Circles on the field and other formations. United States

An The following feature is reprinted from  the Anaheim (California ) bulelletin for tuesday, July 10, 1956 where it was found by member ross raham the builletin photographer took  16 frames of this phenomenon all of wwhich will soon be available for apro.al sterling of 111 s melrose st has pictorial proof of some as yet unexplained fantastic appearing  tracks around the desert cottage the pictures  were made bay a Anaheim & bulletin photographer  who helped  sterling attempt  to find ou the source of the mysterious marks Steriing has a cabin near Joshua Tree which he and his uife used lo occuil)’ on weekends. One recent Saturday night or early Sunday morning he and his wife were awakened by  a loud noise sterling  described it as a loud whoosh Thinking the wind had blown down a large piece of plasterboard he had leaning against the cabin’ Stel sterling and  his wife went back to sleep  on rising next morning  the night’s occurrence had been dismissed form sterling’s mind and after breakfast he began building a road for his truck form the cabin. it was while shoveling sans over cut sagebrush that he came across the first “track  a six foot long straight  indentation in the sand As his wonderment increased he remembered the whoosh” in thc night and went around to tl.le sldc of thc cabin where he found the plasterboard still in place against the wall. Hc thcn l’clllclntered that tlte desert night had bccn clear and calm with no wind when he had gone to bed- Upon further investigation Sterling found the stretch of rveircl tracks reached in a semi-circle  around his cabin. The tracks just began and as abruptly ended with no indication of front whence they came. Sterling theorizes they must Iravt’ ltcclt rnlrdt’ by sol)l(‘ lr-l)(‘ ol airborne vehicle:.’ Thc saud was not dtstrtt’bctl rn that’ctr cxcept where the intermediate tracks were laid down’ Ail evidences of the tracks point to a strange vehicle landing on Sterling’s property, travelling on thc ground and then taking off again. The hugc marks in the sand give the apPearance of being rnade by some huge caterpillar tractor but thcre is not a tractor made with the wide tread needed to leave the gigantic marks ;there were more than 20 of these  gigantic marks surrounding the house. each of these left a depression about three inches deep in the sand edge cutting sharply and the trailing edge leaving a small mound of sand behind  it which  would apparently  indicate the trace were actually in motion and propelling something over the desert