The Directors of The Seattle Museum of the Mysteries, Charlette Lefevre and Philip Lipson, were informed of a crop circle in Central Washington by Peter Davenport of the National UFO Reporting Center. Accompanied by Weird Science facilitator Bill Beaty, the Directors spent a unique Independence Day July 4, 2007 exploring this recently discovered crop circle near the town of Wilbur, Washington in Lincoln County West of Spokane. The heart of the crop circle is a large circle surrounded by four medium circles which are connected to four smaller circles.

According to the National UFO Reporting Center, the crop circle was first reported on Friday June 29th by a man who works for a local agricultural chemical company in WIlbur. An aerial photograph was taken on Sunday July 1st By Peter Davenport and Greg Leyva, a local crop duster.
According to a neighboring resident Pat by July 4th, the area had already been visited by several hundred local townspeople. There were search lights in the sky ³as bright as car lights² Wednesday night June 27th. The neighbor believes the crop circle developed Tues. night. Another local related also she believed the crop circle formed Tuesday night as it was discovered Wednesday. A number of local people interviewed by Lefevre and Lipson believed the crop circle to be legitimate relating a history of odd lights in the sky and odd behavior by animals on their farms in the nearby town of Almira.
The area is near Grand Coulee Dam.

Features - Legitimate or created?
The formation is approximately 150 feet in width and length.
The stalks of wheat grain are laid down flat against the ground. All the circles swirls are counter-clock wise (looking down) in the central ring, and in the eight outlying circles.
The center of each circle could be classified as typical of a ³bird nest² swirl.
A geiger counter reading did not indicate any unusual radioactivity.
No electromagnetic anomalies were detected.

As far as it is known this is the first crop circle seen in the state of Washington since 1998.
The Seattle Museum of The Mysteries is awaiting additional research but believes this formation is likely an art project given the lack of bent nodes, the simplicity of design and absence of anything mysterious.