Chuck Haga

FOSSTON, Minn. — The first reports of something amiss in the wheat fields east of here came early Sunday from barking dogs and bawling cows, but no livestock is missing — no people, either — so locals seem inclined to doubt that alien spaceships made a stop at Dean Sorgaard’s place.

Still, after a UPS driver passing through the area relayed sightings of mysterious “crop circles” to Fosston Mayor Jim Offerdahl, the mayor drove out to check for himself.

“I’m no expert,” Offerdahl said, trying to sound both skeptical and open-minded, “but either somebody was out having some fun or we were visited by someone from another galaxy.”

Landowners in three locations within about 10 miles of Fosston reported
finding circular depressions in wheat fields over the weekend, large,
intricate and symmetrical patterns suggesting — or designed to suggest
— the landing of alien spacecraft.

At the Sorgaard farm, about six
miles east and a little north of Fosston, the largest circle in a
steeply sloping field of wheat had a diameter of 150 to 200 feet. “Dead
in the center, there’s a little circle, a hole, like they could have
had a rod or something in the ground as their center point,” Offerdahl
said.

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