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yet
risen
but
Rick
Timm
had
already
finished
his
breakfast.
Rick
was
planning
to
help
his
brother
check
on
some
of
the
family's
grazing
cows.
He
climbed
into
his
pickup
truck
for
the
drive
from
Okanogan,
Washington,
to
his
father's
ranch
30
miles
away
on
the
banks
of
the
Columbia
River
not
far
from
the
Grand
Coulee
Dam.
There,
at
the
bunkhouse,
he
met
his
brother,
and
the
pair
then
set
out
for
a
high
plateau
to
round
up
the
grazing
cattle.
Shortly
after
dawn,
while
driving
the
herd
of
cattle
from
a
wheat
field,
Rick
saw
a
mysterious
sight.
Some
of
the
cows
were
"rubbing
their
heads
on
something."
The
"something"
turned
out
to
be
a
flat,
right-side-up
slab
of
earth.
It
was
about
two
feet
thick,
with
a
pear-shaped
crown
of
mowed
grain
and
wild
grass.
It
was
ten
feet
long
at
its
longest
point
and
almost
eight
feet
at
its
widest
point.
Its
rim,
Rick
recalled,
had
a
smooth
wall,
and
it
looked
as
if
it
had
been
cut
by
a
giant
pear-shaped
cookie
cutter.
The
"earth
cookie,"
as
it
came
to
be
known,
weighed
at
least
two
tons
and
lay
in
one
piece
upon
the
ground.
It
had
not
been
there
five
weeks
earlier,
on
September
10th,
when
Rick
and
his
brother
formerly
had
been
on
the
plateau.
How
had
the
earth
cookie
gotten
there?
Rick
and
his
brother
decided
to
look
around
for
some
clues.
Seventy-three
feet
to
the
southwest,
in
the
middle
of
a
gently
sloping
hollow,
the
Timms
found
a
hole.
It
was
about
two
feet
deep
and
ten
feet
long
at
its
longest
point.
It
was
almost
eight
feet
at
its
widest
point.
Its
rim
had
a
smooth
wall,
and
it
looked
as
if
it
had
been
cut
by
a
giant
pear-shaped
cookie
cutter.
The
bottom
of
the
hole
was
flat.
Pieces
of
clay
the
size
of
a
fingernail
lay
on
the
ground
in
an
arc
between
the
cookie-cutter
hole
and
the
cookie-cutter
slab.
The
torn,
but
not
cut,
root
systems
of
the
hole
and
the
earth
cookie
matched!
Word
of
the
mystery
began
to
spread.
There
was
no
telephone
at
the
ranch
but
back
at
home
Rick
mentioned
the
mysterious
finding
to
his
brother-in-law.
He
mentioned
it
to
his
wife
and
she
mentioned
it
to
her
sister,
Sally
Azzano
.
Brianna, M Sarria
Rockway Middle
pause
Sally
told
William
Utterback,
a
former
geologist
for
the
Colville
Confederated
Tribes.
Their
reservation
of
a
million
acres
surrounded
the
Timm
property.
Utterback,
who
picked
apples
in
the
Azzano
orchards
during
the
fall,
drove
up
to
the
plateau
on
October
22nd.
He
returned
to
the
site
again
the
next
day
with
Robert
Bianchi
and
Gregory
Behrens,
former
geologists
with
the
Bureau
of
Reclamation
at
the
Grand
Coulee
Dam.
"At
first,
people
thought
we
were
pulling
a
hoax,"
Rick
recalled.
Robert
Bianchi,
after
visiting
the
mysterious
spot,
dismissed
the
possibility
of
a
hoax.
"For
one
thing,"
he
explained,
"if
it
were
a
hoax,
nobody
would
have
pulled
it
in
the
middle
of
nowhere."
The
mysterious
earth
cookie
was
in
an
area
known
locally
as
Haystack
Rocks,
a
spot
2,360
feet
above
sea
level
and
three
miles
from
the
nearest
house
or
road.
The
ground
around
the
hole,
made
up
of
clay
silt,
had
not
been
disturbed
by
a
motorized
device
of
any
kind.
Formerly,
on
October
9th
at
8:24
a.m.,
an
earthquake
measuring
3.0
on
the
Richter
scale
had
shaken
the
county.
Behrens
guessed
that
the
seismic
waves
from
the
tremor
might
have
collided.
He
said
that
this
could
have
clustered
the
surface
waves
beneath
a
certain
point
in
the
ground.
Then
the
waves
could
have
popped
up
a
portion
of
earth.
Events
of
this
sort
are
reported
to
have
occurred
in
Ecuador
in
1797,
in
India
in
1897,
in
Italy
in
1908,
and
in
Japan
in
1949.
Utterback
did
not
agree
with
the
earthquake
theory
put
forth
by
Behrens.
He
said,
"Yes,
tremors
from
time
to
time
have
thrown
people,
rocks,
and
portions
of
sod
into
the
air,
but
no
way
could
an
earthquake
have
moved
a
chunk
of
earth
73
feet
sideways."
Utterback
thought
that
some
kind
of
airborne
vehicle
could
have
moved
it.
Perhaps
it
had
some
device
like
a
forklift
that
lifted
the
slab
from
its
resting
place.
He
said,
"Perhaps
it
was
done
as
a
secret
test
of
a
new
military
device."
The
county
is
within
striking
distance
of
two
Air
Force
bases,
Fairchild
and
McChord.
Utterback
also
did
not
rule
out
the
idea
that
aliens
from
outer
space
may
have
been
involved
in
the
mysterious
event.
On
October
24th,
John
Andrist,
the
publisher
of
the
"Omak-Okanogan
County
Chronicle,"
and
his
wife,
Mary
Koch,
the
paper's
news
editor
at
the
time,
became
the
first
members
of
the
press
to
view
the
earth
cookie.
Andrist
ran
his
wife's
story
on
the
front
page
of
the
October
31st
edition
of
his
weekly
paper.
The
story
came
to
the
attention
of
a
class
of
sixth-graders
at
the
Jefferson
Elementary
School
in
Spokane,
110
miles
to
the
east
of
the
site.
Two
days
later,
one
of
the
students,
12-year-old
Jessica
Bowers,
alerted
the
Spokane
office
of
the
U.S.
Geologic
Survey.
This
office,
in
turn,
asked
for
the
help
of
their Denver office.
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