Strange Formations in Cleveland Field

Residents in one neighborhood in Bradley County say they've noticed something strange in a field near their homes. And it has some of them looking for answers.

David Wall wanted to see it for himself when he heard about strange things in a Cleveland field from a friend.

"I went by her office one day and, 'We got crop circles', and I said, 'Well, I want to see them', so I went out and looked at them," he says.

Wall adds what they found were large distinct formations in the field.

Formations he thinks aren't man-made, adding, "if a person had done this as a prank, quite frankly, there would have been approaches to it."

You'd figure with food prices the way they are, pranksters wouldn't come out here to a crop and make crop circles, but even neighbors say they just don't know where they came from

"I always look in the field when I'm driving home because I see animals," says Laura Caton, who lives across from the field. "I just happened to notice the grass was laid down in a peculiar area, and I wondered for a moment if it was something more or if it was just the wind."

We went out for ourselves to look at the formations today.

Some have already been mowed down, but in others, you see the wheat still looks like it's been forced down.

Kim Frady with the local UT Extension Office says this can be a natural occurance.

He says it can be anything from simply the wind, to crops that get heavy due to rain accumulation up at the top of their stems.

"When that seed head starts to develop," Frady says, "that's when it gets really heavy, and the rainfall we had probably could have done that."

Wall has his own theory, saying "the most plausible explanation that I found, that I heard, are shifts in the magnetic forces of the Earth."

But he says he's pretty sure of what it's not.

"I guess ET could be involved, but you're gonna have to give me some stronger evidence for that," he jokes.

We also contacted the Bradley County Sheriff's Department. They tell us there have been no recent reports of vandalism in farm fields.