Last summer crop circles were in the news with the release of the movie “Signs.” This time around, the Bay Area has been graced with the real thing. The recent design found in a Rockville wheat field in Solano County appears to be the largest one ever reported in the United States and has attracted hundreds of visitors.

Scientific analysis of the formation?s plants and soils, in comparison to controls from elsewhere in the field, could help investigators determine if the Rockville crop circle was simply made by stealthy humans flattening plants with boards. Many believe that this is the only possible explanation.
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Italian intelligence says Osama bin-Laden and his son Saad have been traveling to Iran from Afghanistan regularly for meetings with al-Qaeda members there. They use Iranian passports and identify themselves as businessmen. When they were recently spotted in Tehran a few days before the May 12 suicide strikes in Saudi Arabia, they were detained by government officials, who allowed Osama to leave. However, his son and his aide Ayman Zawahiri were arrested. It’s not clear if they’re still being held. Iran admits to capturing al-Qaeda operatives but denies ever arresting Osama.
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Brazil’s MUFON Director A.J. Gevaerd claims that the controversial Brazilian bedsheet abduction of Urandir Oliviera is a hoax and says Olivera is the leader of a large cult. On unknowncountry, we have reported on the many clashing points of view about this controversial case. Our science reporter Linda Howe went to Brazil and has reported extensively on Dreamland about her personal research on the case. Now you can hear Gavaerd’s opposing viewpoint by clicking “Listen Now” on our masthead. Don’t miss this special Dreamland report.

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Whitley’s interview with British Astronomer Royal Martin Rees about his new book Our Final Hour has inspired this new poll: “What do you expect the next 5 years to be like?”

In our last poll, Whitley was firing up his computer, getting ready to write his next book, so he asked you what his next work of fiction should be. Only 2% want a new novel about vampires, and 3% want one about werewolves. 21% want him to write about UFOs. 13% aren?t interested in his fiction, and that group should keep checking unknowncountry.com, because that’s where he plans to publish most of his non-fiction. Most of you (61%) want him to write a book about a lost civilization?and that’s exactly what he’s doing right now.

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