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� ;;i ";; ' �� ; The lndepend rch Centre for Unexplained Phenomena Issue 8 £1.50 4th March 1996 without consideration for the facts. I €1�®1:> havdee tectveardi ouasn omaloRFu se ffeictns Mter the unfortunate delay in the arrival hope this positive attitude can carry on. and arocurnodp c irclIe'sm,y ett o be convintcheedir sea l ink. of Enigma 7, I am pleased to announce €11�€1_1: that things are now back on schedule and Believe it or not, the crop circle season Q: Telulsm orea boutth easen omaloefufse ycotus I welcome all readers to issue 8. I'm is almost with us again (in a couple of havfeo und. going to stick my neck out now and state months or so). It seems like only t= 1AC!l A: I firsdti scovetrheedrw ea ss omethsitrnagn ge goinogn i nt hev icinoifct ryo cpi rcilne1 9s9 1 that I am trying to get issue nine ready yesterday when I was hiking around whenI d iscovetrheaadtm obilpheo ner efused for the end of April, so if you have any Wiltshire in the Summer sun. Hopefully � Pa.JI Vlgay to worki nsidae f ormatiyoent,w orked articles you would like to submit, please this year will see some of the hoaxers perfecjtulsyit n chouetssi det hef ormatioann d could you get them to me by the end of getting bored and giving up (Hmm, I'm throughotuhter esto ft hefi eldI.h aves ince During the past few months, a number of builmtor e sensitdievtee ctwohrisci hn a few, March at the latest. sure I said that last year. ...) and we can people who have expressed an interest in nota lflo,r matihoanvsge,i ven strreaandgien gs continue with scientific research. my crop circle research have asked a ofr adiion terferIeh nacveea. l sboe eng iven So, what's been happening recently? For reports fromn umeroupse opleo,f b atteries selection of questions. Rather than keep a start, the Roswell autopsy saga seems Mter the anger and apparent being inexplicadbrlayi nedc,a meras repeating my answers, I thought it was malfunctiaonndei lnegc troenqiuci pmgeonitn g to have temporarily quietened down. I disillusionment of last years crop circle time to put together a 'Frequently Asked wrongS.o mem aybe duet oop erateorrr oburt, don't think this is due to a loss of season, I hope that researchers and crop Questions' (FAQ) list, which will I'mc onvintcheadt tmhaeybr ees ome kindo f interest, merely researchers busily circle enthusiasts will tty to regain some resideulaelc tro-mafigenlebedti incgl efitnt he hopefully help to answer some of the chasing up various avenues of enquiry. of the love and spirituality of previous locatioofcn r ocpi rcles. most popular questions. Expect to hear some more years. I'm sure that crop circles are a Q: Havet hesaen omaloeuffse ctbese n replicated announcements in the near future. positive thing and there has been too To this end, I have written the following ata ll? much negativity in the last year or so. A: WellI, takem y equipmeton tm ost crop article as an extensive question and Talking of announcements, rve been formatiotnhsaI t v isiatn,dI tryt ov isailtl answer type interview. The questions formatioansss o oasn thearye fi rsrte porteIdn. surprised at the amount of media I'm also hoping to carry out more have been posed by a variety of people somef ormationtsh aIth aveob tainepods itive coverage UFOs have been receiving paranormal investigations during the over the years, and I hope will answer readin(giseg .i vinrga diion terfertehnec e), recently. Not only have there been UFO next year. In fact, my original interest in leveils u sualolfyt hes ame magnitudeI. some of the questions you may have related adverts being shown on TV (VW the unexplained stemmed from the alwaygse tt hes ame' normraeald'i nogust side about the subject. thef ormatisoonw sh,a teviesrc ausintgh e cars for a start), but VHl and CMTV Occult and Hauntings. There are many anomalourse adinigsobs v iousllyoc alisteod (two Cable music channels) have haunted places around Britain, and I Q: Doy ou havaed efinopiitnei oasn t ot hseou rce particfuorlmara tions. recently shown crop circles as part of hope to visit some and bring you back oft hcer ocpi rcplhee nomenon? channel adverts. reports as I go. A: No.I t rtyo k eeapn o penm indas tot hoer iginQ : Aret hesree adicnognss taorn dto,t hecyh ange andc ausoeft hec ropc irclOebsv.i oussloym e witthi me? areh oaxes,bu t we are tryitnogd istinguisAh: Ih avef ountdh,r ourgehp eatveids ittosc rop There have also been numerous To this end, I hope that all readers betweetnh eh oaxefdor matioannds those circsliet tesh,at th ree adiIno gbst agirna dually 'sightings' around the country. Actually, continue to gain enjoyment and whicmha yp ossibeb lgye nuinWeh.a tevtehra t diminiusnht itlh eyr eturnt oth eirn ormal there haven't been more than usual, enlightenment from reading Enigma. mayturn out tob e. readinigets h,es a mea so utsitdheef ormation. except for the fact that the media has not ***** Thisu sualolccyu rosv earpe rioodf f outro s ix Q: Soy oud on'nte cessatrhiilntykh eayr em ade weeks. been frightened to report them. This byl itgtrleeem ne nl andiinntg h esipra ceships. could be partly due to the popularity of A: No.N ota ta llA.l thoutghhe rhea vbeee nma ny Q: Ify ou don'gte ta nomaloruesa dinignss iad e programem s like the X Files gaining CroCpi rcFlAeQ page(s3-)7 UFOs ightiinntg hsev icinoifcrt yop circlIe s, crop circilseth ,a ta ni ndicatthiaoitnt i sa ReadeLrest tPeargs es 8-9 havyee tt ofi nda nys oleivdi denlcien kionnge hoaxecdi r7c le enormous viewing figures, but I'm sure RosweClrlas hU pdate 10-11 with theo theHro.w eveIr ,t hintkh ecr op A: Not necessarIi'lmyn .o t realloyu t to there is a more positive feeling in News 12-14 circlceosu ldbe causebdy some,y et categoricsatlalyt ew hetherp articular general about UFO sightings. People CroCpi rcMleea ninbgysS, t evCea nad1a5- 21 undiscoveenreerdgfi,ye lwdh icmha ybe ah i­ formatioanrseh oaxeodrg enuinIe'.mm erely seem less likely to simply dismiss them CroCpi rcalneo maliTese-legrHaiphl l 22 produocftU FO propulsisoyns temThsi.s i s testienvge rfyor matiIo ng ett hec hancteo Subsaiptdieotna ils 23 jusmty 'gut' feelinagn da tlhtohuouggIhh visiatn,d r eporotn anyfi ndingIs d etect. 2 3 People can then come to their own conclusions, to bend it more than about 20-30°. However, there is evidence of hoaxing as I or do their own repeat experiments to decide However, you do need to visit a formation as have been in formations where muddy for themselves what created the crop circle. soon as possible after creation, especially when footprints and broken stems have been present, the crop is young, as phototropism (the effect even hours after formation. Q: Don't you find that hoaxes muddy the waters of of bending to follow the sunlight) will start to Also following Occam's razor analogy - where research? take effect in crops that are lying down, assumptions introduced to explain something A: Yes, that is true. Unfortunately, the hoaxers are resulting in a bending upwards towards the must not be unnecessarily multiplied, hoaxing not scientists and are probably unaware of a lot sunlight. is the simplest explanation offered so far. There of the research that is going on. They see it as a again, who says there is a simple solution. The prank to try and damage the research efforts of Q: Does the crop continue to grow after it has theory of gravity is hardly simple, yet people many people. I just wish they would get fed up, been flattened into a crop circle? take it for granted. as it is wasting the time and money of many A: Again, this depends when the crop circle is I think the hoax hypothesis is an easy option people. If there weren't so many hoaxed circles made. If the crop is young and green it will for people to take if they don't want to question around, researchers wouldn't have to do so continue to grow as normal, trying to grow their world view about things and do their own Flg.l A diMr marblg kl Kcltsas, 1969 ·Could lfis be ... SC1111 much travelling around. Unfortunately, human back up towards the light. However, later in the research. 11111VY Ita Oldls mp citM 1 nature breeds people who don't like a threat to season when the crop is ripe and golden it is established science. often dead and will just lie flat on the ground. Q: Can the hoaxers claims be refuted, and how? early circles) and he categorically stated that A: Well, the biggest thing about hoaxers is that they hadn't. It was later claimed that they had. Q: What is the best evidence against hoaxing? Q: Have abnormal radiation readings ever been they seem to turn up the day after a formation Either they did or they didn't?? Also, D&D A: The best evidence is probably that of biological detected in a crop circle? arrives and deliberately 'act suspicious'. The were never able to produce a high quality effects to the crop itself. There have been cases A: Yes. I was lucky enough to be present when psychology aspect makes researchers wonder if formation in front of independent witnesses' to of genetic mutation within the cells in the crop Michael Hesemann, the German film producer they had anything to do with the circles, even if convince researchers of their skills. stems. One of the foremost researchers looking and UFO researcher, was performing some they were miles away the previous night. After I also find it amazing, and amusing, that into the biological effects is Dr. Levengood of radiation readings in 1993. We were surveying all, it's far easier to arrive on the scene and Doug's wife suspected nothing for nearly Pinelandia Laboratories, the Cherhill formation in Wiltshire, less than pretend to know something you don't than it is twelve years of nocturnal exploits. Other research which has proved interesting is four hours after it formed. (A local person to actually creep into the field in the darkness that seeds taken from inside a formation, when walking their dog at 2am and reported it not and produce geometrically accurate They also couldn't account for some of the re-planted under control conditions seem to being there then). We obtained 'normal formations. more elaborate swirl patterns in circles. As grow at a faster rate and produce taller and background' readings of around 8-12 micro Some claims can be refuted as different groups circles researcher Colin Andrews once said, "If more healthy plants. This aspect of the research ceverts in the field and around the crop circle. of hoaxers have inadvertently claimed the same you ask the wrong questions, you get the is easy to verify. You can simply go and take However, when we entered the circle, these formation in the past. This makes me laugh wrong answers." He once asked them how they some samples yourself and plant them in your readings went up to around 34 micro-ceverts - slightly because they obviously haven't got a made a sinusoidal weave in one formation they back garden. an increase of some 300% This was enough to clue what other people are up to. had previously claimed. When they had the ' There is then the physical evidence examined cause the local police, who soon arrived on the Even when hoaxers 'own up to circles, they exact details pointed out to them they simply in the formation itself, like lack of footprints scene, to later perform their own testing on it. have no evidence to support their claims. I stated, after a pause, "We didn't do that one." and damage -even when crop formations have However, their results remained confidential. could claim that I invented the Loch Ness appeared on rainy nights when mud is We have since detected high radiation readings monster. So what? I think they need to provide Q: Carl Sagan suggests in his article (Parade prevalent. in only a couple of circles, so I don't really proof of their creations as openly as magazine, Dec 1995 issue) that the think there is enough evidence to suggest that researchers supply research. Unfortunately, phenomenon exists because it is a money A: Sceptics have said that they can produce bent high radiation is a result of the circles hoaxers are out simply to deceive, so you're not maker. How big a financial industry do you stalks and that this depends on the weather themselves. going to get an honest answer from them. think it is? conditions when they make the circle. A: Unfortunately, some researchers have let Q: That is true. If you make the circle when the Q: What is the best evidence supporting the hoax Q: Was Doug and Dave's admission, in 1991, an money get in the way of serious research. In crop is young enough and there is a damp dew hypothesis? honest one, or do you think there are holes in fact I'm sure (without mentioning any names) on the ground, stems do appear to bend without A: That we're no closer to solving the mystery their story? that some researchers are deliberately keeping snapping. This is because the stems are more after nearly twenty years of research! No, A: I personally have a problem with D&D's story, people in the dark and spreading false research, supple and can bend easier. However, I visited seriously, it would be silly to dismiss the mainly because it doesn't seem to be so that they can keep producing merchandise a formation in 1994 which was in ripe oil seed hoaxers claims altogether, but I'm sure that consistent. Firstly they claimed that they and gain an income. This is, in my view, totally rape which is rather like celery, with stems up hoaxing is not as widespread as the hoaxers started it in 1978, then modified it to the mid wrong and creates a worse situation than the to an inch thick. I found many stems bent would like us to believe. Mter all, no hoaxers 1970's when researchers showed photographs actual hoaxers themselves. through 120° without the slightest snapping or have yet been caught -despite numerous night­ of pre 1978 circles (see fig.l) I also once asked Personally, I operate my crop circle research as splitting. I believe this would be impossible to watches by people armed with image Doug if they had made any formations an interest only. In fact, at the end of each hoax because ripe oil seed rape snaps if you try intensifiers and other equipment. in Wiltshire (the main location of a lot of the season I am usually out of pocket. Petrol costs 4 5 are the most, travelling to different formations. Q: Do you see any connection between crop water had also vanished - equal to the volume combined views of their members -which can I don't sell books or videos and Enigma just circles and other circular designs of southern of the crop circle. Snow circles have even been be pretty varied. about covers it's costs -what small profit there England, such as Stonehenge and Silbury Hill? photographed in the mountains of Afghanistan, is, goes towards gaining better equipment for Why is southern England, home of the largest with no footsteps leading to them. You can't Q: Do you have any numerical data on the number research. collection of man-made monoliths in the tell me that hoaxers are driving around in water of crop formations that have appeared? I believe researchers should be more open and world, also the home of the crop circle tankers or lowering themselves out of A: In the early years no one really counted the honest with each other, and those who are only phenomenon 1 helicopters. These aren't simple circles either. circles and, as there was no media coverage to in it for the money deserve to be rooted out and A: I think that is a difficult question to answer The snow circles in Afghanistan were arranged spread interest, many went undiscovered. exposed. simply - perhaps it's an idea for a future in a quintuplet, similar to some of the 'Celtic However since 1989 there have usually been in Enigma article - mainly because the Southern cross' designs seen in Southern England. excess of 200 formations in the UK each year. Q: Are there any hoaxers who are benefiting from counties of England are steeped in legend and The 'golden years' seemed to be 1990 and 1991 the phenomena 1 antiquity. Could Neolithic people have Q: Do you have any comments on any of the eye­ when there were between 300 and 400 A: Not as far as I know-although Doug did speak witnessed crop circles and, seeing them as a witness reports of crop circles forming? formations. at a hall in Marlborough, charging £5.00 a head message from the Gods, build temples and A: There have been a couple of eye-witness There is usually some discrepancy in the to hear him tell his story. The hall was packed monuments to preserve them through the ages? reports, but I remain fairly sceptical of these. numbers published because some people count out so I don't know how much money he made. It's a possibility. People have even said that They both describe a sort of atmospheric individual parts of a formation (for example a perhaps it is the spirits of these distant departed vortex type whirl-wind sweeping around the quintuplet may be counted as five circles), Q: Have any farmers taken advantage of private souls sending a message to the people of today, crop in a matter of seconds. Although, on whereas others count whole formations as a access to their fields by designing a crop circle perhaps to warn of the damage we are doing to further investigation, I'm not sure if we're not single event. I always count a whole formation and then charging a few pounds to see it? the Earth. Personally I don't go along with just seeing a localised wind here, as I've yet to as one event. Last year in 1995 there was over A: There have been a few rumours to that effect, these theories, but you never know. ... see a report which resulted in a circle as we 200 formations, despite disinterest in the and I am busy following up some enquiries at know it -with 'pastry cutter' type edges. media. In 1992 there were around 200 the moment. However, I don't think this is a Q: What designs have especially impressed you as Until I see more evidence I shall keep an open formations, dropping slightly in 1993 until viable source of income. By the time the being genuine, and why? mind on these claims. only around 150 formations appeared in 1994. farmer has paid someone to make the A: I personally, liked the Barbury Castle formation and for someone to sit by the formation of 1991 as it contained such detailed Q: Do you think any scientific evidence is being Q: How long are you going to continue entrance to the field and collect money, there is geometric precision. It translated to a three suppressed, or ignored by the mainstream investigating the subject? not going to be much profit. To be honest,. I dimensional tetrahedron with amazing media? A: I'm not going to stop until I'm satisfied that the think farmers have got better ways to spend accuracy. Also, in the suhsequent years, no A: Unless there really is a 'New World Order' style hoaxers have given up (which probably means their time and money. hoaxer has yet come forward to 'claim' it. coverup at a high level, I think the media are 111 be studying it for some time) or that we I also quite liked the Mandlebrot formation just ignorant of the facts. If they perceive the have some concrete evidence with which to Q: The crop circle phenomenon is presented to the which appeared in Cambridgeshire. I have no public seeing the subject as a hoax, they won't finally shut-up the closed-minded debunkers rest of the world by what seems to be just a idea whether it was hoaxed or not, as sell papers unless they have dramatic new and the sceptics. handful of crop circle "experts." What do the unfortunately, I didn't get a change to actually evidence - something we are working towards ordinary local people of southern England visit it. However, assuming it's not hoaxed, it is rectifying through hard work and research. Q: How will you know when (and if) the hoaxers believe? Those who are not involved in virtually conclusive proof of some kind of have given up? documenting the phenomenon, those who just intelligence being behind such a 'human' shape. Q: Is there any evidence to suggest that the A: That's an interesting question and one that is happen to live there? military are taking an interest in the crop impossible to answer without looking at the A: A lot of people just seem to accept it. I have Q: Are there any convincing hoaxes? circles? psychology of the hoaxers involved. One spoken to some people who claim to have seen A: Well, the Mandlebrot formation for a start -if it A: I have spoken to a few military people about aspect is that a lot of the hoaxers claim to give­ crop circles since they were young children in is a hoax? The only reason I'm sceptical about crop circles, and again unless there is a very up and state that copy-cat hoaxers are merely the 1950's and thought nothing of it. this one is that it is so obvious) y a human well orchestrated cover-up campaign, I think caryr ing on where they left off. Some of the local people in Wiltshire have mathematical shape that it cannot have formed they are just as mystified of the circles as the However, an interesting facet of research starts their own amazing stories of UFO sightings by a non-intelligent entity. rest of us. They occasionally venture out into to appear here, in that there are subtle and strange events, whereas others merely the fields to carry out their own research, but similarities between formations from year to dismiss it as a hoax. Q: Have crop circles appeared in other countries on occasions when I have spoken to them, they year, so unless one group of hoaxers is I think more people take notice of the media and is this evidence against hoaxing? just seem honestly curious. 'teaching' the next group, or new groups are though and don't like to express opinions that A: Yes. In fact crop circles have appeared all constantly studying previous years research, may be outside the 'average' way of thinking. around the world; America, Canada, France, Q: Do any of the various crop circle organisations, I'm not quite sure how the hoaxing knowledge More people dismiss the subject as a hoax India, Japan, Afghanistan, Germany and such as IRCUP or the CCCS have a definite and complex geometries manage to continue since D&D's admission. Sweden to name just a few. In Japan a circle opinion as to the origin of the phenomenon? from year to year. appeared in a rice paddy field and the A: I do not think that the crop circle organisations ••••• following morning thousands of gallons of have a global opinion, but merely share the 6 7 �����••�•�t�m��rm����f�l I::I:�I:I�I::II::�:_,:;t�mt:J Pt!"�"l!l!�t-! based in London. So the false ROMAN driving down the A12 between the M25 do not know what happened between the 'christianity' of Rome and the false intersection and the turn-off for point that I saw the light and I was at my MASONIC 'christianity' of London are Ingatestone (the B 1002). junction. 'Christian' church, however please working together via the Scottish Rite). understand that by using the term The "one-world-church" will be It was about 2.30am, and so I was the This bears a striking resemblance to the 'Christian' you are in essence referring to "Christian" in name only and it will be only one about on the road at the time. sighting you reported in Enigma at a church that follows Christ or is one of the worst tyrannies ever. About half way down that stretch of road Honey Street, Wiltshire on 23 August sanctioned by Him. I believe that the Nevertheless one should not throw the (which is very long and straight), I 1992. Although you say that the proper term should be ROMAN church baby out with the bathwater, or condemn encountered a road maintenance vehicle 'headlamp' you saw was 12-18 inches off or the MASONIC church. the teachings of Jesus because evil men that was putting cones on the the ground, I could not say how far are twisting his teachings to enslave the carriageway. I checked all around me, above ground the one I saw was as I The ROMAN church was formerly masses. I hope that this clears up some over my shoulders and in my mirrors only saw it in my rear view and driver's known as the Holy Roman Empire, and things in regards to the difference and then, when I knew there was side wing mirror. before that the Roman Empire. They got between "christianity" and "CHRIST­ definitely nothing behind me, pulled into smart and decided that religious passions ianity". the fast lane to go around the vehicle. At I do not believe (or know if) I have been and economic structures could be a far Anonymous, via The Internet this point, I would estimate I could see abducted or anything, and would NOT more effective means of control than about half a mile down the road behind really want to fmd out. I thought that I mere military politics. So it is in Rome. me at which point the carriage way had been the only person to have The same holds true with the Masons of disappeared over the crest of a hill. witnessed such an event. I considered London, the Royal Family, etc. Like the posting it on alt.paranet.alien but then Roman Church, they also call When I had pulled into the fast lane, I decided not to. I may do in the future­ themselves 'Christian', but this is a I have been quite reluctant to write this looked in my rear view mirror, and saw just out of curiosity to see if anyone else blasphemous lie because Jesus himself message, maybe because I do not want what looked like the headlamp of a has had a similar experience. was the most vocal enemy of tyranny in to know the answers to some of the motorbike very close behind my car. It history. The "religionists" of his day things I do not understand. was also in my wing mirror on the The more I learn about these things, the (the Pharisees who stood between men driver's side of the car. I do not recall if less I like to talk about my own personal and God and used that as a pretence for I have only told two people what I will it was in the other wing mirror or not. I experience. power and control) killed Jesus because write here, and one of them is a member was very surprised at this as I knew that He advocated a simple spiritual of my immediate family. It is the reason there had been nothing behind me for as The reason I told you is that I thought relationship between every individual behind my choosing this subject, but up far as I could see just a second ago. you might be interested to hear about it and God minus the political, economic, until now it had really been nothing if you keep a record of these sightings clergical and litergical confusion that more than a curiosity. I really put the It kept up with me for a short distance (as I see you have a form on the back of "organized religion" brings with it. incident out of my mind as just one of but I do not remember anything after your magazine). I could fill this in and When the antichrist comes he will unite those things', but was prompted to email that until about maybe five or ten return it if you like, although I could not the details to you after I read about a all world religions into a universal minutes later (although it could have describe any sort of craft or anything - "christian" church (You should study the similar incident in issue one of Enigma been more-I really don't know) when I all I saw was a very fast, very bright role that the Scottish Rite of Masonry that you kindly sent me. was near my junction. I do not know light. plays in uniting all religions under what happened to the light, although it central control. It is interesting that the About March/April 1995, (at the time, did follow me at a constant speed of Na�M supplied, but withheld to protect conj"ulenJialiJy. Scottish Rite was created at the JESUIT although it was a very strange event, I around 60mph whilst I was still aware of college of Clermont in France on behalf did not think to take much notice of the things, and I have no idea what of the Holy Roman Empire, yet it is the exact date, although I do know it was happened to the maintenance vehicle. I dominant rite in Masonry, which is very early on a Friday morning), I was 9 8 M8fi1:�Stti��Jt�l I\\\\J�!Wf!:Ui�f:tm\1-tiJ ROSW£11 INVESTIGATOR apparent size than the sun, white in years. His crash site was about ten miles in Socorro looking at USGS maps trying 808 SH£11 REPORTS FROM colour, and did not have a "tail" behind from Magdalena toward the Plains of to find out which road this was, but had TH£ SOCORRO CRASH SIT£. it. It was flaming around the edges, she San Agustine which is also where the no luck since features like wood bridges said, like it was on frre. It passed straight Santilli cameraman's site is. are not shown. Hi everyone, across the sky over Gallup where she was, in the direction of Socorro. It made Speaking to the Cameraman Interviewing Forest Rangers I got back from Socorro yesterday and no sound. Mike made a video of our I spoke in a "conference call" with the All of this land is National Forest land am still a bit jet-lagged. interview and we may show it at some cameraman last Wednesday and got (even though much of it is high desert conferences. Because they do not want specific directions to the crash site from and not forest), so I next went to the Missing Newspapers to be pestered, I have agreed to keep the him. No one so far has even been close National Forest office in Magdalena to LOTS of news. First of all, the records names of all witnesses and people I to the site. He says that the military interview the rangers and see if any of of the Socorro newspaper are complete interview confidential. In the case of this convoy picked up some people . in them knew which road this was. None of for over 100 years, but the issues from lady, she could get in trouble with her Socorro and then drove SW on Route 60 them have been there for a really long May 10 to June 15 of 1947 are missing! tribal council for talking about this to for one hour at about 40 - 45 mph. This time, so none knew of a wood bridge in They were supposedly burned in a outsiders. puts them about ten miles or so past the 40s or 50s. They did not know of one mysterious ftre in the 60s, which Magdalena (Magdalena is about 28 in ruins either, so it may have been destroyed ONLY those issues. That Strange Material miles from Socorro). dismantled and hauled off for the wood. alone would be suspicious, but EVERY I spent a day in Magdalena (which is 28 Unfortunately, the area is full of dry lake OTHER newspaper in the area is miles from Socorro at the edge of the Looking for the Crash Site beds, so figuring out which one it was missing issues for that time period as Magdalena Mountains where the crash After driving on Rt 60 they turned left may be difficult. well! ! ! ! ! ! That really stretches the range happened). There is an elderly man there onto a dirt road marked by a heavy wood of coincidence, I would say. One local who is the local "historian". He gate and wood fence. This road was I couldn't stay longer and had only a newspaper editor told me that she had remembers that in the summer of 1947 a described as "hugging the mountains" standard rental car this trip so I couldn't been searching for newspapers for that local rancher came into town very and very treacherous. Four or five miles check out the roads. The cameraman time period for years without success. excited because a spaceship had crashed down this road they crossed a wooden advised me against trying to drive this The state historical society doesn't have on his land. He had a piece of it in the bridge over a steep canyon. (fhe road in a regular car since it was rough them and neither do any of the back of his pickup truck and they took it cameraman says he went back to the site going for the military jeeps. universities. The only hope is that some to the local garage where they tried to flfteen years ago and the old bridge was private collector somewhere has them. cut it. Nothing, not even a welding torch, collapsed and the road re-routed down Ongoing Investigation had any effect on it. Unfortunately the into the canyon.) They drove for about My plan at present is to return to the area Witnesses view Fireball rancher is long since dead and no one 45 minutes or so on this road at speeds as soon as I have some free time, rent a Mike Hesemann was with me for two today knows what happened to this piece which could not have been more than 15 jeep, and try the roads along that stretch days and we went and interviewed one of material. It may still be in a shed mph and came to a dry lake bed. The of Rt 60 one by one. of the eye witnesses to the frreball which somewhere. crash was on the north side of this lake came down on May 31, 1947. She is a bed. I'd appreciate it if you would post this Native American and told us that many Another Witness update for me to the usual intemet sites of her people saw this, but probably There was a soil scientist assigned to the Dry Lake Beds to let people know the progress of this wouldn't talk to outsiders about it. Her district in those days named Fleck. That The area about ten miles out from investigation. Magdalena is full of dry lake beds, and people consider seeing a UFO as a very same summer Fleck stumbled across a bad omen usually associated with the crashed UFO while on his rounds. He is is the only area for miles which has Bob Shell death of someone close. Her memory of dead also, but his wife is still living and them. I spent considerable time at the School of Mines at the University of NM the fireball is very clear. It was larger in he told the story to many people for 10 11 l::::�ttwrmrtw�t�Itt�mttil�:�l The followignegm was foundi n Prof Robert Rood, of Harvard, said: Mitchell, 65, returned to the Space Coast notches." Februa1ry1 t1h9 96S'usn dayT elegrap"hTh.e civilisation that blurts out its recently to do location shots for an Dos cientkinsotwss o methwiendo gn 't? existence on interstellar beacons at the "NBC Dateline" retrospective on the Taking a break from the NBC taping, the first opportunity may be like some early Apollo 14 adventure. MIT-educated former Navy captain hominid descending from the trees and relaxed at the Villa Roma restaurant in calling 'Here, kitty' to a sabre-toothed At the highlight of that mission - Jan. Rockledge and rolled his own imported tiger." 31-Feb. 9, 1971 - Mitchell and Alan tobacco. He expressed his "total Shepard spent 33 hours roving the disbelief' in a recent U.S. Air Force The Search for Extraterrestrial t desolate lunar hills of Fra Mauro. report attributing the alleged crash of an AMERICAN astronomers, having found Intelligence programme is being carried ET spacecraft in New Mexico in 1947 to four planets beyond our solar system, out privately by Prof Horowitz's team It was there that Mitchell frrst courted an a classified military balloon. believe they will soon detect radio and another in Australia. avant-garde reputation by conducting signals from alien civilisations. off-the-clock mental telepathy Last summer, the General Accounting ****** experiments by transmitting symbolic Office announced the failure of its IS­ "I believe the odds on there being images to an acquaintance in Chicago. month effort to acquire the dispensation advanced civilisations in our Milky Way Shortly thereafter, Mitchell left the records of the debris from that galaxy are a thousand to one on," said astronaut corps and founded the Institute celebrated event. In 1994, the Air Force Prof Paul Horowitz, of Harvard for Noetic Sciences in an effort to admitted that it initially lied about the University. His team operates an 84ft integrate various scientific disciplines wreckage in order to conceal a balloon­ radio telescope near Boston that MOONWALKEREDMUTCHELL into the study of human consciousness. based nuclear-monitoring system called continually searches the sky for artificial CONVINCED SOME UFOS ARE Project Mogul. But - unable to produce signals. REAL Mitchell's upcoming book, "The Way of the paperwork on the retrieval in Explorers", will address the latest question - USAF officials based their "Every day we pick up radio 'noise' from {Thef ollowisntgo rya ppeareidn research upon its release in April. case on circumstantial arguments. space that is equal to 22 trillion bytes of FLORIDAT ODAY on January1 2, Perhaps because of the imminent data, equivalent in information content 1996.] publicity, Mitchell found himself invited "I am convinced there is a small body of to 50 million novels," he told the annual to a private meeting of former valid (UFO) information, and that there meeting of the American Association for Apollo-14 Astronaut Searches for the government/military officials hoping to is a body of information 10 times as big the Advancement of Science. Truth by Billy Cox, FLORIDA TODAY recruit his visibility for their most that is total disinformation put out by the staff. peculiar campaign. source to confuse the whole issue," says So far there have been many false alarms Mitchell. where likely signals have failed to repeat With the 25th anniversary of Apollo-14 "These were people who, in their official themselves. coming up, the sixth man to walk on the capacity, had an opportunity in the "The information is now held primarily moon hopes to swing the spotlight onto a course of their duties to have ET by a body of semi- or quasi-private Another astronomer, Prof Frank Drake, more contemporary agenda - pressing 1 (extraterrestrial) contact," Mitchell says. organizations that have kinda spun off said: "The real signal, when it is found, for the declassification of government "The purpose of the meeting was not to from the military intelligence will be unmistakable. I strongly believe records on unidentified flying objects. ' convince anybody else of their stories, organizations of the past. Just like we that we shall find one before the year but to get people released from their build a rocket through a private 2000." If his suspicions are true, former security oaths with regard to these contractor, there have been private astronaut Edgar Mitchell says the lid of phenomena. Given who they were, and groups involved with this issue for a Other scientists warn that it could be secrecy engages nothing less than their credentials, I have to tell you it number of years because they have the dangerous to advertise our own presence "criminal culpability". pushed my confidence level up five expertise. on Earth by transmitting signals. 12 13 tJft}UIIIi!i!i!Iti!Ii!i!i�i!Ii!�!i!i!itt!II!��::I II!i!II�IBtt!f:#!mIJRUJ "The dangerous part is, they're still �!!fi"PL!Pil!lll�l� "Tfim-� ar� tftr�atis tfurt f.ead to anrtfwr, and in another level of meaning operating under a black budget, which Infinitely mor� andmt, ctvtf1saontt tfum tM contained in a transformation process has been estimated at over $30 billion a (Sunday, March 3rd 1996), a close Jdf.antst of 'Pfalo""" depicted graphically. This is directly year. And nobody knows what goes into Mooney, p.l75 related to the subtle and profound encounter was witnessed at the Queen's � black budgets. The prime requisite is implication of the fact that is Highland castle. security first and everything else second. Coded Communications information is contained in the shapmg Imagine an organization that has a black Any communication system relates of life-itself, in life-sustaining crops. In At just after 1O .OOpm on Wednesday budge� an unquestioned source of funds, information content, the symbols of this sense then, "the medium is the 28th Feb 1996, witnesses claim to have reports to no one, and has this exotic spotted a bright light in the sky above which must be ... ----.....rv--w-v-"W"1,.....,,..,.-vt-r-V1r--n I . • ! . technology that they can keep to encoded in a coda, the Queen's castle. Within minutes, two themselves and play with." such as an alphabet. <!rere <!lrale RAF Harrier GR7 jump-jets intercepted To extract the and started chasing the object. Mitchell, Mercury astronaut Gordon meaning of this ffieanlne&··· Cooper, and some 20,000 Americans coded information, One witness said that the jets were have signed the Roswell Declaration, a it must be decoded, climbing so quickly, they were almost grass-roots petition calling for an using a system of Unller&t.anlllne standing on end. It looked as if they executive order to release UFO matching which were in some kind of 'dog fight' with the documents to the public. Mitchell, object. enables translation. The iHmleel& however, stresses he has no frrst-hand knowledge of the existence of recovered The object seemed to just appear. ET artifacts. And during his Apollo-era According to another witness, it didn't training, the subject of UFOs never seem to come from a particular arose. direction. It was just there all of a sudden. "NASA at that time was so sure there were no such things, there was no Suddenly the light vanished and after discussion of it," he says. "I would say, circling the castle the planes flew off in however, that if there was knowledge of the direction from which they had come ET contact existing within the from. government, and we were sent into space blind and dumb to such information, I An RAF spokesman said, "There were think it it a case of criminal culpability." two aircraft in the area. They could have Some Intelligence Behind It been on some kind of exercise. Pilots are "To send us up there? Into a what-if Some crop circle researchers have gone not going to report such things as UFOs scenario? If the evidence is real, and we on record with their conclusion that the to anyone and I've been unable to get were led to believe no such thing was circles are made by an intelligence other anything out of them." possible? To me, that's criminal." than human and are a communication � system. None of these researchers h ve What with the recent admission from the He says he's looking forward to the found who are making the genome Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) about discussions his new book will generate. formations, nor what specific the UFO spotted near Manchester airport "We're talking about a revolution. It's a information they contain. I have found last year, things seem to be bolting up on mind-blower." that the decipherable information is the UFO front. Watch this space ... embedded in the repeated symbols used 14 15 j[j@f:!t:::em,FW!fN:::ti!i![!ii[i!il ltiiii-ifilf:tw��-tfJ Sumerian Symbolism artifacts - crop circles and the so-called known database ot knowledge base. references. Technically, with greater My explanatory model is not built on Monuments of Mars. When the fit or match is highly redundancy comes less entropy, or mere statistical associations correlated and well beyond the realm of disorder in any system. (correlations), but rather on the NASA Detects Tenth Planet pure chance, then the power of this extraordinary and distinctive pattern fit NASA in 1987 announced the detection model is increased and its validity Why in Grain? of crop circle symbols with one, and of a tenth planet of the solar system. enhanced. That's what I found, the The question "Why in grain?" is an only one, human historical and cultural Crop circle symbols are consistent with ancient symbols that match consistently intriguing one. There is a way to database of Sumerian symbols. This the ancient symbols used for this planet, many of the crop formations. ascertain the motive for utilizing such a close matching provides the necessary known as Nibiru to the Sumerians. medium as crops by the circlemakers. A access to the information required with Symbols of Information specific ancient ruler of Sumeria is which to decipher the redundant patterns Betty Hill's Star Map Revisited They form a sort of language, one based identified in one of the most complex in what turns out to be a communication That the planet of origin of UFOs is part on nouns. Embedded in the ancient crop pictograms to have appeared, that system. of the Earth's solar system is further symbols is information. If we apply the of July 11, 1990 near Alton Barnes, in supported by two researchers, Koch and rudiments of information systems Wiltshire, England. Her name was Alien Interests Kyborg, of Berlin, Germany. They show analysis we see it conforms to what we Inanna. She was a powerful ruler and Using these clearly identifiable symbols, that Marjorie Fish's so-called "Star can decipher and decode. So we can being from Nibiru (part of its ruling the circlemakers have identified the Map", derived from the Betty Hill translate them and interpret their elite). Later, in Akkad, she was known as planet of their origin, who they are, drawing recalled from her 1961 meanings as messages, as distinct Ishtar. She was known as the "Goddess some of their ancient and ongoing abduction experience, shows an exact statements. The linear aspect of of Grain" - is it any wonder then that programs of interest (such as genetics­ and complete fit for all lines and points sequencing matches the processing of these messages are appearing in grain? reproduction, and mining), and possibly on the map with mineral-rich asteroids the left hemisphere of our brains. The an indication of when they can be and solar system planets on the precise circlemakers know us very well and how The transformation theme of the crop expected to return to Earth after an date of the abduction. we process information. circles is consistent in its reference to the absence of almost 2500 years. past, its appearing in the present, and its Interpreting Research A Communication System? providing a warning about the future. Masses of Evidence The crop circle phenomenon per se is The circles are constructed artifacts, and The circlemakers' connection to their not amenable to scientific study because the information they contain forms a Hesiod speaks of a golden race of men UFO craft is made through three we cannot control the variables and do communication system that identifies who preceded his own generation and growing, separate bodies of cause-and­ experiments related to the circles' where the circlemakers are from, and by became the 'holy demons upon the effect evidence (eye-witness testimony, manifestations. Yet my research process inference who they are. This is not earth, ....g uardians of mortal men.' still photos, and video tapes) which is scientific in this way - using the tried surprising, identifying where they are Jaynes, p.J64 allows us to identify where UFO craft and true method of comparing the from and who they are and why they are are from and who are responsible for characteristics of an unknown returning - just like we would do when 'Bricks Baked in Hell' them. phenomenon (crop circles) to those of a we frrst communicate with someone. "The Koran speaks of the existence of known phenomenon (in this case an 'bricks baked in Hell and written by the Crop Circle links to Cydonia? ancient knowledge base of the Sumerian Redundancy is also part of this encoded demons,'... the reference applies to the That the artificial structures in the culture and it's records several thousand data, and this helps the decoder decipher many inscribed bricks that are found Cydonia region of Mars were conceived, years old). This is how I constructed my the essential meaning of the information throughout Mesopotamia." (Chiera, designed, and constructed by the explanatory and interpretive model. being conveyed. In other words, with the pp.41-2). These baked tablets and bricks circlemakers is shown by the shared repeated use of the same symbols, over were inscribed with Sumerian cuneiform abstract, conceptual, mathematical The way we solve a mystery is to and over again, even year after year, we writing. constants in these two sets of alien compare properties of the mystery to a see more of the clarity in the symbolic The Sumerians recorded that they were 16 17 �::::sr!!tim!FWI!W:I:J::::::::::::I I�JJ�I�ta�grfi�JBWII taugthhtis first system noofn ­hwuamya onf l ookin[gp aradisghmi ft] and cropp ictograasms sh,o wnb yR ichardS o thati sH OW I predictae cdr op pictuwrrei tibnyg t heA nunnakith,e scientiwsiltlsh avet op uto n the new Hoaglanadn do thers. formiaotn'ss pecificd esign.T he Nefili"mht,o sew hof roms kyt oearth glassienos r detros eean ythi.n"g predictisounc'cse hsass demonstrated camee/llf." These beingsw ere, Briggs and Peat, 1988, p.230 Making Accurate Predictions whati sc allae dt heo'rsyv alidity. The accorditonth ge fidningosf Z .Sitchin, Iw asa skerde cenbtylt yh ed irecotfoa r theory's ipsos wheorw ni nh owi ta lso fromt hep lanNeitb irlui,t er"aPllnaleyt One Source ... crop circle resehaorwc Ih w acse netxeprl ainso ritghoiefn o theprh enomena ofC rossnig"i nS umeriathni.s i st he Theg isotft hei nofrmatiIo nh abveee n ablteo p rediac tc rocpi rclsep'esc ifitco o,s ucha s UFOs,a nd theM ars tenthp lanoeftth e solars ystem, whaibclhet o i nductipvuetlt yo gethienar n desigans, describiend V olume8 , Structures. hasa highilnyc-linreedt,r ogroardbei te xlpanatmoordye ils m adeo fth rees ets Chapt5e9ro fm y 19921 0-volubmoeo k whicihsv ereyl oantgeandd whictakhe s ofc onnectitohnessa.er et hee ssentials CropC irclLean gauge. The following Explaining the Mystery 3600 Earth yearsN.A SA'1 987 presso fm y theortyh acto nnecctrso cpi rcles, shorstip xa ragrawpehrsme y response.T hiwsa sn otan e xtraordipnraocreys tso announcemenatbso utd etectian g UFOs,a nd CydoniMaa rs region's appltyo testianng e xlpanatioofn an possibltee nth plmaingehhtta vebe en architect-alurl hea,v oen es ource: In 1991I developae cdo hesive aunndkn own phenomenon.d idAw lals I the frrst publmiocde,m indication consisttehneto ry that aenxdp laaipnpsl tyh eo ldt ired-and-mtreuteh od of conrrmfing whatt hea ncienkntesw for 1.S ymbolsth at identify where thea llowisnt erpretoatfti hoeni nofrmation explainai nmgy setry...c omparei ts thousanodfsy ears. circlemakareer fsr om( sebeel ow)a,n d contenot f these communicaptrioopne rtainedcs h aracstteirtciosa body by inferewnhcoe t heya r,e anwdh at artitfsaT.ch rougthh ei nductmievteh od ofkn own human knowanlde dsgeee "Wek nowv erlyi tatbloeu tth eo rigionfs theira citviticeosn,c erns, proogrr ams, of reasotnhiitnshg e oreyv olvaesdo ne how itfi ts( int hicsa set hef iti s theS umeria.n.sT. h.e S umerianhsa da prjoectwsi lble whent heyre turn to basedo na ncieknnto wled(gSuem erian,s ufficienfto ri t to qualify as the highr egarfdo rt hea rto fw ritianngd Earth; ino ther wotrhdews h,y oft his foerx apmle.) expnlaatormyo delTh)e.r ei sn o other placedi tsi nveinotn atth e very announcemenstysse mt (sebee lowO)r. way wceo met ol earn anythiNnEgW beginningo f theicri vsialtiiona.t l eastp artof the w.h.yI. .do not I havea ttempted ONEo nlpyr ecdtiion.( check the othfel oearnirnige sa ndt he Moreovre, they conseirded that pretetnodh avef athomAeLd L oft he More aqruei tuen necesstahrefy a.tct hat basitce natsn ofe pistemotloov geyr ify civiislatiaosn gorfe aantt iqui.t."y. ,. deciphelrera ebasonnosr,d o Ic laitmo it wsausc cessdfoeusl n otq uailfym y this). (Chiera, p.50) be fluenitn w hatI cal"lc rocpi rcle theorays sac ientoinfiecb ecaucsreo p langugae.T"h isc ommunicatsiyosnt em circarlee sn ota ne xperimbeanste fdi eldT hed esiguntsi liisnen du meroucsr op Fully Developed Civilisations ISa languagIe c,o ntend, bietci asu se of resebaerccahu,ws ee cannocto ntrolc irc!:YQ§le are consstienwti tshym bols Z.iStchciint seosu rctheastp oinotu tt hat composeodf m eaningful syim.boles., thep hysicvaarila lbesi nvolvientd h eiru sedb y ancientc ultures, ass uch the Sumerian civiislatiaroosne all ofa meaningfiunlth e conteoxft h uman appeari(nwgh taevetrh eymi ght be; Sumeriatno,r epreswehnattt heknye w suddenw,i th fully desvoeclioaplke ndo wledtghea its v erifiaTblhei.s niots includtiimnega ndp laec). tob ea lOthp lanoeftt hes olars ysteAm . institutainodn lsa wst hath ad no an aliesny mbol systemma;t chiets June2 6,1 987 NASA pressr elease evoliuotnaryp recedent. Ftuhretsheep re,r fectlyh isotuorr asy ,r evealiend Whatt hesu cceosfs mpyr edictidoinds, showpso ssidbeltee ctoifto hnpe r esence sourcemsa ke cleatrh atw e would archeaology. baseda si tw asw ithithne context oofaf l Othp lanet. recognitshee sceul turianlis ttutiaosn s specific aknncoiwelnetd gweas, to modem. 2. Tsheec onsde otf c onnectiisow nist h conrrmf thev alityd,ic orrectneasnds Where is the Tenth Planet? UFOs..c.a.u ghotn videopsh,o toansd, accuracym y ocfr ocpi rcelxelp anatorTyh isp lanietsn ot" hidnd,e"b utd oes CROP CIRCLE :MEANINGS seenb y eyewtinessiens proximity in and inetrpretthievoer y. havea,c cordtiona gn ciernetc or(desv en Part 1 spacaen dt ime withap ptehaerc aeon f Icnan, foundi n the Andes!s ee genuicnreo fpo rmaitons. WhatI d idw as testth ek nowledbgaes e Z.Scihtin'4s- book series"E arth "Kuhn hasi ndicattehdep aradoxa: ofm y seotf h ypothesMeys th.e orwyas Chroneisc"l),a very elongated, theorhya s to be acceptebedf ore 3. The same mathematiccoanls tants, supportaendd strengthebnye dt his retrograhdieg,h liyn clinoerdb itth at substantial eviidtec nocmee si nf.Io rt sucahs e htf,o unidn t heC ydonrieag ion succespsrfeudlii oc.nt take3s6 00 yeras tcoo mpletOen.e hast o baecc eptbeedc auistei sa novel ofM arsa'r tiicfisatlr uctuarnedss o,m e 18 19

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