- WARSAW (Reuters) - A Polish
town plans to ask the European Union for the equivalent of $126 million
to help it build facilities for hundreds of visitors lured by its mysterious
crop circles, a local official said on Tuesday.
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- Crop circles -- areas in farmers' fields where grain
has been flattened, often in complex interlocking patterns -- have been
appearing in Wylatowo, western Poland, for four years.
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- The circles have drawn interest from UFO enthusiasts
who believe they are made by alien spacecraft, while others dismiss them
as hoaxes.
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- "We are drawing up a formal request -- we'd like
to fix the sewer system and put up a campsite for visitors, both from Poland
and from elsewhere in Europe," Wylatowo town councilor Tadeusz Filipczak
told Reuters.
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- "I've got an exhibit for tourists set up in my place
where they can come and ask questions -- I mean, you can't just send people
out in the fields," he said.
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