Steve Moreno, Director of Psi Applications in Fairfield, California, and member of the Independent Crop Circle Researchers Association (ICCRA) directed by Jeffrey Wilson, reports that a large wheat crop formation was sighted on June 17, 2004, southeast of Fairfield, California, by Tharee Davis. She also took the aerial and ground photographs in this report. The farmer, who requests anonymity, was very angry about the intrusion in his crop and harvested the field on June 20th, erasing all residue of the original pattern. Steve Moreno writes about this recent crop formation that it was in a "mature 3-foot-high wheat field and consisted of an array of 39 circles in the form of a pictogram. The main body of the pictogram consisted of 11 circles and was approximately 300 feet in...

A new crop circle formation may have recently surfaced in a Cordelia wheat field, but it's gone now. News of the latest circle formation, discovered by a motorist passing through the Cordelia area, comes just after the one-year anniversary of the Rockville crop circle discovery. The earlier formation was also formed in wheat. Steve Moreno, founder of a Fairfield paranormal research firm that investigated the first circles, learned of the discovery Monday, although the landowner may have discovered the crop circles as early as a month ago, he said. The farmer is adamant about remaining anonymous and apparently "rubbed out" the formation soon after others learned of it, Moreno said. Tharee Davis, an artist who lives in Monterey but is familiar with Solano County,...

A mysterious design that appeared Sunday in a wheat field off south Main Street in Spanish Fork is being deemed as possibly nonhuman by supposed extraterrestrial experts. Nancy Talbott, who heads a science team called BLT (Burke, Levengood and Talbott) Research out of Cambridge, Mass. , sent local volunteers to the area Tuesday to do field work on the four-circle design. The two volunteers, identified only as Melissa C. and her daughter Hannah, were searching for microfungal anomalies in the barley; the presence of which, Talbott says, suggests some type of nonhuman interaction. "There's a lot of sacred geometric patterns in these circles," Melissa said, noting that one of the smaller circles was nonsymmetrical, a possible indication of extraterrestrial involvement....

A few south Spanish Fork residents awoke to an unfamiliar sight Monday morning when a mysterious crop circle appeared in a wheat field just off Main Street. The roughly 100-foot-diameter circle is located on the east side of Main Street, about 100 yards south of Spanish Fork Motors. Residents of the area said the circle must have appeared Monday because they didn't see it Sunday. Gustavo Lopez, an employee at Spanish Fork Motors, said he saw the crop circle Monday when he took his two sons to a hill that overlooks the area. "This morning a lot of people were standing on this hill looking at something, but I didn't know what," Lopez said. "Now I know why. I don't have an idea who made it, but it looks like it was made by machines." The crop design is...

It's the most intriguing crop formation seen in the West for years and last night wry observers were wondering if it's a coded message to our football boys. Hundreds of sightseers descending on a wheat field near Alton Barnes, Wiltshire, have been left pondering if it's a signal from an alien footie team telling our boys how to win a penalty shoot-out. And let's face it, Beckham could do with a few pointers on how to hit the back of the net, no matter where the advice comes from. But according to experts, the giant circles are not supposed to be footballs, instead this pattern apparently represents a diagram of an electrical transistor designed 100 years ago by the world's most mysterious inventor. Crop circle experts say it is uncannily similar to plans for one...

Explore a simulated crop circle or visit interactive stations during a discovery walk tomorrow in the "Crop Circle Experience" at Maize Quest, a multimaze theme park at Maple Lawn Farms in New Park, southern York County. Highlighting the event will be presentations by scientist Colin Andrews, who served as a consultant on the blockbuster movie "Signs," starring Mel Gibson. Besides sharing his theories, Andrews will show photographs of both legitimate and man-made crop circles, and discuss why he believes they occur. Andrews, an electrical engineer, is a former senior officer in British regional government, who advised officials in the Margaret Thatcher cabinet on the crop circle phenomenon. In a 2 p.m. program for families, Andrews will present a lighthearted...

Crop circles could finally have found their niche with news that leaving fallow patches in cereal fields could help reverse a decline in birdlife. Skylark breeding rose nearly 50% when small patches of cereal fields were left unsown, a two-year study found. Now farmers are to be offered government subsidies to clear the areas as part of a conservation push. And the trials showed that despite a rise in weeds on the unsown patches, farmers did not lose any yield. Experts say leaving two small patches bare per hectare could reverse a 52% drop in skylark numbers since 1970. "Crop circles once fascinated the nation; undrilled patches could be the new phenomenon, and one with a worthwhile legacy," said Dr David Gibbons, head of conservation science at the Royal Society for the...

Crop circles have been puzzling observers for decades. Not Robert Nichol. The director of Star Dreams, a documentary film about the UFO-related phenomenon, is quite sure what these precise patterns mysteriously carved into farmers' fields are all about. Along with other forms of activity attributed to extra-terrestrials, Nichol believes that "the whole thing is preparing us for contact. It's almost imminent, only a matter of a few years." The B.C. filmmaker, a former employee of the National Film Board with more than 25 film credits to his name, has turned himself into a travelling road show of the paranormal. He has organized a series of 20 screenings of Star Dreams from Victoria to Newfoundland.

Biophysicist W. C. Levengood is convinced that whatever causes the crop circle phenomenon uses a rapid and intense energy which produces cell changes in affected plants. By the summer of 2000, Levengood had studied plants from at least three hundred crop formations in Israel, Australia, Canada, the United States, England and Holland. He found a repeating pattern of biochemical and biophysical changes in formation plants and magnetic anomalies in soils which lead him to conclude that what was interacting with crop formation plants and soil was 'a spinning plasma vortex.' But what was creating the vortices? Now, American crop formation investigator Jeffrey Wilson and cropcirclenews.com are scanning nearly two hundred of biophysicist Levengood's original Pinelandia Lab...

Large crop circles with unbroken stems have mysteriously appeared in the Sunshine Coast hinterland. Residents of the small town of Conondale, west of Maleny, say they are baffled by the large areas of flattened grass. Crop circle enthusiast Chris White gave the complex designs an eight out of 10. "You can't imagine anyone faking these because the seed heads would be broken and it doesn't look like it's been trampled or crushed. "There were people in England who set out to do a hoax . . . but even they couldn't fake it."This definitely looks like the real thing." Retired teacher Kate Dash visited the circles on Ahern Rd and said she doesn't believe the patterns are man-made.