The Odd Midwest

Experts check into crop circle found in Trevor, Wisconsin

Drunk aliens or drunk red-necks? you be the judge...
By Janine Anderson    

          Location: Trevor, Wisconsin (Mapped)
          File Under: UFO, Unsolved Mysteries, Crop Circles

UPDATEd: 06:30:05

ne in five crop circles are hoaxes, said Wilson, director of the Independent Crop Circle Researcher's Association. Unfortunately, he and the other ICCRA researchers just spent the last nine hours on a hoax. "I found a pole hole," ICCRA investigator Delsey Knoechelman yelled from the middle of the circle. "They used string," she said pointing out to Wilson the measurements and patterns used to make the formation from the pole.   View: Full Article | Source: About

     06:28:05 - Mary Sutherland, a investigator with Burlington UFO and Paranormal, learned of the circle earlier this week, when a man who lives near the field sent her an e-mail.

In the e-mail he told Sutherland about the circle, noting that it could just be that someone drove around in the field, but there are no tracks leading up to the disturbed area.

Instead, it's like a giant wheel lay flat in the field and spun, pushing the wheat over gently but firmly, so that it stayed bent but did not strip the grains from the stalks.

Sutherland went out to investigate after she learned of the circle. She took photos and soil samples, and she called in the experts. One was coming in Friday to take aerial photographs, she said. Another group was due to stop by the field today. They'll likely bring Geiger counters and audio equipment, and they will compare wheat from within the circle and without, to try and figure out if the circle is real or if it is a hoax.

Sutherland believes it is real. "If it was a hoax, they would have made it more visible from the road," she said. - What great logic skills she has. Maybe they just didn't want to get caught. The Aliens that is.

 View: Full Article | Source: Journal Times

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• Skeptic's Dictionary: provides a critical overview and analysis of the crop circle phenomenon.    
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Big rocks in trees, WTF?

I've heard of cats in trees but 200 pound rocks? - Photos and story by - Mike from Bloomington Indiana. Be sure too check out his site

          Location:  Yellowwood State Forest office (Mapped)
          File Under: UFO's, strange places, red necks, hiking

 From Mike Stamper sent on April 21, 2005
Subject: Gobbler's Rock"

"Have you ever heard of Gobbler's Rock. I have several photos of a couple of the rocks that I've been able to find and spot, although the photos really aren't that great and don't depict the scale of the rocks compared to the trees they are in very well. I can post what I have somewhere if you'd like to see them, although the rocks are something that probably has to be seen in person to be appreciated....

Cheers, Mike"

After receiving the following email I talked Mike into making the 3 mile trek and getting us some new photos of this very strange place. My next trip back to the Midwest I'm going to have to find enougth time to make the trip myself. This place sounds down right bizarre.

"Known to locals as URBs, or Unexplained Resting Boulders, officials can’t explain how the boulders got wedged into the branches in the first place. The huge rocks couldn’t grow upward with the trees because the saplings could not have withstood their weight. The boulders must have been placed high in the trees after their trunks were sturdy enough to support them. - from Brown County Democrat story."

Tonight mike sent the following email.

From Mike Stamper sent on April 25, 2005
Subject: Gobbler's Rock"

"Okay! Here's what I'm sure you've been waiting all weekend to see...big rocks in trees!

The first three photos are not the famous Gobbler's Rock, but some other rock that found it's way up into a tree. I included the first photo because you can see the bottom of the trunk of the tree in the upper-left corner that the rock is in. The trunk is kind of crooked and really stands out from the rest of the trees that have mostly straight-ish trunks. See it yet? It's located about three miles into the Scarce-O-Fat trail in Yellowwood State Forest and well away from any sort of access roads. The other two photos are my attempts to photgraph it.

The rest of the photos are of Gobbler's Rock. I'm not sure what to say about it though. It's a big rock, and it's high up in a tree. Nobody knows how the hell it got up there, and there aren't any sort of clues around  (or on) the tree that would indicate how it got up there. It's something you have to see in person though to appreciate, although it's not as impressive as the other one.

Enjoy! "

Read the story from Brown County Democrat story and tell us how you think the rocks got up there. UFO's Tornados, Nuclear testing, random chaos theories?

Directions to as written in the Brown County Democrat story

Gobbler’s Rock:

To find Gobbler’s Rock from the Yellowwood State Forest office, head north on Yellowwood Lake Road, then turn west on Lanam Ridge Road. From Lanam Ridge Road, turn left onto Indiana 45, and then quickly turn south on Tulip Tree Road. Follow this gravel road about two miles, and park in a small pull-off near the gate.

Using a compass, continue walking south about a half-mile, and look for a cleared, grassy area on the left. Look for an old logging path that leads east from the cleared area, and follow it east and south. Gobbler’s Rock is high on a south-facing slope overlooking a ravine. (GPS coordinates: N39 12.204, W86 21.955)

All of Mikes photos can be seen here.

Links:

          Road Side America

          Free Republic

          Unexplained Mysteries

          Virtuallystrange.net

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