Updated Friday 18th July 1997
On Monday, July 7th, I was in Logan, Utah on vacation and read in the Herald Journal about a Crop Circle north of Logan (Richmond). I only got a chance to see it on the ground from the road. But when I left on Monday night by a plane, the pilot flew over the area and we noticed a second crop circle just north of the one found. Probably north of it by about 3 or 4 miles. I looked up the Herald Journal on the Internet and it seems they still have not found this second one. It is on the same side of the road and is close to a large white building. It is south of the building.
Reported by Joe Bailey
Another crop circle crops up in Cache Valley
Mitch Mascaro/Herald Journal
Automobiles pass below what appears to be Cache Valley's latest experience with the unknown north of Smithfield. The crop circle was discovered Sunday morning.
By Lance Pitcher staff writer
SMITHFIELD -- Gary Hansen, a farmer north of Smithfield's residential area and east of U.S. Highway 91, found he wasn't the only one interested in how his grainfield was doing Sunday morning. Some cars slowly rolled by, other cars stopped and there were some people who couldn't help but make it a Kodak moment.
Imprinted in the south-east corner of his field was a crop circle, the patterns some call the artistic work of alien beings. To others, it's an atmospheric phenomenon, and to some it's nothing but a prank.
"I don't know what to think," Hansen said. He has farmed in the valley for 25 years and said he can't explain it.
Hansen said he wasn't about to start worrying about aliens visiting his farm, but he didn't know what to make of it, and couldn't see any evidence of a hoax.
"If it would have been a lot of people, the grain would have been tramped down," Hansen said.
The crop circle was first noted early Sunday morning. Smithfield resident Bruce Tarbet was on his way to Richmond when he noticed a few cars stopped along the road and then saw why.
"I didn't see it yesterday," Tarbet said of a drive he made Saturday. "I'm kind of an old farm boy. I watch the ground a lot to see how things are doing. A lot of people say it may be some people from outer space, I don't believe that."
Brooks Hansen, 16, and his cousin Destrie Hansen, 17, said they didn't notice anything on their way home to the farm from the Cruise-in at about 1 a.m. Sunday. However, Brooks' sister Maegan, 15, said she thought she heard strange noises around 11:45 p.m. Saturday.
"I thought I heard something," said Maegan, who was celebrating a birthday Sunday. "It was like a buzzing beep sound. It was weird. I didn't pay any attention to it."
Hansen's crop circle was the second in Cache Valley in a year's time. Gerald Alder, a farmer in Providence, found a pattern in his field south-east of Macey's in Logan while harvesting his barley Aug. 23. The shapes of Hansen's crop circle and Alder's bear no resemblance. Hansen's crop circle does have all the characteristics of the crop circle phenomenon that became common in England. The stalks of the grain were not damaged; the stalks created straight lines pointing outward from the central circle; and there was no definite evidence of human involvement. The dried and brittle soil was not marred by footprints, and rocks in the dirt, which could have been disturbed in the soil by ropes, wooden boards or barrels, sat untouched.
Extraterrestrial Life? Or Joker Up Late at Night?
A News report from the Salt Lake Tribune.
