UFO RESOURCE CENTER
UPDATES! CPR Canada News
"Crop Circles Become More Frequent, Comlex"
UFORCE thanks CPR-Canada for this update:
CPR-Canada News
News and Reports from Circles Phenomenon Research Canada
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Cavern/3310
Canadian Crop Circles Become More Frequent, Complex
October 16, 1999
_____________________________
Editor:
Paul Anderson
_____________________________
Crop Circles Become More Frequent, Complex
The Western Producer
October 14, 1999
http://www.producer.com/articles/19991014/news/19991014news08.html
By Mary MacArthur
Camrose bureau
Rusty Manuel and Thelly Whitman have always joked that the
strange lights near their grain fields on the outskirts of
Edmonton are UFOs.
Cereal circles found near Edmonton
A set of seven circles was recently discovered near Edmonton.
Farmer Rusty Manuel swathed around the circles, leaving them
intact for study. The formation was almost 58 metres (190 feet)
across. The crop was flattened from the centre out to the edge,
rather than in the swirling patterns found in other crop circles.
But they're not laughing after circles were found in their barley
field.
"We're not going to joke about that any more," said Whitman.
A custom sprayer operator hired to spray Roundup on a barley
field infested with thistles spotted the circles first. Without
bothering to look at the field, Manuel put the circles down to
animals or wind.
"I thought it was some animal rolling around in it. I hadn't seen it.
When I started to cut it I got pretty inquisitive."
Now, neither Manuel nor Whitman thinks animals made the circles.
"This here is a big deal, the way it's knocked down," he said.
The centre circle is 30 metres across with four smaller circles on
all four quadrants. Off two of the smaller circles are another two
circles.
What's strange is that Whitman noticed circles in the same field
a year earlier when she was swathing the crop, but attributed it
to animals. Thinking back, she can't remember if the circles were
in any sort of formation.
"I contributed it to animals bedding down in our grain. That, and I
don't like that end of the field. I get an eerie feeling in that end of
the field."
Whitman doesn't know what made the circles, but she hasn't ruled
out some other life form.
"I've always been a strong believer there's something more than us
around. There's something more than our little world."
Gordon Sopczak, Alberta co-ordinator for Circles Phenomenon
Research Canada, said he's sure whatever is creating the circles
will "delight us and astound us again."
Members of a crop circle investigative team took grain and soil
samples from within the crop circle on the farm near Edmonton
to test for abnormalities.
Manuel plans to harvest the grain separately. He wants to see if
there's anything unusual about it next spring when it's reseeded.
More intricate
Sopczak said crop circles like the one in north Edmonton are
becoming more complex. No longer are they simple circles in
a field.
In 1999, 17 crop circles were reported across Canada (*18 formations
now as of October 14 - ed.*). One on the University of Alberta farm
was a hoax, another was caused by fairy rings, but several others
were complex patterns, he said.
As in Britain, many of the crop circles are reappearing in areas
where they have been reported in previous years.
Sopczak doesn't know if more crop circles are being reported
because there are more circles, or if people are learning how
to report them.
According to a website run by Circles Phenomenon Research
Canada, there were 14 circles reported in Canada in 1998, two
in 1997, three in 1996, two in 1995, four in 1994, nine in 1993,
21 in 1992, 12 in 1991 and 22 in 1990. Nine circles were
reported between 1969 and 1989.
The website can be found at
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Cavern/3310
© The Western Producer, 1999
_____________________________
Circle Phenomena in Canada Report Archive 1999:
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Cavern/3310/1999.html
A reminder for all Canadian subscribers / readers - your
assistance is welcome and needed - ANY reports of other
possible circles this year, please do let us know as soon as
possible! See Reporting and Field Research Guidelines on the
web site for more information:
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Cavern/3310/reporting.html
REPORTING HOTLINE: 604.731.8522
_____________________________
CPR-Canada News is the e-mail update service of
Circles Phenomenon Research Canada (affiliate of Circles
Phenomenon Research International), is published
periodically or as breaking news develops and is available
free by subscription; to be added to or removed from the
mailing list, send your request, including "subscribe
CPR-Canada News" or "unsubscribe CPR-Canada News" and
e-mail address to:
mailto:psa@direct.ca
CPR-Canada welcomes your reports and submissions.
Forward all correspondence to:
CIRCLES PHENOMENON RESEARCH CANADA
Circles Phenomenon Research International
Main Office
Suite 202 - 2086 West 2nd Avenue
Vancouver, BC V6J 1J4 Canada
Tel / Fax: 604.731.8522
E-Mail: mailto:psa@direct.ca
Web: http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Cavern/3310
© Circles Phenomenon Research Canada, 1999
UFORCE___2000___CORE
_______________A WHITE KNIGHT PRODUCTION_______________
UFORCE Store: UFO Videos, Books, tapes, TV, Radio, appearances: click here
