Crop Circles Appear In Huntingburg
June 30, 2006, 01:17 PM EDT
Reporter: Drew Speier
New Media Producer: Kerry Corum

Many Tri-State farmers are busy with wheat harvesting, soybean planting
and tending to their corn crops.
But one farmer in Dubois County found something in his wheat field that
cut back on how much harvesting he has to do.
It's something he's never seen before - a crop circle left behind by
someone...or something.
"This was really kind of impressive. You hate to lose the crop, but it
was kind of impressive, the way they did the design."

David Ring is having a little fun with this one. He's been farming in
Huntingburg for more then ten years and never seen anything quite like
this - a huge crop circle in the middle of his wheat field.
"First I thought it was where sometimes, when you apply nitrogen to weed
it goes down on its own, but this was just too perfect a circle."
A perfect circle, complete with a design, about 150 feet in diameter.
Ring says, "Somebody spent a lot of time working on this, because it was
done to perfection, if you will, on this project."

The circle looks impressive in the aerial photos, but from the
ground, it's even more impressive - especially the way the wheat
lays so flat against the ground.
This part of Huntingburg is quite rural, but well traveled, with the
airport near Ring's fields. So how did this huge circle, in the middle
of a wheat field in Dubois County, get there?
Ring tells us, "It took either one person or several people lots of
hours to roll that much weed down - or the aliens - maybe it was
them, who knows?"

And maybe we'll never know. Ring's story is now the talk of the town -
it even made the front page of the local newspaper. It's certainly
something people will be talking about for some time to come.

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