Posted: January 24, 2008
Pictures can be viewed at my main site at: http://www.hbccufo.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1466
HBCC UFO Research Note: There were other photos and more comments that I had written up on this case which do not appear here in this report below. Everything is packed up in boxes in our spare room and I have not even gotten around to looking through the boxes as of yet. This gives an idea of what the case is about. Also at the bottom of the page in the media section there are links to a number of photos.
On the evening of September 6th, 2001. Brent Miskuski owner of Central Air Corp. was flying home from the Vanderhoof, airport where I had noticed a formation of crop circles. The site is located approx:. 3 miles east from the threshold of runway 25 at the Vanderhoof airport.
Late afternoon on Friday, September 7, 2001 I had an email from Jennifer Crosby, reporter for Northern Television asking if I had heard of a new formation of Crop Circles in the Vanderhoof, British Columbia area. I told her no, I had not but if she would give me a little while I would be happy to check into this story to see if there was any truth to it or not.
After a few phone calls, I placed another call to the Prince George Citizen who informed me that indeed there was a report from a Mr. Brent Miskuski owner of Central Air Corp., he had spotted the formation of 6 circles in a field approx: 5 Ks from the airport in a farmer field.
I looked up the number for the small airport in Vanderhoof and made the call, Mr. Brent Miskuski answered the phone and I asked him if he may be able to help me. He was kind enough to supply me with the location of the circles, and how many there was in this formation.
He also sent me 3 pictures that he took from an aircraft while flying over the Crop Circle formation which can be found at the following three URLs.
The overview photo is courtesy of Brent Miskuski which can be viewed at the bottom of the page under the media section/links.
I made arrangements and prepared to leave first thing Saturday morning, September 8, 2001.
I arrived early in Vaderhoof at 9:10 AM, on Saturday 8, 2001 and made my first stop at a local variety store to pick up a couple of items, I mentioned to the store clerk if she had heard about the Crop Circles. She said she did, and went on to tell me about a foul, smoky odor her and her family noticed late the same evening the Crop Circles appeared. The smell was so bad that she got up and closed the bedroom window hoping to keep the unpleasant odor out where it belonged (outside). She also mentioned to me, she had no knowledge of any Crop Circles at the time of this foul smell.
(Investigator's Note) - This lady who complained about the foul odor lives in the same area the Crop Circle was discovered.
I continued on and stopped at another farm to ask for directions to the farmer who owns the land where the circles are located. I needed to get permission before entering his land.
At this stop I talked with an elderly lady who was out tending her garden, I introduced myself, and went on to explain about the Crop Circles, and I pointed up the road with a short description of the area I wanted to investigate, to find out who was the owner. This pleasant lady told me the same story I just heard from another woman in town, about a foul, smoky type smell in the air the night the Crop Circles appeared. She believes they took note of the foul scent in the air just after Midnight. She also went on to tell me that she was discussing the bad odor with another friend who lives next door to her, this other lady claims she also smelled the same smoky foul smell.
This was from 3 separate witnesses who confirmed that there was a smoky type smell in the air on the early morning the Circles appeared. Now if this has anything to do with the circles, I don't know, but it is good to make a note of this.
After talking to the elderly lady I continued up to the home of the farmer who leased the field where the Crop Circles were found to get permission to investigate. I talked to the man's wife and explained why I was there and if it would be ok to do my field work, she said there would be no problem and gave me permission. I also was holding a copy of the Prince George Citizen which had just come out the morning of September 8, 2001 showing one picture and telling about the circles in their field. She was so surprised to hear this news, she asked me if she could have the newspaper to show her husband when he got home, which I was glad to give her.
Back down the road about 4 miles or so I went to where I came to the field where the Crop Circles were located. After running around trying to find the location, and getting permission it was 12:00 (midday) when I first entered the field. (the crop circles could not be seen from the road).I followed along the edge of the grain field as not to destroy any of their crop. (approx:: 600 feet) then swung into the center of the field to look for any signs of the circles. From this point I was able to look over the field as I was up on a very small elevation in the field, and there was nothing to see other than grain blowing in the wind. I figured I had walked to far, so I cut, heading back toward the truck from where I was now, to where I came upon the first Circle.
For my records I have named this one Mickey Mouse (The Crop Circle) as you will note from the picture. There is the main body (circle) for the head, and two smaller circles almost touching the main body (the head) which reminded me of ears, and of course Mickey Mouse.
Below:I have given a description of the formation, the size of the circles and where they were located in the field.
Head - Circle # 1 Diameter - 30 feet Cir*****ference - 94.24777960769378 Area - 706.8583470577034
Ear Right - Circle # 2 Diameter - 16 feet Cir*****ference - 50.26548245743669 Area - 201.06192982974676
Ear Left - Circle # 3 Diameter - 17 feet Cir*****ference - 53.40707511102649 Area - 226.98006922186258
Circle Number # 4 Diameter - 17 feet Cir*****ference - 53.40707511102649 Area - 226.98006922186258
Circle Number # 5 Diameter - 19' 10" Cir*****ference - 60.004419683565054 Area - 286.5211039890232
Circle Number # 6 Diameter - 27' 9" Cir*****ference - 87.65043503515522 Area - 611.3617843702077
In all of the Crop Circles the Grain was not broken, it was like if it was pushed hard to the ground. The bend in each of the stalks were bent a couple inches up the stalk from the ground.
The Grain in Mickey's Head - Circle Number # 1 Was bent clock wise right to the ground until it reached the center where the grain became over lapping. (swirled on top of each other)
The Grain in Mickey's Right Ear - Circle Number # 2 Was bent counter clock wise to the ground until it reached the center where the grain became over lapping. (swirled on top of each other)
The Grain in Mickey's Left Ear - Circle Number # 3 Was bent clock wise right to the ground until it reached the center where the grain became over lapping. (swirled on top of each other)
The Grain In Circle Number # 4 - Was bent counter clock wise to the ground until it reached the center where the grain became over lapping (swirled on top of each other)
The Grain In Circle Number # 5 - Was bent counter clock wise to the ground until it reached the center where the grain became over lapping. (swirled on top of each other)
The Grain In Circle Number # 6 - Was bent clock wise to the ground until it reached the center where the grain became over lapping. (swirled on top of each other)
Note to Make By Investigator:
As seen from the aerial photo, there looked as if there may have been one person who walked into the circles prior to my arrival. There was a small path which lead to Circle Number # 1 but no other traces of anyone walking through the grain to Circle Number # 4. But I did not there was some braking in the stalks of the grain from Circle Number # 4 to Circle Number # 5. There was no other disturbance in any of the circles, and no more paths leading into or out of this area where the circles are located.
I also took notice of chunks of solid ground which looked as if it had been moved. There certainly wasn't much of this, but if you looked closely you could see where chunks of harder soil had been moved when the Crop Circles were created.
Grain Samples from each of the Crop Circles were taken, and bagged, also soil samples were taken as well from each of the circles. Other sample of each were taken from around the surrounding area for comparison. (Thanks to a buddy picking these up for me)
I also have taken pictures of the whole area, each of the circles and will have these developed Monday, September 10, 2001 and as soon as I pick them up I will scan these in and place them to my website, on this page.
Investigator's Note: This may, or may not be of importance, but I think it is worth mentioning with this report. Two weeks prior to this set of Crop Circles an article ran in the Vanderhoof Express Newspaper. The story was about people profiting on these sightings of Crop Circles, which turned out to be a hoax to collect a few dollars.
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Newspaper Articles
Crop Circles Return To Vanderhoof
By Omineca Express - Sept. 2001
For the second time, pilot Brent Miskuski has seen something strange as he flew over Vanderhoof.
On his way home to Prince George at about 7:30 last Thursday evening, Miskuski took off from the Vanderhoof airport over Sturgeon Point Road.
Pressed into the grain crop were six circles known as "Crop Circles".
"I didn't have my camera, so I went back out (Friday) morning and took some pictures," be said. "I don't know if anyone knows they're there. I didn't see any tracks of footprints going in there."
As a pilot for Vanderhoof Flying Service, Miskuski has seen this before. The last time this area witnessed this phenomenon was in late August in 1998, when 11 circles appeared in a field leased by Halltray Farms.
"Last time, Eric (Spier) and I were the first to see those, too," said Miskuski. "There are fewer now and they're smaller."
Spier, the pilot who spotted them first in 1998 agreed.
"I don't think these ones are as nice as the first ones," he said. "They look rougher."
Rough or not, the circles are already grabbing attention. Crop circle specialists from Vancouver, UFO enthusiasts and do*****entary makers are already on their way to the small town.
Brian Vike, an Unidentified Flying Object researcher from Houston was out Saturday morning, collecting soil and grain samples from the new circles.
"This is my first time looking at circles like this," he said. "It's really exciting."
Vike, who describes himself as an "open minded skeptic"; usually gathers reports of UFO Sightings in the area. He spent Saturday collecting as much data about the six circles as he could.
One formation of circles now being referred to as "Mickey Mouse's head" consists of three separate circles. The largest one is 30 feet across and is flattened in a clockwise spiral. The smaller two are 16 and 17 feet across the smaller one flattened in a counter clockwise spiral and the other clockwise. About 30 feet away lies another 17-foot circle in a counterclockwise pattern. Forty feet from that is a formation of two circles one is 27' 9" across in a clockwise spiral and the other 19' 10" in a counterclockwise spiral.
"Nobody had touched it before I got out there," said Vike. "There is one set of tracks out to one of the circles, but absolutely none leading from circle to circle and no other disturbances to the grain at all."
"The stalks of grain in the circles are all intact, simply bent over," said Vike.
"Nothings broken, just flattened," be said. "The spirals go in tighter and tighter as you approach the centre of the circle and they start to overlap a bit in the middle."
Vike also Interviewed several people in the area who reported a "smoky" smell on the night the circles were first seen.
"One lady said the smell was so disgusting they had to get up and close the window," he said.
Vike's UFO research has kept him hopping lately. He said Sightings are up almost 55 percent this year alone He's never encountered crop circles before, however.
"I hate to say it, but I suppose it would be fairly easy to fake them. That's why we take all these samples for analysis," he said. The samples will be tested for "just about everything", including magnetic traces, chemicals, and molecular structure.
"Man made or not," said Vike, "they're still cool."
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Crop Circles Return Three Years Later
by Gordon Hoekstra Citizen Staff, September, 2001
They'rrrrre baaaack !
Crop Circles have been discovered again in Vanderhoof, almost three years to the day they were firs found in a ripe oat field just off the airport runway. This time the circles -- an unexplained worldwide phenomena variously said to be the work of trickers, magnetic waves and aliens -- were discovered in a field about 5 kilometers from the Vanderhoof airport, or about 100 kilometers west of Prince George.
Brent Miskuski, an owner and pilot of Central Air, spotted the six latest circles Thursday evening on a flight between Prince George and Vanderhoof. Miskuski was one of those who discovered the first crop-circle formation three years ago. No paths or tracks were visible into the circles, said Miskuski, who made several low passes and took pictures from the air on Friday.
"It just appeared. It's like they were stamped out just like last time," he said. "It's pretty bizarre."
Miskuski has already been in contact with a Crop Circle researcher, Chad Deetken, who came to Vanderhoof in 1998 to take samples and investigate the information. The researcher said tests performed on the oat samples in a U.S. lab later confirmed the Crop Circles were genuine: that is to say there were cellular changes in the oats not found in known hoaxes.
Crop Circles have created quite a bit of controversy. There is mention of crop-circle formations back to the 17th century, and thousands have been recorded in modern times, with the majority found in southern England.Some have found to be hoaxes, where the grass is broken, trampled, bruised or crushed. In the unexplained formations, the stems are bent but not broken.
Mystery Crop Circles Found At Vanderhoof
Courtesy of The Prince George Citizen - Tuesday, Sept 1, 1998 Mystery crop circles found at Vanderhoof by GORDON HOEKSTRA, Citizen staff
An unexplained phenomena -- dubbed crop circles around the world -- has been discovered in the forestry and farming community of Vanderhoof, 100 kilometres west of here. Vanderhoof airport owner Brent Miskuski and pilot Larry Frey discovered 10 precise circles of varying sizes between 10 to 100 feet wide (three to 30 metres) in a ripe oat field just beyond the approach to the runway this weekend.
"This is bizarre, I'll tell you," said Miskuski. "It's one out of the twilight zone."
One of the local farmers said his dogs were barking out of control unexplainably Friday night, said Miskuski, adding there was no wind that night either.
Mifuskuski -- who took pictures from the air -- describes the oats as being bent over symmetrically and lying down very flat. There are no signs of trampling or disturbance, and there were no paths to the circles or between them, he said.
Vanderhoof resident Jay Bangs also viewed the circles from the air when he was flying with his father Sunday morning. He came back after the flight to get a closer look.
He thought there were maybe a half dozen "perfectly round" circles of varying sizes up to 50 feet (15 metres) wide.
Bangs described the oats as being all neatly bent over, with the oats intact on the stalks. "It was very precise."
It's creating quite a bit of talk in the community, said Bangs, who also took pictures of the circles.
Crop circles first appeared in modern times in England in 1972, according to The Crop Circular Internet site.
Since then, there have been about 9,000 reported and do*****ented circles -- about 90% in England but also in B.C.
About 40% of the do*****ented circles have been determined to be hoaxes, says Internet author Freddy Silva, where the grass is broken, trampled, bruised or crushed.
In the authentic, unexplained formations the stems are bent, normally about an inch off the ground, says Silva.
Crop Circles Make A Further Appearance In BC Field
[Original headline: Mysterious circles crop up again in B.C. field]
VANDERHOOF, B.C. -- Crop circles, a worldwide phenomena variously said to be the work of tricksters, magnetic waves or aliens, have been discovered again in a northern B.C. field, almost three years to the day they were first spotted in the area.
This time the circles were seen in a field about five kilometers from the Vanderhoof airport, about 720 kilometers north of Vancouver.
Brent Miskuski, an owner and pilot of Central Air, spotted the six latest circles Thursday evening on a flight from Prince George to Vanderhoof.
Mr. Miskuski was one of those who discovered the first crop-circle formation three years ago.
No paths or tracks were visible to the circles, said Mr. Miskuski, who made several low passes and took pictures from the air on Friday.
"It just appeared," he said. "It's like they were stamped out just like last time. It's pretty bizarre."
Story originally published by: The Ottawa Citizen / ON - Sept 09.01
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