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Subscribe to RSSA farmer and his wife in Washington State try to figure out why their wheat field was targeted as the site of a mysterious crop circle. KHQ's Mike Perry reports.
A set of crop circles appeared in an eastern Washington wheat field last week, much to the amusement of the field’s owners.
“You can’t do anything other than laugh about it,” Cindy Geib, who owns the field along with her husband, Greg, told the Associated Press. “You just kind of roll with the theory it’s aliens and you’re special because aliens chose your spot.”
The crop circles were first spotted July 24, when friends of the Geibs noticed the flattened wheat about five miles north of the town of Wilbur, Wash. The field is 10 miles south of the Grand Coulee dam, which the Bureau of Reclamation says is the largest hydropower producer in the U.S.
The circles resemble a four-leaf clover. Cindy said they remind her of Mickey Mouse ears. The design knocked down about an acre of their wheat.
Greg, a fifth-generation wheat farmer, is set to begin harvest next week, and he said some of the crop will be lost, but there hasn’t been much harm done. Rather, it’s more of an inconvenience when he comes to that particular section of wheat.
“You just kind of brush it off, you don’t think too much about it,” Greg told NBC affiliate KHQ in Spokane, Wash. “There’s not really a whole lot that can be done about it.”
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These aren’t the first crop circles that have appeared in Lincoln County. Every year or so, a new set has appeared in one of the wheat fields, KHQ reported.
Crop circles in a wheat field owned by Greg and Cindy Geib near Wilbur, Wash., on July 30.
Lynne Brougher, a public affairs officer for the Grand Coulee dam, hadn’t heard about the latest crop circles but said the previous one was no cause for alarm.
“It seemed to be highly unusual,” Brougher told the Associated Press. “As I recall from a couple of years ago, there was no good explanation of how they got there.”
Cindy said those responsible for the crop circles near her home remain a mystery.
“We’re trying to figure out how they got there without breaking any of the wheat," she said. "It’s hard to walk through the crunchy wheat and not knock it down. They had to be fairly young in my estimation because it’s a long ways out, and they had to pack a lot of stuff out there to smash it down.”
Both Cindy and Greg said their family is choosing to remain lighthearted about the crop circles and all of the attention they're bringing.
“I think it would be kind of cool if it really were aliens,” Cindy said. “I think it’d be pretty cool.”
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The Twighlight Zone is not nonfiction. Just sayin.
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It's not a done deal that all crop circles are a joke. Watch the trailer for a good documentary that will give you some alternative info:
Proof!!
I am glad the farmers are taking it in stride and that this doesn't create a hardship for them. I want to know as well how the pranksters do this without leaving a trail showing how they got in.
The aliens beam college students in and then back out after they finish so it looks authentic.
Google it.
I heard rumor they were caused by a big robin farting.
ok bad dog, behaving now....
>:o):
They look like Olympic circles. Guess the Aliens were rooting for the US.
Must be the Vulcans doing a quick repair job on their scout ship. They are about 50 years too early. Not due to land until early April, 2063 in Montana.
And just how do you know they are not Romulans?
They're in Bucharest.
Could be Aliens, forming a hieroglyphic design into the wheat, to signal their fellow ships, 200 trillion miles away.
or kids with string.
I, Zar-Tan the Kriniculkan did it with my Junor Space Ranger metaformer, as part of my Nova Ranger project. This badge is for challenging and expanding the imagination of local life forms (wheat is not easily challenged).
We have many challenged people. You came to the right place.
Crop circles for navigation of alien motherships. Hurrumph. You'd think the super-advanced aliens would have figured out how to use GPS by now.
Using what, our satellites?
Theirs or ours. If they have mastered interstellar travel, I'd think they could handle earth navigation with ease.
It's not a done deal that all crop circles are a joke. Watch the trailer for a good documentary that will give you some alternative info:
Wonder why they only gave us lousy photo with nothing to see what this actually looks like?
MJ you are right, I have to fix it
They're Heeeeere!
There are no aliens, at least that's what god told me this morning over my Wheaties!
Every now and then, I get crotch circles. HOW do they DO that?! Dang miniature aliens!
If there were aliens capable of traveling through space, they would be smart enough to stay the heck away from this place!
That was true up until the 1970's, but then we created here the galaxy's largest repository of whale meat, the one resource we have that the rest of the universe does not.
We should have let the Norwegians and Japanese finish the job.
ok now make sure you laugh and make light of these stories.. that's very important guys! don't forget! laugh!
and action!
P.T. Barnum remains relevant even today!
I am a firm beleiver that a cluster of small twisters can cause this.
The "probing part " worries me :(
Sooooo 1990's
Veryyyyyyy interesting ..........
I just think it's Al-Qaeda, using secret codes in an attempt to disrupt, dismantle and destroy the western infidels. They're already using drought and storms to control our climate, in an attempt to starve us out of existence. LOL
You fools wouldn't be laughing if you knew what the Book of Revelations really says! Yeah, I know your response to this before I even read it! God's truth is immutable and inscrutable to mortals until the great unveiling, though the Hebrews were given ample warning before enslavement and destruction came. Two books in the time before Jesus: Isaiah and Jeremiahspelled out their end. The first book of Israel; the second book Judah! First the Assyrians then the Babylonians! Those that have ears to hear; let them hear~Those that have eyes to see; let them see!
These crop circles are a sign from God that the end of times are here? But these things have been showing up in places for over 40 yrs or more .........but God IS on his own time! Im with both God and the Mayans!!!
Doc....The Bible also states that anyone who calls someone a fool, is putting themselves in danger of hell fire, Matthew, 5 verse 22. You're the pot calling the kettle black. Best you be careful how you speak of your brethren.
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PHONETEXT HOMEI hope next time the take the "ILLEGAL ALIENS" back with them.
LOL. Good one