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From: Jesse Ferrell (WeatherMatrix) - Offsite (ferrell{at}weathermatrix.net)
Date: Wed Jun 22 2005 - 09:20:43 EDT
ARTICLE & PHOTO:
http://www.thestarpress.com/articles/2/041454-5012-004.html
QUOTES:
"Callers to the newsroom reported seeing crop circles in a wheat field
along Windsor Road and 1000 west in Randoph County. The random designs made
it appear from the road that something had made the pattern without leaving
a path from the road. A local weather expert attributed the phenomenon to
recent storms
Weather phenom? Alien message? Strange marks in wheat field mystify neighbors.
It's a perfectly cinematic spot for crop circles, if in fact that's what
they are. A bona-fide alien couldn't have chosen better: a field of green
wheat undulating between a thick wood and arrow-straight 1000-W. Nearby,
two century-old farmhouses weather picturesquely.
And from the road, the strange markings that appeared in the field early
this week look truly impressive, like interconnected circles and arrows
with some secret meaning - something right out of Signs or X-Files.
From the air ... well, not so much. From the air, they look like what they
most likely are, the result of last weekend's turbulent weather.
Dr. David Arnold agreed. The Ball State University meteorology professor
looked at a photograph taken from a small airplane and reported, "This
looks very much like 'blow down' from thunderstorm winds and rain. I have
seen these patterns many times and feel quite confident they are weather
related."
Certainly they didn't have the eerie geometry of crop circles one might see
late at night on the Discovery Channel. If they were the result of a hoax,
their creators could use a math tutorial."
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