They've come late at night, holding flashlights, their beams cutting the dark in the middle of 1,000 acres of wheat fields.They've come in the afternoon under blue sky to lift their arms and pray. One group wanted to camp. Others want to take pictures. Crop circles may be Hollywood now, but out here, at the edge of Detroit's suburbia, they represent something more ethereal, and, said Mike Esper, who discovered three crop circles on his Livingston County farm two weeks ago, something more strange. "It gets weirder by the minute," Esper said. He discovered the three circles -- 51 feet, 10 feet and 8 feet in diameter -- as he drove his combine around the wheat field. Not wanting to destroy the evidence, he left a 3- to 4-foot perimeter of wheat intact around the largest circle. He called in a crop circle researcher to take a look at them. The expert, Jeffrey Wilson, who travels the country from Dexter, took measurements and studied the circles for three days last week. Wilson determined they weren't the act of man, that they were not a hoax, that they were the result of some unexplainable natural phenomenon. Esper promptly e-mailed the local news media. "I'm amazed by the whole thing," he said. "I wanted to leave it so people could see it." The flocks soon followed. "I'm getting calls from all over the place," he said. He loved the attention in the beginning, but by late last week, he began wondering if it was too much. Seekers can be found in his fields every day, usually in the afternoon.
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