Linda Moulten Howe is on top of things and has access to the fellow, Robert Ridge who found the rock. I'm surprised this rock is really quite tiny. An inch and a half by an inch an half. It's magnetic properties are intriging:

>"The first time we ever put a magnet to it, I saw that the rock was reactive to the magnet. It spins. The rock will spin when you hold a magnet over the top of it, like over one circle, the rock spins counter-clockwise. Then if you hold the magnet over the other side of the other circle, the rock spins counter-clockwise. "

"But, yesterday (July 9, 2008) when I went to a TV station, the rock wanted to spin clockwise when I demonstrated it for them. Nine times out of ten when I put a magnet over the top of the pattern side of the rock, the rock wants to spin counter-clockwise. But yesterday, for some unknown reason, it wanted to go clockwise. I can’t explain why that is."

"When you put the rock underneath a compass, I can take the rock and move it in a circular motion and the needle of the compass will spin with the rock."

Then Linda asks him:
>"WHAT DO YOU SAY TO PEOPLE WHO SAY THIS MUST BE A HOAX? THIS IS SOMETHING SOMEONE HAS PLANTED FOR PUBLICITY BECAUSE IT LOOKS LIKE THE 1996 ENGLISH CROP FORMATION?"

And he replies:
>"I just say to them that unfortunately I was by myself that day when I found it, but it would be up to them to prove it’s a hoax. We’re trying to prove that it is not, but we have exhausted most of our energies up to now trying to find something that would replicate the rock. We haven’t been able to find anyone who says they could make something like that. It would be such a fluke for someone to plant it and hope that someone finds it out there in the middle of nowhere. If you planted something like that, it might be 100 years before someone found it!".

Complete article <here.>