Lethbridge,  Alta.  (CP)  -A member of an Alberta UFO group says  early 
    tests suggest four circles discovered in a southern Alberta wheat field 
    weren't  created  by pranksters.  "Well,  it's interesting  and  it's a 
    mystery,"   Gordon Kijek said last week after investigating the site in 
    an industrial area in the southern Alberta city of Lethbridge. Kijek is 
    the  director  of the Alberta UFO Study Group,  which was founded  last 
    year. "I can't tell you exactly what they are, because there are factors 
    which help  us differentiate between  something  man-made and something 
    which isn't,  but let me say they passed the test  we  gave them.  "The 
    grain is  bent  counter clockwise in three circles and clockwise in the 
    fourth.  the patterns consist  of  two large circles about three meters 
    across,  with a pair of smaller circles - each about one meter across -
    radiating from one of them.  "Also,  the grain is pushed down,  but not 
    broken,"  said  Kijek.  "However, when we walked through the field  the 
    grain  stalks  broke quite easily under our feet.  It was  quite  dry." 
    "Kijek said the soil within the circles was considerably drier than the 
    soil outside the circles. Researchers are still puzzled by crop circles 
    discovered in fields in England. And last year,  there were reports the 
    crop  circles   materialized in  at  least  a   dozen   fields   across 
    Saskatchewan, Manitoba and the mid western United  States.   Kijek said 
    there  are similarities between the Lethbridge circles and those  found 
    in England. The UFO study  group  is awaiting written re ports from two 
    groups of people who reported strange lights  in  the  sky northeast of 
    Lethbridge five or six days ago.