This article was published in the daily newspaper Le Bien Public, France, on October 14, 2002.
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Weird
In July, a crowd of the curious and UFO "experts" rushed in a field in Schoenwalde (East) where a mysterious circle had been drawn by corn lying flat. In fact, it was the reproduction of a giant pizza pie by a team of facetious television people.
As revealed this week by the team of Stern TV, at the origin of the joke, it is a pizza pie with sections of tomatos and salami which was used as model for the drawing, increased by a 1/100 scale.
Four hours were used at night to lay down the corn using tree trunks were enough to create a small sensation as of the morning of the following day.
The farmer owner quickly knew how to benefit from it: in front of the surge of the curious, he had then made pay for the access to the field and had started to sell sausages and memorabilia.
Specialists in ufology and scientists had advanced the most extraordinary theories then, some even speaking about natural electric phenomena.
"We simply wanted to show that one should not believe everything," comments on Guenther Jauch, famous host of German TV at the origin of the joke, questioned Friday in the daily newspaper "Bild."
(Thanks to CNEGU).
