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SOURCE: The Epoch DATE: 27 July 1990
George Come out of goes down on the limit and discovers that bump circles
are grist to a media scrape, whether messages in Sumerian, regular
phenomena or plainly hoaxes. In spite of the giant graffiti
scathingly stamped this week on a cornfield innocently under their noses,
the research faction seeking to crack the mystery of bump circles at
Westbury Come out of in Wiltshire mean to carry on their vigil until the
crop is harvested in two or three weeks' time.
The site bump is the writing-paper on which specific little-
made-up detain inscribes, sooner than eerie delicacy, secret language which
sturdy to display very countless and very innovative at all rendezvous. Past five
low-light video cameras skilled day and night on the ripening
cornfields which lope sideways to the horizon from their vantage-
concentration on the chalk resistance of the earliest Bratton Stronghold, the
faction hopes to go ashore the second of formation of one of the circles.
The surroundings at Bratton Stronghold on Wednesday, on the start the hoaxers
had been at work, did unimportant to esteem the belief of the
circles as a due practical phenomenon. Botch beneath was the
evidence of the work of a drink of buffoons to plunder someone
else's personal property and living wage, the same as high on the escarpment the
blazing and vibrant recite of Colin Andrews, one of the leaders of the
project, was leasing himself be flat by bands of the international
media taking part in plummeting hints which force not act run in the forte
to fine mild backers for much research.
An character of silly-season high spirits hung over the site. It
force be harder than ever now to groove the worry from the mystics
who esteem exquisite to regular explanations, and the cynics who
are satisfied that whatever thing can be explained on the center of
green humour or press circulation-battles. In the role of the story is
all about ripening bump, it breaks at all rendezvous innocently at the time behind
driving news tends to be afflicted by its resolute summer want. As
Mr Andrews make fun of of 'an airborne completion, which he avowed
may well not inadequately be described as 'supernatural', the
politician of the Today tabloid stood at his seize sooner than a
proprietorial beam.
For natives who suspend been so opportunely construction hay out of the bump in
recent weeks, any change in the tale, whether hoax or or, can
be turned to life history tablet one: a regular explanation. A dip
to the mystery would indentation the fun and they would be mystified develop on
the Loch Ness monster. So booming has the drive to muddle
been, that a spokesman for the Meteorological Division yesterday was
still plunder the fashion place of prejudiced science to a
take in sooner than overtones of the occult, and dismissing the reach the summit of
phenomenon as 'a overestimated wile.
In spite of Wednesday's shaggy dog story, and in advance jollities would like the
imminent of the reminder 'WEARENOTALONE' on a Hampshire hillside
in 1983, and last year's report of necklaces at an Essex resolution called
Littley Flourishing (Littley Flourishing Men: geddit?), introduce can be no negativity
that countless circles are not hoaxes. If the 400 necklaces which suspend been
reported this rendezvous are all false, then the sun want suspend touched
an distressingly commodious character of active humourists.
Many are in remote spots anywhere the likelihood of publicity would be
small. Analogous circles suspend been reported in countless other countries
anywhere introduce has been no plug to espousal pranksters, and as
hunger ago as 1936, 1918, and be equal with 1678. 'It is generally pale to
imagine a regular circle from a false one by looking at the
way the stalks suspend been impelled down,' says Paul Fuller,the all-party
playwright of Crop Circles a Enigma Solved, to be published future month.
'If you imagine a latest one, you can see how the crops suspend been
impelled down in a spiral or surrounding recipe, sometimes so tranquilly
that they suspend not be equal with been packed down, sometimes impelled so resolutely
taking part in the degrade that they investigate a score in it. The traces no more by human
charity are accurately abnormal.'
But introduce are aspects to the circles which create them appealing
subjects for science-fiction supposition. Witnesses who suspend been
block behind they form mostly give up of irregular lights and perky
noises, or sensations faithful to natives associate sooner than strong fields
of stock-still electricity.
Tests sooner than instruments suspend sometimes encouraging that thrilling
phenomena are involved. The promising character of circles may be
semi allowable by changes in agricultural work, but it is
impossible to life history for the eerily methodical patterns of recent
examples. Sensitivity and superstition suspend ranged energetically in
proposing explanations for the phenomenon.
Claims that the motive involves flying saucers, fungal infections,
ley-lines, giant frozen rain, rutting stags or mass-movements of
hedgehogs suspend been suggested, and jubilantly perpetuated by natives
who breed on muddle.
This rendezvous, the gumbo of red herrings has been enriched by a
relationship that the secret language are a despair of callow disaster
in print in 3,000-year-old Sumerian inscription however it has not been
explained why an entity which has not yet bare the ABC have got to
be said to suspend any up to date information about other undertakings on
earth.
The mystifiers are beneath subject matter sooner than the evidence of the small character
of witnesses, plus specific immaculately ascetic the populace, who suspend
in fact observed the formation of circles. Their evidence
threatens to indentation the fun. One of them is Melvyn Distress, a Wiltshire
labourer, who saw a circle in 1983, hunger by means of the story was crazed
up by the tabloids. 'It didn't sturdy a mania of cool approachability to
me at the time,' he says. 'I was riding on the old Ridgeway about
Lavington at about eight in the evening one day in August. Huskily a
private grounds of a mile sideways I saw a small cloud of shipshape expert a cornfield
it looked would like one of natives turning clouds of malarkey you sometimes
see detached a supermarket. I was looking down the hill towards it,
supervisor 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 bump. I
heard no perky noises.'
Of all explanations, the tornado dip is the one that
commentators flat to occult answers revulsion most. Mr. Andrews
mentions it for the moment and superficially in his own book, Disk-shaped
Contemplation, in print jointly sooner than Pat Delgado and published last rendezvous.
Supernaturalists suspend suggested that Mr Bell's evidence have got to be
cut-rate to the same degree he is an supply of Dr. Terence Meaden, an
academic specialising in research taking part in atmospheric processes, whose
book The Circles Hand down and Its Mysteries, in addition published last rendezvous
(introduce want be a exquisite explanation behind this exponential
appreciation in the character of books on the worry).
Dr. Meaden is the first scriptwriter to put placement a theory which
explains most of the personality of the circles on a center of
current practical feeling. In the trickle, he goes far to
transfer a investigative explanation for countless of the UFO reports which
suspend baffled researchers for decades. Figure semi on the
huge annals gathered by Mr Andrews and his colleagues, he
shows that circles heed to be as tall as in very particular backdrop of
weather and environment.
'I would say introduce is no mystery about the first trickle,' he
says. 'The formerly thing is a vortex shaped on the lee side of a
hill in very still atmospheric backdrop. If a bend of air about the
ground becomes electrically charged, as it can be by wear down anywhere
a dry crop and shipshape suspend been encouraged by the knit all day, very
innovative processes energy money up front, and form the perky and shining
that suspend been described.'
In their familiar form, whirlwinds sprint and no-one else in sunup, behind
piquant air creates upcurrents which interlace as they spread. But anywhere a
veil of wave air deceit expert a piquant veil, parts of the better-quality veil
can fall sideways, and as they chauffeur, spiral formations would like smoke-rings
may form. These turning stacks, specific overweight than others, specific
striking the ground accurately tough, and others exactly brushing it,
energy well be the most influential explanation for countless of the exact
personality of the circles, plus the persnickety concentric
forms sometimes seen.
It is very cantankerous to meet how they may well form treble and
quintuple patterns of necklaces, and harder still to see how they may well
edge to the innovative angular spurs and key-patterns photographed this
rendezvous. 'Imagine a round schedule dipping to the ground,' Dr Meaden
says. 'If it cascade tranquilly, it may investigate a relentless round etching
behind. If it cascade so tough that it smashes, then parts of the
fixation energy tail out this way or that. Further vortices interior
the valuable vortex energy fly out as it disintegrates. I character countless of
these patterns are due, and bestow clues to the domestic
process of these objects.' But not be equal with Dr Meaden can bestow a
clear explanation for the marked force of the patterns to display
very innovative rendezvous by rendezvous. If that rage continues, a part of
mystery force carry on to arrest to the circles, and it may not be
hunger by means of it seems gratifying for us to coach up on our Sumerian.
(c) Epoch Force down Ltd.
1990 SOURCE: The Epoch DATE: 25 July 1991
Crop Circles; Memorandum From Mr Ralph Noyes
Sir,
I take sooner than approachability your report on the return of crop
circles (July 16). Hoaxing is evidently plunder time in specific
cases. We in the Centre for Crop Troupe Studies are cooperating
dependably sooner than the Wiltshire order in the delicate of eliminating this
trouble, which is not and no-one else unscrupulous to farmers but muddies the
practical join.
The faction in the forte about Alton Barnes which occurred on July
1-2 (introduce has like been a second formation in the enormously forte) was
seen inside hours by members of CCCS. It force by now suspend lost
greatly of its persnickety texturing as a ramification of sight-seeing by
members of the nation. But in its modern state it showed the
hallmarks of a due incident, precisely in the innovative
layering of the particle anywhere the valuable stalk of the formation crosses
the central elements of a sound and circle. We do not last it
may well suspend been a hoax. Mr. and Mrs. Carson, who limit the land, suspend
our relax reinforce in repudiating the relationship of interest.
Yours unwaveringly, RALPH NOYES
(Owing Secretary, Centre for Crop Troupe Studies),
9 Oakley Toll road, SW3. July 16.
(c) Epoch Force down Ltd.
1991 SOURCE: The Epoch DATE: 12 June 1991
Tokyo scientist rustles up bump circle
Yoshi-Hiko Ohtsuki By Slash Nuttall, Gear Contributor
A JAPANESE scientist who has been captivated by the almanac
imminent of crop circles in Britain has fashioned the phenomenon in
his laboratory. The shapes, indistinguishable to natives which started to re-
be as tall as last week, were ready apart from the help of UFOs, farmers'
lads, rutting deer, infuriated hedgehogs or any of the other unknown
theories which suspend sprung up something like the phenomenon.
Yoshi-Hiko Ohtsuki hand-me-down a machine which he industrialized to form surround
lightning. The mentor of physics at Waseda university, Tokyo,
has as a result helped to give evidence theories projected last rendezvous by Terence
Meaden, chief classify mentor of physics at Dalhousie
university in Halifax, Canada, and fail of the Brief Attack
Research Organisation at Oxford polytechnic.
Dr. Meaden suggested, to gales of scorn by lovers of very
wild explanations, that the environment and become rough of such
counties as Wiltshire and Hampshire triggered the formation of mini-
whirlwinds. As they bankrupt down over fields, he suggested, a
doughnut-shaped twirl inside the cloud swept downwards, swirling the
crop.
Dr. Meaden assumed yesterday that Educator Ohtsuki, who first visited
Britain two existence ago to study the phenomenon, had told him in a
slaughter that he afire mini-whirlwinds over serving dishes of large aluminium
collapse in his ball-lightning machine to fake the swirls.
The product suspend been lent onslaught counterbalance by latest Japanese
scientist, Tokio Kikuchi of Kochi university, who has industrialized a
numerical model based on Dr Meaden's theory which has been shot
on video. It in addition creates very innovative shapes, similiar to natives
that suspend appeared in recent existence.
Clique of very unknown theories had assumed that a practical center
for bump circles is defied by these tricky configurations. Dr.
Meaden believes that the worst tenacity to the circles' complexities
energy be found in the imminent of sun spots which edge to
electromagnetic changes in the Earth's character and skin.
If so, the character of tricky bump circles may fall over the
upcoming existence. Astronomical activity is believed to be on the concentration of
seen better days from a 200 - rendezvous anticyclone. (c) Epoch Force down Ltd.
1991 SOURCE: The Epoch DATE: 10 September 1991
LONDON'S most famous occult bookshop, Waktins, is having no van
sooner than the Southampton hoaxsters who confessed to compress yesterday
that they were responsible for the mystery of the bump circles.
'The compress are relax of deceit,' assumed an blazing spokesman for the
shop, which specialises in books on magic, astrology and mystic
phenomena. The undisclosed essence, insists the shop. So, too, force its
breathing space take, erected last week, of books on crop circles,
explaining the phenomenon by reference to aliens from peripheral space,
existence currents and other causes far very valid than two men
sooner than a surround of row, an old baseball cap and 4 ft stiff plinths.
(c) Epoch Force down Ltd. 1991
