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Air Force orders probe into crop circle formation in Krasakan, Jogotirto Village, District Berbah, Sleman, Yogyakarta
Yogyakarta - Indonesian Air Force chief Marshall Imam Sufaat on Monday instructed his staff to use a helicopter to take aerial photographs of crop circles discovered on Sunday.
Crop circle was formed in the rice water paddy field in Krasakan, Jogotirto Village, District Berbah, Sleman, Yogyakarta on 23rd January, 2011. The circle had a diameter of about 25-30 meters; residents are alleging it was created by a UFO.
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The rice field located in the village was like a beautiful work of art. There is no trace of damage to the rice crop around the circle. The circle that was formed from the plants are still green rice. Wind couldn't cause it because the shape is very neat and for animals it is also impossible.
Marshall Imam Sufaat said: "If we examine the photographs, we will possibly see if the patterns were in fact created with powers beyond human knowledge," Imam said as quoted by tempointeraktif.com, on the sidelines of the Air Force commander meeting in Yogyakarta.
Imam, however, declined to comment further on the geometric pattern.
The crop circles are in a paddy field and resemble a geometric artwork, while the other parts of the field remain untouched.
The patterns were first reported by a farmer, Tukiman, on Sunday at 6 a.m.
It can be seen from a hill named Suru Tempo, a distance of 200 meters from the circle, looking like a UFO shape.
Sleman Police Chief Adjunct Commissioner Irwan Ramaini is not sure whether it was created by a UFO or other natural phenomena. What is certain is that the great circle tracks are still being investigated scientifically. "We cannot ensure whether they are traces of what could be a natural phenomenon or something else," he said.
Indonesian government officials investigating the crop circle.
According to UFO Indonesian Community - or UFONESIA on its Twitter account UFONESIA - original crop circles are characterized by the stems being bent and not broken because they are subject to an intense localized heating process.
Based on observations of the UFO trail in Sleman, this is a genuine possibility, because the rice stems are not damaged and only bowed.
To prove the genuine crop circles or not, they take the data in the field and undergo advanced research in the laboratory. If these plants prove to be defective, then it is a human act.
"This particular crop circle is fascinating because of its striking resemblance to the muladhara chakra -- one of the basic chakras in Tantric Hinduism."
The pattern has already drawn thousands of locals and people from outside Yogyakarta, causing traffic jams in the vicinity.
Update:
Kompas.com quoted a Rejosari villager named Basori as saying that he had heard a strange noise like that of a helicopter on Saturday at 10.30 PM West Indonesia Time, landing on a rice field near his house.
Basori, whose house was located on the northern part of the crop circle-marked rice field said he heard the flying object's sound for thirty minutes.
"The sound was heard for thirty minutes but at the moment I didn't think much of it I thought it was only the sound of a passing helicopter," said the 41-year-old Basori.
The man's confession was confirmed by Ayu Rukini, 32. "I also heard the sound. At the time, I and my husband were watching TV. I thought it was an air force helicopter on a training flight," said Basori's wife.
The crop circle at the rice field that certain people in the world frequently associated with UFOs was first observed by Yudi, 20. Yudi was quoted by Kompas.com as saying that he first saw the crop circle when passing the rice field on his way to work on Sunday at 05.00 AM local time.
"When passing the rice field, I saw the paddies fall down but they formed a neat, orderly pattern," he said adding that he had not heard the sound Basori and his wife, Ayu Rukini, had claimed on Saturday night.
Yudi said he sat near Basori's house from Saturday evening to early Sunday at 03.00 AM but he heard nothing. "During the night, there was no rainfall... But on Sunday morning, there was this pattern (crop circle) in the middle of the rice field," Yudi said.
This crop circle could clearly be seen from the peak of a hill on the northern part of the rice field. Locals called the hill "Mount Suru", he said. Tens of people who were eager to see the unprecedented phenomenon climbed the slippery hill, including Syamsul Bahri, 37.
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