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Mark Fussell & Stuart Dike
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CROP CIRCLE APPEARS IN AN OLIVE GROVE IN CROATIA
From UFO Roundup 3.24 (June 14/98)
On Tuesday, June 8, 1998, a crop circle appeared on Hvar Otok, a large island in the Adriatic Sea just off the shore of Croatia. The formation was found beside an olive grove on a farm in Poljica, near Jelsa.
The "ellipse" was found in a hillside field of grass by Marko Huljic, owner of the olive grove. "Based on the opinion of the discoverer Marko Huljic, that kind of trail couldn't have been made by a car, or an agricultural machine."
"On the relatively straight meadow with the overgrown grass, two continuous ellipses in the range of 40 centimetres (20 inches) are there. The ground with the bent grass is one meter (3.3 feet) in diameter. The length of the external ellipse is 4.8 meters, and the width is 3.6 meters."
"The trail of this unexplained phenomenon has been confirmed also by Ivo Zupanovic, Vladimir Huljic, Nikola Zenchic and others." Meanwhile, "fantastic stories" about the crop circle "are circulating around Poljica."
Hvar island is 256 kilometres (160 miles) south of Zagreb. It's also 112 kilometres (70 miles) south-east of Sibenik, Croatia, the site of a reported UFO landing back in January 1998. (See the Croatian newspaper Free Dalmatia for June 9, 1998, "UFO at olive field near Jelsa?" Many thanks to Mirko Crnchevic for forwarding the newspaper article.)
Reported by Paul
Anderson
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