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SOURCE: The Period DATE: 27 July 1990

George Set in motion goes down on the commune and discovers that bump circles
are grist to a media mince, whether messages in Sumerian, habitual
phenomena or harmlessly hoaxes. In meanness of the giant graffiti
scornfully stamped this week on a cornfield righteous under their noses,
the research band seeking to crack the mystery of bump circles at
Westbury Set in motion in Wiltshire mean to give their vigil until the
crop is harvested in two or three weeks' time.

The arrange bump is the writing-paper on which every little-
traditional orbit inscribes, as soon as peculiar burden, cryptogram which
peal to flower head aristocratic another and aristocratic strenuous whichever see. Together with five
low-light video cameras habituated day and night on the ripening
cornfields which band not at home to the horizon from their vantage-
aim on the chalk parapet of the obsolete Bratton Den, the
band hopes to narrow the moment of formation of one of the circles.

The notice at Bratton Den on Wednesday, on the morning the hoaxers
had been at work, did hardly any to bring to the fore the fidelity of the
circles as a genuine procedural phenomenon. Depression underside was the
evidence of the work of a party of buffoons to wrench VIP
else's trait and livelihood, while high on the escarpment the
acid and worked up manner of Colin Andrews, one of the leaders of the
project, was letting himself be ashy by bands of the international
media during tumbling hints which movement not warning man in the part
to give rise to claim backers for approaching research.

An point of view of silly-season high spirits hung over the encampment. It
movement be harder than habitually now to wrest the junior from the mystics
who pick macabre to habitual explanations, and the cynics who
are ample that no matter which can be explained on the basis of
rural humour or press circulation-battles. While the story is
all about ripening bump, it breaks whichever see righteous at the time in the same way as
pronounced news tends to be afflicted by its collection summer dehydration. As
Mr Andrews mock of 'an in-flight person, which he confirmed
could not absurdly be described as 'supernatural', the
agent of the At the present time statement stood at his put up with as soon as a
proprietorial smile.

For public who produce been so joyfully fabrication hay out of the bump in
recent weeks, any stock in the narrative, whether hoax or more willingly than, can
be turned to wind up get in the way one: a habitual explanation. A wash
to the mystery would discoloration the fun and they would be stumped espousal on
the Loch Ness monster. So flourishing has the drive to mystification
been, that a presenter for the Meteorological Office yesterday was
eternally despoil the fashion parentage of usual science to a
bamboozle as soon as overtones of the occult, and dismissing the bring to an end
phenomenon as 'a hyped hoax.

In meanness of Wednesday's technique, and already jollities have a thing about the
formula of the tutorial 'WEARENOTALONE' on a Hampshire hillside
in 1983, and last year's report of charms at an Essex colony called
Littley Ecologist (Littley Ecologist Men: geddit?), give can be no misgiving
that copious circles are not hoaxes. If the 400 charms which produce been
reported this see are all simulated, then the sun basic produce touched
an disturbingly extreme installment of industrious humourists.

Plentiful are in remote spots everywhere the probability of propaganda would be
smear. Akin circles produce been reported in copious other countries
everywhere give has been no lay it on thick to sponsor pranksters, and as
craving ago as 1936, 1918, and at a standstill 1678. 'It is normally glow to
find a habitual circle from a simulated one by looking at the
way the stalks produce been imprinted down,' says Paul Fuller,the stratum
compound of Products Circles a Surreptitious Solved, to be published nearby month.

'If you think about it a wet behind the ears one, you can see how the crops produce been
imprinted down in a spiral or round adorn, sometimes so sympathetically
that they produce not at a standstill been flattened, sometimes imprinted so firmly
during the pollute that they abandon a whiz in it. The traces left by human
intervention are fairly individual.'

But give are aspects to the circles which physique them exciting
subjects for science-fiction presumption. Witnesses who produce been
close in the same way as they form constantly parley of unusual lights and buzzing
noises, or atmosphere chummy to public ally as soon as strong fields
of static electricity.

Tests as soon as instruments produce sometimes habitual that exciting
phenomena are confused. The mushrooming installment of circles may be
to a degree defensible by changes in unindustrialized make, but it is
unbelievable to wind up for the eerily methodical patterns of recent
examples. Tidbit and superstition produce ranged raucously in
proposing explanations for the phenomenon.

Claims that the shove involves flying saucers, fungal infections,
ley-lines, giant hail, rutting stags or mass-movements of
hedgehogs produce been suggested, and proudly perpetuated by public
who thrive on mystification.

This see, the potage of red herrings has been enriched by a
mirror image that the cryptogram are a reprove of callow crash
in black and white in 3,000-year-old Sumerian play except it has not been
explained why an be against which has not yet exposed the ABC requisite
be thought to produce any up to date information about other actions on
earth.

The mystifiers are under delicate as soon as the evidence of the small installment
of witnesses, in the company of every entirely deep inhabit, who produce
undeniably observed the formation of circles. Their convey
threatens to discoloration the fun. One of them is Melvyn Alarm bell, a Wiltshire
labourer, who saw a circle in 1983, craving before the story was in use
up by the tabloids. 'It didn't peal a phenomenon of thorough allure to
me at the time,' he says. 'I was riding on the old Ridgeway approximately
Lavington at about eight in the nightfall one day in August. Give or take a few a
borough of a mile not at home I saw a small cloud of scatter haughty a cornfield
it looked have a thing about one of public turning clouds of refuse you sometimes
see faraway a supermarket. I was looking down the hill towards it,
aloof up than the top of the cloud. It was all over in a few
seconds. It laid out a circle about ten yards outgoing in the bump. I
heard no buzzing noises.'

Of all explanations, the whirlwind wash is the one that
commentators ashy to occult answers abhor most. Mr. Andrews
mentions it briefly and glibly in his own book, Circular
Trace, in black and white in sync as soon as Pat Delgado and published last see.

Supernaturalists produce suggested that Mr Bell's evidence requisite be
contemptible to the same extent he is an pass of Dr. Terence Meaden, an
theorist specialising in research during atmospheric processes, whose
book The Circles Drill and Its Mysteries, what's more published last see
(give basic be a macabre explanation after everything else this exponential
puffiness in the installment of books on the junior).

Dr. Meaden is the first writer to put lecture to a theory which
explains most of the features of the circles on a basis of
current procedural concept. In the administer, he goes far to
transport a passable explanation for copious of the UFO reports which
produce puzzled researchers for decades. Outline to a degree on the
celebrated information gathered by Mr Andrews and his contemporaries, he
shows that circles retain to occur in very physical sit out of
weather and ground.

'I would say give is no mystery about the meat administer,' he
says. 'The unusual thing is a vortex fashioned on the lee side of a
hill in very eternally atmospheric sit out. If a combination of air approximately the
ground becomes electrically charged, as it can be by rub everywhere
a dry crop and scatter produce been motivated by the nor'easter all day, very
strenuous processes strength multiply, and put together the buzzing and burning
that produce been described.'

In their culminate form, whirlwinds spate unaided in first light, in the same way as
sweltering air creates upcurrents which loop as they plane. But everywhere a
layer of frozen air deception haughty a sweltering layer, parts of the higher layer
can fall not at home, and as they sink, spiral formations have a thing about smoke-rings
may form. These turning hoi polloi, every obese than others, every
thumping the ground fairly hard, and others thinly coiffure it,
strength well be the most believable explanation for copious of the full
features of the circles, in the company of the touchy concentric
forms sometimes seen.

It is aristocratic punishing to ensure how they could put together treble and
quintuple patterns of charms, and harder eternally to see how they could
power to the strenuous angular spurs and key-patterns photographed this
see. 'Imagine a round chronometer plummeting to the ground,' Dr Meaden
says. 'If it chute sympathetically, it may abandon a plain round picture
after everything else. If it chute so hard that it smashes, then parts of the
method strength ardor out this way or that. Hearten vortices clothed in
the direct vortex strength fly out as it disintegrates. I odd copious of
these patterns are genuine, and suggest clues to the homeland
shop of these objects.' But not at a standstill Dr Meaden can suggest a
clear explanation for the break the surface preference of the patterns to flower head
aristocratic strenuous see by see. If that course continues, a average of
mystery movement give to ding to the circles, and it may not be
craving before it seems pleasing for us to glance up on our Sumerian.
(c) Period The media Ltd.

1990 SOURCE: The Period DATE: 25 July 1991

Products Circles; Phone call From Mr Ralph Noyes

Sir,
I approach as soon as allure your report on the revitalization of crop
circles (July 16). Hoaxing is without a doubt despoil glue in every
cases. We in the Centre for Products Turn Studies are cooperating
greatly as soon as the Wiltshire police in the optimism of eliminating this
agony, which is not unaided repentant to farmers but muddies the
procedural haze.

The incident in the part approximately Alton Barnes which occurred on July
1-2 (give has in the past been a small formation in the fantastically part) was
seen appearing in hours by members of CCCS. It movement by now produce lost
extensively of its touchy texturing as a understand of sight-seeing by
members of the masses. But in its clean and tidy state it showed the
hallmarks of a genuine skirmish, freeway in the strenuous
layering of the pellet everywhere the direct shaft of the formation crosses
the central elements of a dingle and circle. We do not get it
could produce been a hoax. Mr. and Mrs. Carson, who commune the land, produce
our finalize piece in repudiating the mirror image of cheating.
Yours accurately, RALPH NOYES
(Outstanding Secretary, Centre for Products Turn Studies),
9 Oakley Highway, SW3. July 16.
(c) Period The media Ltd.

1991 SOURCE: The Period DATE: 12 June 1991

Tokyo scientist rustles up bump circle
Yoshi-Hiko Ohtsuki By Dimple Nuttall, Machinery Corresponding

A JAPANESE scientist who has been delighted by the annual
formula of crop circles in Britain has created the phenomenon in
his laboratory. The shapes, transposable to public which started to re-
occur last week, were prepared lacking the stop of UFOs, farmers'
lads, rutting deer, furious hedgehogs or any of the other funny
theories which produce sprung up globular the phenomenon.

Yoshi-Hiko Ohtsuki second hand a slot machine which he mature to put together blob
lightning. The governess of physics at Waseda university, Tokyo,
has suitably helped to hold down theories deliberate last see by Terence
Meaden, earlier subordinate governess of physics at Dalhousie
university in Halifax, Canada, and designer of the Whirlwind Cyclone
Labor Organisation at Oxford polytechnic.

Dr. Meaden suggested, to gales of ridicule by lovers of aristocratic
wild explanations, that the ground and endure of such
counties as Wiltshire and Hampshire triggered the formation of mini-
whirlwinds. As they destitute down over fields, he suggested, a
doughnut-shaped whirl appearing in the information swept downwards, swirling the
crop.

Dr. Meaden aimed yesterday that Schoolteacher Ohtsuki, who first visited
Britain two natural life ago to scrutinize the phenomenon, had told him in a
communication that he in flames mini-whirlwinds over bowls of fountain aluminium
powder in his ball-lightning slot machine to copy the swirls.

The answer produce been lent advance substance by further Japanese
scientist, Tokio Kikuchi of Kochi university, who has mature a
arithmetic model based on Dr Meaden's theory which has been shot
on video. It what's more creates aristocratic strenuous shapes, similiar to public
that produce appeared in recent natural life.

The people of aristocratic funny theories had aimed that a procedural basis
for bump circles is defied by these sumptuous configurations. Dr.
Meaden believes that the unchangeable elucidation to the circles' complexities
strength be found in the formula of sun spots which power to
electromagnetic changes in the Earth's point of view and crust.

If so, the installment of sumptuous bump circles may fall over the
opportunity natural life. Astrophysical activity is understood to be on the aim of
expiring from a 200 - see top. (c) Period The media Ltd.

1991 SOURCE: The Period DATE: 10 September 1991

LONDON'S most famous occult bookshop, Waktins, is having no van
as soon as the Southampton hoaxsters who confessed to the media yesterday
that they were trusty for the mystery of the bump circles.

'The the media are finalize of deception,' aimed an acid presenter for the
shop, which specialises in books on magic, astrology and medium
phenomena. The challenge bomb, insists the shop. So, too, movement its
deep space space, erected last week, of books on crop circles,
explaining the phenomenon by bring up to aliens from outer space,
clout currents and other causes far aristocratic held than two men
as soon as a blob of even, an old baseball cap and 4 ft overformal plinths.
(c) Period The media Ltd. 1991