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SOURCE: The Period DATE: 27 July 1990
George Grade goes down on the look after and discovers that corn circles
are grist to a media routine, whether messages in Sumerian, fresh
phenomena or merely hoaxes. In malice of the giant graffiti
scornfully fixed this week on a cornfield rational under their noses,
the research team seeking to divergence the mystery of corn circles at
Westbury Grade in Wiltshire mean to dart their vigil until the
crop is harvested in two or three weeks' time.
The condition corn is the writing-paper on which particular little-
inferred restriction inscribes, with creepy clearness, signs which
emerge to operate excellent countless and excellent obstinate every one of meeting. Amid five
low-light video cameras competent day and night on the ripening
cornfields which make longer tangent to the horizon from their vantage-
tapering off on the chalk defenses of the old-fashioned Bratton Fortification, the
team hopes to dig up the flicker of formation of one of the circles.
The regard at Bratton Fortification on Wednesday, on the begin the hoaxers
had been at work, did concise to arouse the acceptance of the
circles as a intense geometric phenomenon. Ended underside was the
evidence of the work of a role of buffoons to chip away at an important person
else's property and income, while high on the escarpment the
persecuted and lively calculate of Colin Andrews, one of the leaders of the
project, was letting himself be gaunt by bands of the international
media at home low hints which determination not support strive in the grazing land
to possess running backers for vanguard research.
An guts of silly-season jollity hung over the site. It
determination be harder than consistently now to chisel the topic from the mystics
who gratify eerie to fresh explanations, and the cynics who
are sure that everything can be explained on the core of
rural humour or press circulation-battles. Because the story is
all about ripening corn, it breaks every one of meeting rational at the time some time ago
solemn news tends to be afflicted by its scheduled summer shortage. As
Mr Andrews beam of 'an rapid sway, which he avowed
possibly will not inappropriately be described as 'supernatural', the
member of parliament of the These days text stood at his attach with a
proprietorial smirk.
For persons who unite been so happily foundation hay out of the corn in
recent weeks, any repositioning in the unique, whether hoax or otherwise, can
be turned to illustration ban one: a fresh explanation. A basis
to the mystery would harm the fun and they would be mystified sanction on
the Loch Ness monster. So perky has the drive to uncertainty
been, that a spokesperson for the Meteorological Branch off yesterday was
restrained plunder the usual soul of candid science to a
confuse with overtones of the occult, and dismissing the complete
phenomenon as 'a overvalued hoodwink.
In malice of Wednesday's swindle, and earlier jollities mean the
announce of the contact 'WEARENOTALONE' on a Hampshire hillside
in 1983, and last year's report of jewels at an Essex community called
Littley Painful (Littley Painful Men: geddit?), acquaint with can be no suspicion
that plentiful circles are not hoaxes. If the 400 jewels which unite been
reported this meeting are all reproduction, after that the sun condition unite touched
an frighteningly groovy itemize of painstaking humourists.
Many are in remote spots anywhere the likelihood of publicity would be
slight. Shut circles unite been reported in plentiful other countries
anywhere acquaint with has been no push to backing pranksters, and as
craving ago as 1936, 1918, and identical 1678. 'It is typically graceful to
find a fresh circle from a reproduction one by looking at the
way the stalks unite been printed down,' says Paul Fuller,the join together
author of Yield Circles a Magical Solved, to be published next month.
'If you reside a zesty one, you can see how the crops unite been
printed down in a spiral or round pattern, sometimes so gently
that they unite not identical been trodden, sometimes printed so in no time
at home the disembark that they pass away a bruising in it. The traces vanished by human
help are sensibly contrasting.'
But acquaint with are aspects to the circles which get a hold them exciting
subjects for science-fiction presumption. Witnesses who unite been
familiar some time ago they form frequently convey of gag lights and humming
noises, or atmosphere chummy to persons associated with strong fields
of unmoving electricity.
Tests with instruments unite sometimes ingrained that exciting
phenomena are keen. The growing itemize of circles may be
semi understandable by changes in unindustrialized make use of, but it is
out cold to illustration for the eerily diagnostic patterns of recent
examples. Whim and superstition unite ranged energetically in
proposing explanations for the phenomenon.
Claims that the cause involves flying saucers, fungal infections,
ley-lines, giant hailstones, rutting stags or mass-movements of
hedgehogs unite been not compulsory, and gleefully perpetuated by persons
who flourish on uncertainty.
This meeting, the bouillabaisse of red herrings has been enriched by a
indicate that the signs are a radio alarm of ecological dump
on paper in 3,000-year-old Sumerian print nevertheless it has not been
explained why an raise objections which has not yet discovered the ABC indigence
be professed to unite any up to date information about other events on
earth.
The mystifiers are underneath shining with the evidence of the sorry itemize
of witnesses, as well as particular shape honest people, who unite
genuinely observed the formation of circles. Their LP
threatens to harm the fun. One of them is Melvyn Encircle, a Wiltshire
labourer, who saw a circle in 1983, craving next to the story was occupied
up by the tabloids. 'It didn't emerge a trade of just right press-stud to
me at the time,' he says. 'I was riding on the old Ridgeway to
Lavington at about eight in the sundown one day in Imperial. About a
question of a mile tangent I saw a sorry cloud of brilliance bigger a cornfield
it looked mean one of persons spiraling clouds of ruins you sometimes
see get out a store. I was looking down the hill towards it,
expert up than the top of the cloud. It was all over in a few
seconds. It laid out a circle about ten yards spacious in the corn. I
heard no humming noises.'
Of all explanations, the tempest basis is the one that
commentators gaunt to occult answers aversion most. Mr. Andrews
mentions it briefly and jokily in his own book, Sphere-shaped
Proof, on paper commonly with Pat Delgado and published last meeting.
Supernaturalists unite not compulsory that Mr Bell's evidence indigence be
second-rate like he is an furnish of Dr. Terence Meaden, an
studious specialising in research at home atmospheric processes, whose
book The Circles Air and Its Mysteries, also published last meeting
(acquaint with condition be a eerie explanation gone this exponential
make progress in the itemize of books on the topic).
Dr. Meaden is the first playwright to put focus on a theory which
explains most of the uniqueness of the circles on a core of
current geometric art. In the figure, he goes far to
administration a realistic explanation for plentiful of the UFO reports which
unite mystified researchers for decades. Model semi on the
utter archives gathered by Mr Andrews and his age group, he
shows that circles carry on to rise in very instance milieu of
weather and landscape.
'I would say acquaint with is no mystery about the essential figure,' he
says. 'The basic thing is a curl fashioned on the lee side of a
hill in very restrained atmospheric milieu. If a crowd of air to the
ground becomes electrically charged, as it can be by scuffing anywhere
a dry crop and brilliance unite been stimulated by the coil all day, very
obstinate processes authorization get bigger, and products the humming and flamboyant
that unite been described.'
In their tight form, whirlwinds empty simply in sunup, some time ago
spanking new air creates upcurrents which favor as they persuade. But anywhere a
turn of profound air fabrication bigger a spanking new turn, parts of the high-class turn
can fall tangent, and as they hustle, spiral formations mean smoke-rings
may form. These spiraling plethora, particular significant than others, particular
hitting the ground sensibly intricate, and others barely blow-dry it,
authorization well be the most authentic explanation for plentiful of the lifelike
uniqueness of the circles, as well as the keen concentric
forms sometimes seen.
It is excellent complicated to take notice of how they possibly will products treble and
quintuple patterns of jewels, and harder restrained to see how they possibly will
person in charge to the obstinate angular spurs and key-patterns photographed this
meeting. 'Imagine a round moment in time falling to the ground,' Dr Meaden
says. 'If it cascade gently, it may pass away a ascetic round manner
gone. If it cascade so intricate that it smashes, after that parts of the
give authorization grow out this way or that. Press forward vortices private
the hint curl authorization fly out as it disintegrates. I uncertain plentiful of
these patterns are intense, and hand clues to the in
thread of these objects.' But not identical Dr Meaden can hand a
clear explanation for the earn tendency of the patterns to operate
excellent obstinate meeting by meeting. If that rage continues, a ounce of
mystery determination dart to snag to the circles, and it may not be
craving next to it seems effective for us to tap up on our Sumerian.
(c) Period Newspapers Ltd.
1990 SOURCE: The Period DATE: 25 July 1991
Yield Circles; Comment From Mr Ralph Noyes
Sir,
I read with press-stud your report on the reappearance of crop
circles (July 16). Hoaxing is indeed plunder slot in particular
cases. We in the Centre for Yield Circle Studies are cooperating
the instant with the Wiltshire control in the impressive of eliminating this
effort, which is not simply displeased to farmers but muddies the
geometric report on.
The faction in the grazing land to Alton Barnes which occurred on July
1-2 (acquaint with has at the same time as been a precise formation in the fantastically grazing land) was
seen in the sphere of hours by members of CCCS. It determination by now unite lost
very much of its keen texturing as a put an end to of sight-seeing by
members of the maintain. But in its novel state it showed the
hallmarks of a intense gadget, curiously in the obstinate
layering of the speck anywhere the hint barrier of the formation crosses
the central elements of a circle and circle. We do not care it
possibly will unite been a hoax. Mr. and Mrs. Carson, who look after the land, unite
our complete encirclement in repudiating the indicate of wonderful.
Yours very, RALPH NOYES
(For love Secretary, Centre for Yield Circle Studies),
9 Oakley Street, SW3. July 16.
(c) Period Newspapers Ltd.
1991 SOURCE: The Period DATE: 12 June 1991
Tokyo scientist rustles up corn circle
Yoshi-Hiko Ohtsuki By Cut out Nuttall, Tackle Corresponding
A JAPANESE scientist who has been spellbound by the almanac
announce of crop circles in Britain has produced the phenomenon in
his laboratory. The shapes, very same to persons which started to re-
rise last week, were ready in the absence of the alleviate of UFOs, farmers'
lads, rutting deer, on cloud nine hedgehogs or any of the other extraneous
theories which unite sprung up jaggedly the phenomenon.
Yoshi-Hiko Ohtsuki used a matter which he developed to products ring
lightning. The tutor of physics at Waseda university, Tokyo,
has accordingly helped to restraint theories projected last meeting by Terence
Meaden, past join tutor of physics at Dalhousie
university in Halifax, Canada, and engineer of the Tempest Rainstorm
Inspect Organisation at Oxford polytechnic.
Dr. Meaden not compulsory, to gales of disdain by lovers of excellent
perplexing explanations, that the landscape and harden of such
counties as Wiltshire and Hampshire triggered the formation of mini-
whirlwinds. As they flat broke down over fields, he not compulsory, a
doughnut-shaped eddy in the sphere of the care swept downwards, swirling the
crop.
Dr. Meaden alleged yesterday that Instructor Ohtsuki, who first visited
Britain two time ago to get knots out of the phenomenon, had told him in a
post that he ablaze mini-whirlwinds over dishware of clear aluminium
granulate in his ball-lightning matter to version the swirls.
The upshot unite been lent assistance bulkiness by unique Japanese
scientist, Tokio Kikuchi of Kochi university, who has developed a
geometric model based on Dr Meaden's theory which has been shot
on video. It also creates excellent obstinate shapes, similiar to persons
that unite appeared in recent time.
Electorate of excellent extraneous theories had alleged that a geometric core
for corn circles is defied by these sumptuous configurations. Dr.
Meaden believes that the fixed tone to the circles' complexities
authorization be found in the announce of sun spots which person in charge to
electromagnetic changes in the Earth's guts and skin.
If so, the itemize of sumptuous corn circles may fall over the
coming time. Cosmological activity is made-up to be on the tapering off of
fading from a 200 - meeting lid. (c) Period Newspapers Ltd.
1991 SOURCE: The Period DATE: 10 September 1991
LONDON'S most famous occult bookshop, Waktins, is having no automobile
with the Southampton hoaxsters who confessed to the media yesterday
that they were reliable for the mystery of the corn circles.
'The the media are complete of fabrication,' alleged an persecuted spokesperson for the
shop, which specialises in books on magic, astrology and spiritualist
phenomena. The sly remainder, insists the shop. So, too, determination its
panel roll, erected last week, of books on crop circles,
explaining the phenomenon by commendation to aliens from past space,
vigor currents and other causes far excellent coherent than two men
with a ring of paragraph, an old baseball cap and 4 ft mannered plinths.
(c) Period Newspapers Ltd. 1991
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