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Pond Circles Appear In Western New York (VIDEO)

You've Heard Of Crop Circles, But What Are These Mystery Ice Rings?
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Crop circles in a pond? That's the first impression one might have thought upon seeing the mysterious impressions that formed in the cold water in Eden, N.Y.

Local resident Peggy Gervase was standing on the deck of her home Friday evening when she first noticed a series of perfectly circular holes in a nearby pond behind her house.

"I took a couple pictures of the pond and I put it on Facebook because I'd never seen this before in our pond," Gervase told Buffalo NBC TV affiliate WGRZ. "It's eerie, in a way, and cool in a way. It's crop circles, crop, pond, water, ice circles -- just circles."

Crop circles are widely known as patterns of circular formations that have appeared in the fields of many countries. Explanations ranging from man-made to natural phenomena to alleged extraterrestrials all purport to reveal what created the circles.

Commenters on WGRZ's Facebook page offered several theories for the icy circles in Eden, including meteorites, methane gas and, not surprisingly, alien visitors.

"Circles are an interesting phenomenon because you get quite frequently the opposite effect in slow currents in a river, say, at a bend where the water slows down on the outside of the bend," said Marc Dantonio, photo and video analyst for the Mutual UFO Network.

"The opposite effect I am referring to are 'ice circles,' and you can get perfect round circles of ice spinning oddly separately from the rest of the ice in the body of water as if a laser cut a small groove in a perfect circle all the way around to separate it from the rest of the ice," Dantonio told The Huffington Post.

But why would these ice circles have anything to do with actual circular holes in the ice?

"Slower moving water is more resistant to freezing than completely still water," suggested Dantonio. "Given the right conditions, where freezing has just begun, my personal feeling is that these ice holes are really areas where some underground springs that have been creating small currents in the pond have moved the water just enough to prevent it from freezing at the same time as the rest of the pond."

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Crop Circles
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June 30, 2009 - An elaborate formation from Milk Hill wheat field near Alton Barnes, England. The total length was 1,200 feet. (Image © Lucy Pringle) (credit:Lucy Pringle)
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This two-circle formation in corn (the second, smaller circle is in the distance) was investigated by the Independent Crop Circle Researchers' Association (ICCRA) on Aug. 21, 2005 in Coles County, Ill., and found to have elongated growth nodes as compared to control samples. (Courtesy of Jeffrey Wilson) (credit:Jeffrey Wilson)
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The "Sentence of Symbols" crop formation, measuring 1,020 feet long, was found on June 12, 1999, by U.K. crop formation researcher Charles Mallett only 150 yards from where he had been outside in a sleeping bag all night in Alton Barnes, Wiltshire. Possibly most astounding about this formation is that it was located in the same field at the same time as the one in the next image. (Image © Lucy Pringle) (credit:Lucy Pringle)
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This "Serpent" crop formation, measuring 500 feet long, was found in the same field as the one in the previous image, on June 12, 1999 in England. No one saw or heard anything unusual overnight prior to the discovery of these formations. (Image © Lucy Pringle) (credit:Lucy Pringle)
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This is a photograph of a complex geometric crop circle forming in the early morning hours, which was eye-witnessed by Art Rantalla on July 4, 2003. He reported seeing this crop circle swirl and form during the passage of a severe weather front passed through Dodge County, Wisc. The formation was evaluated by members of the ICCRA and found to have elongated growth nodes, expulsion cavities in the growth nodes, and other non-hoaxable effects. The next image shows another crop formation which appeared a month later in the same county and which demonstrated the same plant abnormalities. (Courtesy of Jeffrey Wilson) (credit:Jeffrey Wilson)
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This is a photo of another complex geometric crop circle that was discovered Aug. 8, 2003, in the same county as the previous image, also investigated by members of the ICCRA. It tested positive for growth node elongation and had expulsion cavities in the growth nodes (both unhoaxable effects). The next two images show close-ups of the plant abnormalities from these crop formations. (Courtesy of Jeffrey Wilson) (credit:Jeffrey Wilson)
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This is a close-up of an explusion cavity (a hole blown from the inside-out) resulting from the Dodge County, Wisc., crop formations of July 4 and Aug. 8, 2003. (Courtesy of Jeffrey Wilson) (credit:Jeffrey Wilson)
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This is a close-up of anomalous twisted seed heads resulting from the Dodge County, Wisc., crop formations of July 4 and Aug. 8, 2003. (Courtesy of Jeffrey Wilson) (credit:Jeffrey Wilson)
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This formation in corn was reported to the ICCRA by the local sheriff's department in Montgomery County, Ohio, who first spotted it from a traffic helicopter on Aug. 24, 2004. According to members of the local fire station adjacent to the field, a severe storm went through the area during which lightning hit the station and destroyed their communications equipment. The crop circle formation was later discovered and subsequently investigated by the ICCRA, which found growth node elongation, expulsion cavities, and higher concentrations of tiny, spherical iron particulates in the soil from the area of the crop circle as compared to control samples. (Courtesy of Jeffrey Wilson) (credit:Jeffrey Wilson)
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Biophysicist W. C. Levengood in his Michigan laboratory where he has analyzed thousands of plants from crop formations in the U.S., England and other countries. He reported in the botany journal Physiologia Plantarum that "a swirling plasma vortex" has interacted with many formation plants and soils he has studied. (Courtesy of Linda Moulton Howe) (credit:Linda Moulton Howe)
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Central twisted loop at bottom of wheat seed head found on July 29, 1999, in Avebury, Wiltshire, is the same biophysical change that happened in another wheat formation discovered on Aug. 6, 1999, in Whitefish, Montana. (See next Image). (Courtesy of W. C. Levengood) (credit:W.C. Levengood)
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This image from a crop formation found in Montana on Aug. 6, 1999 shows a similar twisted loop of a wheat seed head found in England on July 29, 1999 (as seen in the previous image). To cause this abnormality, biophysicist W. C. Levengood hypothesizes that spinning plasma energies hit the different fields at least three weeks before the crop formations appeared. (Courtesy of W. C. Levengood) (credit:W.C. Levengood)
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Investigative reporter Linda Moulton Howe at the "wheat fountain" center of a Morgan's Hill, Wiltshire, England pattern reported on Aug. 4, 2002. (Courtesy of Linda Moulton Howe) (credit:Linda Moulton Howe)
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Reporter Linda Moulton Howe collected wheat samples from this 445-foot-long formation found Aug. 8, 1993, in a field below the White Horse at Cherhill Down and Oldbury Castle a few miles west of Silbury Hill. Some wheat seeds near the formation were coated with a thin film of magnetite attracted to a magnet in biophysicist W. C. Levengood's Michigan laboratory. (Courtesy of Linda Moulton Howe) (credit:Linda Moulton Howe)
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Investigative reporter Linda Moulton Howe stands inside a 200-foot-diameter Fyfield Down wheat formation discovered July 19, 1999, in Wiltshire, England. The next image shows a diagram of what the entire crop circle looked like from the air. (Courtesy of Linda Moulton Howe) (credit:Linda Moulton Howe)
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This is a black and white diagram depicting the aerial view of the 200-foot-diameter Fyfield Down wheat formation of July 19, 1999. The previous image shows reporter Linda Moulton Howe standing inside the circle. (Courtesy of Andreas Mueller) (credit:Andreas Mueller)
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