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http://www.dailyrepublic.com/article...news/news5.txt
Strange phenomena in Fairfield: Complex circles in wheat field draw attention, UFO reports
By Tim Fields
ROCKVILLE -- The crop circle formation stamped in a local farmer's 80-acre wheat field is the largest and most complex design ever reported in the United States, researchers said on Wednesday.
While some findings at the site indicate the formation is by human hands, one observation is not so easily explained.
On Saturday morning farmer Larry Balestra discovered the formation of more than a dozen circles on the corner of Rockville and Suisun Valley roads. The shapes covered a distance longer than a football field and formed a symmetrical design.
A key finding at the site is that the circles are actually ellipses and that they have only one geometric center, said Nancy Talbott, of BLT Research Team Inc. The team is based out of Cambridge, Mass., and has hundreds of people worldwide who investigate crop circle sites for authenticity.
It's like trying to draw an elliptical circle with a compass: There must be two center points in order to create the shape, she said.
"This strongly indicates it's not man made," she said.
Some evidence, however, points to humans. The wheat stalks at the Rockville site don't show characteristics of elongation and expulsion of moisture from the plant, which are seen in "genuine" crop circles, Talbott said.
"The wheat is so dry anyway that we're probably not going to see that," Steve Moreno said, director of PsiApplications, a non-profit paranormal research organization in Fairfield. Moreno and several others are collecting evidence for BLT.
Moreno said he still needs to take a magnet and run it over the perimeter of each circle to collect any residual iron particles. This is an indication of microwave energy in the area and is indicative of a genuine site, he said.
He took samples of wheat seeds from inside and outside circles, and both will be analyzed for changes in they way they germinate.
More evidence is needed to be sure if this site is a hoax, he said. Moreno has also rented a plane and will fly over the site today to get overhead photographs.
But researchers weren't the only ones in the wheat.
Hundreds of people flocked to the formation this week. Some stood in the circles busied with calculators. Some gasped as they stepped onto the flattened crops. And some carried handfuls of wheat from the fields as carefully as if it were gold.
One woman from Marin told Balestra that he was blessed and was the
chosen one.
"It's wild," Balestra said. "Many believe it's aliens. This is an eye-opener for me."
Some locals have reported strange events as well.
Someone living near the wheat field told researchers he saw lights over the crops on Friday night. An owner of a pair of Chihuahuas said the dogs barked incessantly all week, but stopped the day the formation appeared.
A woman from Vacaville said her daughter was driving and saw a UFO silently hovering over the interstate at Meridian Road more than week ago, and as she drove under it, she saw two, huge round lights. On Tuesday of last week, her daughter said she saw two more UFOs: One hovering over a field in the distance and the other over the freeway.
While he plans to harvest the wheat sometime this week, he will leave a 30-foot border around the formation.
People might be really upset if he disturbed it, he said.
Balestra has been swamped with media interviews this week from newspapers, radio and TV. "Yesterday, Good Morning America called me for an interview," he said. "Wow, I've lost count but the phone at home keeps ringing off the hook."
http://www.dailyrepublic.com/article...news/news5.txt
Strange phenomena in Fairfield: Complex circles in wheat field draw attention, UFO reports
By Tim Fields
ROCKVILLE -- The crop circle formation stamped in a local farmer's 80-acre wheat field is the largest and most complex design ever reported in the United States, researchers said on Wednesday.
While some findings at the site indicate the formation is by human hands, one observation is not so easily explained.
On Saturday morning farmer Larry Balestra discovered the formation of more than a dozen circles on the corner of Rockville and Suisun Valley roads. The shapes covered a distance longer than a football field and formed a symmetrical design.
A key finding at the site is that the circles are actually ellipses and that they have only one geometric center, said Nancy Talbott, of BLT Research Team Inc. The team is based out of Cambridge, Mass., and has hundreds of people worldwide who investigate crop circle sites for authenticity.
It's like trying to draw an elliptical circle with a compass: There must be two center points in order to create the shape, she said.
"This strongly indicates it's not man made," she said.
Some evidence, however, points to humans. The wheat stalks at the Rockville site don't show characteristics of elongation and expulsion of moisture from the plant, which are seen in "genuine" crop circles, Talbott said.
"The wheat is so dry anyway that we're probably not going to see that," Steve Moreno said, director of PsiApplications, a non-profit paranormal research organization in Fairfield. Moreno and several others are collecting evidence for BLT.
Moreno said he still needs to take a magnet and run it over the perimeter of each circle to collect any residual iron particles. This is an indication of microwave energy in the area and is indicative of a genuine site, he said.
He took samples of wheat seeds from inside and outside circles, and both will be analyzed for changes in they way they germinate.
More evidence is needed to be sure if this site is a hoax, he said. Moreno has also rented a plane and will fly over the site today to get overhead photographs.
But researchers weren't the only ones in the wheat.
Hundreds of people flocked to the formation this week. Some stood in the circles busied with calculators. Some gasped as they stepped onto the flattened crops. And some carried handfuls of wheat from the fields as carefully as if it were gold.
One woman from Marin told Balestra that he was blessed and was the
chosen one.
"It's wild," Balestra said. "Many believe it's aliens. This is an eye-opener for me."
Some locals have reported strange events as well.
Someone living near the wheat field told researchers he saw lights over the crops on Friday night. An owner of a pair of Chihuahuas said the dogs barked incessantly all week, but stopped the day the formation appeared.
A woman from Vacaville said her daughter was driving and saw a UFO silently hovering over the interstate at Meridian Road more than week ago, and as she drove under it, she saw two, huge round lights. On Tuesday of last week, her daughter said she saw two more UFOs: One hovering over a field in the distance and the other over the freeway.
While he plans to harvest the wheat sometime this week, he will leave a 30-foot border around the formation.
People might be really upset if he disturbed it, he said.
Balestra has been swamped with media interviews this week from newspapers, radio and TV. "Yesterday, Good Morning America called me for an interview," he said. "Wow, I've lost count but the phone at home keeps ringing off the hook."
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this happend right across from my house. i can see it preaty good standing on my roof. and people have been comeing over and calling trying to interview me on what its like to live next to a ufo or something. it been crazy people are there 24 hours a day going to look at the thing.
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