UFO Newsclipping Service 1991 09 no 266

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SEPTEMBER 1991 NUMBER 266
OBSERVER, Charlotte, NC- Aug. 10, 1991 CR: G. Fawcett CITIZEN-TIMES, Asheville,
Quirky circles
NC - Sept- I I, 199 I
N.C. farmer
UFOs? No, it's news cop.ters checking out field's mystery insists circles
By ALLEN NORWOOD the country. "All the way to Cali forces underground," Ricky Eli and Ricky Springs said they aren't hoax
Staff Writer fornia," Springs said, as if he Springs said. "We were on a fault, weren't overwhelmed by crowds
Eli Springs Jr. was overwhelmed couldn't believe that. and it was of the merely curious. The
- and befuddled - by all the There were calls from radio releasing forces Observer story didn't contain a
news media interest in the curious reporters across the state. when the bad precise address - and they kept THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
crop circles that Springs' daughter and son-in storms came." their gate locked. CHARLOTTE - l<.:li Springs
appeared in his law in Raleigh, Amy and Danny One woman They opened the gate for the .Jr. remains unimpressed.
southeast Char Houston. heard a Fayetteville radio got very news crews, which were gone by The Charlotte farmer, who
lotte soybean account of the circles. "emphatic" midafternoon Friday, when won overnight fame when he dts
field. "They laughed. They told my when Eli Springs' field was hit by another covered mysterious crop circles in
"What did we wife, 'Lord, Mama, it's up here on . Springs told her severe storm. his soybean field last month, says
start?" he asked the radio.'" he didn't "We're going to close the gate the announcement that circles in
with a plaintive Springs discovered a half-dozen believe in UFOs, again," Ricky Springs said. t<.:ngland were a hoax doesn't
chuckle. spots, ranging from 2 feet in diam which some say "We're having some fun out of change his mind about what hap
His phone eter to more than 30 feet, Thursday are responsible Ricky Springs it," Eli Springs said. "We'll calm pened in his fields.
started ringinH morning. They dotted an 18-acre for crop circles. down- but I ain't ever gonna do When Springs, 60, discovered
early Friday, soybean and millet field, hidden by "People enjoy believing what this again. We won't find anything the circles in August in an IH-acre
when a story in Eli Springs Jr. a thick stand of trees, near the they believe," he said. else for a while." pasture near N.C. 51, he inadvert·
The Observer intersection of Providence Road ently set off a worldwide debate on
about the circles hit the streets. and N.C. 51. what caused the flattened crops.
There were too many calls to Inside the spots, the foliage was U 1<'0 buffs claimed the circles were
count. he said. The messages filled pressed to the ground. Outside, the proof of flying saucers. Others
three pages in a legal pad. greenery was nearly waist-high and STAR, Kansas City, MO- Aug. 19, 1991 CR: V. White blamed pranksters, and still others,
Television station helicopters seemed untouched. Doctor who wrote UFO book like Springs, thought the circles
arrived. No tracks-of any sort - led to were caused by eddies of wind
All three Charlotte network affil the spots. moving across the field.
iates sent crews to Springs' house A severe storm had raked the is suspended indefinitely In England Monday, two men
- and a Durham TV station sent a area Wednesday night. Springs
helicopter, too. believes the spots are weather-or claimed that the crop circles that
have become a s•1mmer diversion
He went up in the helicopter wind-related, but National across southern England were
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hovering over the top of them, prompted all sorts of explanations indefinite one for Stephan Corder, exam. The former Ottawa, Kan.,
everybody tromping around, just from believers in extraterrestrials a former family physician who has physician has lost every battle in
ruined them." and the occult. refused to submit to mental his effort to win back his license.
The Associated Press sent a Springs and his wife, Ricky, got evaluation following publication In May, a retired judge denied
reporter - who told Springs the those. sorts of calls. too. of his 1989 book on unidentified Corder's administrative appeal by
story would be shipped all across "One man said it was magnetic flying objects. ruling in favor of the board on all
His license was suspended in issues in the dispute.
March 1989 and board members Corder has filed a lawsuit
ordered him to submit to a mental against the board in Shawnee
examination because they thought County District Court.
ARKANSAS GAZETTE, Little Rock, AR- Aug. I I, 1991
Traveling UFO territory
ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT, Little Rock, AR - Aug. 26, 1991
A Voice• letter from Wherefore, as the unfamous
ORAN HEATH philosopher of Hynes Street, I
Van Buren lay claim (if the field has not
UFOs in the 1980s: The UFO continuing interest," according to reports of lights in the skies. His
A recent "20/20" broadcast been previously occupied) to
Encyclopedia, Volume I by Jerome the publisher. These topics are ab "Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth
showed evidence of visitation the solution of the means by
Clark; Apogee Books; 234 pages; duction phenomena, contactees, of Things Seen in the Skies" ap
to fields in England by un- which a flying saucer seems to
known producers of hiero- take on an anti-gravity power. $65. crashes of UFOs, earthlights and peared in 1958. He tied objects in
glyphics, including circles on Consider this: Numerous ve By Jeff Williams tectonic strain theory, extraterres the sky to society and even reli
which the vegetation had been hicles have been stalled out Gazette Staff trial biological entities, fantasy gion:
laid almost flat on the ground while under a UFO, indicating Flashing lights and whirring prone personality hypothesis and "If the round shining objects that
without noticeable injury. that the strength of the mag- noises from night skies have been psychosocial hypothesis. appear in the sky be regarded as
Inasmuch as this has intro- netic field, even from a consid explained as weather balloons, ex People such as Richard Foster visions, we can hardly avoid inter
d.uced some very wild specula.. erable distance, is sufficient to perimental aircraft and gases es Haines are included. Haines has preting them as archetypal images.
twn. I feel constrained to clear! drown out the ignition system. caping from deep in the Earth. But analyzed photos of UFOs and in They would then be involuntarv,
up the mystery. I wouldn't haz- Also, most sightings ofUFOs Jerome Clark, famous in the field vestigated abductions and UFO automatic projections based on i~­
ard a guess as to the hiero- indicate an observed spinning of unidentified flying object re sightings by pilots. stinct, and as little as any other
glyphics, but those circles? action of the UFO's exterior. search, believes we're being buzzed According to Haines, "The UFO psychic manifestations and sym
Harken unto me. Further, the bent-down forma- by beings from other worlds. phenomenon represents one of the bols can they be dismissed as
Facts: Certain rapidly spin- tion of the vegetation in the Clark's "UFOs in the 1980s" is truly important challenges of our meaningless and merely fortuitous.
ning stars show exceedingly circles have been revolving at the first of a three-volume set of times and holds promise for nu ... It boils down to nothing less
strong magnetic fields. Even a terrific speed, as though a UFO info. Volume II will be called merous advancements in science, than this: that either psychic pro
the earth, slowly as it turns, UFO of the type envisioned "The Coming of the Saucers." technology, the social sciences and jections throw back a radar echo,
has such a field, albeit a very herein has landed and taken Plenty of grocery store paper religion. The preponderance of evi or else the appearance of real ob
weak one. ofT. backs packed with "authentic" dence seems to point toward an jects affords an opportunity for
· Inasmuch as the only known Meanwhile, the ground be- UFO photos and "documented" advanced intelligence source. mythological projections."
field in which both the earth neath the circle appears to sightings have been sold, especially Where this intelligence originates, Though this volume obviously is
and that distant star is rapidly have been cooked by some on since the 1950s. however, is not yet clear." directed at serious followers of
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credulity to accept the notion more logical for this than a saucers dangling from power lines psychosocial hypothesis - build served. The title suggests the book
that a rapidly rotating body in strong magnetic field? or kids dressed in aluminum foil cases around the idea that the is confined to the '80s, but much of
an induced strong magnetic Just remember, you saw it and illuminated by auto headlights. human mind is responsible for the material is from the early days
field might affect gravitation. here first. (I hope.) There are, in fact, no photos in sightings and even abductions. of UFO research. ThiA volume sup
It should not come as a Clark's book. The entries in "UFOs Carl Jung, the Swiss psychother plies a solid foundation for those
surprise that things which in the 1980s" cover UFO organiza apist and philosopher, was the first who want to know more, or for
tend to interact are interac- tions, publications, personalities to address the idea that society and those who read it and decide UFOs
tive. and aightings, plus "seven topics of human nature were to blame for exist only in the minds of lunatics.
POST-STAR, Glens Falls, NY- Aug. 25, 1991 REPORTER, Merritt Island, FL- Aug. I, 1991
Arlssue
Local Inan grams, telling of his extra-terrestrial Do UFO's really exist?
experience.
Now living in South Glerui Falls,
set to tell Warren has spent roughly the last 10
years of his life trying to prove this
incident in Britain happened, and that
world his the governments involved are con- Demale Stacy le a Dr. Frank D.
ducting a coverup. Part of these edence jopmallet Drake, a professor
efforts include the co-authoring of a and·e clltor of tbe of astronomy and
book, which, when finished in 1992, Mutual UFO Jounaal. astrophyslce at
UFO tale will almost irrefutably prove that the Hie work hu beea University of Califor
Bentwaters incident - along with featured In Omnl, nia, Santa Cruz, Is
other similar ones - occurred. · Smithsonian Air and chairman of the
By Don Lehman . On Saturday Warren~ along wi 'Space, and the New Board of Physlce
Staff Writer his co-author Peter Robbll_lS. spent the Sdentlet magazine, and Astronomy,
afternoon at the Commuruty Room o a Bdtleh publica National Research
It was a day that Queensbury native Glens Falls National Bank.. giving a tlon Council.
mock presentation of their finding •
Larry Warren can't help but remem
before several friends.
ber vividlv.
Gradually the Bentwaters/
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Great Britain. All along, Warren fought what he polled answered yes when asked If they thought the work of extraterrestrials, scientists requires that
He remembers that everything was calls a cover-up. From the very day there were people somewhat like themselves on an artifact be produced: an object clearly not of
just as it should be. His frrst night on after he had his extra-terrestrial expe other planets In the universe. terrestrial origin or more information from the ·
duty - December 28, 1980 to be
rience. he alleges the U.S. military purported aliens which we did not know before, but
exact - he was taken to his post, at and government has tried to hush him What role ehould the federal govemment which can be proven true. An example would be a
the far end of a runway. With the up. play In tenne of research money? fact about a distant star system. Despite all the
Cold War at its coldest and tensions I whole heartedly agree with those who think the sightings, reported landings, reported contacts and
high in Poland due to Solidarity, all The morning aft1. r the great majority of the expected "peace dividend" abductions, not one artifact has been provided.
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the event. instead, nothing. Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SET!}, and that project
He says he noticed signs something
He tried to discuss what happened only looks for electromagnetic signals originating
was up just hours into his daily shift,
which ran from midnight to 8 a.m. with other officers at breakfast the light-years away. By Supercollider standards, SETI's What role should the federal government
The first thing he saw was a herd of next morning. He says his tlight com budget is miniscule. By civilian UFO organization play In terms of research money?
deer. running in panic across a run mander promptly told him to keep standards, however, it's astronomical. If they can No funds should be provided to explore the
way. quiet. fund SETI, why shouldn't they allocate a paltry possibility that UFOs are alien spacecraft. However,
Then. he says. he could see strange He then went directly t9 a pay million dollars toward the search for extraterrestrial some real phenomena associated with UFOs are
lights darting in the sky miles away, phone, and tried to call his mother in life-forms in our own backyard? interesting in their own right and should be sup
Queensbury, to tell her what hap
over Bentwaters · sister base, ported. Examples are studies of "ball lightning" and
pened: The phone line mysteriously
Woodbridge. went dead, Warren says. A call to the What are other possible reasons of distortions of human perception in unusual
"I just got this very strange feeling. operator revealed someone on the for UFO slghtlngs? situations. For example about 10 percent of people
Something was wrong,'' he says. base had terminated the connection. The assumption, of course, is that all UFOs who see a very bright meteorite "hear" simultane
Within minutes he would find out Later that day came a debriefing, represent spaceships from another plant. This ously a sound described as "bacon frying". This
what. he recalls. in no uncertain terms, the patently is not the case. Many are misidentified misperception occurs with people all of origins and
His flight commander radioed him, officers were informed they were to natural and man-made phenomena, as skeptics educational levels. The government should support
and told him he was now off duty. keep quiet. They saw nothing. they allege. At the same time, we know UFOs are rarely the scientifically legitimate and promising programs
Minutes later a truck came and picked were told. a product of mass hvsteria. The bottom line Is that of radio searches for signals from other civilizations.
him up. He wasn't told what was For the next six months, Warren the ·u· in UFO stands for "Unidentified". Stealth
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"That was the last time we'd laugh consider our money well-spent. I know I'd pay to
imagine, and some of them are extremely clever.
that night,'' Warren recails. know.
After his discharge, Warren says
in a field in the distance the soldiers
could see bright lights. They departed hisefforts~provrngthegovenunen·r-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
tal cover-up intensified. He and
the vehicle. and, dodging fellow air
Robbins have tried nearly every
men, were escorted out towards the Rings Prompt
avenue to get acknowledgement of ~Mystery
light.
the December 1980 incident, and oth
What they saw when they got there,
ers like it.
Warren says. boggles the mind. Deputy Base Commander Lt. Col.
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red light. It hovered over the mist, reponed by several off-duty security
Warren says. A brilliant explosion officers. No mention was made of the
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to be half-speed. near the incident, the pair have com northwestern Oklahoma "magic circles," she with the return of
"I felt no heat, no sensations, no piled sworn statements from fellow ~ farm field has prompted gained "the intestinal for some vegetation - dis
nothing, except 'I'm in a dream servicemen present that evening. < the report - kept secret titude to tell about what I covered at the June 16
world,'" he remembers. "It was all Requests for documents through the 1 until recently - of an un saw 34 years ago, and that picnic.
very dream-like and surreal." Freedom of Information Act have not ~ identified flying object I still don't know what it Ellis County exten
Three beings emerged from the been fiuitful. o floating in the vicinity 34 was." sion director R.A. De
machine, which was now on the More compelling evidence. Warren .. years ago. ShP re.called that, at vore said a soil test he
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amved at the field. The bright ltght caused eye problems the three circles of bare home in town to do the the "basically bare
"I couldn't really see any hands or for most everyone there, including ~ earth in their rye field milking late one summer ground" within the
feet." Warren says. "My mind was himself. and most went through eye o two months ago, said day when a large, silver circles.
saying · Oh, there are three kids here." exams for retinal damage. ~ Thursday the phenome object - without engines, Floyd Steinert, 70,
After an almost an hour of the According to Robbins, the incident .¥ non made her decide to wings, lights or sound - said he was "just as
beings standing face to face with the will be the subject of a special show o reveal her sighting of a passed about 100 feet over much at a loss as any
base commanders, he and a fellow ing of the popular "Unsolved .. low-flying object in 1957. her. She said it then body - I've never
officer left the scene. Warren says. Mysteries," scheduled for television ~ "I kept it secret for turned and came back seen anything like this
September 25. many, many years ... I "directly over my head."' before, and I've been
Larry Warren doesn't expect peo Newspapers in England have done . ~ was afraid people would Wade said her sister, farming all my life."
ple to simply believe him when he numerous pieces on the incident, cit !;;! laugh. I kept my mouth Janet, arrived in time to He added: "Personal
tells of his experience on December ing residents as well as soldiers near 0 shut," Wade said. glimpse the object after it ly, I fmd it hard to
28. 1980 at Bentwaters. That's why the base. Reports of meteor showers ~>-< She said she decided to had climbed higher in the think that they were
he is going to so much effort to prove the night of December 28, 1980 also .....:~ describe her sighting of sky. caused by a UFO, but
it all. graced newspaper pages. ~ what apparently was a "I said, 'Sis, I think I so many people have
If you bumped into Warren on, ''I'm not out to overthrow the U.S. ~ UFO after her parents, saw a flying saucer,' " said they've seen
say, Glen Street, you may get that Government," Warren states. "I do Floyd and Dorothy Stei· she recalled. "And she them, I'd be the last
strange feeling that you've seen him think we all have a right to know, nert, and other family said, 'That's a weather one to call them liars.'' 2
before. Maybe you have. He's been though." members discovered tlie balloon,' and I said, Wade said that after
on CNN and numerous other TV pro- circles during a Father's 'No, it isn't.' " she told her parents
Day picnic near Fargo, Meanwhile, neither about her sighting,
west of Woodward. agricultural investiga- "they didn't laugh."
Aft sorts of stuff
~
DESERT SUN, Palm Springs, CA - July 24, 1991
falling from skies
UFOs aren't science.fiction to desert man r-:.
~iw ATER WATCHERS will be
< happy to learn that the rain-
fall measurement Tuesday at
1
< Lake Lagunitas reached 253
u percent above normal .for the fiscal year
.. that started in July .
......
~ The remains of tropical storm Hilda
~ off Baja California in Mexico gave a
~ surge to the Marin Municipal Water
c: District rain gauge, which has been
~ deathly dry for most of the past five
years.
I The rainfall as of Thursday was .33
inches, or 300 percent of the normal .11
for the year to day (starting July 1).
~ Hilda, by the way, dumped more than
E-< just water on the North Bay. Marin was
z hit with a dozen lightning strikes. which.
t:5 perhaps in combination with a meteor
Z shower over the Bay Area this week,
~ prompted some concern among local res
~ idents.
H A Larkspur man, for example. called
z the newsroom with a UFO report, saying
~ he saw six lights flyfng silently in unison
ji across the western sky about .'i::-10 a.m.
Wednesday. He declined to le;,•:t· Lis
name: "I don't want to be labelf'ri as n.o
crazy."
GAZETTE, Kalamazoo, Ml
Aug. 5, 1991
RODRIGO PENA/The Desert Sun
'Therapy helping
To Joshua Tree resident Evert Bergamin, the unnatural decades. Bergamin, who says he's a retired biomedical
straight-line cracks and box-shaped rocks of Joshua Tree consultant who's done occasional work for NASA, the resident'i who
National Monument represent a phenomenon just as in U.S. space agency, believes some saucers are unpiloted
triguing as the reports about unidentified flying objects probes sent by an extraterrestrial civilization. encounter UFOs
that have come from around the world 6uring tti• past five
FROM THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
PONTIAC - Therapy for people
who have had encounters with
aliens includes individual sessions
UFOs exist? 'No question,' and group meetings with others
who have had similar experiences,
a Michigan UFO expert said.
"Ab4octions can happen with
Joshua Tree man says
the entire family. There was a case
last fall where the whole family
was taken. They had total recall,"
said Shirley Coyne, the state direc
Pilotless probes And I'm sure NASA hasn't got any, tor of the Mutual UFO Network.
either," he said. "People will start out thinking it
linked to UFOs As for his personal experience, is an angel or some type of good
Bergamin recalls seeing only one thing, but once they recall the ab
By JEFF DILLON UFO - in 1953 while riding a duction under hypnosis they say
l he Desert Sun moped in Holland. People were the experience was not pleasur
JOSHUA TREE-Evert Berga looking into the sky, he said, and he able."
min doesn't claim to be an expert glanced up himself. People who believe they've met
on unidentified flying objects, just a He describes it as a metallic disc aliens or spotted unidentified fly
retired scientist. But he can draw a that hovered between two clouds, ing objects often have to deal with
crowd here when he talks about then moved through one, leaving a guilt and anger when people don't
UFOs. His bottom line: "They exist. vapor trail behind. And that's why believe their stories, she said.
lllere's no question about that. The he believes it wasn't an optical Alien encounters are common
question is what they are and where illusion. and generally lead to fear, Coyne
they come from." "Up 'til then, I was very skeptical said.
At times, Bergamin, 67, mentions that they existed," Bergamin said. "Since 1986, there have been
Werking for the U.S. space agency, The issue came up from time to 100 cases of abduction that have
but reveals little about his career. time after he and his wife, Tina, left ·l»een reported to us, but I'm sure
He says standard secrecy agree Holland and became American :there are many, many more," she
ments forbid him to talk on- the citizens. ~ld The Oakland Press in Sun
record about his involvement with In the early 1970's, Bergamin day's editions. "These people are
medical sensors and life support said a NASA contractor hired him terrified."
$)'Stems for NASA and private to work as a biomedical researcher People fail to report when
companies. in a study of dust brought back they've met aliens because they
Yet, his background and opinions from the moon. The NASA public fear being ridiculed or having ad
i:ave brought him invitations to talk relations department couldn't con ditional encounters, Coyne said.
publicly about UFO's, and his next firm or deny his claims. But Steve Gawracz, a 43-year-old
appearance is planned in a few Over the years, Bergamin's inter businessman from Utica, said he
\olleeks. est led him to talk with others about did report his sighting to Michigan
At a recent gathering of Joshua the topic. He also built up a small state police - who ignored it
Tree Rotary Club members, Berga library of UFO-related books and "That's the one point that stands
mifl noted a multitude of UFO re videotapes at his home. out and that doesn't impress me,"
ports each year and said there's he said. "Officials aren't interest
Bergamin said he never intended
~Qgshtoinn gsto a cbtuelailelvye i navto llveea ustn pai lofteewd to do any public speaking about e--dG inaw thraisc.z" saidlie saw a 350-t'oot-
ali«eTnh seprae ceacrrea ftt.o o many reliable jUeFcOt as,t bthuet Rwoasta dryra Cwlnu bi nwtoh itlhee m suakb RODRIGO PENA/The Desert Sun mlonuglt ibcooolomreedra nligg-hsthsa pneeda rw Mingar wleittthe
wttnesses - scientists, pilots - to ing a presentation about lunar dust. FORCES BEYOND: Evert Bergamin stands atop a cluster of rocks in 1985.
dismliis ~mall," he said. One club member, Ted James, Monday in Joshua Tree National Monument. He says artificial forces Gawracz didn't meet any extra
But Bergamin, still speaking said Bergamin came back for a sec may be responsible for the straight cracks in the rock formations. They terrestrial creatures, but Coyne
with traces of his native Dutch ac ond appearance at a July 10 break usually are fragmented, he says. and her husband, George, work
cen~ cautions: "There are also a lot fast meeting. and drew about 40 with people who claim they've
ef crackpots out there." guests, twice the usual number. tion to NASA they tended to give the park grounds. been abducted.
lie said he doubts about most him more credibility. Whether he's But as he drove past rocks that
The turnout amazed Bergamin. They work with a hypnothera
UFO reports, and that he has an right or not, I really couldn't say." looked like they might have come
eered some UFO believers by in "I didn't realize the issue of ex Bergamin said he realizes he's from another world, Bergamin pist and a psychiatrist, and stress
vestigating several sightings and tra-terrestrials had such an impact risking ridicule by talking about turned to a photographer and confidentiality.
on people," he said.
declaring the evidence UFOs, and during an interview at chuckled. "The best thing that could ''They think it's going to happen
11\Conclusive. "People were interested in what Joshua Tree National Monument, happen would be to see a UFO," he again," she said. "It's really heart
"I haven't seen any tangible he has to say," said James. "And I he said he preferred to discuss gar sai~·"l ,t'r,e you've got your_~am- wrenching to work with tbeae peo
tNngs that I can hold in my hands. guess·becaoe of his recent connec- dening, photography and exploriq era rea..,.. , ple."
3
] Locals, tourists report UFO sightings
DESERT SUN, Palm Springs, CA- July 24, 1991
~ The UFO "sky watches" have anotner 20 seconds before On Friday, July 26, 1991, I ·Celestial neighbors
continued in Gulf Breeze. The fading away. l,VaS at a beach outing with 12
e5 curiou's and the skeptical rou· Blan'd Pugh friends just inside Ft. Pickens.
tinely meet at the foot of the I was one of a dozen At approximately 9:15p.m., a just checking us out
south ·end of the Bay Bridge, at witnesses to a sighting of a very bright red light appeared over
~ the South Shoreline park pier strange object in the Gulf the north end of Bob Sykes
and sometimes near Ft. Pick· Breeze skies, Friday night, Ju Bridge. It pulsated several
~ ens. It is not unusual to see ly 27, 1991. While attending a times, getting smaller then JOSHUA TREE-Some sil
- tourists at these friendly beach gathering, just beyond larger each time. After about ver saucer-shaped objects spot ((Our technology
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~ over the Bob Sykes Bridge. My friends and I were wait south end of the three mile technology. space without burning tons of
~ Here are a few first person ing on the last guest to arrive, bridge to see if a good friend of "I don't think the Russians fuel.
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chat while I enjoyed myself though I saw it at a greater horizon. I yelled "Look at this!" min said. "What if early man The soft-spoken Dutchman
walking on the sands. It was distance, the sighting time, They both turned around. We had put together two rocks of emphasizes that it's just a the
about 9:15p.m. and I saw a red location and colors were exact observed this light for approx magnetic iron ore before discov ory, not a heartfelt belief.
light in the sky, which was in ly as I had seen. imately ten seconds. It did not ering fire?" "I'm the last one to say,
the direction of Bob Sykes As a Mutual UFO Network move or become brighter or dim· He said control over one of the 'That's the way it is'," Bergamin
Bridge. At first I thought that investigator, I am seeking other mer. And then all at once it just basie forces of nature might said. "Because I don't know the
it was just an airplane, but the witnesses. Please call the disappeared. I have not seen give aliens anti-gravity devices answer.
funny thing was that it did not MUFON hot-line aVt i4ck3i~ 2L7y0o0n. s anything likeW iaty bneef oEre. . Walden
move or make any noise. All of
a sudden it flashed white,
changing its colors. At that
time I did not know what to do, Meteor 'looked like
~
but then I realized that I had a
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its appearance for ane and half a.m. Tuesday, is the remnants of contained red and green.
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I am so happy to be one of its < The •bla.ho1t. f, iery tran looked like an Not everyone was sure Wednes with calls on the appearance, said
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Perseld stlower.
myself along with a group of ~ "The entire sky was white for a few seconds and was huge with names and white going into the ocean near
friends were sitting on the cij seconds," said Steve Cooper a pharmaceuti- coming out. Usually something that Fort Bragg," he said.
beach just inside the Ft. cal sales representative from Healdsburg. "It namey is a satellite." "We called the National Weather
Pickens National Seashore at ~ looked like an airplane exploding and pieces CoAutn tyab Sohuet ri2f f'as .Dme., pathrtem Menot nintevreesy Ssheorvwiceer wtoa sv egroifiyn g thoant aa ndm ettheeoyr
approximately 9:15p.m. I notic ~ breaklna off." tigated one reported impact in the confirmed it," Souza said.
ed a small light in the northeast Cll Cooper and a friend, Lynne Blaslnl of northern part of the county, but Two Santa Rosa police officers
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light to red and then fully red as ~ appeared about 12:20 a.m. The "falling-star" effect is caused "We got a half-dozen calls," said
site cgornedws . lIatr gbeerc aamftee vr earyb oburti g4h5t ~~~ wBle"a Aslolnto lkf, ierads t m oIue tdt htihcoaeul g wohiftnf diIctoe ww d aaisrn edlci tgsoahrwt.n i"tnhBgius." tb tsuhaepind. Sabtyhm indoiunssgpt h tetrhraeai,lt hocefoa ltvlsiad upepos r aswn. idTth ch reEe aaptraetrhst i'as sbaort.me Raesot hdinonefg y, Stovawletrnhk oou.r ge"hpO ofrfttiheceedyr s sidne iedtiwnno'gt
then continued to pulse for tremendous bright bunch of stuff. It seemed cles are as tiny as a grain of sand. know what it was."
~ like It was moving very quickly. It arched and
~ then I don't know wbere It went."
_ Tbe llgbt was from the west, she said.
UFO meeting draws believers to Orlando hotel
By Eric Pera ment was in possession of alien bod- ter will also house a space museum, Teicher said.
ies and aircraft. dinner theater, art gallery, food "Mare and mare Like Ann Teicher, Brett and
The Ledger Tables displaying books, posters, court and retail shops. Marcattilio, many of the people gath
LAKE BUENA VISTA - Their T-shirts, baseball caps and bumper "More and more people are getting people are getting ered at the convention claimed to
message is clear: We are not alone. stickers bearing slogans like interested and want to know the have witnessed a UFO flying through
And to emphasize the point, devo "beamship trainee" lined one section truth," said Pat Marcattilio, a New interested and the night sky sometime during their
tees of the UFO phenomenon con of the Windsor Ballroom inside The Jersey postal worker who plans to lifetime.
·verged Saturday upon a hotel resort Grosvener Resort in Walt Disney work full-time as the UFO museum There is even evidence that as
here in Mickey Mouse's backyard to World Village. curator once it opens. want to know the many as four distinct alien races are
show support for a proposed UFO For $3.95, those who claim to have The museum will house the world's currently visiting the planet, said
museum and scientific research li actually seen a UFO could purchase largest assortment of artifacts, pho truth.'' Fearon Hicks, Jr. of Auburndale, a
brary to be built in Orlando. a certificate, issued by the Pleiadian tographs, books and other documen field investigator for the Mutual
Billed as the Great UFO/ET I Alien District of the Inter-Galactic Federa - tation gathered by researchers and PAT MARCATTI.JO UFO Network Inc.
and Abduction Congress, the two-day tion, recognizing the sighting it as scientists over the last 50 years, he The evidence is contained in the
symposium drew a small but serious official. said. U.S. Air Force Space Science Man
crowd of about 60 for Saturday morn While some souvenirs poked fun at The facility will be free and mate- The shop, named the UFO Zone, is ual, Vol. 2, "which is used to teach Air
ing's opening lecture. the sUbject, the theme of the conven- rials will be made available to any- tucked in the rear of a uniform store Force cadets about the reality of
People listened intently as Bill En tion was serious. one seriously interested in the study they own and features dozens of Ann UFO's, even though the Air Force
glish, a former Army captain and Tickets for the event cost $100, of the UFO phenomenon. Teicher's original pen sketches and publicly states that they don't exist,"
data analyst stationed in England, with most of the money intended to People who report UFO sightings oil paintings of alien creatures in he said.
described for an hour how he had fund a UFO museum as part of a have been shunned by the govern- volved in whimsical, Earttuy situa Members of one of the alien races
been the target of numerops assassi larger Space Coast Welcome Center, ment, said Ann Teicher, 51, who, tions like playing basketball. known to frequent South America are
nation attempts after his discovery in according to project developer Brett along with her husband, Howard, own "We've done very little advertising hairy and stand about ,llraillt-high.
1979 of a top-secret document that Regal. and operate a UFO specialty store in but we're getting a lot of people com- "There's a group tbjilt enn IDI4!b ·
showed evidence the U.S. govern- Due to open within a year, the cen- Longwood. ing in and snooping around," Howard like us," Hicks said.
LEDGER, [City Unknown], FL -Aug. 25, 1991 CR: F. Hicks
COURIER NEWS, Bridgewater, NJ- Aug. 4, 1991
Do ma. .n tis-like UFO beings prey on us?
said. The caller also said he was physically landing.
By JEFF MAY
Courier-News Staff Wrtter examined during the 2 ~-hour ordeal but "We used to get calls like that all the time
not injured. in Phlladelphia,'; said McFadden, recalling
"He said they were praying mantla-type hil previous assignment with the federal
To tbe list of exotic creatures reported at creatures that meant him no harm," Van agency. At the time, he worked next to a
the Great Swamp National WUdllfe Refuge, Tassell said. mental asylum, he said.
add one more: praying mantis-lite viattors After regalnlnc conaciouanea on the Central Jersey's most famous space trav
from aDQther plaDel walkway of the swamp boardwalk, tbe man eler, Howard Menger, said he has no doubt
Four weeks ago, Paaalc Towuahlp police reported feeling diaoriented. He told pollee that there are UFOs in this area.
received an early morning call from an that he drove back to Hoboken before decid "I know they're all out there," said the
agitated Hoboken man wbo said he'd been ing to notify them. former Hunterdon County sign painter, now
abducted by an unidentified fiyinl object Pollee, park employees and even UFO 69 and living in Vero Beach, Fla. Menger
whUe strolling on one of the refuge's obler researchers expreaed atepticiam dout briefly burst onto the national scene in the
vation decks the previous day. what appears to be the first reported extra mid-19508, when he announced that he'd
"He saw 6la lhip that was the lize of a terreStrial lighting in the refuge. been a frequent flier on interplanetary sau
car, off the ground, with tripod feet," Lt. "I live a mlle from where it happened," cers. He parlayed his experiences into ap-.
Donald Van Tassell said. "He-said this arm Van Tassell said. "I was having a big barbe pearances on the Steve Allen and "Tonight"
came out'from it, grabbed him around the cue at the time, and I didn't see anything." shows, later organizing a UFO convention
wailt and took him inlide." Tom McFadden, outdoor recreation plan that drew 1,000 curiosity-seekers to his
Once inside, the man - whose name ner for the U.S. Filh & WUdlife Service, said 'fr.wksbury farm in 1958.
police willaot release "due to tbe nature of he spent two hours combing the area for •lthough he still claims contact with ex-
Dlaera c-alul " "-th.r-ece~ ftohoet bshalipl ftiuerlndes,d" otuhte t oo fbfeic aesr sliitgtnlea foruf itth: en oUt FeOve. nT shceo rrcohu tminaer kcsh efrcokm b othree Courier ·News lllustratloo by Mike Scot'
traterrestrial life, Menger said he
was not familiar with the type of
alien reported at the Great Swamp.
"I didn't meet any of those kinds,"
be said. "The ones I talked to were
angelic. They came with a message
similar to what the Scriptures have
been telling us for 2,000 years: not to
kill."
Walter H. Andrus Jr., international
TRIBUNE-REVIEW, Greensburg, PA- Aug. 12, 1991 CR: S. Gordon director of the UFO Mutual Network,
an organization based in Seguin, Tex
Group studies the unexplained as, that claims 3,100 members wo.r~
wide, has a theory abom ~ "prayq
mantis" sighting.
"He probably got this right from
the book 'Communion: a True Story'
(by Whitley Strieber),'' Andrus said.
By Todd Nilson UFO Info Week event at mall
In the 1987 book, which Andrus calls
TRIBUNE-REVIEW fiction, aliens are portrayed as
:Many people, perhaps most, buglike.
tend to dismiss stories of uniden By The Tribune-Review "Maybe he's looking for attention,"
tified flying objects and Bigfoot as Andrus said, referring to the Hoboken
delusions or hoaxes, and the peo Recent research, videotapes, photographs and other alleged evid caller. "Not that we don't have ab
ple who see them as crackpots - ence of UFOs, the Pennsylvania Bigfoot and other supposedly extinct ductions. They're going on around the
either seriously disturbed or or nonexistent creatures will be presented all day Saturday at West world all the time."
stnn ed for attention. moreland Mall as part of the National UFO Information Week. Only about 10 percent of the re
However, the Pennsylvania As T. Scott Crain, 36, of Port Matilda, a member of the Pennsylvania As ports that the UFO Mutual Network
sociation for the Study of the Un sociation for the Study of the Unexplained and UFO researcher, will sifts through are likely to be alien
explained, founded by Stan also appear at the display to talk about UFOs and his most recent book, encounters, Andrus said. "They usu
Gordon, is dedicated to the seri UFO's, MJ-12 and the Government, co-authored by Grant Cameron. ally turn out to be something mun
ous accumulation and study of The Information week was started seven years ago by the Texas dane: space debris, satellitP.s, air
such reports. based Mutual UFO Network, according tb Stan Gordon, director of craft," he said.
And Gordon has a filing cabinet Pennsylvania Association for the Study of the Unexplained and region UFO sightings tend to come in cy
in his Greensburg office full of al director ofthe Mutual UFO Network. cles and appear to be picking up in
over 10,000 reports dating back to "The UFO Information Week is a little project intended to keep the recent years, he said. Sometimes, the
the 1940s that contradict what public informed that serious scientific research is still being conducted upswings are the result of the debut
"most'' people might say. There on UFO sightings," Gordon said. ol a space-themed book or movie,
ports detail in-state sightings of The display will feature video programs, photographs and alleged .ell as --a..e. Encounters of the
eBxigtifnocott ,P UeFnnOssy alvnadn tihae m suopupnotasiend lliy dreoseisdnu'et fmocautse sroialelsly f ruopmon P UeFnOnssy. lCvaasntisa o Uf BFiOgf osoigt hfotiontgpsr.i nBtsu ta nthde a dpiasrptliaayl niAhn~d r~us· s·aid W he inntoetr vailewwaeyds .a young
on. They also document appear cast of the eastern cougar or mountain lion, said to be extinct in Penn Dallas girl who said she saw aliens
ances of arguably natural sylvania since about 1890, will also be available for viewing. earlier this week. Another recent in
phenomenons such as English Making casts of prints from these unconfirmed creatures falls under terview involved a 31-year-old man
crop circles which have also re the category ofcryptozoology, the study of hidden or unknown animals. who said he was abducted several
cently appeared in the area. Gordon said sightings of both creatures are reported every year. times.
UFBOu t siPgAhtSinUg'ss hinavvee stbiegcaotimone s thoef UFTOh ec rdaissphl aayn dw iallll eaglseod inmcilluitdaer yi nrfeotrrmieavtaiol nin o nK tehcek scbounrtgr.o vFerresei abl r1o9c6h5 "Abduction accounts have gotten
group's claim to notoriety-espe ures and other information about unexplained phenomenon will be heavy in the past few years,'' he said.
cially with recent national atten available at the display.
tion via the Unsolved Mysteries Gordon said eyewitnesses of UFOs or other unexplained phenome
television show to the 1965 crash non are welcome to report their experiences confidentially and without
landing of what some Kecksburg fear of ridicule.
residents believe was a UFO.
Regardless ofPASU's many o:-e
cords of unexplained UFO ap vestigators have been studying see the retrieval of crashed UFOs
spiegahrtainngcse sa,r e Geaosridlyo ne xpslaaiidn edm. ost wbehra to hfe fciraelblsa laln mineotredoirniatete sniguhmt anFdo trhmeierr o Pcceunpna nSttsa.t e University TIMES, New York, NY- Aug. 14, 1991 CR: E. Rager
For instance, about two weeks ings, as well as a UFO encounter president, Dr. Eric A. Walker,
ago several Latrobe residents re that allegedly took place July 11 was allegedly involved in the pro
ported seeing a doughnut-shaped around midnight in Jeannette. jects during his stint as Executive
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But mixed with such natural or answers to such phenomenons, vered from crashes in the 1950s to reasons receive little or no attention
otherwise explicable sightings but for reasons of its own is ac evade radar detection may have from scientists.
are others not so easily accounted knowledging nothing. been instrumental in the creation But your article did not do justice
for. Crain, of Port Matilda, who is of the Stealth bomber, Crain said. to these mysterious events. Although
On Feb. 4 of this year in Ree also a member of the Texas-based While for the time being, such the formations have become more
ders, Pa., a small village in dramatic in the last year or so, the
Monroe County, witnesses several Mutual UFO Network, has re investigations remain unproven, essential phenomenon has been oc
miles apart observed a huge rect cently co-authored a book on the PASU in the meantime continues curring for more than 10 years.
angular object with multiple subject, entitled UFO's, MJ-12 and to act as a scientific clearinghouse Secondly, the apparent manner in
lights. the Government. Crain will appear for regional UFO reports, and which plants are bent over, typically ((._
For three hours, the object ho with Gordon all day Saturday at a strives to show that a percentage without damage, makes the compara also been various unpredictable psy
vered noiselessly over the small Westmoreland Mall display table of the sightings simply cannot be tively infrequent hoaxes easily distin chological phenomena associated
community, its presence causing in observance of National UFO explained away. guishable from naturally occurring with the formations. The number,
dogs in the area to whine and Information Week. "We're not seeing as large a crop circles. There are no known scale, complexity, development and
bark. According to witnesses, the The book discusses "Operation number of reports as there were a techniques for altering the growth of public verifiability of these anoma
object was several hundred feet Majestic-12," a program involving couple of years ago, but there's a plants in this way. lous events call for serious and open
long and hovered just over the a secret panel of 12 scientists, mil lot that's scientifically available Over the last 10 years the forma minded attention from the scientific
treetops, obscuring a large sec itary personnel and intelligence and we continue to get some very tions have increased in number and community. BRUCE E. RIDEOUT
tion of the night sky. officers allegedly created in 1947 interesting sightings," Gordon complexity; the photographic evi Associate Professor of Psychology
J.r,,·ally, Gordon and PASU in- by Pres. Harry S. Truman to over- said. dence in several books on the subject Ursinus College
11 abeolulely stunning. There have Collegeville, .Pa.; Aug. 1, 1991
5
Aliens visit· Earth, physicist. claims
UFO lecturer es from the military base ID ftos ''The problem is most people be
well and family members of tbe lieve IJlGil· people don't believe,"
alleges cover-up niiiCber who first stumbled upon be said. "The fear of ridicule keeps
tbe wreck. people from reporting their sight
by government According to Friedman, recent ingWs.h" ile the physicist has talked
evidence points to not one, but two with hundreds of people who claim
By Lisa Chen crashes in the same vicinity. "M, to have seen flying saucers, he ad
Mercury News Staff Writer though one crash weren't excitinr mits he's never spotted one him
To bear Stanton T. Friedman eoougb," be said. self.
tell it, on July 8, 1947, a rancher in Friedman, who is featured in the
Roswell, N.M., found what looked current issue of Omni magazine "People ask, 'How you can talk
like the wreckage of a flying sau bas lectured at more than 600 col about something you've never
cer on his property. leges across the country and ia seen?' " Friedman said. "Well, I've
The incident was picked up in Canada, and bas appeared on nu been working with neutrons and
the evening editions of several .m erous radio and television talk gamma rays for years - I've nev
newspapers on tbe_W est Coast - shows, including "Nigbtline, .. er seen one of them either."
but by tbe following morning, gov "Merv Griffin" and "Late Night
ernment officials bad dismissed with David Letterman." MERCURY-NEWS, San Jose, CA
the mysterious craft as a crashed College campuses naturally Aug. 7, 1991
weather balloon. make up tbe bulk of his lecture
The whole affair, says Fried- _-..:o~._. __~ ........,. ....; .....;.:..;;;...;.-..... circuit, says Friedman, because as
man, reeked of "Cosmic Water ·members of the post-moonwalk
gate." Special to the Mercury News and Watergate _g~!"ation, "young
"What I mean is, a small num TO TELL IT LIKE IT IS Famed 'ufologist' Milton Fried- people have no problem (with) the
ber of officials within the U.S. gov man is coming to speak at San Jose City College. idea of space, or that the govern
ernment have known since 1H7 ment might want to cover some
that indeed, our planet is beinC thing up," be said.
visited by intelligently controlled Tbe program, which -is open to "I'm not a clOBA!t ufologist; I tell As ,one might expect, Friedman
extraterrestrial spacecraft" - and tbe public, is being spomored by It lite it is," said Friedman, wbo doesn't have much patience for
have furtively tried to cover it up, tbe Office of Community Educa spent 15 years in industry .,... "noisy negativists," including for
said Friedman, 57, a nuclear physi tion and Services of tbe San JOBA!/ on nuclear aircraft and fission ani mer classmate Carl Sagan. They
cist and "ufologist" who bas been Evergreen Community College fusion rockets before switching to proclaim that UFOs - like the
studying tbe Roswell incident for Distrid lecturing and private consultin& tooth fairy - just plain don't exist.
more than 15 years. The lecture and slide show will One critic bas accused Friedman
AuFgr.i e1d7 mtoa nt awlkil la bbeo uint rSeacne nJot sfein odn alalsrgo e-isnccaluled es c·.dieianctiufaisci osnt u·.ad ie_sf ivone lneF rai ebdomoka no n isth ec uRrroesnwtelyll icno-cwlrdita~t· odfu "limtya."k ing a buck off people's cre
ings in the Roswell case in a lec tJFOs. retrieved saucers and sau baed on more than 200 interview.
~tUY~ ~" at tlie 'S'Falny iJnogse S Caiutyc eCrosl laegree cdeurc tiloannds ibnyg sa l-iensa.n d eartb1iDI a~ cwriatshh ,p einocpllued cinogn nfecitreds t~o t~he 1r94-7 - ------------------------------------
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'Doomsday Conspiracy'
POST, Denver, CO- Sept. I I, 1991 CR: C. Carpenter unusual plot for Sheldon
UFO near shuttle puzzles NASA scientists
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By Jeff Franks cdaetbiroinss lossatt edlluirtein gF rtihdea vd, ebpulot yamckennot wolfe da gceos mitm cuanni· by "STidhnee yD Soohmelsddoany, WCoilnliaspmir Macoyr" tlhinekmin go nheim a tt oa a ntiomthee, re. ach one g:t:'1f:l
Reuters not be certain what was out there. row Co., $22,412 pp. Each time he finds a wit- ~
:'-le1ther a turd nor a plane nor even. apparently. Nearly identical objects have been :>een on *Review ----1 ness, he rP.· .....,
:-iuperm:tn. the 1cient ity of the mysterious object previous shuttle flights from which satellites were BY BETH SOLOMON :r1 ports it to the
that t1uated be~ ide the ,;huttle Atlantis earlier in deployed, flight director Phil Engelauf said. Democrat Book Editor 1 general who ;::-'.
itsT mhei ,siolh>nj ecrto.n tambuoeust t5o efleuedt e loNnAgS Aa nodf fiscliiaglhs.t ly SpHacee saCiedn atetr a inS uHndoauyst onne wtsh abtr ieNfiAnSgA a te Jnoghinneseorns aroAu nthde ofroyr tsheavte'sr able eyne afrlso antionwg · jaosbs.i gnIte'sd otnhley ~
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uhject was no longer visible from the shuttle. But identical to the debris we saw before. I can't give by the government and de clear up a >
ttrhaT~.:t ihortn-nv :!b'\'tl<>eitl nii.e·m ,·eraes lm tAhaeien roeodbnj.ae uctti cws aas nndo tShpinagce m Aodrem tihnaisn ywoiWuth hapanrtyeetvvhieionru gsi t nmeiswi,s s."hi oen ss aoidr . thitr ehaates nendo t thiniste rofneer.e d sfecneSsniead rdnieeoyp a anrSdthm erueldnnots n fwo ritt ashkt ueitds i yn.t hhaist finds , t"h' .a,t • N<e•Ya" c1 hfm uaostfit oenrth oef cawonintd - :;o::l
latest thriller "The Doomsday nesses has conventiently died ~
Conspiracy." or been killed. 'g
SUN-TIMES, Chicago, IL -Aug. 5, 1991 It'll be a disconcerting topic And he knows he's next.
Lecturer's husband skeptical for fans of Sheldon, who usu Then the action rea!ly heats
apllloyt s uliskees gmovoerern mdoewntn o-tro H-eoalrltyh up as he attempts to evade Jn- ~
wood intrigues or family ~~~~o~t~ee;~e c~~c~~~~tyi:g~hn~ ~
power struggles. Sheldon him world:
Boulderite: It's strange hoax report surfaced during 'Comference' self must have been a bit wary "He had his answer now.
of the change because he in They intended to kill him.
By Tracy Seipel did - how many - 100 a thing the British call "uniden cludes a lengthy author's note 'They're not going to find it
Denver Post Staff Writer month? That's curious." tified aerial phenomenon." at the end of the book explain easy.' He was· the hunted now
BOULDER - The husband McCray's wife and Kristov The two men said they did ing his research and real inci instead of the hunter, but he
of a woman who lectures on itch were among 16 speakers the work themselves at night, dents of possible UFOs. .had one big advantage. They
LTOp circles isn't sure he buys invited to last weekend's "The using only a ball of string to Topic aside, the novel is un had trained him well. He knew
Monday's claim by two British Cornference," a " .. . celebra keep the circles round; a wire mistakenly Sheldon. In fact, it all their techniques, their
artists who said they created tion dedicated to the crop cir sight attached to a baseball follows a fairly similar pattern strengths and weaknesses, and
the circles as a joke in a south cle phenomenon, with round cap to keep the lines straight; to his "Windmills of the Gods." he intended to use that knowl
central J<.;nglish wheat field. ups and exchange of news of and two long sticks with rope Just like in that tale of interna edge to stop them."
"Doesn't it strike you as a the events of 1991," according handles to flatten the crops. tional government intrigue, The climax holds some sur
bit peculiar that these two to the meeting's brochure. They claim they came for Sheldon includes an interna prises, but other details -
guys come out at the same Likely to be part of the news ward now because they were tional committee of powerful some major - are easy to fig
time they're holding a confer of 1991 is Englishmen Doug fed up watching other people officials dictating events and ure out pages in advance. That,
ence on the subject?" asked Bower and David Chorley's re make mene, off their "joke." uses code names to protect too, is unusual for Sheldon
Mark McCray, husband of Kit port to London newspapers By late yesterday afternoon, their identities: novels.
McCray, who last week travel Monday that since 1978 they McCray said hadn't beard "His code name was Janus. Sheldon throws in some in
led with LOJJisville associate have been creating the myste from his wife about the re He was addressing 12 men in teresting thoughts along the
Tere Kristovitch to a confer rious crop circles. ports. He said he is awaiting the heavily guarded room of-a way. For example, the Strate
ence in Glastonbury, England. Crop circles, large, intricate her reaction. "If it is someone military compound. 'As you gic Defense Initiative (Star
"I know a lot of science-type patterns of flattened wheat, who bas done it, then they've have all been informed, Opera Wars), as one character tells
people think they're hoaxes, allegedly have been sighted done it incredibly well," tion Doomsday has been ac Bellamy, "was not created to
but nearly 400 occurred since around the world, and are be McCray said. "That's kind of a tivated. There are a number of fight the Russians. It is being
last May in England," McCray lieved by some to be caused by marvel that they could have witnesses who must be found designed for the specific pur
said. "That would mean they wind patterns and even some- fooled people this long." as quickly and as quietly as pose of knocking down UFOs.
possible. We are not able to at It's the only chance the.re is of
Farmer: Circles in N.C. field no hoax tempt to track them down stopping them."
through regular security chan
Sheldon also makes scat
nels because of the danger of a
tered references to environ
leak.' "
By The Associated Press circles I don't think are. how they used a four-foot Commander Robert Bel mental destruction and what
CHARLOTTE, N.C. -No There's no doubt about that." plank to create the circles. lamy, a Naval intelligence offi the future holds unless Earthl
matter what the Brits say UFO buffs claimed the cir But Springs said be knew all cer, is chosen for the task and in~s clean up their act.
about strange circles in wheat cles in his field were proof of along that tbe circles In Eng thus drawn into a deadly Sheldon's commercial suc
fields being pranks, farmer Eli flying saucers. Others blamed land were different. ·scheme without knowing whSt cess with the likes of "The
Springs Jr. isn't impressed. pranksters, and others, like "When I beard about those or what's involved. The first Other Side of Midnight," "Rage
He says the circles of flat Springs, thought the circles in England, I said, 'That's not two-thirds of the book are of Angels," "If Tomorrow
tened plants he found in his were caused by wind eddies. nature, that's a hoax.' " be filled mostly with him tracking Comes," "Master of the Game"
soybean field on the outskirts Two Britons claimed Mon said. "Theirs In England were down 10 unidentified wit and others attest to the fact
of Charlotte last month can't day the circles of flattened so artistic. They bad anna out nesses who saw an actual UFO that the author knows how to 6
be -the result of a prank. grain in fields in England were and legs and straight lines. crash in Switzerland. The hunt construct a page-turner. Alrd
"Mine were nature-made, pranks they thought up in a They looked like some kind of seems disappointingly pat - that overrides the weakne....-a
and definitely a phenomenon," pub. David Chorley and Doug hieroglyphics. Na~ ._,t lacking Sheldon's usual in ''The Doomsday Conafir-
Springs said yesterday. "Their las Bower showed reporters draw pictures......._.. fineaae - becaalae he finds acy!' .
FOREIGN NEWS
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of Mr Alan Godfrey. In January this year Mr Grais, whose film recreation based on detailed interviews with included "Death Hunt", which featured ~ 'aw a t~lowing "'"
Mr Godfrey, of Todmorden, also aged credits include "Poltergeist 2", visited the MrGodfrey. Charles Bronson and Lee Marvin and H about two loot lon)!
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Some months before, in June 1980, the used to recreate the town - even the cows. a geist" movie and then produced "Polterge lheinciJcnt kit ~11,
body of Polish emigre Zygmunt Jan After visiting Cannea film festival earlier disturbance among which the then PC Godf ist 2", in 1984. His next project is a llalkll ',IHtc~<·d hut
Adamski was found in bizarre circumstances this month Mr Grais has been in Paris and rey was on his way to investigate when the production of the Stephen King novel c X c i I e d ' . S IH· " a '
omno rad ehne aRpa iolfw caoya Sl taint ioan c. oal yard near Tod fLleownd boanc ukn ttoil t hheis U v.iSsi.t tthoi sT wodeemko. rden, and he expTahreie tnecleev oicsciounr rdeodc huams ebneteanr yb raolusgah bt rionu. ght ''SWleehpilwe ailnk eTrso'd'.m orden Mr Godfrey took a'dom;.eHtnhainntt ~.'h ht·u th aa d'c :"u-cd'l'1ll
The "Todmorden News" reponed then While in Europe he has been negotiating in the death of Mr Adamski, Mr Godfrey him on a tour of the Yorkshire moorland, the following day 1e
that the body had been found with mys the sale of the television programme in being one of the officers on duty first called including the "Bronteland" of Hawonh, \eakd not lung.
terious head injuries, which appeared to be Europe and interest has been high. The pro to the scene, and newspaper repons later and Mr Grais stayed at Scaitcliffe Hall 'II what my" lit"'·'"
caused by corrosive liquid. gramme, "Visitors From The Unknown", linked the two incidents. Hotel. Todmorden. wa, \fllll~thint~ 11.:11
Mr Adamski's wife said at the inquest that was one programme of a series of three, the The coal heap on which Mr Adamski's "I have enjoyed my stay at the hall which made a nop clfdr. thr
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Coroner Mr James Turnbull adjourned the people about the foreign sales and setting black. grown up here and know everybody. )(fOUIHI," M1 llallo·lt
inquest saying no stone would remain un things up for the series. Interest in unexplained phenomena had "It's so beautiful you could end up stay 'aid
turned and police would continue investigat- "It will definitely be seen in Britain. We reached a high point again with a number of ing," he said. I he couple hel1eve
the crop ci1ck' arc "
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50 reports
Unidentified Flying Objects have a Other stories include the discovery zation known as Canadian Aerial
special lure among the curiosity of mysterious rings in a barley field Phenomenon Research Investiga =
seekers. near Spalding in August, 1988, the tions, based in Saskatoon, will pay · · of UFO .· .. ·.
And, for that reason alone, a Sask witnessing of a diamond-shaped $25,000 to the person who offers the
atchewan-produced 30-minute docu UFO hovering over a field near most promising exploration of the
mentary. UFOs: Facing The Contra Preeceville in June, 1984, and the mysterious rin~s at Spalding. It
diction, will command some witnessing by a mother and daughter wreaks of show business hokum, , . sighti ng!r
attention when it plays on the Sask of a cigar-like flying object flying for doesn't add any credibility to the
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0 on Sunday at 6:30 p.m. The biggest problem is that none of fully they'll tell someone. Oo
4C'CJI 1- UFOs is produced by Hollywood the people in the stories are identi Stronger editing would have en ~ MORE tbu SO people lme reported ligbtiDgs or u
~Vl <0 . North Productions Inc., with Sergei fied. Romanoff says he didn't have a riched the documentary's quality but ~ l':t~:r O)'in& object oYer Notts aDd Derbyshire
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r..J is the story of a September, 1974, amounts to a lousy journalistic job UFO sighters tell their stories. 4J It has contacted tbe MiDlstry or Dereoce, East
:0:c sighting of five circular UFOs in a because, <*tside of their communi In these days when the REAL ~ Midlaods lnteroatiooal Airpprt aDd efta Richard
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CI) about it" while sitting on the seat of e"cellent Hollywood credits, makes ca's Funniest People, who's to say ~ nry dose together.
his swather during the time the ob an appearance halfway through the anymore what kind of quality people . "Tbey ban beeD descn11ed as ftt')' brlgbt lights OD
jects were hovering. show to tell audiences that an organi- expect from their television screens? fHzS ttbwaoo atralyao kgDuolawru sahiracpreadf t.o bjects., IIWIY times iar&er
:Z. "Muy people reported seeiog smaller red aDd
~ greea lights OD these objects. Noae or these lights
r..J was flasbioa, as a coOYeotiooal aircraf't'a would."
1be two objects moYed alowly from east to west,
Kent's own UFO is wldt lf&btfogs io CaiYertOD, Carltoa, Gecfling,
Anold. Bestwoocl, Rise Park, Kirkby*Asbfield,
a.lwell. Langley Mill aDd Heaoor, wbere three wit
- laW them disappear ioto doods.
CR: T. Good
!l back again to buzz
,
c: garden! c UFO fans to gather
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~ c, ENTHUSIASTS from throflf,hout the the BrltlSh and American UFO research
e:: ,; e-: world are to converge on She teld for the groups. . .
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:~rrc·:,rrd merhe:~d. and disappeared towards •Ha~r U. spotud any Cl) c~: Sheffield Library Theatre from August ·before played in England, revolves
· I lh.,ught it wa' a jcl at Hawkinge. F.O.s o~u Kml rtctnlly? ~ ..:.I, 1&-18. around the myste~ of UFOs. The
:l~in"dt h11u tw tah'r no n11 lyca mabeo ulot w1e5r a pMet asrhgoapre itn. twhhe ot owwonr.k iss aint uCso knnloawcl lahltl aCbiolhuttn i lt!1 nd ltl >0< invIte shtaigs abtoeresn i njo tihnet lNy oorrt ~aonfi Esendg lbayn dU aFnOd obfa nadli epnlas yasn adg aeixntsrat -at erurteusrtirsiatilc a bratwckodrrko. p
Martians must want a grain deal
OKOTOKS, Alberta (AP) - Martians, or Lethbridge circles, only larger," said Gary condition of the soil or crop. That leaves
men? Farmer, a member of a UFO study group. human involvement or the bizarre expla
; ...., Thaes what residents of this Western The largest circle is about 50 feet in nation - this one could go either way."
"QBJ Canadian province are asking since mys- diameter. Two satellite circles, about 17 Farmer and Kijek investigated the
~ terious circles have begun appearing in feet across, are connected to the large Lethbridge circle last week and were at
~ grain fields. one by short paths. the Okotoks circles on Wednesday.
c: g; .. A large circle appeared in a field out- The 2-foot-tall barley crop had fallen in They said the circles had been dis
~ id.~ the southern Alberta city of Let- a counter-clockwise swirl. turbed by people walking from a nearby
hbhdge last week, and on Tuesday three "The crop is laid down very flat and highway to look, and it was difficult to
~ .. similar circles appeared 75 miles to the evenly and the circles were fairly sym draw conclusions.
; ~ north, near Okotoks. metrical," observer Gordon Kijek said. "It "It's a mystery and it will have to
~ "These are exactly the same as the doesn't appear to be wind, animals or the remain that way," Kijek said.
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ENGLAND NETHERLANDS SWEDEN GERMANY HUNGARY
~ cropper 1n Cexroppe rctsir clolers c ehanvtuer ibeese. nE puumzzplliengs fMouynsdte rnye saur rHroauanrdtesm twmoe rcmirecelers i n Tohcec uorrnelyd eavt eOr rceibrcrole info 1rm97a2ti on fAie cldir cnlee awr aCso lsoiggnhete din inM aay r a1p9e9 0. oAf ftohrem Pautiosznt af oruengdio nin isth es tfillla tlands
u have multiplied in tile past August 1990. Local school alter a star-lllle object was A:: y:era r later another formation puzzling the experts
:;; fields of dreepcoardteed. ,L masat iynelya rin 7 t0il0e were ccrheiladtreedn thsaeimd that they had over a cornfield r~::::d:~ UFO enthusiast
south-west
f confusion
>.
...... HAVING enthralled English
~ farmers and scientists for
the past ten years, the alien
1 forces that some think resp
"t:: onsible for crop circles now
~ have the rest of Europe in
Co their hypnotic hold.
c: By far the greatest interest
'-'.:~ in these mysterious circles is
in Sweden. There a group of
§ eminent scientists, including
"t:: representatives of the
C: Research Institute of
,5 National Defence and the
Swedish Weather Bureau,
z has just launched a nation
< wide investigation into the
~ phenomena. Their aim is to
~ set up an "early warning sys
:;:, tern" of 900 observers up
'-'.:~ and down the country.
i'-':.:~ Sweden's only known crop
circle was spotted in 1972,
when a 14m circle was found
at Hjortkvarn, near Orebro,
after a star-like object was
seen over a cornfield.
In the rest of Europe, crop
circle sightings are now
more frequent. The latest, a SPAIN TURKEY
25m formation of three
circles outside Wiesbaden in A rare southern European Since the first report of a circle In September 1990 villagers In A complex formation ot tour An unusual formation which
Germany, was in a field of eGxuaamdapilrea anpepaera Sreedv iIlnle Aloalo de iinn 1a9 s6p3in, athcehr efie hlda vIen bSet eSno suepvpelertasl tthhee frourrmala Ptioungl ioaf rae gsitorann rgeep orted ~;~~~tw~r~~g~~~ \~~uly Aapnpaetoalriaed i si ns tail lf iebeldin nge satru died by
wraapse .f oAu nyde aar te Iadrsliteerin, aWnootehres r ::~!n~;~==:ee~n ~~~~~n:~dat circle in a field outskirts of the capital, Sofia crop circle enthusiasts
dorf, near Cologne. Michael at Avallon
Hesemann, publisher of the
German magazine 2000, Graph•c by Adam Greer
thinks that it was made by Running rings
"some unknown intelligent
energy, possible with strong
UFO connections".
Jan Blonk, a farmer from
Haarlemmermeer in the
Netherlands, is less certain
about a 7m circle on his
cornfield last August. "I have
never seen anything like it,"
he said. "The ears of corn
were not damaged at all. It [8 EOGRAPHY teacher Strange goings-on in the middle of the
looked as if an air-cushion Karl-Heinz Baltes and
had landed on the field." Stefanie Janz decided night have put scientists and mystics at
A more complicated forma not to go to the Greek
tion occurred at virtuaUy the islands for their holi loggerheads. John Dodd joins the fray
same time last year in Bul days this year. "This is much
garia. The pattern - four more fascinating," said Karl
circles joined by concentric Heinz, taking in the view once their money at the gate and have sold 250,000 copies
rings - was in Drouzhba, more. "I am so glad we came," trudged 1OOm through waving worldwide and is now being
near Sophia. Other eastern said Stefanie. "I had read about corn to stand among them in promoted in the United States.
European examples include this and now here I am seeing it wonder. Last year, when differ Mr Andrews has told British
two circles spotted last July for myself." ent-shaped circles appeared in TV viewers: "There's something
and August by Dr Nikolae Karl-Heinz, from Kaiserslaut the same field, a total of 8,000 out there trying to tell us some
Nowgorodow, a lecturer ern, near Frankfurt, and people came to see them. thing. It could be ten seconds to
from Tomsk in Siberia. Stefanie, a US air base press Judy Young, a partner in a midnight."
Although a circle was officer, had just paid $1.6 each company that is now producing While he was in the US, his
sighted in the Puglia region to stand in the midst of the screen-printed T -shirts of partner, Pat Delgado, was in the
of southern Italy last most unlikely location ever to designs from previous circles, middle of circles at Alton
September, there has been feature on a tourist itinerary - says: "The Barnes, near
no confirmed example in the wheatfields of southern earth is speak- Devizes, being
France since 1963, when a England. Three circular swirls ing to us. It's in 'The earth is interviewed by
3m circle appeared in a spin of flattened wheat linked by a trouble and a seven-strong
ach field near St Soupplets, l.8m-wide path represented the checking our speaking to us - Japanese TV
outside Paris. Thierry Pin latest configuration of a phe intentions." team which is
vidic, 35, a Parisian civil ser nomenon that has baftled scien However they telling us that it making a two
vant who has spent more tists and researchers for more are made, the hour documen
than ten years investigating than ten years and has now circles seem to Is in trouble' tary on the phe
French crop circles, does not stimulated half a dozen books generate an nomenon. He
think any were genuine. seeking to offer an explanation. almost hyp- told Nippon
"Like UFOs, there is always The circles appeared virtually notic attraction across a broad Television: "It is an unknown
some logical or natural under the noses of a scientific spectrum of society, from the force from an unknown intelli
explanation, such as a goat team from Waseda University, most rational of scientists to the gence."
tethered to a picket walking in Tokyo, which is on a round wildest of theorists about cos Andrews and Delgado have
round in a circle." the-clock watch in a caravan mic intervention. measured and mapped scores of
Last year Pinvidic and a stacked with surveillance equip They have also generated, in crop circles since they first
special effects expert made ment perched high on the typical English fashion, a sim began to appear 11 years ago as
their own 70m formation - Wtltshire Downs near the town mering row between the two uncomplicated swirls of flat
three circles and a concen ofDevizes. most dedicated bands of crop tened wheat going in the same
tric ring - without marking Crop circles are Britain's circle enthusiasts. Colin direction.
surrounding crops. "We fastest growing tourist industry. Andrews, a local council engi They, and their rival
wanted to !ihow that it's pos Within a week of the arrival of neer, and Pat Delpdo, a retired researchers, claim that crop
sible for people to make the latest complicated set, well electro-mechanical engineer, circles have been occurring 8
these things," he said. over 2,000 people, 11W1tf from have written the most popular dowri the centuriee but were left
Germany, Holland, &he Uldted book about them, CircuLar ignored or treated as the work
Alexandra Frean Judy Young, T-shirt designer States and Belgium, heel paid Evidence, which Is believed to of the supernatural. But neither-
(continued on page 9)
(continued from page 8- THE EUROPEAN, London, England- July 12- 14, 1991)
Epicentre: to some, the corn patterns at Alton Barnes, UK, are the work of an unknown intelligence
around circles
sid<' sl'ems to Pxplain fully why Wiltshire circle~ have appeared Object Research Association. an
there was only one in I 980 and - two in the field below hi~ car organisation associated, per
la.-;t year there were over 700 in avan encampment but under haps erroneously, with little
Britain alone. They say that neath the edge of the radar green men. Paul Fuller, a statis
hoaxPrs account for only 20 per scanner. The caravan is also tician and a member of i~ coun
l'Pnt, although more cynical equipped with four monitoring ci I, says that he and the
detral'tor~ point out that the screens and three weather sta Andrews-Delgado faction have
numbers grow in almost direct tions. Along a track under some fallen out "because they could
proportion to the airtime the trees sits a camouflaged second not stand me saying it was natu
subject ge~ on TV. caravan where equipment on ral phenomena, which is the
The most orthodox of the secondment from the BBC opposite of their great launch
researl'h has been that of Dr scans the same landscape. into the paranormal".
Terence Meaden, a physicist It is believed to be part of the Delgado, however, vigorously
and meteorologist, who is direc Andrews-Delgado research. The pooh-poohs the vortex theory.
tor of Tornado and Storm two camps do not communi "Vortices don't pull things
Hescarch - an independently cate. Dr Meaden says that he down; they draw things up,"
funded group he set up himself. and Dr Ohtsuki agree on about he says. All around, little
He says: "I'm afraid I have 90 per cent of their theories groups of people potter into
nothing to do and are talking the circles, stare, talk, touch
with Andrews about the rest. the wheat and walk on in
and Delgado at 'The one thing But the two sci wonder. Some sit down in
all. They don't entists do not the afternoon sun, unscrew
want science. we are sure of impress Del vacuum flasks and drink
They are only gado. "Ortho tea out of plastic beakers.
interested in is that they are dox physics," Polly Carson, a Wiltshire
the paranormal he says, "can farmer's wife, says:
and spooks and not hoaxes' not explain "There's almost a carnival
anything like what has been atmosphere about it.
that." happening People ask me if it's fright
Dr Meaden's theory, based on here. It has been exhausted. ening but it's exactly the oppo
warm weather whirlwinds, or There is a world of difference site - crop circles make people
electro-magnetic vortices, now between moving a few particles happy."
has the backing of Professor of aluminium dust under perfect But the really avid resear Cash crop for farmers
Yoshi-Niko Ohtsuki, of Waseda conditions in a laboratory and chers continue to bicker and
University's physics depart the forces at work here." The disagree. George Wingfield,
ment. He has a team of students interest in the circles in Japan is field studies officer of the 600
in Britain for the duration of the much more intense than in strong Centre for Crop Circle Mrs Gladys Emery (above) waits at the gate for visitors to the
crop circle season. Dr Ohtsuki Britain. The TV team's English Studies, now lectures to packed Alton Barnes corn circles in Wiltshire, UK. She charges each
talks about the "plasma elastic co-ordinator explains: "In a way audiences all over Britain. visitor £1.00 ($1.6) to walk through the patterns. Other farmers
ity" in vortices. He also claims it's closer to their religion." "We don't espouse any partic defend the practice of charging. Mrs Polly Carson says:
that the circles, in miniature, The theory of flattening whirl ular explanation," he says a 'Someone has to be on the gate making sure that people don't
can be found in dust particles winds which solidify and then little loftily. "The one thing we
on tunnels in the Tokyo under pass on has the rather surpris are sure of is that they are not damage the rest of the crop. We have to pay them, so that's
ground system. He is said to be ing support of BUFORA, the hoaxes. They are now occurring why we charge.' She thinks that the attraction creates a
jumping for joy at the way the British Unidentified Flying everywhere in the world " carnival atmosphere. 'Crop circles make people happy.'
Talk of years covered up infor had the number one spot
WESTERN HORNING NEWS, Plymouth, England- June 27, 1991 mation of beings from with his book, Above Top
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might like to consider this the avoid greens and browns. for very good operational rea- A TOP 'UFO expert was in top US intelligence after twice the size of a double
ocrroyp wchirictl~e two aaiptipnega rf.o r the next geWnche yw? hiBche csaeunsdes tthhees e inthtmelfl{is 80~~v~ any of your readers an aClliaecnt obno -dy tealnlidn ga h ofwly ianng 2U0F yOesa rsa nodf reasdeadrecdh itnhteo adlescok erc lbauims eind Wtharlteoen . SItt
Circles surrounded by rings, wants them to take off again un alternative theory? saucer were soon to be American and Soviet Osyth fishermen spotted
or with smaller circles equidist damaged after landing. It John Crosford displayed in public. governments had dis a bannana-shaped object
antly placed abuut th~m as al knows that fields used for crops Winsford Timothy Good, 48, is a cussed the possibility of in the sky with life-forma 9
ready r~corded and are reaped by machine, and are Mineh~ad ~ ~ best-selling author and a uniting against an alien inside - which suddenly
photograph~d cannot have been th~refore not only on the level. E-< ...;r former member of the attack. vanished.
umtahdcer nbayt uwrain Id c asuw,;eir.l s or by any btiuotn sa reth kaet pmt firgeh~ t frdoamm aogbes trtuhct-· CR: T. Good E~-< ~ cLhoenadtorna. Philharmonic Or AlMienr LGioaoisdo'sn , nies wa lrbeoaodky,
~~eAernn s uthneid oennltyif sieodlu tfiloynin. ,; obJect reaper. .~_. '"§"l caHn eg colvaeimrnemde tnht e hAadm efroir cinh atrht ea nbde sht-asse lplirnegv iobuosollyr.
EAST ANGLIAN DAILY TIMES, Ipswich, England - July 24, 1991 CR: L. Beer WEST WILTSHIRE ADVERTISER,
Corn triangle is a mystery
England - July 18, 1991
Landlady
has a close
By Peter Hopper
Agricultural Editor
encounter
A CORN trianaJe ha.~
appeared in the same field
of winter wheat in which a
corn circle was di$Covered
at Great Holland, near PSYCIIIC landlady Jan Hallett
Clacton, six days earlier. claims she sighted a UFO hover
The new finding, which ing ncar crop circle formations at
adds to the mystery puzzling Dcvizcs last week.
scientists and Britain's farm
ing community, was made on .Jan and her husband Geoff, of the
Sunday by the owners of the Crown Inn at Ulshops Cannln~s,
farm. Mr. and Mrs. Bryan were driving on the A361 towards
Lawrence and their son, Sam. Devlzes when they saw the allen
The perfectly formed craft.
tterinaendg lew hoefa t cao mmploentethly afwlaaty "It was a very bright li~;ht about
from harvest, has a sharp cut two foot acros..o; and static above the
off between the undamaged ground," said Jan, aged 39.
crop and the stalks which are "We realised It was something
laid in one direction, yet unusual and when we got level with
unbroken at the base. it, It disappeared.
70 Tohre 80tr iyaanrgdlse farpompe atrhse : o4n4lfyt "I was really excited· I wasn't
diameter circle which has the scared at all because I'm a psychic."
flattened corn swirled around Experts
a central oivot.
It has been measured at Crop circle expert Dr Terence
about 17ft at the base and the Mrs. Ell• Lllwrence, of Reedl•nds F•rm, UHie Cleeton, lit the site of the trl•ngle In the whellt field Meaden said the sighting wa.'i u com
stoid aes p oairnet .3 8ft IQng, tapering lit Grellt Holl•nd. Picture by JOHN KERR mon occurrence In the urea.
Mr. Lawrence said he just snapped off. was used this year to grow and Pell, took photllgr.rphs my back and was pleased to l.lut jan believes the sl~htln~ Is nut
did not know what to make However, the crop had oilseed rape, but the crop in of thr crop still-flowering in leave it. Even so, I had to. connected with crop circle forma
of it. He discovered crop defied logic and was merely the old circle site refused to the circle, but yesterday he marvel at the way the circle tions.
circle on the farm last year laid flat, with a few stems arow at the same rate as the was unable to give any expla had been "fashioned" by "Experts have phoned me sayin~
and at first he thought it now beginning to show ligns rest of the crop. nation for this. whatever force it had taken to the same objects have been seen by
m"Nigohwt , hIa vjeu sbt edeonn m't aknn-omwa d-e. ofT rehceo verLya awftreern cteen dafyasm. ily, theC oolnds e4q.5ufte dnitalym, etthere rirnagp ew ains renBcoet sha idh eth eayn dw erMe rssu.r pLriaswed mfuartkhee r a apleornfegc, t cai rclep erafnedc,t other people and could be caused hy
it's anybody's guess." he which has a farm shop at flowering a good two weeks that the circle was still triangular shape in a growing crop circles," she said.
saiAds. a farmer, he is puzzled npueazrzbleyd bLyi ttalen otChelar ctuonnu,s uaisl clorno1pe. r Tthhea n ptahtceh reosft oyef lltohwe ;.rer;:~· =pi~~~: !:J croMp.r s. Lawrence offered her thi"nIk d toh ibse olineev ew aI.no ; UcoFnOnse cbtuetd Iw diothn 'tth e
to find that, after using a happening, as explained by had looked very odd, she drilled with a new crop. own explanation, "I don't circles."
scthieffmenic atlh eg rostwratwh raenstdr icrteodru ctoe MrTsh. eE lla fL1anwt renccoer.n circle scairicdl.e Awlsaos, tshheo crtreorp tihnasind et hthaet renI cet nmewea nwt hwath eMn rssh. e Lsaawid athnidn k littthlee reg raereen smpaecne, "s hsihpes CR: T. Good
its heiaht from 3ft to 2ft, he appeated on the farm last ouuideit. standing in the corn circle scoffed. "I think it is caused
expected the brittle straw to year, half-a-mile from this The family's agronomist, gave some people an eerie by forces beneath the
be broken, but very few were year's discoveries. The field Mr. Alwyn Chapman, of Key feeling. I felt a tingling down ground."
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z.c.J British Columbians provided 114, or 49 per cent, of the 232
reports of unidentified flying objects across Canada last year.
t:i SIGHTINGS of an unidentified flying 'Overhead' Mike Strainic, B.C. director of the Mutual UFO Network.
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z bureau. couldn't hear any noise number ofsightings
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w observers in Gedling and Arnold on Mrs Margaret Spencer, campaign by UFO
Wednesday night. looked out from Hol aficionados.
gate Road in The "I don't really think
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craft. "There were two vestigtions, Mr Tony EVENING TELEGRAPH, get 49 per cent of the
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bedroom window when wife, Jayne, also saw the Pearl Assurance am· Two of those sightings occurred in Richmond in February
I saw the lights. I ran lights. ployee Sarah Turner of 1990 "T"' multiple witnesses reporting a hamburger-shaped light
downstaira and told my Mra Buclc and her Woodbyth Road, Dogs on Feb: ,:i, and a pilot reporttng a disc shape on the ground on
husband, who thought I husband, Andy, said the thorpe, wu driving Feb. ia. · . .
whea as awgo tihnegm m baed c. oWuldhnen't lbieglhotns g wtoe rae n taoiorc rlaofwt. to aRlooandg att hme idnTighhotm oeny The other two included multiple sightings of a Ghristmas
believe it." "The lightl were very Monday after dropping st8r-1lhape over Vancouver on April18, and mysterious ring-
Fifteen minutes later bright, almost like Con· off 1 friend when she shapes near Williams Lake on Sept. 1: .
Mr Jaclc Sargent and his corde in shape, but first saw the circular "It was our busiest year ever," said Strainic. ..B ut, funnily,
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house to Baker Avenue, white ones were brilliant there were no other re
Arnold. and lit all the under· ,..a.d alghtlnga.
neath up.