Crop circles – geometric designs of crushed or knocked-over crops created in a field.
My son and his friends made several near Lethbridge once. The elders told us to keep it quiet and not go to the authorities. Incredible amount of $$$ gets spent on these investigations!
http://www.noufors.com/crop_circles.html (scroll down to Lethbridge)
Sudbury, Ontario, STAR, 4 September 1991, page A4
Crop circles defy any explanation
LETHBRIDGE, Alta. (CP) - The mystery is growing as peculiar circle patterns continue to turn up in southern Alberta crop fields with no apparent cause.
Two new sites of crop circles were discovered near the city of Lethbridge over the weekend.
One site was discovered near an animal disease research institute about five kilometres west of the city Saturday.
Three circles were then found on a farm Sunday, with connecting pathways, about three kilometres southeast of the site discovered Saturday.
Farmer Jenny Skinner said a man combining a wheat field she leases from the city came upon the circles - two of them four metres in diameter, and a third, two-metre circle - all connected by narrow trails.
"It makes me nervous," Skinner said Tuesday. "I don't think I want to be alone out here at night any more. We've farmed this land since 1960 and we've never seen anything like this."
"Sometimes you'll find a spot where a deer has lain down, and you can see the footprints, but that's completely different."
That makes four crop-circle sites which have turned up in southern Alberta in the last few weeks. The first, on Aug. 21, was in a wheat field just north of the Lethbridge city limit.
Gordon Kijek, director of a UFO study group based in Edmonton, investigated the north Lethbridge site and a subsequent finding a few days later of larger circles near Okotoks, a community about 20 kilometres south of Calgary.
He said samples of grain and earth taken from the first two sites are being tested by Alberta Agriculture and a UFO research facility in Winnipeg.
He said several people who visited the north Lethbridge site reported headaches afterward, but added he didn't experience such problems.
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Courtesy of my son and his JW friends. I'm soooo proud'a my boy!
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