Locals Baffled by Crop Circles Appearing in Washington State
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SEATTLE (The Blaze/AP) — Mysterious crop circles have appeared in an eastern Washington wheat field – not far from the nation’s largest hydropower producer – but area farmers preparing for the summer’s harvest find the distraction more amusing than alarming.
“You can’t do anything other than laugh about it,” said Cindy Geib, who owns the field along with her husband, Greg. “You just kind of roll with the theory it‘s aliens and you’re special because aliens chose your spot.”
Friends called the Geibs on July 24 when the pattern of flattened wheat was spotted off Highway 174, about five miles north of the town of Wilbur. The field is about 10 miles south of the Grand Coulee dam, which the Bureau of Reclamation says is the largest hydropower producer in the United States.
The circles resemble a four-leaf clover and remind Cindy Geib of Mickey Mouse ears. The design knocked down about an acre of their wheat. Some of it could be salvaged by combines when the harvest starts in a week or two, she said, but some will be lost.
In this July 30, 2012 photo provided by The Wilbur Register, crop circles are shown in a wheat field owned by Greg and Cindy Geib near Wilbur, Wash. The circles were first noticed on July 24, 2012. Crop circles have been a worldwide phenomenon for decades, and this is not the first one in Lincoln County.Credit: AP
“Of course, we don’t have alien insurance,” she said.
Crop circles have been a worldwide phenomenon for decades, and this is not the first one in Lincoln County. Similar circular patterns were left in crops in the Wilbur area in 2010 and in 2008 or 2009, Geib said.
Lynne Brougher, public affairs officer for the Grand Coulee dam, hadn’t heard about the latest crop circles but said the previous one was no cause for alarm.
“It seemed to be highly unusual,” Brougher said. “As I recall from a couple of years ago, there was no good explanation of how they got there.”
Still, she added, “it wasn’t a concern.”
The latest crop circle was first reported Tuesday by Spokane station KHQ-TV (http://is.gd/57FTpy). There were no signs that anyone walked into the field.
“We’re trying to figure out how they got out there without breaking any of the wheat. It’s hard to walk through the crunchy wheat and not knock it down,” Geib said. “At the same time, it‘s hard to think it’s aliens. It’s a bizarre thing to wrap your brain around.”
Geib’s daughter-in-law, Kelly Geib of Wilbur, says the crop circle has given the family something to ponder and chuckle about.
“The kids all like to say the aliens have come, and we’re happy to indulge them,” she said.
Crop circles that have appeared across the country and the world before have been attributed to pranksters. But that hasn’t stopped speculation, albeit lighthearted.
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Comments (83)
blackfeather
Posted on August 2, 2012 at 10:55am…possibly another “distraction” from the miserable failures of ovomit.
Report Post »JohnTwoFeathers
Posted on August 2, 2012 at 1:35pmIts Bush’s fault
Report Post »TexasHunter
Posted on August 2, 2012 at 5:03pmObama would tell them. We didn’t build that. Somebody else did.
Report Post »gouchrcouch
Posted on August 2, 2012 at 6:08pmlove the naritive to the pos.
Report Post »Stephen Markovich
Posted on August 3, 2012 at 7:26amOvomit‘ that’s hysterical!
Report Post »SanMoo
Posted on August 2, 2012 at 10:42amMickey Mouse—-done by young bored farmer kids!! They know when the wheat will be harvested and they did it right before he was to cut down the fields! How simple is that….aliens….I don’t think so!
Report Post »I come originally form a farm community….and the farmer kids used to do a bunch of things like that and mess with the wheat, shocked corn, and cows! I am sure someone is laughing hard over this. I think it is cool. :)
watersRpeople
Posted on August 2, 2012 at 10:41amThey might as well start having a lot of crop circles in Washington State, when they already have many invasive plants from Britain or other parts of Europe like the Yellow Archangel.
Report Post »sy212
Posted on August 2, 2012 at 10:25amHas to be a Democrat, Republicans all have to work and don’t have time for such nonsense.
Report Post »caveman74
Posted on August 2, 2012 at 10:45amrepublicans also know that vandalizing someones livelyhood isnt funny. No crop circles don’t cause a huge financial loss but still those farmers bought the seed, invested the time to cultivate and care for it. So every stock of wheat damaged is an indavidual slap in the face of the people who grew it. I don’t call that a prank, I call it destruction of private property. Note to all who would pull this sort of stunt, most American farmers own guns and don’t like people prowling around their property late at night
Report Post »watersRpeople
Posted on August 2, 2012 at 10:18amI wonder if the creators of these crop circles were making fun of Americans (and even perhaps baseball players), while they were making the crop circles – playing the song “Three Blind Mice?
Report Post »nobull14
Posted on August 2, 2012 at 10:12amPile O Crap
Report Post »JustInCash
Posted on August 2, 2012 at 2:13pmI have lived in eastern WA since 1968 and I have been around farming since that time. My wife’s family had a wheat ranch between Reardan and Davenport for 4 generations. There is no way to get to the center of a wheat field without destroying some wheat or making a trail of some kind!
Report Post »To suggest that some kids used planks to reach the center of the field, as some have suggested, is as absurd as any statement could be. Let’s get real people. This is a real story. Please use your intelligence, time, and efforts in a productive manner to give some insight to the phenomena.
I am not saying aliens caused this. It is hard to believe that a wind storm or a rain and/or hail storm would leave such a pattern. The wheat is definitely knocked down by something. What could cause this?
It is easy to post sarcastic, irrelevant insults. How about some real thought and ideas to solve the mystery?
THX-1138
Posted on August 2, 2012 at 3:24pmIt was People. (Occam’s Razor)
Report Post »JasonGoldtrap
Posted on August 2, 2012 at 10:11amImitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
Report Post »watersRpeople
Posted on August 2, 2012 at 10:02amThat’s amazing they travel light-years to come here leaving wonderful art in wheat fields. The more likely scenario is that a helicopter dropped off some people to make them, and then picked them up some time later.
Report Post »DDD
Posted on August 2, 2012 at 10:56amThe downdraft from a helicopter would cause more damage than a couple people’s feet. You can walk in a wheat field and not leave obvious traces (especially on aerial photos). Let’s not be silly.
Report Post »watersRpeople
Posted on August 2, 2012 at 11:08amPerhaps DDD, you know something we don’t. Would you like to enlighten everyone? “Let’s not be silly.”
Report Post »DDD
Posted on August 2, 2012 at 12:33pmMy husband flies helicopters for Weyerhauser. Your theory is silly.
Report Post »Miami
Posted on August 2, 2012 at 9:54amObama‘s mission has failed and they’re back to pick him up. It wasn’t Soros on the PDA but ET….
Light Years to go before he sleeps
Report Post »Cabo King
Posted on August 2, 2012 at 9:49amI blame George Bush
Report Post »betennant
Posted on August 2, 2012 at 10:05amHa, ha ha ha ha! LOL! :)
Report Post »Apple Bite
Posted on August 2, 2012 at 9:39amCollege kids with wood planks…
Report Post »Joyzee
Posted on August 2, 2012 at 9:27amlooks like mickey mouse00
Report Post »chips1
Posted on August 2, 2012 at 10:46amThe ears are too big. It’s Obama!!!
Report Post »4truth2all
Posted on August 2, 2012 at 11:59amMickey Mouse is actually a human sized alien rat … the invasion is comming … run !
Report Post »davecorkery
Posted on August 2, 2012 at 9:22amWow. It’s 2012. You must be baffled if the first thing you think of is aliens. Of the hundreds of crop circles in England there were 4 that could not be explained away by human activity. (according to the national enquirer). People were scared . Until the pranksters who did them showed up with video of how they did those last 4. Then everyone felt stupid.
Report Post »blackyb
Posted on August 2, 2012 at 9:47amScared of what? Be real. If those do have something to with with something not of this earth, they are very shy and all they are good for is to make circles. Maybe they like wheat. Give ‘em a bite of it and they are, obviously on their way. It is just something someone is doing, so don’t worry about it. People get bored. They play games.
Report Post »voicecheck1
Posted on August 2, 2012 at 8:50amufo-video-blog.com ^you all never saw The Tether Incident ? ufo-tv.com ^on youtube^ their is so much info out there its not even 1 bit funny because it is so Real
Report Post »jake-spoon
Posted on August 2, 2012 at 8:22amCrap circle.
Report Post »endgamer
Posted on August 2, 2012 at 8:20amI believe David Icke will give you some insight on how and why crop circles are appearing..
Report Post »Start here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdXkQpP67PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUkUX-B2S7U&feature=relmfu
00gabooga
Posted on August 2, 2012 at 8:15amWhy are there never any marijuana crop circles?
Report Post »GetA2J
Posted on August 2, 2012 at 9:49amThere are no Marijuana crop circles because the growers of those guard them with guns! LOL
Report Post »vtxphantom
Posted on August 2, 2012 at 8:07amWhere are you Art Bell ?
Report Post »4xeverything
Posted on August 2, 2012 at 9:24amHe‘s being held hostage in some third world country isn’t he? I do love Art though.
Report Post »SCREW-WINDOWS
Posted on August 2, 2012 at 8:04amLooks like the Ubuntu logo.
Report Post »cloudsofwar
Posted on August 2, 2012 at 8:03amthe farmers work hard to plant their crops then some nit-wits come in and make circles killing some crops in the process. arrest them and this will stop.
Report Post »KickinBack
Posted on August 2, 2012 at 10:09amGotta catch ‘em first, something that oddly has never been done…
Report Post »januscatinhat
Posted on August 2, 2012 at 7:48pmFeels like “they” are emailing the owners and observers, or writing a letter, using numbers and symbols–the origin of communication, computers–just everything letting us know they have come far to be near and give us hope–I am hoping… We people do not know how to do everything like “they” do… Feels like ET has grown up some and wants to be welcomed back now… Better go get busy planting wheat now… makes one kind of envious…
Report Post »randy
Posted on August 2, 2012 at 7:53amJust more proof it doesn’t take much to “Baffle” Obama Voters.
Report Post »You did say Washington State right?
Erik
Posted on August 2, 2012 at 8:15amThe Eastern half of the state is conservative….by a huge majority so do not think the whole state is that way. Not to mention the huge retired military population that tends to be more more conservative in the vicinity of Joint Base Lewis-McChord. And oh by the way, many of those in Eastern Washington are family farmers.
Report Post »zipzap
Posted on August 2, 2012 at 10:19amDems dominate 2 – 4 counties in the rain-soaked puget sound. There are a few others that lean Democrat, but as Erik said, Eastern Washington is solidly conservative. The wet-siders pretty much hold the rest of the state hostage politically. The politics of Eastern Washington are much more closely aligned to the conservatism of Idaho, which by the way gets a bad rap for a small enclave of “white supremacists” who took up residence there. They have pretty much died off, and never reflected the beliefs of the general population.
Report Post »GREENDOG
Posted on August 2, 2012 at 7:52amNewman!!
Report Post »Mil-Dot
Posted on August 2, 2012 at 7:48amCome on Blaze. Please with the crop circle nonsense. Maybe those idiot Brits buy that crap, but Americans don’t.
Report Post »RRFlyer
Posted on August 2, 2012 at 8:21amCome on Blaze, keep these stories up. It takes our mind off Hate for a few seconds.
Report Post »Shoot2Stop
Posted on August 2, 2012 at 7:44amET travels thousands, if not millions of light years to vandalize some farmer’s field. I think not.
Until I see some ET-circles in either the ocean or sky, I chalking em‘ up to kids with 2X4’s and rope.
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Report Post »bald stick
Posted on August 2, 2012 at 9:13amSeems plausible to me! Why wouldn’t they travel that far to make crop circles and drop off Democratic politicians that are destroying their planet? If I could travel that far, I would use the “crop circle” thing to divert attention from the real objective. Getting progressives as far away from me as possible!!! These guys are BRILLIANT!!
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on August 2, 2012 at 7:35amTheir code to the motherships circling the planet:
“Dont land! Pelosi and Farrakhan are here! Obama and Reid are here! Don’t let Biden push the red button anymore; he destroyed our ship and now were doomed – SAVE YOURSELVES!”
Report Post »OhSuzieQ
Posted on August 2, 2012 at 9:19amlol..good post Snow ;-)
Report Post »varptr
Posted on August 2, 2012 at 1:20pmIf they would travel 100 trillion miles to make wheat swirlies, imagine what they‘re going to do when they discover the executive poser’s record:
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Nixon brought the troops home, this guy has just made more widows and cripple people, jerkwad!
By selling trees to Asia, not approving solar projects, not setting wind stands, and by promoting plant farming (vs. grazing and animal farming) he’s caused more enviro-damage than all of the Amazon rain forest damage for 40 years! He’s a monster.
55,000 dead in Mexico, mass graves, allowing continued trade of guns for druhgs, thereby rigging elections, promoting crime and destroying our youth, education and public safety nets.
Has attacked over 9 separate sovereign nations, &just approved direct military &CIA interference in Syria.
Missile shield threatens WWIII, too conceited to look at Salt I & II, Reagan’s missile shield plan? ……..What?
Behind closed doors legislation
Has backed failure big and small, promoted inefficiency, created more entitlement morons than anyone in history, forget interstellar travel, this guy couldn’t even “dance with the Stars”, He‘s robbed success everywhere he’s found it!!!!!, And continues to do so!!!!
On second thought, go aliens!! I know someone that needs a swirlie.
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