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Perhaps the most surprising formations of the 2005 season in northern Italy is this group of irregular circles near Parma. They attracted so much attention when they appeared alongside the via Emilia that traffic was blocked.
While the ordinary cropcircle is green like the surrounding field, the circles at Parola are tricolor: the green is the corona of alfalfa around the circle; the shiny yellow is the vine which wove around the alfalfa at the edge of the circle like basketwork, creating the effect of a yellow halo ; the black is the soil inside the circle where a great number of plants, roots and all, have been removed. Some of the plants that have been left inside the circles have one or more stalks sheared off by an unknown process.
Our observers noticed that the fine yellow vine which sprouted and wove itself so precisely around the edge of the circles in one single night, could not be found anywhere else in the field or in the neighboring fields.
This type of circle has continued to appear in the same area throughout the months of August and September and in particular, near the house of one of our observers, who noticed that the plants in her garden were radically altered, more flourishing, bigger, and flowering out of season.
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