UFOs, crop circles and bicycles

Photographer:  Pierre Beake

As a regular Examiner reader, I’m sure you’ve perused all the delectable news sectors that we have on offer at this site. You’ve probably picked your own favorites, but so far this year, the most popular Examiner for the Denver edition has been Jeff Peckman, the Denver UFO Examiner. Every week I marvel at his readership numbers, always ruing the fact that bicyclists are just not fanatical enough, at least not when compared to most UFO fans.

I was planning to write a piece about an elderly bicyclist in Bethpage, NY who died recently when his clothes caught fire while he was riding his bike home from the grocery store. The accident, tragic though it might have been, was not an example of spontaneous combustion nor St. Elmo’s Fire nor any paranormal cause. Rather, the man was smoking a cigarette while riding, his nylon jacket caught fire from the cigarette embers and his age probably precluded the agility necessary to get off his bike and roll around in the grass to extinguish the flames. Of course this is a sad story, but trying to gather a bit more information about this accident and other strange bicycling deaths took me to the connection to UFO news for which I’d been searching.

It seems in the early 1950s in France there was a plethora of UFO sightings, many of which were reported by bicyclists. Not so surprising, really, when you consider that in those first years after the Great War very few French residents had cars. And, a fact that probably has no bearing on anything, the French back then drank more red wine per capita than any other citizenry on earth.

But the best bicyclist sighting of a UFO came from the UK, where British bicyclist Mike Booth hit the perfecta by not only witnessing a UFO, but also witnessing the creation of a magnificent crop circle at the same time. Actually, Mr. Booth only saw a few indentations being created in the field as he watched 3-4 UFOs hover directly over that part of the undulating landscape. It wasn’t until the next day that another party discovered the splendid crop circle in a different part of the same field.

A crop circle investigator (there’s a “field” you might want to get into if your current line of work has been re-orged out of existence in the current economic fiasco) from Belgium was on the scene within 6 weeks (apparently investigating crop circles doesn’t have quite the urgency of, say, leaving your patio furniture out past the HOA’s deadline) and came up with some incredible scientific analyses and pronouncements. To net it all out for you, apparently this same type of crop indentation has been associated with other dome-shaped UFOs in the past. That’s way too suspicious to be just coincidental if you ask me.

Coming full “circle” to the French connection, it seems that a prominent French crop circle enthusiast who, strange though it seems, also had an abiding interest in UFOs, managed to photograph YAU (Yet Another UFO) flying over the very same field, only days after said Belgian expert had decamped.

I don’t know about you, but just reading about the wonderful experience that can be had on a bicycle is exhilarating and exhausting! Now that my eyes have been opened to the convergence of bicycling and paranormal happenings, I’m definitely going to try to look around more when I’m riding. With any kind of luck, I should be able to report a sasquatch sighting some time very soon.