Cerchi nel grano - Crop circles
April 25th 2003: Settimo San Pietro (Cagliari)
image: Paolo Gaddari - Christian Deiana
image: L'Unione Sarda (We apologize for possible errors in the translation) “On April 25, in Settimo San Pietro (Cagliari), a shepherd, owner of field of wheat, has noticed two concentric circles, respectively 30 and 20 meters of diameter. The ears simply resulted folded up to the ground, with no sign of visible traces” (Heramagazine) Two days after the discovery, on April 27th, an article by Giovanni Puggioni is published on the newspaper “L'Unione Sarda" Settimo San Pietro - Two great circles, with a diameter of around fifteen meters, have magically appeared yesterday on a green hill. There is an unusual concomitance, with the conference on the crop circles scheduled today in Quartucciu [...]. Too much evident and plebeian not to think about a nighttime blitz to give visibility to the demonstration organized by the Sardinian group of "StarGate". However, these interpreters of spatial signs (otherwise UFOs) they say not to know anything about it, and the same is for the farmers and the families living next to that field, they didn't notice anything strange during the night. The same can be said for the owner of the field, Gabriele Meloni, that doesn't know whether to laugh or to cry for the thousand ears crushed to the ground. Certainty there is a fact: as soon as people have acknowledged the two circles in the middle of the wheat on the hillock of “ Bi ' and Sinnai' ", hundreds of curious have invaded the zone, someone also armed with binoculars and cameras. On the path above the field - immediately renamed "field of the Ufos" - have arrived also the Policemen [...] but they should have find no traces of any kind. The author of the circles - if it deals with a joke linked with the conference of Quartucciu - has been smart in traceing the two circumferences, probably using a pivot and a rope. More difficult is to explain how has succeeded in stamping on the ground leaving the ears one close to the other, as if had used a roll presser. «It is not our stuff - says at the telephone Maria Luisa Businco, coordinator of the Star Gate group in Sardinia. However she assures: «I will go there and check out». The “Crop circles” have been object of study since many years, by the most accredited ufologists. «I have the feeling that on this very special phenomenon, we are making too much rumors, noise, confusion - says Stefano Salvatici - For sure it is a mixture of alien and terrestrial: I would say it deals with a way of communicating, from another world of which we yet don't know anything. But also in this case would be needed a deep investigation on the ground, on the ears and anything can contribute to give a concrete answer». The first sighting of the crops was yesterda morning toward the 8 o'clock, by Santino Mereu: «I have gone out to work in the field when I have seen these signs. Too much perfect to think about a joke». And then? Paolo Allegri, ecological operator in Selargius and Enrico Puxeddu, carpenter in Sinnai, says that is surely a joke: «However well organized and perfectly realized. It would be necessary to deepen, to check the center of the circumference». Luciano Mura, mason, takes advantage of the beautiful day of sun for a walk with his child Thomas, and the same do Paolo Aresu with his little nephew Francis. Other boys run and have fun inside the corp circle. Ufo or joke it doesn't mean. Life is beautiful, expecially outside in a sunny day. Two days still later, on April 29th, same newspaper and same signature, a new article speack again about this case. The title is: "The story of the circles. Lights and strange noises on the hill of the mysteries. Another analogous case kept secret in Villaspeciosa". Other indications originate by the website Cerchinelgrano.it, whose author tells her investigation on the spot (the complet article and report of cerchinelgrano.it are available in the italian PDF version of this page) |