Monday, August 18, 2003
SASKATOON -- A Saskatoon research assistant with the Canadian Crop Circle Research Network says it's highly unlikely a recent crop formation near Wilkie was a hoax.
"I don't know how somebody would have made this," said Beata Van Berkom shortly after returning from the site to collect soil and plant samples and take measurements.
"If a person did this, they've got too much time on their hands, 'cause it would take forever, even if you decided to do it with a board and rope," she said. "It's not going to happen."
But Const. Dean Flaman of Wilkie RCMP said someone has admitted to making the crop circles as a prank between neighbours.
Van Berkom said someone could have flippantly said he created it.
"I think it was a joke that got out of hand," she said.
Van Berkom said the formation is beautiful, crisp and pristine, while prank circles are sloppy. She said if it was a hoax, she would like the perpetrator to contact her.
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