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- From: dolan@noarlw.UUCP (Kent Paul Dolan)
- Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
- Subject: pigeon crop circles
- Message-ID: <9207222129.AA03975@helium>
- Date: 22 Jul 92 21:33:17 GMT
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- Arrived a bit early at work this morning, and noted about 80' from the
- front gate a flock of pigeons, over 100 of them, all milling around
- in a circle on the grass the height of a tall man, perfectly compact,
- with none outside the circle. As I made the turn on my scooter, a lady
- approached them, walking a large golden retrieverish dog, and the flock
- rose as one. The ground beneath their feet was churned as if by a
- leprechuan plowing a circular path.
-
- If this behavior is common and widespread, this might offer another
- explanation for the crop circles attributed by the credulous to alien
- spacecraft.
-
- Or it may just be friendly gathering time among pigeons, though I saw
- in my brief passage by neither mating behavior nor cocktail glasses
- anywhere in evidence.
-
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- --
- Kent, the man much too far from xanth.
- Kent Paul Dolan, C.S.C. contractor to Fleet Numerical Oceanography Center,
- Monterey, California. Making the world safe for tropical cyclones.
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