time. (Damaged Word). There is GOOD out there.We OPpose DECEPTION. Conduit CLOSING (BELL SOUND)". This was originally decoded by an anonymous visitor to Linda Moulton-Howe's web site. Although I've yet to verify the entire binary sequence I got as far as the first couple of words and it did indeed read as above. I have no reason to assume the Linda's guest made a mistake, but I will continue decoding it when I have time
http://www.cropcircleresearch.com/articles/alienface.html
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Dan Rockwell
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Friday, 16 August, 2002, 13:15 GMT 14:15 UK
'I make crop circles'
'Tis the season for crop circles. And the Mel Gibson film, Signs, has renewed interest in who - or what - might make these mysterious markings.
Here, controversial crop circle maker John Lundberg tells of his nights in the Wiltshire fields. I don't regard myself as a hoaxer - I'm not interested in rug-pulling anybody. Yet the assumption is that if I make a crop circle, it must be because I want to undermine the beliefs of people who think they are not man-made.
But the myths and folklore that build up around crop circles are what fascinate me. And we've always tried to have as good a relationship as possible with the crop circle research community, even though we're at odds with it. It's like with politics - there are the moderates who are happy to coexist with us and the extremists who won't even admit that one crop circle might be manmade. They're the ones who have really demonised us. They regard us as heretics.
So some really weird conspiracy theories have grown up around us. The most amusing is that we're with the government or the secret service, that we're disinformation agents who get sent out to cover up genuine circles made perhaps by extraterrestrials, time travellers, ley lines, whatever.
My art collective - myself, Rod Dickinson and Will Russell - get thousands of abusive e-mails and phone calls. We've had attacks on our property, and one of my team had bricks thrown at him. But at least this is not America - people don't carry guns here.
Following long tradition
My group, Circlemakers, now describe what we do as art practice but at first it was just curiosity.
When in 1991 Doug Bower and Dave Chorley admitted that they had been making circles for the past 13 years, interest plummeted. We wanted to crank it up again by making formations so huge and so complex that people would once again start asking the question: 'Is it possible that these things are manmade?' As we're all based in London, we spend a lot of money on petrol and a lot of money driving up and down the M4 to Wiltshire.
The season runs from April, when the first crop is oil seed rape. In June it's barley and by mid-July it's wheat. That's the best crop to work in, that's when the most spectacular circles appear. Because each stem is upright, you can get pin sharp clarity.
We used to design the circles on paper, but because the formations have got so big, it's easier to use a computer. It's all very low-tech once we get into the field. We use surveyor's tape measure and a stalk stomper, which is basically a plank of wood.
To make a circle, one person stands in the middle as a pivot and another holds the end of the tape and walks around them.
Crop circles are treated as legitimate tourist attractions in Wiltshire. One made in 1996 got more visitors than Stonehenge and the farmer grossed about £30,000 in four weeks by charging a pound a person. Assuming a formation isn't heavily visited, the farmer will be able to lower the blades on his combine and harvest the flattened crop away.
Unexplained experiences
It sounds slightly embarrassing, but I have had a UFO sighting while making circles in Wiltshire.
It was a black cigar shape with very fast strobing lights. It appeared on the horizon and slowly arced over us, completely silent. It was a classic UFO sighting in that we didn't know what it was.
I've seen balls of cracking light at the edge of the field, which is slightly unnerving. But what I see most often is flashes of light, as if someone's holding a flashbulb in front of my eyes.
Twice this has happened while we've had journalists with us. One, from The Face, was very sceptical of that side of it. About halfway through making the formation, he came rushing up to me shouting: 'Did you see that flash of light?' He's a believer now.
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Dan Rockwell
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It looks more like a lunar cycle to me Hoople.
East field(3), nr Alton Barnes. Wiltshire. Reported 14th August.
Also, there has been a report of a formation very similar to the one in my 08-22-2002 10:13 PM post that was carved in the ice somewhere in northern Alaska that is supposedly over 400 feet in diameter with a larger complex binary sequence. Strange lights were supposedly sighted in the area around the same time that the formation was made and there seems to be some kind of military involvement. I'll let you know if any details or pictures leak out.
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Hoople
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The following is from: Lady Kadjina Speaks. This is about the crop formation with an alien image pictured in Dan's posting above on 8-22.
http://www.citiesoflight.net/kadjina.html
Wayne: On August 15, 2002, a crop formation was reported at Crabwood Farm House, near Winchester, Hampshire (http://cropcircleconnector.com/2002/Crabwood/crabwood2002a.html). This shows the face of an obvious ET “Grey” together with what appears to be a circular disc that seems to be made of a spiraling code of digital sequences, similar to a pattern for the creation of an image or sound (like a player piano disk). Could this be an image of the digital or thought form that created this image? Can you tell us what or who created this formation, if it is an actual portrayal of the being(s) that created it, and what is the circular part of the image attempting to tell us? Is this a sophisticated hoax done by someone on the Earth plane? Note what appear to be 3 or 4 planets or space ships in the background (portrayed as in the SOHO photos)
Initial interpretations at: http://www.earthfiles.com/news/news.cfm?ID=381&category=Environment http://www.rumormillnews.net/cgi-bin/config.pl?read=22227 http://www.rumormillnews.net/cgi-bin/config.pl?read=22232
Good morning; Captain Torqualino here. It has been some time since I have spoken with you. And at that time we commented that we are quite capable of utilizing those technologies that you have set in place for our own purposes—that we do what you would call “an override.” We can redirect your microwaves and we can even convert them to a more benevolent action. The purpose of this particular crop formation, while it is true that it was done through human technologies, it was done in cooperation with us, wherein it may have begun as a covert action, we did an override to let the people of the world know that we are here and ready to be of assistance.
We used the symbol for the Greys because they are the best known to the people of the planet. And the disc is a type of harmonic chording of certain frequencies. There is a certain similarity to the type of intonements done in the movie, “Close Encounters of the Third Kind.” The frequencies of the tones within that movie played upon the inner frequencies of the humans that had gathered, so they were not afraid to get on board the ship—it summoned them. There are three planetary types of ships denoted in this crop formation. They are part of our recycled planet activity—planets that have gone dead and have been recycled and refurbished.
This particular crop formation is intended both as a summons, wherein souls will respond, and also is intended as visual stimuli. The encodements within the circle will transmit a certain frequency pitch to those souls that have certain types of DNA activity at this time and will be of assistance in calling them forth—they will respond. We would also like to tell you that there are more and more suncruisers that are gathering, and your SOHO is picking up many images of this great gathering. We will not allow Planet Earth to be destroyed. We will not allow those of the dark agenda to take over and promote their ways of being.
Wayne: There are heavy markings that appear under the disk. Can you explain their significance?
The part of the image under the disc is a portrayal of the Grey’s hand, as though it is holding the disc not only as a projection of energy frequencies, but as a shield of protection, indicating that it will not be controlled by those of the darker agendas. And you can also see its chest and breastbone.
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Hoople
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Lady Kadjina Speaks
September 1, 2002
Crop Circle of 8/10/02 near Teton, Idaho
Wayne: In response to our message regarding the recent crop formation at Crabwood Farm, a reader refers to a crop formation that appeared 20 miles south of her in Teton, Idaho (http://www.localnews8.com/2002stories/August/12.htm) and writes: “I went out to see them and there is a subtle beautiful "love" energy that permeated me and somehow has changed me forever. I just don't know how to explain it. It is something that is like the ripple in the pond, just keeps going on and on within. Sad news is that someone drove a vehicle out there the other day and all but destroyed it. I felt personally "violated". Once again hard to describe....” Can you help to explain the source and message of this crop formation? Added 8/26/02: “My son and I went out to the circles again. They had not harvested the grain yet and in spite of the damage, most of the circles were still intact. I have always been neutral on crop circles, ETs and UFOs because I have not experienced them. BUT, once being in one, as far as I'm concerned, there is no way to doubt that there is more "out there" than meets the eye. I stood in the largest circle and had some quiet time and felt a subtle energy flow from my solar plexus up through my crown. As this was happening, there was a gentle energy pulsating in and out the left side of me. Had I been talking with someone, I would have missed the whole thing. Today, I moved away from my son and became silent in mind and body, and once again was ever so gently filled with what I can only describe as a profound love. It had no agenda, if I may say such a thing, and was sort of like some thing(s)/ones/energy/beings with numerous smiles. I really AM at a loss as to how to describe it. I feel in my heart that it was not man made. I still feel strongly that it is a message of opening up to the Love that God spoke of through Christ. In this area, as with many others, we are still having "religious wars", and so many refuse to expand their circles to take in others of "different thinking". All my son could say was, "crop circles" all the way home. He is in his late thirties and an electro-optic technician, and still has not found an "answer" as to who made them.
This particular crop formation was made by the extraterrestrials and is intended to be comforting and reassuring. Until recently, Mother Earth has been on the receiving end, or the taking end of energy transmissions. The galaxy has been nurturing her. This has changed, and this is what essentially the crop formation is saying. The large central circle is the Earth herself. The surrounding circle is representative of a protective shielding that the great archangels have encapsulated the Earth in. Going out from the Earth, beginning with the largest circle extending outward to smaller, says that the Earth is sending out energies of love and gratitude for all the assistance that she has been given and gratefully accepted. She is, in a sense, saluting the energies of the four directions. What all of this means is that, just as humans are taking back their personal power and finding strength, so is Mother Earth herself claiming her own power once again. And Mother Earth is sending out vibrations of great gratitude, love, and thanksgiving. And what the ETs are doing is trying to put into a message what Mother Earth is feeling and doing, and to encourage her to continue on in taking back her power. So therefore, humans who go to this place in a state of goodwill will be able to pick up on the vibrations of love, goodwill, comfort, reassurance, and an overall state of well being.
Addendum, September 2, 2002, from a friend of the person who asked the question:
"I went out to Teton today and saw the crop circles. I was on my way home from Rexburg when I thought about it. I had my son with me and he knew right where they were. I hadn't asked the [owners] for permission but I know all of them really well. I didn't think it would be a problem. However I still couldn't help feeling a little anxious because I hadn't talked to them. Anyway, I went out and stood in the middle of one of the small ones, I really didn't notice anything so I walked over to the big one in the center. I closed my eyes and asked if there was anything for me to know or feel. I got this extremely hot feeling in my feet and it moved up my body. I started to think it was because I was nervous about being there and so I tried to reassure myself that it was ok. My whole body began to shake on the inside and I felt like my bones were burning. It wasn't painful, but it was kind of a prickling feeling. My son wanted to go and I was starting to wonder if he wasn't right. All the way home I felt the heat, and it's been about an hour, and I am still getting prickly hot feelings in my body. I couldn't wait to tell you. Then I got home and saw your e-mail I thank you so much for telling me to go see the crop circles and the thoughts on these things. I am still not sure what I think happened but I know it was something!!!!!!"
Addendum 2, September 3, 2002: An alternative movie on crop circles: http://www.cropcirclesthemovie.com
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Crop circle mystery
Staff at Kew Gardens remain stumped over who is responsible for the giant crop circle that appeared overnight in their grounds last week.
Whether it's the work of little green men, a practical joke or just a clever publicity stunt, the circle is an impressive sight.Measuring some 60ft from side to side, the pattern is stamped in the centre of a wheatfield at the riverside end of the Royal Botanic Gardens.
The flower-shape in the centre of the circle appears to be perfectly symmetrical and the wheat around the outside appears untouched.Staff at the gardens discovered the mysterious phenomenon when they came into work on Thursday morning last week.
The field had been planted specially for Kew's 'Colour Sensations' exhibition, to grow the kind of flowers, such as poppies and cornflowers, which are dying out in the countryside due to pesticides.
Press officers at the gardens are adamant that the circle is not a publicity stunt and say they are as baffled as everyone else about how it got there.
If someone broke into the gardens as part of an elaborate hoax, they would have had to climb over an 8ft high wall to get there.
A Kew Gardens spokesman said: "We have no idea how it got there. It's very strange. If someone did climb over the wall to do it, they would have to have spent a lot of time in the field, because it looks like it was quite a lot of work."
The circle is expected to attract visitors from across the country. However, it will only be visible until Sunday.
The Kew spokesman said: "We were due to harvest the wheatfield earlier this week but have delayed it to Sunday to give people the chance to witness the strange phenomenon. On Sunday afternoon, we'll be harvesting the field using traditional scythes, which should be fun to see as well."
17:45 Thursday 26th September 2002
http://www.thisislocallondon.co.uk/news/display.var.629760.Top+Stories.0.html
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Farm's crop circles called 'weird'
Friday, October 11, 2002
BRYCE HOFFMAN
THE SAGINAW NEWS
The mysterious appearance of two crop circles in a Fremont Township farm field so far has defied explanation, prompting some to suggest aliens have landed in Saginaw County.
Gordon G. Turner, 59, discovered the phenomena in a parcel of feed corn north of Roosevelt about a mile west of South Hemlock.
Turner said he was harvesting about 5 p.m. Wednesday when he encountered the smaller of the circles, which is about 20 feet in diameter, and wrote it off as the work of a hunter.
He stopped the tractor when he saw the larger circle, about 90 feet in diameter, four rows off.
"There's something weird here," he said. "I never saw anything like it. I don't think some weather thing could make a circle that perfect. The first thing I thought is something landed here, but I don't know."
The corn stalks are pressed flat to the ground, facing alternate directions in rows. A Thursday inspection by Turner and a Saginaw County sheriff's deputy revealed no footprints, litter or other signs of an obvious hoax, Turner said.
"I don't know what I believe anymore," he said. "It's a mystery to me."
Mature cobs of corn and a few green leaves remaining on the stalks suggest the circles are less than a couple of weeks old, said Turner, who has farmed all his life.
L. Doug Rogers, U.S. coordinator for the London-based Centre for Crop Circle Studies, tracks the phenomenon in North America. Rogers said he does not recall any previous reports of crop circles in Michigan.
"There have been more crop circles showing up in the United States this past year where there haven't been any," he said.
It would take aerial photographs, precise measurements of each circle and laboratory analysis of soil samples to determine whether these circles are candidates for paranormal explanation, said Rogers, who has studied crop circles since 1989.
"Corn is a lot more difficult to analyze than, say, wheat, barley or oats," he said.
Rogers said he believes that some crop circles are left by visitors from outer space.
"Many of the crop circles have characteristics about them that are beyond the abilities of humans to construct," he said. "It gets to be very interesting."
Signs of a hoax include a circle with ragged edges, inconsistent diameter or evidence of a pike stuck in the middle of the circle for guidance, Rogers said.
Crop circles have more to do with superstition than science, said Gerald L. Peterson, professor of psychology at Saginaw Valley State University and co-founder of the Tri-City Skeptics, a group of citizens who seek rational explanations for the possibly paranormal.
"I would prefer a more commonplace explanation," said Peterson, who has not inspected the circles. "It wouldn't surprise me, with the popularity of the movie 'Signs' and people in the area, that someone has done that."
"Signs" is a movie that involves crop circles and the suggestion they are placed by aliens.
Peterson said members of his group have planned in the past to create crop circles. It appears somebody beat them to it, he said.
"We've got some very creative hoaxing going on," he said.
Lynne C. Gilbert, 50, is not so sure. Her home is in a stand of evergreen trees a few hundred feet from the crop circles.
"The past few nights, I have heard the dogs barking late," she said. "Maybe we have an extraterrestrial here. Wouldn't that be cool? You could almost spit at my house from here, and I didn't hear a thing."
Turner's wife, 59-year-old Lynne, said she is a believer in extraterrestrials. She says the circles could have formed from the landing pad of a spaceship.
"Maybe the big one is where the ship landed, and maybe the little one is where the stairs came down," she said. "I have no idea."
http://www.mlive.com/news/sanews/index.ssf?/xml/story.ssf/html_standard.xsl?/base/news-3/1034347823191890.xml
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