Sign, Sign, Everywhere a Sign

    All right, I know this particular story takes place last summer, but I still find it interesting enough to write about. This story takes place up in Washington state, ten miles south of the Grand Coulee dam, in a field owned by Cindy Geib and her husband Greg. 
    A four-part crop circle appeared and was first noticed on July 24th, 2012; however, it was not the first crop circle ever to show up there: according to the local NBC affiliate, KHQ-TV, every couple of years new crop circles show up in Lincoln County. 
    Commenting on the previous circles, Lynne Brougher--the public affairs officer for the dam--stated that "there was no good explanation of how they got there." 
    That ended up applying to the new one, too; there was no sign that anybody had walked through the wheat field either to or from the design, causing Cindy Geib to comment that "It's hard to walk through the crunchy wheat and knock it down." 
    It's hard to dismiss it as hoaxers when somebody makes a statement like that. After all, humans have proven time and again that they're, when you get down to it, idiots, and idiots tend to leave traces, especially when they're idiots who like to spend their free time knocking down wheat into funny patterns (case in point: one hoaxer, during the crop circle craze, pressed the crops down to say "We are not alone," when, if he had wanted people to think aliens had done it, he should have said "You are not alone"). I mean, it is really hard to walk through wheat and not leave a trace; how do you cover your tracks at that point? 

     

    There it is.  

    While researching this particular crop circle, I found out that it was formed following an "active crop circle season in England" (Open Minds). Many crop circles show up in England; that was where the whole thing started, way back when. Actually, a lot of weird stuff happens in England, so they better hope they can actually back up their claims that they could defend themselves from an alien invasion (see my post "Can Britain Defend itself From Aliens?").

    But I'm getting off track. My point is that I think it's kind of weird how circles keep showing up in this county, yet without any traces of human hoaxers. The only thing that bothers me is how I can't find a single overhead still image of the thing--did nobody think to go up and photograph it?

    And come on, when anybody official, even just a public affairs officer, mentions that "there was no good explanation for how they got there," you know something's going on.

Up in the Sky

    I know this isn't exactly unexplained; almost everybody knows by now what this fiery object in the sky was, but it's still pretty dang amazing, and to see it you need to watch the sky, so I feel like it's appropriate to blog about it. This giant meteorite that blew through Russia sent out a sonic boom and shock waves that smashed glass and caused damage to both buildings and over 1,000 people. For those of you who don't know what I'm talking about or want to know more, here's an article about it:
     http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/15/us-russia-meteorite-idUSBRE91E05Z20130215
    And for anybody interested in video, YouTube has more than enough to satisfy that interest, like this video from RussiaToday: 
     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90Omh7_I8vI
    I've seen video of this thing one of the million times it was on the news; it was pretty freaking scary. A lot of people mentioned how they thought it was the end of the world and you know what? I would have, too.