Brian Vike's Favorite
Cases.
Newspaper Article
Omineca Express Newspaper.
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 documentary 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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