TZUTC: -0400   
   MSGID: 285.fidonet_ufo@1:3634/60 2d48d5b2   
   PID: Synchronet 3.19b-Win32 master/a2a9dc027 Jan  2 2022 MSC 1928   
   TID: SBBSecho 3.14-Win32 master/a2a9dc027 Jan  2 2022 MSC 1928   
   BBSID: RICKSBBS   
   CHRS: UTF-8 4   
   SUBJECT: FARM RING MYSTIFIES                                 FILE: UFO1153   
      
      
   SUN, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada-Aug. 21, 1990   
   CR: T. Sillivan   
      
      
                     FOREIGN NEWS   
      
        NOTHING UNUSUAL...EXCEPT DOG'S BARKING   
      
   By JAMES O'CONNOR   
   SUN Staff Writer   
      
        ST. FRANCOIS XAVIER-It's large, round and flat.   
        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.   
        It's making them scratch their heads.   
        "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.   
        "I never saw anything like this before in my life-it looks like   
   something's been rolled around and around."   
        Friesen-now 78 and a veteran grain grower-lives across the road from the   
   field owned by Joe Thomaschewski.   
        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.   
        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.   
        This has left an investigator in unusual phenomenon to conclude the circle   
   was "created" between Thursday and Saturday afternoon.   
      
                     POSSIBLE HOAX   
      
        "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.   
        The circle is quite similar to those found in England, where 1,000 have   
   been located throughout the years, Rutkowski said.   
        However, the phenomenon is quite rare here, he said, noting the last   
   discovery here was 12 years ago near Rossburn.   
        "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.   
        Farmer Friesen's wife, Katherene, said the phone lines are buzzing with   
   talk of the strange circle.   
        "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.   
        "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.   
        Another puzzled person walking in circles around the ring last night was   
   Dan Sommerfeld.   
        The 24-year-old area resident said it looked as if the wheat had been   
   throttled by Nother Nature, not by human hands.   
        'It looks like it was blown down-I dont't think anyone around here would   
   do anything like his," he said.   
        Astronomer Rutkowski said in addition to an alien visitor, other causes   
   are being studied, including a weather phenomenon and new seismic or electrical   
   activity.   
      
                    
     **********************************************   
     * THE U.F.O. BBS - http://www.ufobbs.com/ufo *   
     **********************************************   
      
   Jim Singleton   
   telnet://ricksbbs.synchro.net:23   
   http://ricksbbs.synchro.net:8080   
   --- SBBSecho 3.14-Win32   
    * Origin: Rick's BBS - telnet://ricksbbs.synchro.net:23 (1:3634/60)   
   SEEN-BY: 1/120 4/0 18/0 90/0 105/81 106/201 123/0 126 180 525 755   
   SEEN-BY: 123/3001 3002 124/5016 128/187 129/14 305 153/757 7715 154/30   
   SEEN-BY: 154/110 203/0 218/700 220/6 221/0 6 222/2 226/30 227/114   
   SEEN-BY: 229/110 317 426 428 470 664 700 705 240/1120 5832 250/1 263/1   
   SEEN-BY: 266/512 280/464 5003 5006 291/111 292/854 8125 301/1 320/219   
   SEEN-BY: 322/757 341/66 200 234 396/45 423/120 460/58 633/280 712/848   
   SEEN-BY: 712/1321 770/1 900/0 902/0 26 905/0 2320/105 3634/0 12 56   
   SEEN-BY: 3634/57 60 5020/400 5075/35   
   PATH: 3634/60 12 222/2 263/1 280/464 341/66 902/26 229/426