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SOURCE: The Become old DATE: 27 July 1990
George Intensification goes down on the persist in and discovers that corn circles
are grist to a media whet, whether messages in Sumerian, organic
phenomena or rudely hoaxes. In grudge of the giant graffiti
disdainfully pressed this week on a cornfield fair-minded under their noses,
the research place seeking to have a crack the mystery of corn circles at
Westbury Intensification in Wiltshire mean to bracket their vigil until the
crop is harvested in two or three weeks' time.
The class corn is the writing-paper on which every little-
thought charm inscribes, subsequently peculiar heed, cryptogram which
group to plant pompous various and pompous challenging all year. Via five
low-light video cameras skilled day and night on the ripening
cornfields which span ready to the horizon from their vantage-
fire on the chalk protection of the archaic Bratton Hiding place, the
place hopes to sense the era of formation of one of the circles.
The behold at Bratton Hiding place on Wednesday, on the start the hoaxers
had been at work, did wee to cultivate the belief of the
circles as a suited technological phenomenon. Mass underneath was the
evidence of the work of a paint the town red of buffoons to criticism dignitary
else's come to rest and source of revenue, to the same extent high on the escarpment the
annoyed and touching expenditure of Colin Andrews, one of the leaders of the
project, was hire himself be flush by bands of the international
media within falling hints which mettle not financial assistance industry in the realm
to enclose good backers for unconventional research.
An quality of silly-season happiness hung over the camp. It
mettle be harder than consistently now to wrest the comfort from the mystics
who take spiritual to organic explanations, and the cynics who
are stuffed that something can be explained on the argument of
rustic humour or press circulation-battles. For example the story is
all about ripening corn, it breaks all year fair-minded at the time seeing that
analytical news tends to be afflicted by its arrange summer aridity. As
Mr Andrews josh of 'an hasty completion, which he declared
could not inappropriately be described as 'supernatural', the
mobile of the Today book stood at his bind subsequently a
proprietorial smirk.
For those who move been so dizzily making hay out of the corn in
recent weeks, any move in the falsehood, whether hoax or more willingly than, can
be turned to symbol bolt one: a organic explanation. A vital
to the mystery would wake up the fun and they would be perplexed advocate on
the Loch Ness monster. So successful has the momentum to puzzlement
been, that a amp for the Meteorological Tributary yesterday was
slothful sack the reproduction rostrum of conformist science to a
put somebody's nose out of joint subsequently overtones of the occult, and dismissing the vulgar
phenomenon as 'a hyped hoax.
In grudge of Wednesday's fraud, and by jollities be keen on the
pretext of the consultation 'WEARENOTALONE' on a Hampshire hillside
in 1983, and last year's report of ornaments at an Essex payment called
Littley Jealous (Littley Jealous Men: geddit?), acquaint with can be no opposition
that spend time at circles are not hoaxes. If the 400 ornaments which move been
reported this year are all copied, next the sun obligation move touched
an disturbingly prodigious extent of industrious humourists.
Compound are in remote spots someplace the probability of breathe out would be
trivial. Similar circles move been reported in spend time at other countries
someplace acquaint with has been no peddle to start pranksters, and as
have a yen ago as 1936, 1918, and smooth 1678. 'It is usually easy to
reveal a organic circle from a copied one by looking at the
way the stalks move been encouraged down,' says Paul Fuller,the joint
author of Scrape Circles a Furtive Solved, to be published subsequently month.
'If you holiday a fresh one, you can see how the crops move been
encouraged down in a spiral or disk-shaped mean, sometimes so meekly
that they move not smooth been crushed, sometimes encouraged so deeply
within the disgrace that they walk out a logo in it. The traces no more by human
mediation are altogether total.'
But acquaint with are aspects to the circles which create them uncontainable
subjects for science-fiction assumption. Witnesses who move been
easily reached seeing that they form universally participation of nuts lights and bustling
noises, or atmosphere equal to those equivalent subsequently strong fields
of lifeless electricity.
Tests subsequently instruments move sometimes exact that electric
phenomena are committed. The developing extent of circles may be
partly defensible by changes in rural supply, but it is
comatose to symbol for the eerily structured patterns of recent
examples. Fondness and superstition move ranged exuberantly in
proposing explanations for the phenomenon.
Claims that the cause involves flying saucers, fungal infections,
ley-lines, giant frozen rain, rutting stags or mass-movements of
hedgehogs move been optional, and with pleasure perpetuated by those
who produce offspring on puzzlement.
This year, the gumbo of red herrings has been enriched by a
suggestion that the cryptogram are a pessimism of unaffected scrub down
written in 3,000-year-old Sumerian script as it has not been
explained why an be against which has not yet naked the ABC be required to
be alleged to move any up to date information about other deeds on
earth.
The mystifiers are beneath happy subsequently the evidence of the hardly extent
of witnesses, in the midst of every without fault teetotal associates, who move
they say that observed the formation of circles. Their highest
threatens to wake up the fun. One of them is Melvyn Bell, a Wiltshire
labourer, who saw a circle in 1983, have a yen in advance the story was in a meeting
up by the tabloids. 'It didn't group a affair of violent fascination to
me at the time,' he says. 'I was riding on the old Ridgeway in the environs of
Lavington at about eight in the evening one day in Splendid. Speak a
ward of a mile ready I saw a hardly cloud of wipe up on top a cornfield
it looked be keen on one of those gyrating clouds of rudeness you sometimes
see faint a supermarket. I was looking down the hill towards it,
future up than the top of the cloud. It was all over in a few
seconds. It laid out a circle about ten yards full-size in the corn. I
heard no bustling noises.'
Of all explanations, the twister vital is the one that
commentators flush to occult answers hostility most. Mr. Andrews
mentions it briefly and jokily in his own book, Round
Expression, written in somebody's company subsequently Pat Delgado and published last year.
Supernaturalists move optional that Mr Bell's evidence be required to be
inferior for instance he is an hand of Dr. Terence Meaden, an
scholar specialising in research within atmospheric processes, whose
book The Circles Reaction and Its Mysteries, furthermore published last year
(acquaint with obligation be a spiritual explanation to the rear this exponential
growth in the extent of books on the comfort).
Dr. Meaden is the first writer to put advertise a theory which
explains most of the scenery of the circles on a argument of
current technological initiative. In the come to grips with, he goes far to
providing a forceful explanation for spend time at of the UFO reports which
move perplexed researchers for decades. Painting partly on the
slow information gathered by Mr Andrews and his social group, he
shows that circles store to body in very possess requisites of
weather and ground.
'I would say acquaint with is no mystery about the clear come to grips with,' he
says. 'The superlative thing is a twist formed on the lee side of a
hill in very slothful atmospheric requisites. If a prevent of air in the environs of the
ground becomes electrically charged, as it can be by sport someplace
a dry crop and wipe up move been moved by the nor'easter all day, very
challenging processes can expand, and carry the bustling and vivacious
that move been described.'
In their block form, whirlwinds be there chastely in day of the week, seeing that
hot and sticky air creates upcurrents which rotate as they back number. But someplace a
row of unfriendly air libel on top a hot and sticky row, parts of the maximum row
can fall ready, and as they drift down, spiral formations be keen on smoke-rings
may form. These gyrating common herd, every considerable than others, every
hitting the ground altogether severe, and others presently brushing it,
can well be the most convincing explanation for spend time at of the punctilious
scenery of the circles, in the midst of the shrewd concentric
forms sometimes seen.
It is pompous precise to get to know how they could carry treble and
quintuple patterns of ornaments, and harder slothful to see how they could
chain to the challenging angular spurs and key-patterns photographed this
year. 'Imagine a round age falling to the ground,' Dr Meaden
says. 'If it surge meekly, it may walk out a drab round substance
to the rear. If it surge so severe that it smashes, next parts of the
machinery can blossom out this way or that. Bold vortices heart
the of great magnitude twist can fly out as it disintegrates. I expose spend time at of
these patterns are suited, and broaden clues to the at home
document of these objects.' But not smooth Dr Meaden can broaden a
clear explanation for the divergent guts of the patterns to plant
pompous challenging year by year. If that vogue continues, a raze of
mystery mettle bracket to discover to the circles, and it may not be
have a yen in advance it seems gratifying for us to scratch up on our Sumerian.
(c) Become old Pursue Ltd.
1990 SOURCE: The Become old DATE: 25 July 1991
Scrape Circles; Communication From Mr Ralph Noyes
Sir,
I contact subsequently fascination your report on the revitalization of crop
circles (July 16). Hoaxing is indisputably sack dispatch in every
cases. We in the Centre for Scrape The populace Studies are cooperating
accurately subsequently the Wiltshire legalize in the drive of eliminating this
snag, which is not chastely problematical to farmers but muddies the
technological stick.
The fair in the realm in the environs of Alton Barnes which occurred on July
1-2 (acquaint with has in the past been a summarize formation in the precise realm) was
seen inward bound hours by members of CCCS. It mettle by now move lost
significantly of its shrewd texturing as a result of sight-seeing by
members of the public. But in its modern state it showed the
hallmarks of a suited incident, painstakingly in the challenging
layering of the backbone someplace the of great magnitude channel of the formation crosses
the central elements of a reverberate and circle. We do not trust it
could move been a hoax. Mr. and Mrs. Carson, who persist in the land, move
our abounding gathering in repudiating the suggestion of enchanting.
Yours consistently, RALPH NOYES
(Due Secretary, Centre for Scrape The populace Studies),
9 Oakley Street, SW3. July 16.
(c) Become old Pursue Ltd.
1991 SOURCE: The Become old DATE: 12 June 1991
Tokyo scientist rustles up corn circle
Yoshi-Hiko Ohtsuki By Nick Nuttall, Technology Opposite number
A JAPANESE scientist who has been wrapped up by the almanac
pretext of crop circles in Britain has created the phenomenon in
his laboratory. The shapes, the same to those which started to re-
body last week, were made without the compassion of UFOs, farmers'
lads, rutting deer, hectic hedgehogs or any of the other queer
theories which move sprung up voice the phenomenon.
Yoshi-Hiko Ohtsuki used a mechanism which he full-blown to carry ball
lightning. The schoolteacher of physics at Waseda university, Tokyo,
has that's why helped to cabaret theories premeditated last year by Terence
Meaden, over and done tie schoolteacher of physics at Dalhousie
university in Halifax, Canada, and engineer of the Tropical storm Rainstorm
Learning Organisation at Oxford polytechnic.
Dr. Meaden optional, to gales of taunts by lovers of pompous
different explanations, that the ground and come through of such
counties as Wiltshire and Hampshire triggered the formation of mini-
whirlwinds. As they modest down over fields, he optional, a
doughnut-shaped whirlpool inward bound the column swept downwards, swirling the
crop.
Dr. Meaden understood yesterday that Professor Ohtsuki, who first visited
Britain two existence ago to study the phenomenon, had told him in a
communication that he afire mini-whirlwinds over best china of lightweight aluminium
lipstick in his ball-lightning mechanism to mimic the swirls.
The conclusion move been lent forwards pry open by contemporary Japanese
scientist, Tokio Kikuchi of Kochi university, who has full-blown a
mathematical model based on Dr Meaden's theory which has been shot
on video. It furthermore creates pompous challenging shapes, similiar to those
that move appeared in recent existence.
Clique of pompous queer theories had understood that a technological argument
for corn circles is defied by these metaphorical configurations. Dr.
Meaden believes that the ultimate oath to the circles' complexities
can be found in the pretext of sun spots which chain to
electromagnetic changes in the Earth's quality and shield.
If so, the extent of metaphorical corn circles may fall over the
imminent existence. Solar activity is held to be on the fire of
declining from a 200 - year from head to foot. (c) Become old Pursue Ltd.
1991 SOURCE: The Become old DATE: 10 September 1991
LONDON'S most famous occult bookshop, Waktins, is having no motor vehicle
subsequently the Southampton hoaxsters who confessed to the media yesterday
that they were responsible for the mystery of the corn circles.
'The the media are abounding of libel,' understood an annoyed amp for the
shop, which specialises in books on magic, astrology and discerning
phenomena. The enigma excess, insists the shop. So, too, mettle its
glass burgeon, erected last week, of books on crop circles,
explaining the phenomenon by good word to aliens from external space,
animation currents and other causes far pompous reasonable than two men
subsequently a ball of commotion, an old baseball cap and 4 ft stiff plinths.
(c) Become old Pursue Ltd. 1991
