Keith Inman writes in the Jonesboro (Arkansas) Sun that
there are 10 crop circles in a wheat field in Knobel, Ark.
Farmer Todd Young says, "It's kind of eerie, really. It's real
precise. It's real symmetrical. Your average idiot couldn't
have gone out there and done that, including myself." This
spring, circles are appearing in the U.S. and in other
countries, as well as in the usual U.K. crop circle country.
The non-U.K. circles tend to be plain, rather than intricate?
but then so did the early U.K. circles.
"I think it's somebody with a handheld GPS and too much
time on their hands," says farmer Bruce Catt, who discovered
the circles as he flew his airplane over them last
Saturday. "We just happened to fly over the field. It just
sticks out from the air like a sore thumb."
The circles ranged from 38 feet in diameter to about eight
feet, and they were all within 10 feet of each other. "Knobel's
pretty small. Looks like it would get out who done it," Catt
says. "If somebody used a stake and a string and went
around trying to make a perfect circle, they did a good job."
Catt thinks the circle maker walked down a ditch through the
field in order to prevent leaving a path.
"He told my wife at church Sunday that we had crop circles,"
Young says. "I finally found it about noon Monday. And there
have been numerous people out here looking at it. At one
time there were four planes inside this little area, looking at
it."
Young flew over the field last Friday and saw no circles, so
Catt said he believes the crop circles were made Friday
night. "A lot of people fly over here, and if it had been there
a long time, somebody would have noticed," he says.
Cooperative extension agent Roger Gibson says, "All I can say
about it is they had to know what they were doing."
"We just hope they get all the wheat harvested before they
do it again," says agent Andy Vangilder.
The circles are gone now?Young harvested the wheat on
Tuesday. He says, "I farm for a living, and that's how I make
my living?harvesting my crops."
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