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SUBJECT: CROP CIRCLES IN MILAN, ILLINOIS FILE: UFO1229
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To: All Message #: 2904
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From: Greg Booras Submitted: 17 Oct 90 14:21:00
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Subject: Ufo Lands In Milan IL? Status: Public
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Received: No Group: UFINET (9)
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I live in Milan its a small town in the Midwest. This article came out
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of todays newspaper.
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Rock Island Argus page a1 slug: acircle
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`UFO lands in Milan?'
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Flattened corn mystifies farmer
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By Trish Mehaffey
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Staff writer
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The hazy morning sunlight brightened the field, but James Lawson
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couldn't shake the eerie feeling that struck him when he spotted the
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circular imprint in his cornfield Tuesday.
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Within the circle, the stalks were flattened neatly in rows following
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a visible clockwise pattern. The stalks appeared to have been mashed
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down. There was no evidence of cutting or signs of machines or humans
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in the circle area.
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Mr. Lawson reported the circle was measured this morning and was found
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to be a perfect 46-foot diameter circle.
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``It was about 9 (a.m),'' Mr. Lawson, of rural Milan, said. ``I was
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just making my first trip (on a combine) through the field. ``The
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first thing I thought of was a UFO (unidentified flying object). I
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thought, holy smokes, what is this?''
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That's the same question being asked in hundreds of other spots
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around the world where the mysterious crop circles have been spotted.
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Mr. Lawson, 70, said he didn't see the perfect 40- to 50-foot circle
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until he was right next to it. The circle, in a field near the corner
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of Andalusia and Turkey Hollow roads, is hidden from the highway.
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``It feels weird. There's no road coming in. I couldn't imagine what
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it was. It's like a racetrack or something. You can't see it from the
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(Andalusia) road. It could have been here quite awhile, but the ears
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are still on the stalks. Maybe it's been a month or so.''
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``When I went in to tell my wife, she didn't believe me. She said
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`You're goofy.' And I knew you'd (news media) be skeptical.''
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To: All Message #: 2905
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From: Greg Booras Submitted: 17 Oct 90 14:22:00
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Subject: Ufo Lands In Milan IL ? Status: Public
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Received: No Group: UFINET (9)
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Part 2 of Ufo Lands in Milan?
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Can't explain circle
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Mr. Lawson, who has farmed for 42 years, couldn't explain the circle.
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He didn't believe it was a hoax, but wasn't quite ready to accept the
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idea of UFOs.
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``It couldn't have been the wind because the dike would have stopped
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it. And it's a perfect circle. The stalks are mashed in perfect rows.
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Maybe it was a UFO that made the circle when it landed and then took
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off,'' he said laughing.
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Rock Island County Sheriff Mike Grchan said his investigators were at
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the scene Tuesday afternoon, but didn't find any answers.
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``The investigators tend to believe someone did it,'' Mr. Grchan
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said. ``They found some footprints, but Mr. Lawson said the prints
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weren't there earlier and others had been at the scene since the
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morning. Other than that, it's totally unexplainable. It could have
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been the wind or a meteor, but there would have been a hole and there
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wasn't.''
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Mr. Grchan said his office probably won't pursue the incident unless
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another circle appears in the area.
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Mr. Lawson isn't alone in his curiosity. People have been doing
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research on the mysterious crop field rings since one was sighted in
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1976 when a farm worker in Hampshire, England, discovered a circular
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pattern in his field.
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Since 1980, more than 600 similar circles have been reported in
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Britain with about 250 recorded in 1989.
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