Corn circles, the large round indentations in fields of crops which in the early 1990s sparked controversy and talk of alien visitors in Britain, have appeared in Finland, a newspaper reported Saturday.
Two of the circles - initially claimed in Britain to be the tracks of flying saucers but since widely dismissed as hoaxes - were found in the Helsinki suburb of Espoo and have set UFO watchers buzzing, daily Helsingin Sanomat said."At first we thought of reporting vandalism. But when we went for a closer look at the patterns, we realized that they could not have been made by humans," said Birger Nymalm, agronomist at Soderskog Manor where the rings were found.
"The patterns were made from the air. The field around them was completely untouched," Nymalm was quoted as saying.
The rings, the largest measuring about 90 ft. across, appeared on the night of Aug. 24 in two fields about two miles apart.
They consist of swathes of grain pressed to the ground, the stems snapped at the roots and lying pointed in the same direction, the paper said.