Crop Circles

Paranormal researchers are playing catch-up to find out who or what made a crop circle in a farmer's wheat field last month.The Cordelia-area formation area was already harvested by the farmer, who wishes to remain anonymous.But local researcher Steve Moreno and other crop circle investigators hope to collect soil, seed and wheat samples to determine how it was made."It's been quite a road just to get to this point," said Moreno, founder of Fairfield-based Psi Applications. "I'm really just curious to find out more about this myself."News of the formation surfaced Thursday when a picture taken by a Monterey artist appeared on a cropcircle Web site.

It is the fourth circle formation discovered in the area since June 28 last year, when a huge formation was found in a Rockville wheat farmer's field.Tharee Davis, who visited the Rockville circles last year, was driving through the Cordelia area two weeks ago when she noticed patterns in another field, she said."The sun hit it in just a manner that created dark lines on the pattern," Davis said. "I had to pull over."Davis belongs to a nonprofit group that is interested in crop formation."So I kind of have my ears up for (them)," she said.According to early findings, the crop circles - 39 total - were made in three-foot high, mature wheat. The entire formation was 300 feet long with a main body surrounded by a 6-foot outline and a tail of 6-foot circles ending attwo electrical towers.This field was harvested June 20, eliminating any trace of the formation.Moreno took a flight over the formation earlier this week and couldn't find it - nor did he see any other crop circles within a 6- to 7-mile radius.Davis, who took a flight over the crop circles the day after seeing them and took pictures, promised the farmer not to publicize the discovery."Now that he's plowed it over . . . I'm going let people know about it, because it's a shame not to let people see them."

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A new crop circle formation may have recently surfaced in a Cordelia wheat field, but it's gone now. News of the latest circle formation, discovered by a motorist passing through the Cordelia area, comes just after the one-year anniversary of the Rockville crop circle discovery. The earlier formation was also formed in wheat. Steve Moreno, founder of a Fairfield paranormal research firm that investigated the first circles, learned of the discovery Monday, although the landowner may have discovered the crop circles as early as a month ago, he said. The farmer is adamant about remaining anonymous and apparently "rubbed out" theformation soon after others learned of it, Moreno said.

Tharee Davis, an artist who lives in Monterey but is familiar with Solano County, spotted the circles June 17, Moreno said. She later provided Moreno's firm, Psi Applications, with pictures. Moreno flew over the area Wednesday and found the crop circles were gone, he said. "If she hadn't jumped on this, there would be no documentation at all," Moreno said. From photos, Moreno said, the formation appears somewhat sloppy but elaborate. His firm is studying the area and will publish a report, he said. If it's a hoax, the creators would have had trouble avoiding the landowner, Moreno said. "Both times Tharee came out there, (she said) she was (confronted) bythe farmer or sheriff's deputies," he said. "For any hoaxers to pull this off without being harassed would have pulled off a milestone." Although different in shape from the original Rockville formation, the new circles share a mix of many small circles, fewer medium-sized circles and one large, circle more than 100 feet in diameter.The new formation was symmetric and features one large, 125-foot circle between two medium circles about half its size. An outline surrounded the formation, and a tail of tiny circles trails off toward two electrical towers.The Rockville crop circle formation, near the corner of Rockville and Suisun Valley roads last summer, was the largest in North America and garnered national andinternational. ...

A mysterious design that appeared Sunday in a wheat field off south Main Street in Spanish Fork is being deemed as possibly nonhuman by supposed extraterrestrial experts. Nancy Talbott, who heads a science team called BLT (Burke, Levengood and Talbott) Research out of Cambridge, Mass. , sent local volunteers to the area Tuesday to do field work on the four-circle design. The two volunteers, identified only as Melissa C. and her daughter Hannah, were searching for microfungal anomalies in the barley; the presence of which, Talbott says, suggests some type of nonhuman interaction. "There's a lot of sacred geometric patterns in thesecircles," Melissa said, noting that one of the smaller circles was nonsymmetrical, a possible indication of extraterrestrial involvement.

The two Springville residents have since completed their field work, but the results are not yet available. Lucius Farish, an Arkansas man who has studied crop circles and other unexplainable anomalies for years, said there are many things researchers look for in newly formed crop circles. "They look for footprints and they take samples for various phenomenon," Farish said. "Sometimes the nodes at the joints of the plants are exploded because of microwave energy." Farish learned about the Spanish Fork crop circle earlier this week and was immediately interested in documentingas much information as possible. "I've been interested in UFOs for years," he said. "But I can't tell you who made crop circles, why they were made or where they'll pop up next." Reports by locals are increasingly curious.Gustavo Lopez, an employee of the nearby Spanish Fork Motors, said he heard a dog whining and yelping when he arrived to work at 5 a.m. Sunday. "Other residents in the area said they heard the dog too," Talbott said. "It's common for animals to exhibit uncommon behavior in situations like these."Deputy Staci Petro of the Utah County Sheriff's Office investigated the scene and determined $300 worth of damage was caused to landowner Paul A. Prior'scrops.. ...

A few south Spanish Fork residents awoke to an unfamiliar sight Monday morning when a mysterious crop circle appeared in a wheat field just off Main Street. The roughly 100-foot-diameter circle is located on the east side of Main Street, about 100 yards south of Spanish Fork Motors. Residents of the area said the circle must have appeared Monday because they didn't see it Sunday. Gustavo Lopez, an employee at Spanish Fork Motors, said he saw the crop circle Monday when he took his two sons to a hill that overlooks the area. "This morning a lot of people were standing on this hill looking atsomething, but I didn't know what," Lopez said.

"Now I know why. I don't have an idea who made it, but it looks like it was made by machines." The crop design is made up of four circles with one large center circle and three smaller outer circles that are all connected to the large circle. There were no marks in the surrounding crops that showed foot traffic of any kind. The Utah County Sheriff's Office is investigating the incident. The circle appeared in one of the fields owned by farmer Paul A. Prior of Springville. Prior was informed of the uncommon landmark Monday morning and was not pleased with the damage caused to his crops. "It was just a bunch ofvandals doing some damage," Prior said. "I wish they wouldn't trespass, and I wish they would do their art somewhere else."Prior estimated the damage to his crops was at least $300. He said he thinks the crop circle was created by some local kids or, at worst, some drunks looking for a good time.Nearby residents were mostly unaware of the unusual sight, but those who did know of it said they weren't too worried.

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