COULD there be alien activity at Central Tilba with extra-terrestrials attracted by the magic and majesty of Gulaga Mountain.
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The staff and students at Central Tilba Public School have been left wondering after the school’s general assistant on Wednesday found a series of what appear to be crop circles.
He was mowing the school grounds when he located the flattened grass.
School administer Linda Lonergan said he has mown quite close to them, but he reported there were no footprints of any kind nearby and they had sprung back up a bit from when he first saw them a few hours previous.
“They start from a centre and fan out into an almost perfect circle,” she said.
“The ends of some of the grass seems to be dead, looks like heat affected, yet all surrounding unmown grass has no dead ends!”
The circles were about 6 foot or 1.8 metres across.
“There was a smaller one close by also, but the grass has really sprung back up a lot. We have no idea what could have made them,” she said.
Just up the road from the school in the heritage village of Central Tilba is the Gulaga Gallery and Bookstore that actually carries a series of DVDs and books associated with crop circles.
A television out the front of shop is usually playing material about crop circles and other unexplained activities, but it is unclear whether is there any connection to the mysterious appearance of the flattened grass at the school.
Other more terrestrial theories include willy-willies or mini tornadoes or perhaps livestock or kangaroos lying down.
But Gulaga Gallery co-owner Sol Ramana-Clarke is convinced there is no earthly explanation for these Tilba circles.
While humans are responsible for some of the circles, he said he was 100 per cent convinced there were others that could not be explained.
“I can’t see any natural explanation for these given their random location and no signs of footprints,” he said.
“They do have some similarities to some of the unexplained circles, given they are a perfect, concentric circle with a tuft of grass in the centre.
“We welcome what could be the start of a crop circle phenomenon in the Tilba area and look forward to seeing perhaps more complex circles.”