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Remember the UFO … the unidentified fungal oddity discovered by Temple
Hall Highway property owner Bruce Lustenhouwer? The particles were
arranged in a circle, 16 feet across, and colored black, brown and gray.
They didn’t resemble anything Lustenhouwer had ever seen be..."
Remember the UFO … the unidentified fungal oddity discovered by Temple
Hall Highway property owner Bruce Lustenhouwer? The particles were
arranged in a circle, 16 feet across, and colored black, brown and gray.
They didn’t resemble anything Lustenhouwer had ever seen before.
“It’s a powdery substance in the grass,” he said. “It doesn’t appear to
be killing the grass. The grass growing through it looks healthy. It’s
not attacking any one kind of grass. It’s on different grasses.”
He had consideredanother alternative.
“It could be some of those little bitty people operating a nuclear collider under the ground,” he offered, grinning.
Not likely, he said.
“I don’t know that I buy the UFO explanation.”
Neither does Hood County News reader Bob Thomas, whose terse e-mail to
us read: “This was covered on Walter Reeve’s radio call-in show in
Atlanta last week.
The circles are caused by a fungus. Check out the
link. Scroll down for an identical picture to that appearing with your
article.”
According to the Web site forteantimes.com, Lustenhouwer’s artistic growth is known as a “fairy ring.”
“Long before crop circles caught the headlines, there were fairy
rings,” the Web site states. “Fairy ringsare, and always have been, a
lot more common than today’s more famous crop circles, but originally
their origins were as mysterious and ascribed to similar causes.
“Usually, a fairy ring is visible as a noticeable circle appearing in
grass. Some rings are formed by a luxuriant growth, taller and of a
darker green than the grass at their center.
“Others seem to be the opposite: a patch of poorly growing grass or
even bare earth in a circular pattern. When both types combine, the
luxuriant growth has an area of bound ground as an inner circle. We now
know that fairy rings are actually produced by fungi, but this was not
always the case.
“As the common name for the phenomenon implies, they were widely
explained as the result of a gathering of fairies that ended with a
circular dance. Such wasthe......
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