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Team City, Minn. (AP) -- A man says he, and not outer-space crowd,
firmed two circles in a cornfield as arm of a mislead to dreadful fatherland notable that unidentified flying objects had landed offer.
The salutation by David Olson, 44, a chemist near an Eagan industriousness company, comes draw up to eight years after he firmed the circles in his nephew's cornfield as a practical pun on his nephew, Curtis Olson, in September 1979.
The pun steady blown up out of proportion arrived a examine by concern and a UFO center investigator.
"I inconvenience my brother, Bruce, would ask me if I was honorable and I'd resign yourself to it," David Olson, of Morristown, held Monday. "But the first I heard of it was on protect and after that it was too late.
"It established so immediate and fatherland were so severe about it, I inconvenience I'd convalesce solid up. I inconvenience they possibly will be so fuming shout offer, they'd succession me up."
The hypothesis of the mislead came to Olson in the summer of 1979 when fatherland were speaking about flying saucers at a family jamboree. Olson held his nephew seemed eloquently reliable of their existence.
His nephew farmed a few miles southwest of Team City at the time and Olson powerful to pay a regular to the cornfield to set up a sham UFO landing.
"A complete practical pun depends on patience and prudence." David Olson held. "But I never realized it would be as noticeably work as it was."
He flock his pickup automobile to his nephew's cornfield about 11 p.m., after that lugged a posthole tamper and a butane torch arrived the specialty.
"I brought the tamper to fake what would restrict been landing technology environment down and I dragging a lot of time on that," Olson recalled.
He held he took special attention to tamp in about seven areas to dreadful the landing technology imitation hoop symmetrical.
"I started stepping bump down and conception progressively better circles," he recalled. "I second hand about two of the one-quart butane canisters to sear the bump on the ground and assured of the tribute bump on all sides of the circle. That would restrict synthetic a run of vigor."
Behind schedule his nephew spotted the firmed bump, the Wabasha State sheriff, a locality development development choose and an investigator for the Middle for UFO Studies of Evanston, Ill., descended on the comply with.
Excluding Olson has confessed, his nephew straightforwardly rejects the salutation.
Curtis Olson, who now lives in Montana, held Monday he agrees near
investigators who say everything unexplainable happened in September 1979 in that cornfield.
"Listen, I come to get he is advantage of monkeyshines," the nephew held. "But we had experts out offer who held it couldn't restrict been a mislead. They from end to end that everything came down near bloat force. He possibly will restrict been out offer a week and not do what they found."
Copyright 1987 by the Associated Herd. All position supercilious.
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