1979-06-30 - Medina, NY

Crop circle seen in upstate Medina, NY at side of road near Iroquois Job Corps Center.

Crop Circle.

[Update: Event year and age corrected. Details added for clarity.] In 1979, I was 15 years old and a resident of Iroquois Job Corps Center (IJCC) in Medina, NY.

I often walked along the main road--Tibbits Road--that led onto the property. One mid afternoon, about a city block's distance from IJCC, I saw just off the right side of the road an odd flat circular pattern of green intertwined stalks of wheat. For some reason the joints (nodes?) fascinated me; maybe because they looked undamaged. In fact, the stalks were so flat and neat, that from a certain angle the pattern looked glossy.

The circle wasn’t very big, maybe about 7 feet in diameter. It was an awesome sight. At the time, I could not imagine what type of machinery had created the circle. (I had since learned that it was a crop circle) Its presence did scare me a little, because I had never seen anything like it before that day (nor since it).

I don't remember if I told anyone at the Center about what I saw. Likely, I told one of the participants.

Weeks later, on a late summer evening, me and three other residents left the property and walked very far to a bar in a neighboring town that only had about 3 or 4 letters to its name. It was nearing sunset, and mid way, the roads became pitch dark. There was only one or two farms with dim lighting. And there was moonlight, I think.

(I think we took Sour Springs Road all the way to its end then turned onto another road located near a 'Chapel' Road. But we were still quite a ways from our destination. My next clear memory is of us standing at a (white?) signpost that had the names of neighboring towns written in black and (**) saying we were almost at the bar. We went down a sloped area and walla! we had finally arrived.) Except for seeing 2 or 3 cars and dodging into nearby brush to hide, the trip seemed mostly uneventful. Soon after we arrived, an IJCC counselor came with the van and drove us back to the Center.

During the ride back, ** said that it took us longer to get to the bar than it should have (He had made the trip a few times).

Some time after the AWOL trip, I began having UFO dreams and one dream was of a UFO invasion, a dream that was so realistic, I still remember portions of it 40+ years later.

Fast forward early 1989 or early 1990 at the latest, I had the exact same 1979 UFO invasion dream.

Then, around year (2000?) I had a vague visual memory of one moment of that 1979 night. In that memory, the four of us are standing on a stretch of road in the pitch dark except for a small, dark, circular UFO. The craft was on or hovered close to the ground just off the road to my right. As of this writing, I remember the lights as being bright blue and that they lit the immediate area. I stood on the road, closer to the right, and at least two of my companions stood across from me, a few feet away. I wasn't afraid, and I knew we were separated on purpose. That is all I remember.

Did something happen that night? Maybe. I now know that the Tibbits Road area was notorious for ‘strange' activity and that there was one or two other stretches of road near IJCC that the staff wished to avoid after dark.

I went on Google Earth years ago and viewed the longest stretch of the route we walked. Via GE, I saw a few homes, and I saw a handful of circular areas on the ground near some of those homes. There were even a few near Iroquois Job Corps: two of them, just off the side of Tibbetts Road near where I saw my crop circle.