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