(static sizzling) - [Man] And that is so strange.

You see what I mean in the center there.

-[OfficerÑ All counterclockwise isn't it.

-[Man] Not saying I disbelieve you, but someone else might.

(intense music) -[Kelly] Do you believe in UFOs?

(intense music) - Yes, I do.

Without a doubt.

I believe in UFOs.

The interesting thing is that the government is now having a number of committees that are being set up to really study it openly.

It's no longer necessary to try to prove it.

They're real, and they're here and they're for somewhere else.

And that's about all there is.

(intense music) -[Duane] I got into the office a little bit early.

I was doing some paperwork, and all of a sudden Kelly Reiser came into the office and he was all excited.

(intense music) He said, I gotta show you something.

It's hard to describe.

(intense music) - I guess I'd got up earlier in the morning.

It was hot, and I went to windrow, this field of barley before it got so hot in the afternoon.

Probably ten acres in the field, and that I could.

I came upon it and I could see it like several, probably 100ft away.

No.

(intense music) No footprints, nothing.

No disturbance of any sort.

I was above it.

It was an open station machine with no cab.

So I was able to get right close to it, stand up and get an aerial more or less view of the circle.

That's when I went and got Thad.

- I couldn't figure out what he was talking about.

But then when we got out there, I was like, I was.

I said, well, you need it.

We need to get somebody here to look at this besides us, because they're not going to believe what they're seeing.

(static) -[Duane] I looked out there and there was two circles.

One was a inner circle.

One was an outer circle.

And I says, did you go inside it to check what was happening?

He says, I have not been out there.

He says, that's barley.

If you go through there, we'll leave tracks.

And first thing I did, I call Offutt Air Force Base.

He laughed at me.

He says he just call the FBI.

I called World-Herald, KFAB, KMTV.

I called the White House at noon.

(intense music) The news came out about a crop circle up at Boyd County.

(gentle music) And then the phone call started coming.

(gentle music) And that's what the morning was on the on the 21st.

I got a lot of ideas from the town people and who came out.

(gentle music) I got a call from a newspaper man from New York saying that he heard about it.

And it's phony.

-[Kelly] Yeah, that's what I count.

-[Duane] And I said, well, how do you know you're in New York.

-[Kelly] They basically set up a crime scene and research if they could find any human activity in the ditch or anywhere around there.

(gentle music) -[Officer] 42ft from the outside to the outside.

(gentle music) -[Kelly] They looked it over, well.

-[Duane] There was no entry into the field.

None at all.

(gentle music) -[Officer] Nobody would.

Well, there's a path going out there now.

I couldn't keep anyone away.

-[Duane] Yeah I know.

Well, that's.

But there wasn't this morning when you and I were out here.

-[Kelly] No, I know.

-[Officer] When you windrowed, there were no tracks?

-[Kelly] There wasn't anything.

I was the first set.

(wind blowing) -[Kelly] The beard is about three inches long.

They were all gone.

They were clipped back to approximately, maybe an eighth of an inch.

There was no trace of them.

They were just gone.

(tractor engine rumbling) -[Kelly]The most peculiar thing I noticed is in the center of there.

(tractor engine rumbling) It's just like bent and spiraled.

Yeah.

-[Duane] It's like somebody took a drag and laid it down there and then just spun it right around.

-[Kelly] Do you see what I mean in the center there.

-[Officer] This is the center right here?

-[Kelly] Yeah.

-[Duane] Yeah, you can tell it right there.

-[Officer] It's all just starts laying the same direction.

-[Kelly] That's what I. That is so strange.

It's just.

And that grain is good and tall, and it just kind of wraps it around there.

(tractor engine rumbling) And that's something wind absolutely will not do to grain.

-[Duane] That's what they said.

There was no wind thing made that.

(tractor engine rumbling) I don't know what the hell it would be.

(tractor engine rumbling) -[Kelly] The barley itself was bent over approximately three inches up and just at a complete 90 degree angle.

Then the grain was in the weave.

- I started investigating what was taking place that night before.

It was, a big (gentle music) lightning display up at Boyd County on that night from about 9:00 to about 11:00.

It was phenomenal.

(gentle music) - You know, some people thought it was hoaxers.

Some people thought it was Kelly and I that did it.

It was too clean a job and there was no tracks.

(gentle music) People had all kinds of opinions.

- But whatever it was, was created not by a hoax, but by some, I think some non-human intelligence.

(gentle music) And the way it is laid out with apparently no human touches, whether that's extraterrestrial or some non-human intelligence on this earth (gentle music) spirits or something like that, but not humans.

(gentle music) - I was not getting no results until I got a call from a professor in Michigan.

So I took samples of the barley it was standing, and then the barley that was all laid down.

He said to take soil samples and he says, hey, we're going to test it out.

And they would get back to me.

I got a letter from that professor saying that he believed there was pressure from the atmospheric is the thing that caused there to crop circle.

But he could not come to no conclusion how it happened.

So I took the advice and I said there is had to be something that had to be all related to the lightning strikes and what took place the night before.

- Doctor Levengood has is tried his analysis to say there's some kind of a plasma vortex, and he would like to make it some kind of a natural phenomenon, but there's nothing natural about it.

- I'm not thinking it was aliens, and I'm not really buying that it was a natural event, but it could have been.

(gentle music) I just thought it was pretty neat that it happened here and and everybody that showed up to see it, I (gentle music) it was it was quite a stir for a month.

- There ended up being thousands of people came in looking at it and just stand there for hours and just be fascinated like they didn't know what they made of it.

I don't think it was made by a person.

I feel that it was some sort of natural phenomena.

That's my personal feeling with it.

But what it was, I don't know.

-[Jack] Kelly Reiser, the farmer, was running the combine going on in the field, and he saw this thing in the circle and saw it and stopped.

We have no explanation.

He didn't do it.

It's not a hoax.

And we don't know how it was done and what intelligence did it, but it's there and we still don't know why.

All these years later.

(gentle music) -[Kelly] One last question.

Do you believe in UFOs?

(gentle music) - Yes and no.

Well, there was no proof back then to, you know, if there was any kind of flying saucers or other people from other planets coming down.

I just left it at the imaginations of people, of what they think, of what it was.

Things could happen, and you could either believe it or not believe it.