George Wingfield has had a letter published in the HUFON
Report (June 1993 issue). He states:
Well, golly, shucks, folks.. yes, indeed ! First we get Jim
Schnabel telling Armen Victorian on the notorious tape that he's
part of some great disinformation conspiracy involving the CIA,
etc., and then hotly denying it in terms of hurt and outrage.
Next we get Dan Smith hotly denying that he's part of some CIA-
sponsored conspiracy (not that I ever accused him of that anyway)
and then, in the same letter telling us about a great conspiracy
(the Eschaton Conspiracy) in which the CIA group known as
the Aviary -with which he appears to be closely associated -
'heavily disguised by its own surrealistic smoke screen ...
functions best by amplifying people's own misconceptions about
the paranormal.'
That last bit sounds awfully like disinformation to me ! Well,
I guess that I'm just a simple country boy who doesn't see the
need for all this disinformation and deception and wishes someone
would explain to me what's really going on. If Dan's end-of-the-
world scenario is for real and is understood by certain
departments of the US government, why can't they treat us as
adults and tells us what the score is ?
At the September, 1992, Conference on UFO Research in
Springfield, Mo., I took strong issue with someone who suggested
that the government was justified in covering up the truth about
UFOs since the public might be 'unable to face it'. Whatever the
truth might be, it should never be suppressed, I said, and this
drew prolonged applause from the audience.
In showing the photo of Rosemary seated next to 'the Pelican'
at that CIA lunch in Arlington, Va., I'm not accusing her
or Dan of any conspiratorial involvement. I was only trying to
illustrate CIA interest in these matters at a time when
certain people like Mr. Schnabel are trying to make out there is
no CIA interest and spread disinformation to the effect
that all the crop circles are man-made hoaxes. I'm delighted that
Dan has attempted to clarify the position, though I suspect that
most folk will be more puzzled than before. Anyway, thanks Dan,
and thanks Aviary, for a most enjoyable and stimulating lunch !
Would someone now like to explain what this is all about ?
I enjoyed Elaine Douglas' article on 'Is PSI TECH for real or
just a new disinformation project?' In it, she refers to the
Roswell episode as being something Dames calls 'brain wave
entertainment'. Well, I know it might seem that way, but what he
told me was 'mass brain-wave entrainment - the term he uses to
describe an alien-induced mass illusion !
G.W.
We've received information about the "largest ever"
crop circle - discovered in Samera (northern Spain) in September
1992. According to our sources the formation was approximately
one mile across and consisted of five concentric rings (each
20-30 feet in width). The formation was discovered by an
Englishman who videoed the formation from the air. The crop is
unknown.
Dear Editor,
I was surprised to see in CW16 the claim that the
disappearance of the Royal Norfolks was a hoax. I can assure you
that this is not so. They disappeared for the simple reason that
they were all killed ! The facts are as follow. The 163rd Brigade
consisting of the 1st/8th Hampshires, the 1st/5th Suffolks and
the 1st/5th Royal Norfolks (not the 1st/4th) were ordered to take
part in the attack on Tekke Tepe ridge. They advanced at 4.45 pm.
Heavy casualties were suffered, but the Norfolks, under Col. Sir
Horace Beauchamp, continued to push on before disappearing into
thick mist. The Colonel, 16 officers, and about 250 men, were
never seen alive again, although a few wounded managed to find
their way back during the night. It was not until September 1919
that the mystery was solved, when the area was visited by a party
of men from the British Graves Registration Unit. Their officers
wrote in his report "We have found the Royal Norfolks, but
can only identify two. The remains are scattered over about one
square mile, about 800 yards behind the old Turkish front
line". Obviously what had happened was that the Turks had
not seen them in the mist and they must have penetrated a thinly
held part of the Turkish line, only to be massacred by Turkish
second line troops. The Turks, a fierce Islamic people, had
refused to touch the Christian bodies, which they regarded as
unclean, and four years of the climate and predators had reduced
the, to practically nothing. I got the above information from
"Gallipoli" by the military historian Capt. Eric Bush,
D.S.O. Jenny Randles has since told me that the whole thing was
also thoroughly explained by Paul Begg in Fortean Times, No 27
(Autumn 1978). The so-called mystery was also discredited by the
UFO writer Harold Wilkins, writing in the 1950s, so Jenny tells
me. How do these tales survive ? Best Wishes,
Roy Sandbach, Stockport.
PF: They survive because people want them to survive !
Dear Paul,
I have a few comments about CW16 (March/April 1993). Sorry
mate but you'll have to do better than that 486 DX-33 you
mentioned, as I have on order a 486 DX-50 with 16 Mb RAM and a
240 Mb hard disk, etc, etc. Pity I've no magazine to produce it
on now ... but it should speed up my fractal generator, and what
more could one ask ?
Regarding the Wingfield/Schnabel/Irving/Henry saga - and this
is meant kindly - if you take such a dim view of the affair, why
not simply deny it "the oxygen of publicity" ? I'm sure
George and Co will find plenty of other outlets for their views
...
Actually, I hope you'll let me offer a few words in George's
defence. George has always struck me as an honest person -
somewhat inclined to obsessiveness, but that's a tendency shared
by many of us (isn't it Paul?!). Speaking personally, I don't
think George is deliberately trying to obscufate the crop circle
scene. I do believe that there are people who have taken a cruel
pleasure in misleading him - and others - when the opportunity
has arisen. The last time I spoke to him (a few months ago), he
seemed frustrated by the constant torrent of misinformation that
was being directed his way and he was pretty fed up with it. I
don't blame him.
All he wants, like the rest of us, is to know what's really going on - and I think it would be foolish to dismiss out of hand the notion of some kind of governmental intervention. The case against such interference has not been proved - at least, not to my satisfaction.
Yours paranoiacally,
Bob Kingsley.
Whitehill, Hampshire.
PF: Actually Bob its impossible to prove a negative,
but the onus of proof is surely on George to prove his case -
afterall, I challenged George to publish proof of his allegations
in two 'Crop Watchers' but without reply. To many people this
failure seems just further proof that the
"disinformation" comes from George - not from some
mythical government conspiracy. But as Peter Rendall said - if I
was a Government Agent I would say that wouldn't I !
Comment on CW15:
I was surprised you accepted for publication Andy Collins'
article entitled "A Major Project to Test the Orgone
Solution to earth Energy, Crop Circles and UFOs", and even
more surprised that you accepted Alan Watson's article entitled
"Some Notes on the 1990 Alton Barnes Pictogram". The
former doesn't merit commenting on, but the latter is worth a few
words. You will have probably already realised that Circle A
('Mercury') was not there originally, as the formation ended with
the small off-line circle. He identifies in the formation the
rings of Saturn, note also that 'Neptune' is ringed in the
formation, but real-life Jupiter and Uranus are too. Every planet
from Earth to Pluto inclusive has at least one moon, but the
formation only has 'Neptune' with moons ! As for "some
gravitational distortion on Jupiter", I ask by what -and if
by the Sun, what about the remainder of the planets ? Oh, the
Great Red Spot is now almost unanimously regarded as being ... of
meteorological origin ! Why does Charon get 'represented' as a
discrete circle while the other moons don't ? What is the
significance of the second ring around "Pluto", and why
has he included the track hammered out by visitors from 'Pluto'
to '1992QB1' ? He's included '1992QB1' but why not the main
asteroids (between Mars and Jupiter) and the many, many others on
irregular orbits (mainly between Mercury and Saturn) ? On second
thoughts, perhaps the article wasn't worth commenting on. Tell me
its a joke - isn't it ?!
PF: Actually I thought Alan Watson made some very fair
points. Doug and Dave occasionally made mistakes when
constructing circles so I've no doubt that the U.B.I. did
too. Don't forget that both major groups consisted of people who
were not always entirely sober whilst they were constructing
circles - and of course we don't all have such an excellent
understanding of the structure of our solar system. Perhaps the U.B.I.
believe that their pictogram accurately represented the solar
system ?
Claude Mauge has written in to correct the following material
published in CW16:
Case 013: 12.06.1730 at Alencon. Christine Peins (Les
OVNI du passe, Verviers, Belgium, Nouvelles Editions,
Marabout, 1977; 81-82) is very skeptical about the event:
- her investigation by the Orne Departement Public Record
Office in Alencon discovered no mention of the affair nor of
Inspector Liabeuf;
- the case appeared firstly in the Italian magazine Clypeus,
with no original reference; the author of the paper lived in
Lybia since 1966 and his address was unknown;
- Later, another search in the Orne Public Record Office by
its archivist again found no reference to the case (letter from
Elisabeth Gautier-Desvaux to UFOlogist Patrice Cubeau, GRC
INFO, no 1, June 1985: 3-4).
Case 704- Oskar Linke case: The 1952 date for the case
is a long- lasting myth in UFOlogy ! The real date is June 17,
1950. Some references giving it are: Ted Bloecher, "Herr
Linke and the flying warming pan", MUFON UFO Journal, no
153, November 1980: 6-9. R.J. Stevens, "Une nuit de terreur
a Kelly (1)", Inforespace no 48, November 1978: 30. Letter
from O. Linke to Leon Davidson, November (?) 3, 1959. Personal
communication by Jacques Bonabot, December 31, 1984 (he had at
the time an extensive file on the sighting).
Case 057. 04.09.53. Tonnerre (not Tennerre): These
traces have nothing to do with crop circles. There were four well
visible cylindrical imprints in the ground, with very hard soil.
Case 662- 04.01.54, Marignane airport, Marseille:
Although he gives no details, Michel Figuet [believes that] the
case is a hoax (Michel Figuet and Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le
premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France,
Nice, France: Alain Lefeuvre, 1979: 68). In any case, the
"trace" consists of many metal pieces, not in effects
on the vegetation.
Case 097. 12.12.54, Campinas: As far as I can
re-member, this case has nothing to do with crop circles. Some
people consider that the material was not of earthly origin, but
others that it was solder (see for instance Charles Maney in FSR
vol 8 no 3).
Claude Mauge, FIGEAC, France.
PF: Many thanks to Claude for putting me straight on
these cases and for correcting my spelling mistakes. David
Reynolds has written in to suggest that case 014 was a tornado,
whilst the Fire in the Sky case can be explained by Travis
Walton encountering an illuminated tornado which sucked him up
into the air, centrifugued him (sounds fun doesn't it) and left
him dazed with acute loss of memory. David admits that this is a
solution based on limited information, but that it is "more
likely than being abducted by aliens". Listen carefully and
you'll hear Occam's Razor being sharpened by the Skeptics ....
Dear Paul,
I feel I should write and say what a very good evening I had
at Doug Bower and Ken Browns' meeting in Marlborough on July 28th
last. Since the Doug and Dave story broke, my initial reaction of
annoyance has changed. Now I think that they have given us much,
and we should be grateful !
Remember the excitement of those times, early in the season,
wondering where the first circles would appear, and what new
shapes the year would bring ? Well all is not lost ! A sizeable
proportion of the people at Marlborough seemed determined to
carry on, believing that aliens, UFOs or mystical earth energies
are creating the circles. Just because Doug was unable to show a
photo of Dave and himself actually making a formation, many
claimed they could not prove they had done any of them ! Never
let the truth get in the way of a good belief ! I find myself
getting more and more cynical these days. So who was this Ken
Brown who was "hogging" the stage so much ? Several
people said it would have been better if Doug had done all the
talking. Could it be that Ken was Doug's Minder (No ! No ! I
wasn't suggesting an M.I.5 connection !). What intrigued me was
the way Ken totally denied the existence of pre Doug and Dave
(sharp-edged) circles, and demanded to be shown evidence. When
you produced the Wokurna photos Paul I don't believe Ken even
looked at them. I know I did not hear him comment on them.
Which ever way you look at it, Doug and Daves' activities were
quite bizarre and the whole subject is becoming more so. Well,
now I must go and do some more work on my crop circle film. Its a
Grasshopper Warbler production to be distributed by MBF.
Suggested titles so far are "I'll be you if UBI" and
"East of Meaden". In the scenario a CCCS girl
falls in love with a Wessex Skeptic. They make love in a corn
circle on the edge of Rendlesham Forest (we had a lot of trouble
at this location when we set up our lights back in December
1980). I would welcome any suggestions for a title, plot or
casting. Keep up the good work !
George Thorman, Trowbridge.
PF: How about "Life of Terence" or "The
Search for the Holy Grail" ?
Case 153. May 24, 1962 ARGENTINA, La Pampa.
Woman saw an object on the ground with two robot-like
creatures. Grass singed in a circle 18 ft. wide. (FSR10-62)
Case 154. May 24, 1962. VENEZUELA, Ocumare, del Tuy.
Diamond-shaped marks, scorched. (NICAP)
Case 155. July 30, 1962. ARGENTINA, Bajeola Grande.
Roberto Mievres, 17, was riding his motorcycle when a tall
being appeared as the engine stalled. The being snatched the
boy's scarf, the boy ran away and came back with a group of
people. They found the scarf on the ground and discovered traces
and observed an unknown object flying away. (VALEE III).
[PF: The evidence here rests a great deal on whether
the group of people were known to the witness prior to the
encounter and how long the witness had to fabricate the traces.]
Case 488. November 21, 1963. ENGLAND, Sandling Estate
[Kent].
Keith Croucher, 17, saw a solid oval light in the center of a
golden mist crossing a football pitch. Two nights later, John
McGoldrick and a friend went to Sandling Woods to investigate.
"They found a vast expanse of bracken that had been
flattened;" they also found three giant foot-prints, clearly
defined, 1 inch deep, 2 foot long and 9 inches across. (The
Humanoids).
[PF. A very famous case. Does anyone know if it was ever exposed as a hoax ?]
Case 164. December 27, 1963. ENGLAND, Epping. 16.00
Hrs.
Pauline Abbott, a trainee riding instructor, saw on the ground
a white object 8 foot long, 3 foot thick at the center, tapering
to a point at both ends, glowing slightly. A window on one side
glowed brighter than on the other. A "squelching noise"
was heard as the object rose in a shallow climb and flew
horizontally for 100 feet before it was hidden from view.
Marks "like three large fingerprints pushed together into
mud" were found, forming a square with 8 foot sides within
an 11 foot circular depression which contained a 3 foot central
circle. Grass was found flattened. These marks were only 150 foot
away from the site of Case No 123, in 1958. (Vallee III
and Eileen Buckle in The Scoriton Mystery via Fred
Merritt).
[PF: Well following John Barrett's lecture at BUFORA's 25th birthday party I know that anything connected with the Scoriton mystery is probably a hoax.]
Case 165. 1964. CANADA, Ballantrae, Ontario.
Claus Slade and a friend found an area 50 foot in diameter
cleared. At the outer edge of the circle [a ring, PF ?] the
ground was seared to a crisp, leaving bits of charcoal. The outer
circle [a ring ? PF] was about 3 foot wide. Five years
later, no vegetation grows. Above the circle, tall 100 foot high
oak trees still grow, but the branches which hung over the circle
are dead. It is estimated [that] the time of the landing was
June, 1964, as numerous UFOs were reported in that area. (UFORC)
[PF: So just because "numerous" UFOs were reported in June the trace just HAD to be related, didn't it !]
Case 166. 1964. U.S.A., West Unity, OHIO.
Rings of sterile soil, located near a tree line and in the
corners of a field. (Brent Raynes)
Case 681. April 23, 1964. U.S.A., Rivesville, WV.
Mrs Ivah Frederick observed a landed object for 15 minutes 600
foot away. It was a disc with dome, revolving clockwise and
humming. A central la ding shaft was seen and a human-like figure
3 to 4 foot tall. Ascended vertically, 3 foot circular imprint
found (shaft) and footprints 6 to 8 inches long with four toes. (NICAP).
May 24 1993 CIRCLES PHENOMENON RESEARCH UK-USA-CANADA- AUSTRALIA-BELGIUM
Colin Andrews, author of the best-selling book Circular
Evidence, and formerly from Andover, is flying out of America
on Tuesday (25th May) and will spend until 28th August in
Hampshire and Wiltshire, UK, with the largest gathering of
international scientists yet, to further investigate the Crop
Circles [note capitals, PF]. He will fly to make presentations in
a number of countries during the period, including Malta [now
guess who he's going to meet there ! PF], Ireland, Iceland and
the USA. The research project will include measuring the
electrostatic field and the Magnetic field at sites in Hampshire
and Wiltshire. Very secret projects involving well known mediums
will also be undertaken and has [sic !] been planned by
Scientists who discovered unusual markings and geometry on Mars
[!!!!]. These findings were presented to the United Nations in
New York during summer 1992, by Dick Hoagland - NASA consultant.
Colin can update you further when he arrives in the UK.
The following is a press statement just released by CPR
International, in America. It relates to Colin Andrews' address
to the United Nations, which has been officially announced for
21st October 1993 at UN headquarters in New York. Yours
Sincerely, Synthia Ramsby - Director U.S.A. (for Colin Andrews).
Mohammad Ramadan, president of the parapsychological group at
the United Nations who recently sponsored Richard Hoagland's
presentation to the U.N. on the Mission to Mars, met Colin
Andrews at the United Nations building in New York several months
ago. At the meeting, Mr Ramadan set Colin the almost impossible
challenge of discovering the meaning behind the crop circles and
ancient writings, the findings of which to be presented at the
U.N. in October. Many front line research contacts have already
been drawn up to assist in bringing together the vast data pool
of information by research groups and governments around the
world.
Numerous governments have studied and collected information
related to the UFO and crop circles. They have clearly found it
difficult, if not impossible, to make any public statement on
matters associated with both. Unusual patterns, assumed as
writings (i.e.languages) have appeared in fields in the form of
crop markings and have been scratched on metallic surfaces
following alleged abduction cases. These etchings resemble
markings on Sumarian Tablets and petroglyphs on stone and rocks
in several parts of the world. The mammoth task is to try and
place these together and see if there is a cohesive message.
Those who claim extraterrestrial contact and communication with
such through symbols are to be part of a four month blitz on the
world's data bank. This may represent one of the first
opportunities to bring major information regarding such events
into the realm of the public through a non-political figure under
the auspices of the U.N. Ultimately a situation of such immense
proportion must certainly be addressed through the resources of
this assemblage.
Careful assessment of all the facts known to us will be
studied before the presentation is given at the United Nations on
21st October. The presentation will be attended by delegates and
U.N. officials and is open to the general public. For more
information Mohammad Ramadan at the U.N., tel. (212) 963-6506. I
intend to present the information at Reykjavik in Iceland on
3-7th November. For more information [contact number deleted, PF]
"
END OF PRESS RELEASE
Well, if readers find this pack of lies amusing here are some
more - according to the bibliography attached to an article by
Andrews in International UFO Library Magazine (11684
Ventura Blvd, #708, Studio City, CA. 91604, U.S.A.) :
"Colin Andrews is one of the world's leading experts on
the crop circle phenomenon. Co-found[er] of the Circles
Phenomenon Research Group, his scientific investigations are
responsible for much of the current information available on the
subject.
Andrews is a former senior officer in local government as
Chief Electrical Engineer with the Test Valley Borough Council in
West Hampshire, England. For three years Colin advised the
British Government on the circles phenomenon, supplying technical
and scientific reports to the Undersecretary of State for the
Margaret Thatcher government. As a result of his persistence, the
subject was raised in the House of Commons and, under Andrew's
supervision, the largest surveillance project of its kind was co-
ordinated with the British army to capture the formation of a
circle on film.
Colin Andrew became involved in the circle phenomenon in 1983
when he saw an arrangement of five circles in a natural
amphitheatre. Intrigued by the engineering aspects of creating
the circles, he began investigations with Pat Delgado, a retired
NASA engineer. In 1989, they co-authored "Circular
Evidence", the first book written on the subject. This was
followed by their equally successful book "Crop Circles, The
Latest Evidence" in 1990."
Perhaps we should offer a prize to the reader who detects the
highest number of falsehoods in this outrageous trash ! Readers
will already know from reading Jim Schnabel's "Round in
Circles" that Colin Andrews was NOT a "senior
officer" at Test Valley Borough Council. Nor was he the
"Chief Electrical Engineer". According to legal
correspondence in my possession he was the "Technical
Support Services Officer" not the "Chief Electrical
Engineer". In 1990 his boss, a Mr Orchard, was deputy to Mr
Burvil - the Director of Test Valley Borough Council Technical
Services Department (a proper Chief Officer Colin). Thus Mr
Andrews was two stages removed from a Chief Officer position. We
have also been informed by Gary Kandinsky - a District Auditor -
that at one stage Colin Andrews was actually a storeman.
Next Mr Andrews claims that he "advised the British
Government on the circles phenomenon, supplying technical and
scientific reports to the Undersecretary of State for the
Margaret Thatcher Government". This too is a blatant
misrepresentation of the facts by Mr Andrews. We accept that Mr
Andrews may well have supplied reports to the then Environment
Minister Nicholas Ridley, but we believe he was never officially
requested to supply reports to the Ministry and no evidence has
ever been produced which proves that Nicholas Ridley read
Andrews' submissions.
Mr Andrews goes on to claim that "as a result of his
persistence, the subject was raised in the House of
Commons". This is simply a lie, for it was in response to
questions from myself and Jenny Randles that questions were asked
in the Commons by Sir Teddy Taylor (Con, Southend) and Michael
Colvin (Con, Romsey and Waterside). Andrews had nothing
whatsoever to do with these questions.
Lastly Andrews claims that he began investigating crop circles
in 1983 and that Circular Evidence was the "first
book written on the subject". Both of these claims are also
untrue - Colin Andrews did not begin regularly visiting crop
circles until 1986 (he has never published proof of his alleged
visit to crop circles in 1983) and the honour for writing the
first book about crop circles goes to BUFORA - for their
1986 report Mystery of the Circles.
Every now and then I receive a letter from someone challenging
me as to why I write so vitriolically about certain well known
crop circle researchers. Perhaps these same people can explain
what I am supposed to do when leading crop circle personalities
just lie and lie and lie again to get their name in the papers.
Am I really supposed to just sit back and let them get on with it
?
According to the Skeptics UFO Newsletter (published by
Philip Klass, 404 'N' St. Southwest, Washington D.C. 20024)
"Nearly six years after William L. Moore, Stanton T.
Friedman and Jamie Shandera released the famous "Top
Secret/Eyes Only" MJ-12 papers, which seemingly showed the
U.S. Government had recovered two crashed saucers from New
Mexico, the Office of the Secretary of the Air Force has
officially designated and stamped them: "NOT AN OFFICIAL
USAF DOCUMENT, NOT CLASSIFIED, SUSPECTED FORGERY OR BOGUS
DOCUMENT." The same stamp has been applied to other bogus
documents, referred to as "Aquarius" and
"Snowbird", which began to circulate even before MJ-12 was
released.
The reason it took so long is because only the agency which
originates a classified document has the authority to declassify
it. CIA, NSA or the National Security Council, none
of these agencies felt it had the authority to act, or sufficient
interest. Finally, Col. Richard L. Weaver, Deputy for Security
and Investigative Programmes in the Office of the Secretary of
the Air Force, decided to bite the MJ-12 bullet and buy an
appropriate rubber stamp. When UFO magazine contacted Moore for
his reactions, he reportedly responded:- "Since the MJ-12
documents are not Air Force, Colonel Weaver cannot label the
documents as forgeries".
OK folks I have to confess that for the first time since 1985
I've managed to go through the whole of a summer without visiting
any crop circles ! However, my network of spies and informants
have sent me all the following cases:
(1) There are plenty of large formations in Wiltshire
and I've had lots of calls about one large formation seen near
the A34 junction with the M4.
(2) There have been rum goings-on at Codecote near Welwyn Garden City in Hertfordshire. There is a field with several circles, a triangle plus multiple rings, UFO sightings and all kinds of odd goings on. These circles have been reported to The Crop Watcher by Marcus Parades and have been publicised by the Welwyn and Hatfield Times.
(3) On my way up to the IUN Conference in Sheffield on
August 13th I noticed a large circle in wheat (?) in full view of
the M1 motorway. According to Chris Haighton of Wakefield this
was at OSGR 452632 and was about 50 feet across.
(4) Bob Kingsley and others have told me about numerous
pictograms appearing close to the M25 and other motorways.
Perhaps we have some long distance lorry drivers involved in
hoaxing ?
(5)According to TODAY newspaper (August 6th) a
giant "porn circle" has appeared near Chequers - John
Major's country residence. This Penis was two hundred feet long
and was literally in the field next to Chequers itself (a subtle
political comment perhaps ?). According to TODAY a
spokesperson at Downing Street doubted whether John Major had
seen this "thing" and that she "stiffly"
doubted that he might be amused. Perhaps someone in the Amersham
group (see CW10) read Clive Potter's article in CW13 ? According
to the Bucks Free Press (9 July) a large face has appeared
in stages in a field owned by Don Jarvis at Bury Farm, Amersham.
The face has a mouth, nose, two eyes and two ears. This is the
farm where the Amersham Group were caught red handed last year.
(6)Various circles appeared near Weymouth in Dorset
just as I was on holiday there in mid June ! Jo-Anne Wilder
reported seeing circles at Maiden Castle near Dorchester that
same week.
(7) There is a pictogram shaped like a large wheel at
Goodworth Clatford which (according to the infallible Andover
Advertiser of 13 July) appeared on July 1st. Apparently
"The yearly phenomenon is back, bringing with it groups of
experts, religious fanatics and a language all of its own".
(8) There have been at least three formations in
Northamptonshire. The Kettering Evening Telegraph (the
E.T.) of 6 August describes circles at Irchester, Burton Latimer
and Slipton. Expert Chris Bird is quoted dismissing
"many" circles as "pure hoaxes". All three
are singles ranging from 40 foot to 59 feet in diameter.
(9) Clas Svahn has rung me from Sweden to tell me about
the six formations appeared there in mid August. One was
definitely known to be a hoax whilst four others were suspected
hoaxes. I'll hold back on details about the sixth formation as
their are some interesting features of this case which are still
being investigated. These circles all received massive media
coverage in Sweden.
(10) Jenny Randles tells me that the first circle to
attract widespread publicity in Northern Ireland appeared at St
Patrick's Hill near Drummock in County Antrim in a barley field.
Eight days previously an orange/red light was seen in the early
hours of the morning in the same area.
(11) Ian McCormack of Leyton in Lancashire has sent me
photographs of a single that appeared at Walton Hall farm, Walton
Le Dale, Preston, OSGR 553283 sometime before July 7th. Ian
contacted the farmer but wasn't allowed access as the farmer
believed that the circle had been made by employees at a local
cinema. Ian considers this a little unlikely as the circle is
actually invisible from the cinema, although it is located only
60 feet into a field adjacent to one of the busiest roads into
Preston. The circle is in a field of ripe barley and is only the
fifth Lancashire circle to be added to the CERES database.
Our thanks to Ian for sending this information.
(12) There is an intriguing new crop circle video that
was first shown at the Sheffield IUN Conference. It shows a
series of flashing lights at Urchfont south east of Devizes. The
film was shot at night and there is a good deal of camera shake.
However, during the film you can see cars passing by which gives
some degree of scale. If I wasn't such a huge evil skeptic I'd
say these were disco lights set up by the U.B.I. - they were seen
by CERES' Peter Rendall at this location during 1992.
(13) Andy Collins' Orgone '93 Project has produced some
very interesting results, eg anomalous objects recorded on Infra
Red film, unusual VLF signals and anomalous fluctuations in
background radiation counts. Jenny and I await the publication of
a full report on these commendable experiments with great
interest. For a copy of a preliminary newsletter describing this
work write to ABC Books, PO Box 189, Leigh-on- Sea, Essex SS9 1NF
or ABC Books, St Aldhelm, 20 Paul Street, Frome, Somerset, BA11
1DX.
GEM is out with an entirely new format. Issue 16 costs
£ 2.00 for 40 excellent pages containing more on John Michell's
interesting retirement from cereology, a review of Jim Schnabel's
book "Round in Circles" and a review of the Doug
Bower's meeting in Marlborough. Also includes reprints of John
Michell's article in The Oldie and Meaden in J.Met. Excellent
value for money. Write to PO Box 258, Cheltenham,
Gloucestershire, GL53 0ET.
The August 1993 issue of MUFON UFO Journal carries full
reports on Project Argus by Michael Chorost and Ralph Noyes (on
"luminosities") plus a comparison of British and
Canadian crop circles by Chad Deetken. Write to 103 Oldtowne
Road, Seguin, Texas 78155-4099, USA.
The Southampton UFO Group Newsletter contains more crop
circle info plus a list of formations at Hogs Back, Oadby, Herne
Bay, Meon, Avebury, Cherhill, Cheesefoot and Warminster. Write to
Steve Gerrard, 25 Weston Grove Road, Southampton, SO2 9EE.
According to the Southern Evening Echo of August 20th
Richard Andrews apparently claims that the formations at
Cheesefoot Head are "genuine". Of course they are
Richard...
Fortean Times no 70 has an alternative review of Jim
Schnabel's Round in Circles but little else on crop
circles. Probably a wise decision Bob !
Jenny Randles works for MBF Services near Marlborough,
her treachery will not go un-noticed ... George Wingfield has
been seen at Another Waggon and Horses, he was not amused ... The
Greatest Conspiracy in British UFO History has been put into
Action ... Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World TV
documentary has been saved and extended ... Ken Rogers has left
the UFO scene for good.
High quality aerial photographs of crop circles available from
Richard Wintle, Calyx Photo News, Marlborough House, 26 High
Street, Swindon, SN1 3EP. Telephone 0793 520131.
Crop Circles, A Mystery Solved has been completely
updated and republished in a second edition. Available from
Robert Hale Ltd, Clerkenwell House, Clerkenwell Green, London,
EC1R 0HT, price £ 7.99. Contains previously unpublished
photographs of the Wokurna (1973), Bordertown (1973) and Rossburn
(1977) circles, along with numerous historical cases, new eye
witness testimony and a detailed account of the crop circle crash
of 1991-1993. Get it please, Jenny and I had to accept reduced
royalties to get this evidence into the public domain. Thanks !
