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The August i s s u e of SKYLOOK had t h e r e ~ o r to f a 27 f t . d i a m e t e r r i n g l e f t on t h e f a r m of Leo P a u l C h a p u t , O n t 2 r i 0 , Canada, a n d t h e O c t o b e r d i a m e t e r r i n g i n t h e soybean f i e l d i s s u e c a r r i e d t h e r e p o r t of a 4 0 - f i of t h e Warren B a r r f a r m i n Iowa. B r i a n C . Cannon,'APRO.investigator and c o n t r i b u t i n g e d i t o r t o t h e fine-CANADIAN UFO REPORT, and f r e q u e n t c o n t r i b u t o r t o SKYLGOK, i n f o r m s u s t h e s , e c i r c l e s o f s c o r c h e d o r f l a t t e n e d v e g e t a t i o n h a v e . b z e n fcund n o t -only i n .Canada and t h e United S t a t e s , b u t a l s o i n .E;ur-ope, A u s t r a l i a - a n d S o u t h Amerika. N e a r l y a l l a y s a UFO h a s b e e n s e e n a t t h e t i m e , and-' i t would seem t h i s i n d i c a t e s s o m e t h i n g more t h a n j u s t c o i n c i d e n c e . . The Chaput c i r c l e w a s obse,rved on May 11, t h e morning a f t e r t h e fami l y had been awakened by t h e i r dog b a r k i n g and had s e e n a UFO. M r . Cannon , r e p , o r t s a n o t h e r c i r c l e , 3 2 f c ~ it n d i p m e t e r , and p a r t of a t h i r d one were a l s o f o u n d . I n e ~ c ho f t h e two l a r g e c i r c l e s , i n p r e s s i o n s had been made i n t h e e a r t h w h i c h , if j o i n e d by s t r a i g h t l i n e s , would have formed a p e r f e c t e q u i l a t e r a l t r i a n g l e . On J u n e 2nd, t h i s y e z r , a n o t h e r c i r c l e was s e e n b o n t h e J o h n McLaren 3 0 0 - a c r e f a r m n e a r Meath, O n t a r i o . The McLaren c h i l d r e n d i s c o v e r e d t h e c i r c l e m e a s u r i n g 35 f e e t i n d i a m e t e r . A r e ~ l t o r ,who had. b e e n o v e r t h e a r e a two d a y s befor.e, s a i d he was c e r t a i n t h e c i r c l e was' n o t t h e r e a t : t h a t t i m e . A 2$ f t . r i n g of b u r n e d g r a s s o u t l i n e d t h e c i r c l e . I n t h i s c a s e , no UFO had been r e p o r t e d i n t h e v i c i n i t y b u t n s o m e t h i n g ' v had b e e n . , there, Many UFO s i g h t i n e s i n Canada t h i s summer c e n t e r e d ~ r o u n d ~ A l l u r n e t t' e Lzke snd t h e Ottawa -Rivl r n e a r ' t h e C a n a d i ~ nF o r c e s B a s e a t Petawawa, - . Ontario. . .

C o n s t a b l e W. W ; M c Q u i r t e r , ' w h i l e p a t r o l l i n g Highway 4 1 s o u t h of Pemb r o k e on a c l e a r n i g h t t h e f i r s t week i n May saw a b r i g h t r e v o l v i n g It hung s i l e n t l y i n t h e . a i r f o r . t h r e e l i p h t hovering i n t h e northeast. o r f o u r m i n u t e s and t h e n s l o w l y dropped t o a b o u t t h r e e . hundred f e e t - . . above t h e g r o u n d , 500 f e e t f r o m L t h e o f f i c e r . He s t e p p e d f r o m h i s c a r t o o b s e r v e t h e r o u n d , - c l e a r l y d e f i n e d o b j e c t whose l i g h t b r i g h t e n e d and dimmed a t r e g u l a r i n t e r v a l s . T h e r e was no s o u n d , 2nd w i t h i n moments t h e m o b j e c t l i f t e d and d i s a p p e a r e d f r o m view i n t h e pre-dawn sky. IJ

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