Phantom and Monsters
Crop circle still unexplained
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Perhaps aliens got lost on the way to Area 51.
Or a CSU Monterey Bay student came up with a creative capstone project.
An elaborate crop circle in a barley field about
six miles southeast of Salinas appeared to have landed from out of nowhere Monday, when a YouTube video depicting its alleged discovery made its way onto the Internet.
By late afternoon, news of the circle outside Chualar had drawn curious onlookers from throughout the Salinas Valley.
Stamped in the middle of the field, the design covered about an acre and looked like a strange
computer chip with dots in the middle that some Internet observers interpreted as either Braille or Morse code.
Most crop circle enthusiasts were quick to call it a hoax.
But with the landowner apparently unaware of how it happened, theories were multiplying all over the Internet by press time.
Security guards from San Jose-based Echelon Security were outside the property Monday morning. They said they could not reveal their client, only that they had been hired to stop the area from "becoming a circus."
Ben Johnson, one of the guards, said the circle appeared either Sunday or Monday morning.
The guards were happy to lead reporters to the circle. From ground level it looked like nothing but trampled-on grass cut at different angles.
A representative from the company at its San Jose headquarters said he could not reveal when the firm was hired or who the client was.
The property belongs to Scott and Debbie Anthony. Reached at home where she was ill in bed, Debbie Anthony said she'd heard about the spectacle but knew nothing other than what she was seeing in news reports. Scott Anthony could not be reached for comment.
A man who identified himself as Hector at the ranch office said he had not been able to get out to the field to inspect the design.
In the 2½-minute YouTube video posted Monday morning,
two men appear to drive along Chualar Canyon Road before sunrise and see flashing lights in a field.
They get out of a compact car, hop a fence and enter a pushed-down area of weeds on a cultivated field.
"Dude," says one man, "are you seeing this?"
Among the first people to spot the crop circle from above were Julie and Pat Belanger, co-owners of the 111th Aerial Photography Squadron company.
Julie Belanger said they were flying in a Robinson R44 helicopter from South County Airport in San Martin toward Carmel when they spotted the circle.
"Flying through that area is not always very exciting," Belanger said, "and then, all of a sudden, that thing's there."
She said she had never seen anything like it in 20 years of aerial photography.
"I don't know about aliens," she said, "but someone very creative put it there."
Joe Pezzini, chief operating officer of Ocean Mist Farms, one of the largest growers in Monterey County, said he'd "never heard about (crop circles) around here."
The circles are typically discounted as hoaxes, and at times their creators come forward. But there are dedicated researchers throughout the country who try to verify their authenticity.
Jeffrey Wilson of the Independent Crop Circle Researchers Association said there was a "dead giveaway" this circle was a hoax.
He said it was too aligned with the man-made road, looked like human-invented Braille in the center, and the YouTube clip seemed similar to guerrilla-marketing techniques Wilson has seen.
"My guess is that ... it is commissioned work for an advertisement," he said. "Or a commissioned work for a production company making a documentary on crop circles or for some kind of film."
Wilson said it seemed to fit the mold of one professional crop circle-making group, Circlemakers.org, which has done work for the BBC, Nike, History Channel and others.
An email sent late Monday to the company was not answered by press time.
Crop circle researcher Nancy Talbott of the BLT Research Team in Cambridge, Mass., said that at first glance the Chualar circle appeared man-made.
"I looks very mechanical," she said. "... It doesn't look the way most of the genuine circles I've worked on look. That doesn't mean I'm right. - Monterey Herald
Check out the links to Echelon Security's. It's operations (the chip in the circle) may indicate a major clue to it's operational involvement, as if it's warning.
The face book page show links that this company is integrated, with the global electrical infrastructure.
I think circle is a warning of the next false flag operation. That there getting ready to drop the ball with a pending sabotage of a global grid collapse. And this co. very well could be involved in it.
Thus electrical component in the crop circle. They have the tentacles to possibly pull this off.
Thus the fast and furious destruction of the circle, so no one could put the puzzle together.
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