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6 agosto 2003
Farmer discovers crop circles in a Quebec field
CTV News Staff



In a curious coincidence, a Quebec farmer has discovered 13 crop circles in
his knee-high barley field just as a film about the mysterious phenomenon is
taking hold at the box office.



Like something out of the new Mel Gibson movie Signs , Jack Peddie found the
13 perfectly spaced circles on his farm in Howick, south of Montreal, on
Sunday.



There were no paths between the formations, and no sign of how, or by whom,
they were made.



"I just couldn't believe it," said Jack's wife Gloria. "I thought it was
neat. It's perfect. That whatever it was that did it, could do it so well."



Apparently, no one saw or heard anything. The circles just allegedly
appeared out of thin air.



Crop circles, dismissed as hoaxes by some and studied fervently as signs of
alien life by others, are usually associated with farms in England.



There are people who claim to be responsible for at least some of the
circles.



"Over the years we started doing all kinds of patterns and as you can see
they're now very complicated," said British circle maker Doug Bower.



But Bower says he got out of the circle business a decade ago and yet they
keep appearing -- including a handful every year in Canada.



Paul Anderson, of the Canadian Crop Circle Research Network, says there were
21 reports of crop circle formations across the country last year.



Half of those came from Saskatchewan.



Anderson, like many others, is convinced not all the circles are hoaxes.



"It could be another intelligence that's doing, it could be scientific. We
don't know," said Anderson.



Anderson says he'll probably go see Signs , but he doesn't hold out much
hope for an accurate portrayal of the crop circle phenomenon.