A dairy farmer outside Howick, about 40 kilometres south of Montreal, has discovered crop circles on his land.

On Saturday night, Marty Cullen, a farmhand employed by Jack Peddie, told Peddie he had seen large sections of a barley field crushed down in a circular pattern.

When Peddie went to work in the field yesterday afternoon, he discovered at least 12 large circular areas where the knee-high barley had been pushed to the ground.

One circle measured more than 20 metres in diameter. The total area covered by the circles was about 70 square metres.

Crop circles - large patterns mysteriously imprinted into hay or corn fields - are usually associated with English farms, but there have been several sightings in Canada in recent years, mainly in the Prairie provinces.

Bobby Martin, the boyfriend of Peddie's daughter, said the smaller circles were arranged next to larger circles in a regular pattern. Martin said no one had heard noises during the night.

Neither Peddie nor Cullen could explain how the circles got there.

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Montreal Gazette via Canada.com - Aug 5.02

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