What are they, who operates them, and where do they come from?

Taken from the Scottish Sun newspaper dated: Thursday August 26th 1999


Alien Rovers.

Invasion fear as weird rings appear on Minnow's pitch.

Soccer Minnows Albion Rovers fear an alien invasion - after weird black rings appeared on their pitch overnight.
UFO experts believe the twelve circles, only visible from the air, show the clubs crumbling Cliftonhill stadium is being used as a secret flying saucer site.

Last night Jimmy Lyndsay, assistant boss at the Third Division
strugglers, said: "I can assure you if we do see any aliens we will try
to snap them up on the Bosman free transfer ruling. Whatever caused these circles it wasn't us running rings round the opposition."

The marking's at Rover's ground in Coatbridge, Lanarkshire, were spotted by a photographer taking photograph's from a helicopter.

Each ring measures around five yards in diameter and they cover half of the patch............but the alien invasion has failed to score with
furious groundsman Hugh McBride, he said : "I would like to know what is going on. I have never seen anything like it before.........some of the circles seem to plot out a path to the goalpost's, so maybe somebody is trying to tell us something."

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