Two more crop designs have been discovered in the Cache Valley, and two more reportedly exist east of Huntsville in Weber County.
Todd Weaklend, an Ogden man who investigates crop circles as a hobby, discovered and videotaped the two new Cache formations Sunday after hiring a plane to photograph formations found last week in Smithfield and Rich-mond.Weaklend spotted the new designs south of Logan in Providence, a few hundred yards east of Seth Alder's field, where Cache County's first crop circle appeared last August. Weaklend said the new designs, which are close together, resemble the formations found in Smithfield and Richmond barley fields last week.
They are about half the size of the 257-foot-long design found in Alder's field last year, according to Weaklend. That formation is still faintly visible, he said, because the new crop Alder planted did not grow as well inside the design.
Weaklend has been told by a farmer in Huntsville that there are two crop designs on a mountainous plateau in the foothills about five miles east of town, not easily accessed on foot. Weaklend hoped to find those designs from the air Monday.
If the two formations near Huntsville are confirmed, at least eight crop circles will have been found in Utah in an 11-month period, including six in the past nine days. At least a half dozen others have been found in the United States since July 4.
University of Michigan biophysicist W.C. Levengood, who has found that the molecules of plants inside crop circles have been structurally altered, believes a natural phenomenon involving some type of energy vortex may be creating them. Others feel pranksters, the military or extraterrestrials may be involved.