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Editorial

Welcome to your new Crop Watcher. As you can see, I've finally splashed out on a new home computer so from now on there'll be no more annoying changes of type face or distressing gaps where I couldn't find something to fill in the gaps between articles. It also means I can finally get back at Bob Kingsley by boasting about my new machine - the Volvo of the PC world - its a 486 DX-33 PC with a 170 Megabyte Hard Disk and 4 Megabytes RAM. Crop Watcher is produced using Microsoft Publisher but the PC also holds Lotus 123 spreadsheets as well as all the usual Windows utilities and DOS. The master copies are printed on a Hewlett Packard Deskjet 500 printer. Now that I don't have to rely on friends to print off the masters we'll be able to keep to a better publication schedule. Thanks to all of you for being so patient with our first 15 issues.

In this issue we have some interesting material which, to some, proves beyond doubt that there IS a genuine crop circle phenomenon involving a poorly understood natural phenomenon. This is taken from Ted Phillips' Physical Trace Catalogue (see pages 20-26), which will be reproduced over our next few issues. We also have the second part of Doug Bower's highly revealing interview with UFO Sweden's Clas Svahn. In this interview Doug justifies his 13 years of hoaxing and points the finger of accusation at the cerealogists for their incitement of mass crop circle hoaxing and mass trespass. We also have news on crop circles in Japan as well as a Swangate Update.