Did a UFO land at in the field near the Conference Centre at Furnes (community near the town of Hamar, one hundred km north of Oslo. Ed.) last night? "Hardly", say the centre management and the farmer who owns the field. But no one can deny the fact that Furnes has now got it's own mysterious crop marking, exactly one year after three similar crop markings appeared near the church at Løten (neighbouring community).

No one observed anything last night. - Neither UFOs nor people trampling around in the field were seen. Still, a crop marking, some twenty metres across appeared at the field near the Conference Centre at Furnes.

At least fifteen persons spent last night at the education centre, but no one noticed anything unusual. Not even the night watch saw anybody sneaking around in the dark, says the manager of the centre, Arvid M. Karlsen. The Centre became famous all over the country earlier this year, when it held the first Norwegian recovery course for sex addicts (?!! Ed.)

Karlsen, who live in a house next to the centre, slept with his bedroom window open all night.

- I would have been awoken if anybody messed around close to my house while I was sleeping peacefully, says Karlsen. He thinks that the whole thing is great fun, and he wants to thank the perpetrator(s) for good PR.

- The manager can hardly bring himself to believe that a UFO has been around at all, even though the association UFO-Norway considers unidentified flying objects to be behind most of the field markings. They refer to them as "crop circles", and they say that the circles first appeared in USA in the 1950s. Others claim that Satanists are behind the mysterious symbols.

The field marking at Furnes consists of a circle, between seven and eight meters in diameter, from which six arms radiate symmetrically, ending up in smaller circles.

- Some call it art, but I call it wanton destruction. I would like to have been spared this, says Bjørn Østmo at Kval Farm. It is Østmo who owns the trampled field that now contains the cunusual markings. .

- I saw some kids on TV a couple of years ago. They admitted to having made a pattern like this in the area of Gjøvik (probably referring to the crop circles at Raufoss in 1995 and 1996. Ed). Let’s hope that this is nothing else than a prank, but I would like the perpetrators to come forward and apologize. It’s a pity that it happened this year when the crops are so good, says Østmo while shaking his head.