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What Sign is that?

Perhaps not many Singaporeans know.  There is a strange sign in Punggol Beach similar to those of mysterious Crop Circles in Britain.  Where exactly it is?  It is "embossed" on the western part of the inland beach as shown in the 2nd photo with an arrow.  What Sign is it?  This is something we are trying to analyze in this article.

The Sign is made of two concentric circles with their perimeters approximately 3 feet apart.  On the circles are other straight lines cutting through the circles.  Please see the 3rd and 4th photos.  For the straight lines, they are obviously tire marks of vehicles as you can see there are tire patterns imprinted on the them.  However, the mystery is on the two big circles.  The circles, at a first glance look a little like the other tire marks.  However, when you examine them more closely, you will see there are differences.  Here we analyzed the characteristics of the mysterious circles:

(1) The groves of the circles are smooth without any tire patterns. The groves are narrower and deeper than tire marks.   When you look into the interaction of the tire mark lines and the circles, you will see that the tire marks are overlapping on the circles.  That means the circles had been there before the vehicle ran through them.

(2) The gap before the two circles is merely 3 feet apart.  We all know that normal vehicles would have a wheel chassis of at least 5 feet wide, unless we are talking about a Mazda 121 or smaller, or a golf bugger.  So it is unlikely that the circles are made by a vehicle turning around.

(3) The circles are almost perfectly round.  They look as if a result of applying some machinery to draw the circles on the sand.  If they were created by hand, the circles would not be so symmetrical and we don't see any traces of foot-prints near the circles.  They look just like a mark left over by a huge chop stamping on the sand from air!

(1) The first half of the beach near the jetty.
(2) The location of the Signs is in the 2nd half of the inland beach.
(3) & (4) The Signs.

Who did make the circles?

While it still remains as a mystery on how the circles were made, we try to expand the question a further out: who did that?  As for the Crop Circles, there are many possibilities.  By surveying the environment around Punggol Beach, we list out the following possibilities to challenge your mind.

Possibility (1): marking made for some construction work.  As shown in the first photo, there are some civil construction works going on around Punggol Beach.  They are building bridges for new MRT/LRT, new housing, new resort and golf club nearby.  Perhaps that area of the inland is chosen for their next schedule construction site.  Or may be we are building a new recycling plant for our reverse osmosis NEWater there.

Possibility (2): marking for military actions, classified?  We saw a convoy of military lorries arrived near the circles.  The NS men came down and looked around the place for a while.  In less than 15 minutes, they drove off.  Would it be a routine patrol?  a break taken by the NS men?  or they were carrying out some tasks related to the circles?

Possibilities (3) and (4): these are the wild imagined ones - UFO landing or marking for ritual cults?

Possibility (5): a hoax.  Just like what most people believe for the Crop Circles, all these strange signs are man-made.  Some people might got inspired by the movie "Signs" and they want one for our home ground too?

Possibility (6): navigation marking made by the Aliens.  That is the answer from the movie.  Or may be it is real?

(1) The nearby areas of Punggol Beach are under construction.
(2) & (3) A convoy of military lorries driven near the Signs.
(3) Punggol Beach is full of wonders.  But be careful of the bush.  There is a green color snake as indicated by the red-arrow.

There seems to be no easy answer, and the mysterious Signs still remain as a mystery...  Or may be you have a brilliant idea to answer what that is??