From: Eustaquio Anddrea Patounas <socex@terra.com.br>
Date: Sun, 06 Jul 2003 00:15:13 -0300
Fwd Date: Sun, 06 Jul 2003 11:35:10 -0400
Subject: Crop Circles Draw Curious To Fairfield


Source: Woodland Daily Democrat - California

http://www.dailydemocrat.com/articles/2003/07/05/news/news90_.txt

July 6, 2003

Mysterious Crop Circles Draw Curious To Fairfield

A flight to get an aerial view of a series of crop circles
discovered earlier this week in Fairfield, netted another
surprise - a second field with a crop circle.

From MediaNews Group and wire reports

Located south of the site where local farmer Larry Balestra
discovered 15 large flattened circles and shapes in his wheat
field, the newly-discovered circle is smaller with a straight
line protruding from it. The smaller circle is located in a
field off Suisun Valley Road behind Solano Community College's
rear parking area. Rick Roach, Photo Editor of The Vacaville
Reporter, discovered the new circle as he and a local pilot were
angling for a photograph of the larger crop circles in
Balestra's field. "I said, "Hey! There's another one,'" Roach
recalled. He snapped several shots of the shape. Scientists,
curiosity seekers, media, UFO specialists and even a woman
wanting to cure her paralyzed dog have swarmed to Balestra's
wheat field at Suisun Valley and Rockville roads during the past
week after learning of extensive crop circles imprinted there
over the weekend. Balestra, of Suisun City, found the 15 large
flattened circles and shapes in his wheat field last Saturday,
one of them more than 140 feet in diameter. "What the heck?"
Balestra muttered to himself upon walking into the field and
making the discovery. He then pulled out his cell phone and told
his wife, "You won't believe what I'm looking at." It's unclear
whether aliens, teenagers or alien teenagers landed in the
field. Whatever the source of the circles, which are drawing
onlookers by the dozens, Balestra just wants his crop harvested.
"The harvester can't pick this up," he said. The farmer, owner
of Larry's Produce on Suisun Valley Road, said the 2.5-foot-high
wheat grass must have been pressed late Friday night or early
Saturday morning. Balestra noticed an odd shadow in his field as
he drove by Saturday morning about 6 o'clock.

Despite the conviction of many UFO buffs that extraterrestrials
have played a hand in previous crop circle occurrences around
the world, Balestra appeared convinced there was a much more
earthly explanation to his ruined field. "I guess some people
have too much time on their hands," he said. Balestra said
someone must have come into the field Friday night and created
the intricate designs. Fariba Bogzaran, 45, of West Marin
County, a professor of dream studies at J.F.K. University,
traveled from Berkeley after hearing of the crop circles. Before
getting a firsthand look, Bogzaran contacted the farmer's family
members to let them know that "after 10 years of watching crop
circles, they would not be harmed by it." In fact, "if it's a
genuine one, next year his crop will grow two inches higher,"
she said. Bogzaran traveled to England last year to study crop
circles "with experts in the field." She has been studying the
phenomenon for 10 years and spoke in Berkeley a couple months
ago on the subject. "The layout of this particular crop circle
looks very similar to early crop circles of early England,"
Bogzaran said.