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SUBJECT: FARM RING MYSTIFIES FILE: UFO1153
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SUN, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada-Aug. 21, 1990
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CR: T. Sillivan
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FOREIGN NEWS
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NOTHING UNUSUAL...EXCEPT DOG'S BARKING
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By JAMES O'CONNOR
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SUN Staff Writer
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ST. FRANCOIS XAVIER-It's large, round and flat.
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Called a crop circle, it mysteriously appeared near the corner of a wheat field late last week-and it's had a strange effect on local residents in this agricultural area west of Winnipeg.
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It's making them scratch their heads.
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"I'm trying to figure out what the heck it is," George Friesen said, as he stared in disbelief at the 18-metre diameter circle of flattened grain.
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"I never saw anything like this before in my life-it looks like something's been rolled around and around."
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Friesen-now 78 and a veteran grain grower-lives across the road from the field owned by Joe Thomaschewski.
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It was Thomaschewski who discovered the cleanly-cut ring Saturday at 5 p.m. on his land at the corner of the Trans-Canada Highway and Highway 241.
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He had been by the area a few days earlier, but noticed nothing unusual-nothing like his metre-high wheat being bent at the root and flattened in a counter-clockwise circle.
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This has left an investigator in unusual phenomenon to conclude the circle was "created" between Thursday and Saturday afternoon.
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POSSIBLE HOAX
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"We're still not ruling out that it could be a hoax-but we're still investigating," said Chris Rutkowski of Ufology Research of Manitoba.
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The circle is quite similar to those found in England, where 1,000 have been located throughout the years, Rutkowski said.
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However, the phenomenon is quite rare here, he said, noting the last discovery here was 12 years ago near Rossburn.
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"We're not advocating that it's a UFO, that's just one possibility," Rutkowski said, adding there were no tracks or marks leading up to the circle, located some 20 metres from the road.
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Farmer Friesen's wife, Katherene, said the phone lines are buzzing with talk of the strange circle.
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"We're never experienced anything like that...it's very odd," she said, adding her family can't recall hearing anything strange the past few nights-except their dog barking at unusual hours.
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"And I looked out the window then and couldn't see anything," Feorge Friesen said, noting he and his son have been working quite late thrashing their crop.
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Another puzzled person walking in circles around the ring last night was Dan Sommerfeld.
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The 24-year-old area resident said it looked as if the wheat had been throttled by Nother Nature, not by human hands.
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'It looks like it was blown down-I dont't think anyone around here would do anything like his," he said.
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Astronomer Rutkowski said in addition to an alien visitor, other causes are being studied, including a weather phenomenon and new seismic or electrical activity.
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* THE U.F.O. BBS - http://www.ufobbs.com/ufo *
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