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From: Chris Rutkowski <rutkows@cc.UManitoba.CA> 
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 01:27:30 -0400
Fwd Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 01:27:30 -0400
Subject: New Crop Formations In Manitoba


Oakbank Crop Formations by Chris Rutkowski

UFOROM received a phone call on Wednesday, August 26, from a
reporter at a rural Manitoba newspaper, describing an extensive
new crop formation discovered in a field near Oakbank.

The formation was found on Monday, August 24, by some children
who told their parents that "something weird" was in the oat
field bordering their property. Initially not believing the
children, the parents eventually went to look and were amazed to
find a huge series of circles, corridors and lines in the field.

"I listen to Art Bell on Dreamland all the time," said Ted
Grant, whose hobby farm adjoins the oat field. "This looked
exactly like what they've been finding in the USA."

Another neighbour, Tim Barr, managed to get a view from the air
in a borrowed airplane.

"It was really incredible from the air," he said. "You really
could only get a good look at the whole thing from the air."

UFOROM representatives Chris Rutkowski and Radine Isfeld visited
the area Wednesday evening and confirmed the discovery of three
separate formations covering an area of more than 350 by 100
feet.

The first formation encountered was a bizarre "maze," consisting
of a number of pathways meandering between one another and
looping back to each other, one path finally terminating in a
small, 16-foot-diameter circle.

"It was better described as a 'drunkard's walk,'" said
Rutkowski. "it was not really a maze at all because you
certainly couldn't get lost following the paths. But it seemed
to twist and turn very randomly."

Directly east of this was a very regular "cross" of five
flattened circles. The central large circle was 30 feet in
diameter, with four smaller circles, approximately 20 feet in
diameter each, at the four compass points, connected to the
central circle with a narrow pathway.

Not more than ten feet away from this, again eastward, was a
triangular formation of three circles connected by broad
pathways. These circles were 30 feet in diameter and the
pathways were four feet wide.

The formations were crossed by two separate sprayer tracks (tram
lines). Each formation nearly touched a perimeter path which
runs around the entire field. The perimeter path separated the
oat field from the property lines and yards of all the hobby
farms in the area.

"I have no idea why anyone would have done this," said Grant.

More details to follow.


-- Chris Rutkowski - rutkows@cc.umanitoba.ca University of
Manitoba - Winnipeg, Canada