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Rings pressed about 5 inches into South Texas soil. Son saw bright blueish light the night before where the circles appeared the next day. Article at Linda's site.
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Updated September 20, 2006 (Originally filed September 14, 2006) Rio Hondo, Texas - Today I talked with reporter Allen Essex at the Valley Morning Star newspaper in Harlingen, Texas. Allen visited the site of the concentric rings with Star photographer, Joe Hermosa, earlier this week. There were three sets of rings all the same diameter "pressed down into the ground as if something very heavy had set down," said Allen Essex. "All of the rings were pressed about five inches into the ground and at the bottom of the rings were crushed weeds. The rings in the photograph were the most distinct. The other two sets of rings were not quite as clear."
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Beatriz Huerta, Arnulfo's wife, and their son, Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Armin Huerta (temporarily home from Iraq and now on travel again), noticed the three sets of concentric rings about 5:30 p.m., on Thursday, September 7, 2006. Arnulfo Huerta told Allen Essex, "We hadn't noticed them before. You can see that the grass was too high to see them (before the burning)." Huerta said he got a burning permit from the Rio Hondo fire chief because the weeds were so full of ticks.
Christmas Eve 2004 - A Bright Light Over Field
The Huertas told Essex that on Christmas Eve in December 2004, their son, Armin, saw a bright light right over the weed field where the concentric rings have now been discovered. Arnulfo told Essex, "My wife and I were at a birthday party and he (Armin) called us. He was real excited. There was a blue light, right out here where these circles are. Armin told us it lit up the whole inside of the house as if it were daytime." The Huertas realized their son was nervous about the brightness of the light and he did not go outside to see the source. Now the Huertas wonder if the bright, blue light might have landed three times in the weeds two years ago for reasons unknown.
September 19, 2006 Email Update:
C. B. in Utica, Mississipi, emailed today: "In the mid-winter of the early 1970s, I was a teenager doing one of my farm chores of checking the perimeter fences on my father's farm in Claiborne County, Mississippi. The farm is about fifteen miles south of Utica, Mississippi. We had cattle and my father wanted the perimeter fences checked daily. While heading back to the house on my horse, I found three perfectly flattened circles in the field a few hundred feet from our house.
"They were not concentric rings cut into the ground like those in the Rio Hondo, Texas, photograph on your Earthfiles webpage. The three depressions were perfectly round filled areas and about three feet apart. It was as if three extremely heavy perfectly flat round surfaces about 15 feet wide landed there and crushed the dried brush and grass till the pieces separated from the pressure. Or, maybe whatever it was landed, rose again, landed close by, rose again, and landed again close by. Whatever it was, it was quiet to have been so massively heavy.
"They were large and close together. I brought my father and mother to these large flattened areas to get their opinion. They didn't know what to make of them. My father was a retired Marine drill instructor with military service during WW2 and a highly trained observer, but this really puzzled him. Had we burned the dried weeds away like this (Rio Hondo) rancher did, we might have even found rings like his.
"Whatever made those perfectly round flattened areas had to have weighed several tons or more to flatten out the tall, stiff brush so perfectly. I can drive my nearly two ton Ford pickup over the same kind of dried brush and can't get it to flatten out the way that area was back then.
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I encourage folks to read the whole article at Linda's site.