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Source: Grand Forks Herald

The first reports of something amiss in the wheat fields east of here came early Sunday from barking dogs and bawling cows, but no livestock is missing — no people, either — so locals seem inclined to doubt that alien spaceships made a stop at Dean Sorgaard’s place.

Still, after a UPS driver passing through the area relayed sightings of mysterious “crop circles” to Fosston Mayor Jim Offerdahl, the mayor drove out to check for himself.

“I’m no expert,” Offerdahl said, trying to sound both skeptical and open-minded, “but either somebody was out having some fun or we were visited by someone from another galaxy.”
As one group of visitors enters a crop circle site, another group exits the wheat field Monday evening east of Fosston, Minn. Herald photo by Eric Hylden.
As one group of visitors enters a crop circle site, another group exits the wheat field Monday evening east of Fosston, Minn. Herald photo by Eric Hylden.

Landowners in three locations within about 10 miles of Fosston reported finding circular depressions in wheat fields over the weekend, large, intricate and symmetrical patterns suggesting — or designed to suggest — the landing of alien spacecraft.

At the Sorgaard farm, about six miles east and a little north of Fosston, the largest circle in a steeply sloping field of wheat had a diameter of 150 to 200 feet. “Dead in the center, there’s a little circle, a hole, like they could have had a rod or something in the ground as their center point,” Offerdahl said.

Pranksters could have used that center point, lengths of rope and some grain-leveling boards to create the crop circles, he said.

Teenage pranksters, maybe? Inspired perhaps by the recently released X-Files film?

“The landowners told us that the dogs were barking and the cows were going crazy, braying in the middle of the night,” he said. “That was about 2 a.m. Sunday.”

But other evidence, or the lack of it, argued against the playful-youth explanation, according to the mayor.

“Nothing was left behind — no beer bottles or anything,” he said.

All the crop circles were left close to roads, allowing easy access (and escape) by pickup, spaceship — whatever. By the time he got to the site, the curious had pretty well trampled the sidelines, obliterating any tracks left behind.

“Still, my gut feeling is this is someone out having some fun,” he said. “But whoever did it put some effort into it.”

Mary Jo Rud agreed. She was part of a steady stream of visitors — human visitors, that is — who climbed a hillside of flowering alfalfa and thistle on the other side of a county road to get a better view of the circles.

“If this was the work of pranksters, they should go into design, or art,” she said. “They’re really good! Everything is absolutely symmetrical, and so well laid out. You walk up there into the circles and the land tilts, but the impression that’s there is still right on.”

Josh Curfman, who drove out for a second look Monday with his family, decided the design was too perfect.

“Yesterday, when I first saw it, I was ready to get out my tinfoil hat,” he said, meaning to thwart any alien attempts at mind control.

“Today, I’m thinking hoax,” he said.

He wasn’t wearing the tinfoil hat. And he didn’t seem at all alarmed at the sight of his children, Isaac, 6, and Morgan, 8, laughing and waving as they skittered along the four-foot-wide passages of flattened grain that defined the Sorgaard circles.

If it was aliens, why land here? What would they be after?

“Well, I live just a quarter-mile away,” Curfman said, with just a hint of a smile. “So maybe it was me.”

Dennis Rud, who lives in Fosston and teaches biology at Red Lake High School, took samples from the site, including wheat stalks that had been flattened and some that hadn’t been disturbed.

“I want to see if something burned or dehydrated or changed the kernels in some way,” he said.

Whoever or whatever landed or partied here, they left the wheat changed in one way — lowering the potential yield on these acres by a few bushels. That’s vandalism, a crime.

“And with the price of wheat these days, it could be a felony,” Offerdahl said.

Source: BBC

Alien Base:: The Evidence For Extraterrestrial Colonization Of Earth

“There are alien bases on earth”

World renowned UFO researcher Timothy Good tells BBC WM about the UFO sightings wave gripping Britain, the government’s secret liaisons with extraterrestrials and why a real ‘Star Wars’ might be coming.

Timothy Good is considered one of the world’s leading experts on the UFO phenomenon.

For more than 40 years he has studied the controversial subject, having interviewed thousands of witnesses worldwide, many from military, governmental and scientific backgrounds.

Source: Yahoo! News
NASA’s 2008 solar eclipse web site:
http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEmono/TSE2008/TSE2008.html

A total solar eclipse will darken some of Earth’s skies on Friday, but geography, weather, the economy and even the Olympics are combining to make it a hard and expensive for people to see it.

The total blotting out of the sun, which occurs when the moon’s dark inner shadow falls on parts of the Earth, can only be seen in mostly remote places: the northeastern edge of Canada, the tip of Greenland, parts of Russia, China and Mongolia, including the famed Gobi desert. For those who can’t be there, it will be shown live on the Internet.

Some of the areas where the eclipse will last the longest — including parts of the Arctic — have a 75 percent chance of bad weather that will make it tough to see. This eclipse at its peak will last for 2 minutes and 27 seconds.

Yet eclipse chasers can’t wait for the sky to darken, animals to howl and people to stare in awe.

“It’s so rare and unusual, it’s unfortunate to pass up any chance,” said NASA astrophysicist Fred Espenak, who has been chasing eclipses since 1970 and has his own Mr. Eclipse Web site and a NASA solar eclipse Web site. Espenak will be in northern China to watch the eclipse with a tour group.

More news of the Watchers, via: Associated Content

Former Apollo 14 moonwalker Edgar Mitchell claimed, in a recent radio interview, that not only have aliens been visiting the Earth for the past sixty years since the Roswell incident, but that Earth governments are aware of this fact and are covering it up.

Edgar Mitchell claims that sources at NASA, the military, and the intelligence community have described these aliens as, “little people who look strange to us.” The aliens have a small body frame, a large head, and large eyes as has been traditionally depicted in popular films and television.

Edgar Mitchell made the claim on the popular British radio show Kerrang!, which generally covers music and popular culture. The host of the show, Nick Margerrison, thought at first that Edgar Mitchell was indulging in a little astronaut humor until he realized that Mitchell was deadly serious.

NASA, of course, is trying to downplay Edgar Mitchell’s remarks and is denying that it is involved in some sort of alien conspiracy cover up.

Edgar Mitchell spent nine hours walking on the Moon in February, 1971 at the Fra Mauro highlands during the Mission of Apollo 14. Apollo 14 was commanded by Mercury astronaut Alan Shepard. With Shepard, Edgar Mitchell holds the record for the longest moonwalk in history.

Edgar Mitchell has long been interested in esoteric subjects, including paranormal phenomenon. He conducted private ESP experiments with some friends on Earth during his Apollo 14 flight. Later Edgar Mitchell founded the Institute of Noetic Sciences to conduct research into subjects he feels have been neglected by mainstream science, such as human consciousness and psychic phenomenon.