While visiting the Upper Chutes formation in July of 2007, I encountered these teenagers who, on their first visit to this formation on their father’s land, saw a “silver orb,” as they describe it, at the edge of a field where a crop circle had appeared the night before. (I took this raw footage with a digital still camera and there is a bit of wind noise.) What did these people see? A new form of energy? A UFO? A rare life form? You decide.

Upper Chutes’s formation, 2007 (photo by Simeon Hein)