Mystery at Mud Lake

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UFO experts visited Liberty Township recently to investigate an unusual ice circle at Mud Lake. When Vaughn Hobe first noticed a blinding light veering through the trees of his back yard and into his Liberty Township home in mid-December, he was mesmerized for nearly 20 minutes.Ten days later, he discovered a 45-foot wide ring in the ice on Mud Lake, a private body of water abutting his property. It was surrounded by a 60-foot halo melted into the snow and overlapping onto the shore. "It looked like something had come down with a cookie cutter and whoosh," Hobe said raising his hands to explain. Hobe, 52, shot pictures of the ice ring and sent copies to the Michigan Mutual UFO Network Inc. Hobe also noticed odd patterns in the ice, about 30 holes and what looks to be one set of footprints. Investigators specializing in UFO sightings and crop circles, gave up their New Year's Day holiday to visit and spend seven hours at possibly the first ice circle to have data gathered before it melted, said Jeffrey Wilson, an independent crop formation investigator from Dexter.

"These are extremely rare," Wilson said. "I can only think of six or seven that have been reported in the whole United States." Investigators don't believe an object fell on the lake, as the 3-foot deep lake is too shallow for dirt and plants not to splash onto the ice, he said. Using ice samples and data gathered, Wilson said the investigators are trying to discover if the ring could have formed naturally by water flow or melting effects.

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