by Rigorous Intuition » Mon Aug 21, 2006 12:57 pm
<!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Crop circles mystify many</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br>Sunday, August 20, 2006<br><br>GENESEO, Ill., — The crop circles at Jim Stahl’s farm appeared as they always do — out of nowhere.<br><br>Amid a 90-acre field of soybeans Stahl discovered the oddity Saturday morning. He called the Henry County Sheriff’s Department, he said, but wasn’t entirely sure what to say.<br><br>“I said, ‘This is not an emergency, but I think you might want to take a look,’” he said.<br><br>About 11 a.m. Saturday, Sheriff Gib Cady issued a news release, treating the mysterious appearance with levity.<br><br>“The Henry County Sheriff’s office is investigating some damage to soybeans west of Geneseo,” he said. “The damage was several circles in the middle of the soybean field with no obvious explanation.<br><br>“If anyone happens to see a UFO with attached soybeans, please contact Henry County Crime Stoppers.”<br><br>The scene was so bizarre, Cady said, that the responding deputy wasn’t sure how to handle it.<br><br>“He called me up and said, ‘I haven’t got a clue, and I don’t even know how to write the report,’” he said. “<!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>We joke about it, but we can’t explain it</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END-->.<br><br>“There’s no path to the circles and no path from them,” he said. “There is just no sensible, reasonable, intelligent explanation for these things.”<br><br>Stahl had no explanation, either.<br><br>The five circles in his soybean field create a geometric pattern. Three of the circles are the same size — about 50 feet in diameter — and are connected like beans in a pod. The other two circles are half the size of the others and flank them on either side. They appear to be precisely the same distance from the main circle.<br><br>“My neighbor said he noticed them Thursday,” Stahl said. “The beans aren’t dead. They’re just lying in a perfect, clockwise circle.<br><br>“Even though they’re laid over, they’re still growing,” he said. “When I first saw them I thought some kids had driven into the field, but then I couldn’t find any tracks leading in or out of the field.<br><br>“Then I saw that the circles made a perfect design and the beans aren’t broken.”<br><br>...<br><br><!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.qctimes.net/articles/2006/08/20/news/local/doc44e7fbd98ee61971677788.txt">www.qctimes.net</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--><br><br><!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v226/JeffWells/subalbum1/crop-illinois.jpg" style="border:0;"/><!--EZCODE IMAGE END--><br><br><!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v226/JeffWells/subalbum1/crop-illinois-2.jpg" style="border:0;"/><!--EZCODE IMAGE END--> <p></p><i></i>
