TIMES Number 7 July 1990 rssN 0958-4846 Patrick Yidal of SCEPS gives a detailed anlysis of tlp UFtt yave in Balgirm at tlte of tle year. C-orn Circles are back, with an increased crop of them this year - diversifying with a nultitude of patterns. Paul Fhller presents a 1990 status report and John Spencer expresses his vier,rs on their impact on ufology Anrorc-sis - lcrt ItrilliFs gives an qdate of his in- depth research P1us........ Ttromas Bullard on the tlilI Abduction Skywatcher, l€tters and more. . CIRCLE MANIA A BUFORA PUBLICATION
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TIMESNumber 7 July 1990 rssN 0958-4846
Patrick Yidal ofSCEPS gives adetailed anlysisof tlp UFtt yave inBalgirm at tlte
of tleyear.
C-orn Circles areback, with anincreased crop ofthem this year -diversifying witha nultitude ofpatterns. PaulFhller presents a1990 status reportand John Spencerexpresses hisvier,rs on theirimpact on ufology
Anrorc-sis - lcrtItrilliFs gives anqdate of his in-depth research
P1us........Ttromas Bullard onthe tlilI AbductionSkywatcher,l€tters and more. .CIRCLE MANIA
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Contents
4. rHitorial
5. lbre lrFl0s wer BenehrxPatrick Vidal - SOBEPS
B. Ufologr Cmiry Fttll Circle?John Spencer
12. Gircles, Circfes fVerl*rere....PauI Fuller
16. Anmresis lfudateKen Phillips
19. Ihe Firl lbdEtion - Ihe Ottrer sideof the CoinTtrornas E. Bu1lard
21. Sk'l.aEherEdited by Gary Anthony
23. Letters
Apologies to readers for the delayedpublication of this edition of UFOTimes. It is hoped that we r.rill be ableto catch up with the next issue.
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Gircleg are bact and bact rith rvengeaoce. forarda the e[d of latt yerfanil leading up to tte rcircles seasoalit oeered that thote bacting anilpresentitrg the reteorological theorthail von the argutrent oqce end forall.
Now, that position has changed. Theargument and all current theories havetin rny opinion, been well and trulYthrom baclc to square one. The amount ofcircles appearing this year are alnostpoised to break all records and there isat least another six veeks to go untilharvest tirne. Circles are bigger thisyear. Circles have been Eecorded thatare some 92 metres across, which ishuge.
Now the circles are not necessarilyjust circles. I'tote and mote complex andanazing pattetfls are forming to bafflethe myriad of researchers now involvedwith this phenonenon.
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So what is happening? I{ho or what i3behind it? After hearing that nertpatterns were appearing lhis year' Ipretty welL convinced EyseLf that thesewere cleavet hoaxes. This nay still bethe case, but how are such elaboratepatterns produced in such a Pristinecondit.ion with little or noll damage tothe host cropsr stems. Surely damagewould be evident, especialLy as theprocess generally occurs at night. If atwhatr is behind this phenoruenon thenwhat kind of rwhatr? Plasna Vortextheory postulated by Terence lleaden naycertainly cover many of the circlesproduced but cannot conceivably explainthose patterns recently discovered atCheesefoot Itead this year' Approxinatelysix patterns sinilar to the diagrarn
below has been recorded, appearing onlyit seeEs to frugtrate circleresearcherg .
However, degpite these new fornationstfeet must be kept firrnly on terta firna.Talk of rintelligencesr and I sone kindof force fieldr are not good enoughexplaoations and do not. (in thenselves )defeat Meadents more forrulatedexplanations, although the rnedia loveit. As I have said before it isdangerous to explain an anonalous eventt'ith an anonalous explanation - thatgets ofle novhere.
Another facet. of the circles is theirapparent ability to appeal to all areasof the paranormal. If I didnrt knowbetter, I would have thought thatcircles had takefl a degree in Marketing!If your either in the nelr age' UFOs'earth nysteries, the occult, the circlesseem to have an affinity l{ith all thesegroups or visa vetsa. Keeping all of thepeople happy all of the tine!
Cheeseloot HeadJune l99O
one final nessage on circles fron ne.To all those currently working on thislcan $e please cut lhe rhetoric. Thereare differing views to this amazingphenomenon, rhether it be hoax,meteorological or as yet undiscoveredinvisible intelligences workingtogether and cutting the bitching, backbiting and threats of legal actionagainst ofle another sinply will detractfron some of the good work that is beingcarried out.
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This paper is Preaenteil ia otiler to infon you of recent, rmexpected IrFo eyents inEelgiu. orr purpose ir aot to etrgage ourselver in controvergy or to ilefend aparticular hyrpothesis; yr are retely teeping to the facts rnil to the preliritraryirilicationg rerulting fror the rtudy of the reports.
During the course of an inquirycarried out in the east of Belgiurn atthe end of October 1989, a wonan in theregion of VERVIERS shared with us anobservation of a strange, triangulaf,raircraftt which appeared to bephosphorescent. At that monent itperplexed us someshat but the objectconcerned was an isolated case and' theidea came to us that we were confusingthe object with the body of a UIMGE 5aircraft.
Our surprise was intensified when, atthe beginning of December 1989, welearnt tha! two gendarnes on patrol inthe region of EUPEN on the evening ofthe 29 Novenber 1989 were confronted byan aerial phenomenon of a triangularshape. There, at l7tr 24 in the evening,the attention of the gendarnes Nicolland Von Uontigny tras attracted bypowerful lights coning fron a meadow atthe side of the road. These brightlights were emanating fron a sort oftriangular I platforn t of largedimensions. There were three large whitelights on the rplatfonnr and werearranged in the forn of a triangle; atthe centf,e of this triangle, a rotatinglight of a reddish-orange hue wasvisible. The object, at firststationary, put itself into notion andproceeded towQrds the NE.
This incident, which ne can onlygumarize very briefly here cane from alengthy seriea reported by the Belgiurnpress (the last of these which, by thevolune of referencea pertinent to the
reports, allowed us to access a numberof witnesses), so at an early stage wewere able to determine the exactlocation and were able to meet the twogendarnes.
In fact, these two officials were notthe only persons to see this strangeobject there on that evening. In thedays which followed, SOBEPS ISocieieBelge DrEtude Des Phenonenes Spatiaux]received dozens of reports fromwitnesses affirning to have observedthese triangular objects manifesting inthat region on the evening of the 29Novenber 1989.
These people have all been perplexedby the inposing size of the rmachiner,its very slow speed ("....... I couldhave followed it at a walking pace",said one witness), its alnost totalabsence of sound, its very lov altitudeand the pover of its lights.
Ttroughout the nonths of Decenber1989, January and February 1990, thesecretariat of SoBEPS logged dozens ofreports. At this monent in tine (ltarch1990) oore than 600 cases have beennotified to us. In the first neeks nostof the reports cane from the sane region(in the east of the country) butgradually lre received reportsoriginating fron the other provinces(fron the regions of: Nauur, Tournai,Charleroi, Flandre and the Ardennesamongst others ) .
llany cases are inexplicable because
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the infornation is succinct and/or thedistance separating the obsetver frornthe phenonenon nas too 8reat.Nevertheless, fron the descriptionsgiven to us we had sufficient data toaffirm that the general shaPewastriangular (the corners oftenrounded) and frequently of irmense size.
Many reports describing thecharacteristics of the object seenestinated it to have been the size of afootball stadiun, noved. very slowly (innumerous cases the sPeed seened lessthan 100 Kn/h) and relatively silently(certain vitnesses referred to thedetection of a noise resembling that ofa smaL1, electric motot or to that of agas turbine slowing down), through theBelgiun airspace at various times overmany months .
Diverge observations nade referted toa red, luninous mass or to srnall,luminous bodies wider than thermachiaer. In certain cases thewitnesseg generally describe anillunination of a green colour, thesource of which is as bright as the sunand directed towards the sky. The greenlights (of great intetrsity and durationof many seconds) have manifestedthengelves in the sane way as the otherlights.
In the framework of this vagueness i!is sonetimes irnperative to question thelandings or quasi-landings sioce noCEIII case has been brought to ouragtentiofl. However, physical effects andeffects on the behaviour of the hunanwitnesses and animals as well as theelec tic effects (on public
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sodium lighting notably) have beenindicated.
On the subject of physical effects wecannot yet give any explanations becauseresearch is st.i11 in progressl cautionthen is indispensable.
Sone contacts have been nade with theBelgiun Airforce but they indicated thatthe reported objects lrefe unknown tothen but it. was agreed with the airforceto forn some collaboration betlreen themand SOBEPS.
The same type of collabofation applieswith the Belgiun Gendarnerie rho,henceforth, will transmit allinfornation relative to UFO reports madeto then.
Video Details
More than 15 video sequences have beenfilned by rritnesses ag well as nutrerousphotographs. Altogether, these documentsare not of exceptional detail, but theyare in the procesa of being exanined andone of these has been entrusted toRICHARD f. HAINES in the USA foranalysis. Infonnatiort gathered on theground by about 40 investigators will bedrafted into a reports in the nearfuture for reference purposes.
We have envisaged nany wof,kinghypotheses but recently are had toelirninate then for diverse reasons. Ilereare some examples : -
1) cltxur,AB: too many people areinvolved. Duration estinates are vague.
2) f,ALLIICInATIOXS/US mERPREATIOf,Snumerous mistakes are suspected in cageswhere the observation distanceg aregreat, nevertheless, in those reportswhich concern close observations we canelininate the first hypothesis ofhallucination because of the video filnsand photographs, the number of witnessesinvoLved and the geographicdistribution. In the region of Eupen (inthe east of the country) the peoplethere are used to seeing advancedaircraft and radar planes of the AWAC
type based at Beirset in Belgiurn andat GeilenkirchenGernany.
in the west of
3) DBOf,ES [f,€aotely Piloreil aitTehicles] l: any apparatus knovn anddeployed in this sector of NATO do nothave the size given by the lritness (morethan 50n). Furthernore, the Belgiundefence ninister affirned categoricaLlythat the Defence Uinistry would not havesuch a rnachine.
4l ItrSBS, EOL(rcBAlfft: the geographicdistribution of the cases, thedescriptions given by the witnesses,the video filns and photos allow theeLinination of these hypotheses.
51 XAtItXfL PEEr0IEXA: rhe objecrsdescribed and the numerous repetitionsargue in favour of material objects andnot natural phenomena.
6l ESPI()trAGE ApplBAttts: by rhe nature oftheir flight, their lighting and therepetitive characteristics of themanifestationg renders the objectsas non-discreet and, therefore, donot correspond to a typicalespionage apparatus (not to nentionthe risk of crashing and thediplonatic falL-out rrhich rrould fol1owas a consequence ) .
7l sfEALl.E ArRcMFt: in a presscomnunique dated 21st. Decenber 1989 theBelgiun defence minister affirrned, afterenquiries to the general headquarters ofthe USAf in l{ashington, that the UnitedStates Ambassador in Brussels has flatlydenied any presence of stealth apparatusin the Belgiurn airspace.
At this tine, the phenomenon (whichcontiflues to nanifest), rernainsunidentified. I{e cordialLy invite you,therefore, to comunicate with us anyrelevant inforrnation on sinilar reportswhich night have unexpectedly arisenin your country [Cr1 in the courseof recent years or over the past fewmonths as such comunication willfacilitatedornain.
our research in thls
I'Ie will keepsituation duringinvestigations.
you inforned of thethe coufse of our
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I should say at the outset that thisis not really an article on ghe Circlesas such. The Circles are not a part ofthe UFO phenomenon that I have studiedpersonaLly so I have no expertise tooffef,, and all of ny knowledge cornesfrom reading what other people havedone. I an interested ilr thenn of coursebut my own particular cases and areas ofnork al1ow ne little time to do morelhan watch fron afar.
However, I am crucially interested inthe UFO phenonenon as a whole, and Ihave been delighted to have been a partof the nodern trend towards a seriousand scientific analysis of the subject.Those who have attended the numerouslectures I have been giving around thecountry ifl the Past fert nonths will knowthat I have used theo - with sonesuccess - to appeal directly into thescienlific comunity for respect andhelp, and I believe that the positivefeedback achieved has been a result ofmy denonstrating that BUFoRA has led theway in the ttK towards an unbiased andobjective study of all areas of thephenonenon.
This inevitably has led to criticisnof those who have in the Past fortyyears soughi to turn ao objective studyinto a cultist forn of worship, of thosenho have asked us to rbelievet withoutevidence .
ftere has been a great deal ofcdrtroverEY over ttE tcornfieldGircles I in recent mrtlrsr f,td th€reoay be a strange tsist to this sub'setof Ufo1o6/ ttrai shorld be mtdred vitlcautian.
We pust never forget that the inage ofUFOs and UFO groups which wae born fronthe Californian Contactees of the 1950s
image of uncritical acceptance withoutstudy, an inage of slopPy andunscientific study, an inage of devotedworship, of people who could seepictures in the flanes in the fire ifthey looked hard enough and then teLlthe $orLd it conscituted proof.
And lrrn not talking about thewitnesses. Irn talking about the so-called researchers themselves.
And they wondered why the worldsneered and why werre sti11 regarded ast silly seasonr material.
Inage Baoishing
In the past few years Irve felt smuglycontented that we were on the road tobanishing that inagel that our workwould be less harapered by the tabloidmedia and more aided bY front-linescientists.
And then the Circles came to the fore.
The Circles are a totally unique Partof the UFO phenonrenon. They are not thesubject of only witness testinony
is an inise $hich oersists in the rnindsof the nedia even to this day as theenbodiment of uFo research. It is an
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requiring corroboration, nor do theyrequire analysis of vitfless-credibility.They exisi for all to see. They renainafter the event to al1ow for fullsciengific atudy. of UFOs it has beensaid that we donrt study UFOS ne studyUTo reports, we are dependent on people.That is not the case nith the circles;rre cone as close here to runbolting UFOsto see how they workt as we nill everdo. I{hatever causes then; hurricanevortex, nating hedgehogs, the drunksfrom the local pub or the bug-eyed guysfron Zeta Reticuli, the one indisputablefact about then is that. TIIEY PFTSICALLYEXIST.
The neaf,est thing we have had toCircles in the past. is photographs. Yetphotographs can be easily faked, and incooditions of secrecy which allow forlittle exposure by accident. Circlespresunably can be fated (give Spielberg$25 nillion and see rrhat he can dobefore you say it CAN'T be done!) butcertainly they canrt. be faked easily,and the danger of exposure is high sinceobviously you have to stand in an openexposed place to perforn the hoax.
Proviag Ourselves
So in the circles we have a trenendouspotential resource. Not to solve the Ufomystery or even the Circles Eystery( though of course that too). But nainlythe resource we have here is PROOF OFOURSELVES.
PROOF that we can researchscientifically. PROOF that we are notcultists seeing only r'ha! ne want tosee. PROOF that when given the evidencewe can deaL appropriatel.y with it. PROOF
that we are not gelf-perpetuatiog nythmakers but ready to say tjob done andfinishedr when the time comes. PRoF thatwe are rin the businessr !o findanswers, not to pander to our ownfantasies.
The Circles are a phenonenon that -because of their obvious physicalexistence - can be shared by non-ltForesearchers. They are evidence that eventhe nost hardened sceptic cannot sayI it I s all in the rnind I .
AND IT IS A FACT THAT OUR FUI'I'REREPUTATIONS }TAY STAND OR FALL ON qOW WE
PRESENT OUR APPROACH TO TRE CIRCLES.
Why? For the obvious feason that ourwork can be checked after the fact. Thatothers not synpathetic to our views cando their own workl and can tear ourapproach to shreds if we do defectivework. I{e are - for the first tine in theforty-three years of llodern Ufology -threatened with external audit.
And if we are seen to be sloppy andunscieotific then it will be saidperhaps with justification - that thesane nust be true of all of our nork.
Ufology rrill have cone ful1 circle,and we shall again wear the inage thatwe nore in the 1950s and 1960s, aprospect we should fear greatly if notfor ourselves then for the sake of thenany sincere witnesses that we representwho look to us forsupport .
tlhy then all thishand-wringing self-doubt?
Take a look - as Ihave - at the work ofthe various Circlesresearchers. I canttsay that I knowenough to know who isright in the manytheories offered,thoughladnitlanimpressed with thepresentations of themeteorologists whoclaim that theCircles could benatural weatherfornation. If thisrepresents a bias onny part, I think itis a snall one.
But Irm veryunimpressed by soneof the material Ihear or read justbecause of what itmeans to Ufology as arhole, whether or notit turns ou! to beright or wrong. I
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nake this point because of how we mightall be judged on such Presentations.
In recent tCirclesr lectures I haveattendeal (antl I have attended rnany)several points have been nade thattroubled me and for a rvhile I couldnrtthink why. When I realised what it was,it was quite a surprise.
Lelrs look at some of those Points:
- I ras told that i-t was robviousr thatthe circles were not the Product ofnatural weather phenomenon because nowind was capable of the extreme accuracyof rcut-offt at the circle boundaries Ithat in many circles flattened crop liesonly niLlinetres from unaffected croP. Iwaited to be told gly wind could not do
this. I wanted to know flhat experimentshad been done to try to Produce thewind-types that night be necessary. Itseemed to me that a definitive statementthat wind could not do this had one verydifficuLt hurdle to surnount - that thecircles are the sussestion that vind can
Now perhaps it canno!, but to say so atthis stage nust nean that rte know -without doubt - what exactly causes theCircles. And the Presenter of thisstatement seemed to offer no such proof.Yet we ate dealing with a testablehypothesis that doesnrt seen to havebeen tested '
just assumed.
- I was toLd that no wind or totdinaryragency could bend crop stalks in themanner seen in the Circles; yet therewas not one jot of evidence givenshowing preciselY what stres sesvegetable matter could withstand and
under what laboratory conditions thesetests had been made. And these aretests that can be perforned by thosequalified to do so. Agaia, it seemed theCircles vere the suSSestion that thistheory waa wrong, until Provenother$ise. No such proof was offered.
- In proving that the circles haverprogressedr in style and number I was
told that one man had filed a rePort ofa 150 foot wide circle many years agoand that his clain had to be wrongbecause there were no knorrn reports ofsuch Circles at that tine. So what was
his report! If ever there was a case ofselecting evidence to fit the desiredresult this was it!
- I $as tol-d that there were rtruerCircles and there were rothersr. It was
apparently difficult sonetirnes to te11the difference unless You were arlrexpertr and knew what to look for. (Irras even told vho to talk to for Truth'and rlho to avoid.) 0n the evidence thenpreselted it seemed to me that a ttruerCircle nas one that fitted Yourtheories, andirrelevant.
!he others were
- The scientific analysis of such asTerence Meaden and Paul Fu11er $asdisnissed as defect.ive because it hadfaiLed to sPot the Real Truth behind theCircles i,e. did not suPPort thespeaker I s conclusions. No respect was
given to the good work of others.
- I have heard a good many facets of theReal Truth; that the Circles are a nertand increasing Phenonenon; that they areincreasing also in conplexity; that they
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exhibit int,elligence; that they areforned by an rAgencyt of sone mysteriousforce; that they started at Warminsterand they are spreading out slonly acrossSouthern England (tonorrow the World!);that they talk to each other (I quotethat exactly!); that we are approachingan inundation rhich has Meaning. Therewere Circles in the shapes of crucifixesand it was darkly hinted that here wesee some of their True lleaning. Not onepiece of evidence was offered to supportany of these rtheoriesr that would standeven basic scientific analysis; yet mostwere presented as FACTS.
- It goes on: Circles are responsiblefor ancient nonunents, for the killingsof nearby residents, they can downaircraft in fLight and kill the pilots.(Can there be an end to it - is there infact any aspect of hurnan life that lrecannot t.ie in with the Circles. Thereare always pictures in the flanes in thefire. ) Sorne of the theories suggested tone ranonyrnouslyt by delegates tolectures taking me aside arebreathtaking in their audacity. At thecuf,rent rate of theorising it can bnlybe nonths before we discover that theCircles are a Global Join-the-Dotsconpetition which will speL1. out thenane of the hone world of theoriginating aliens !
And in fact Irn ready to believe anyor all of this - GIVEN PROOF. Bur I'11believe none of it just because Irrn toklit should be obvious to ne.
But what was it that worried ne? I,Ihatvas it that I couldnrt grasp for so longuntil the image I clicked r ?
Doesnrt it all sound faniliar: anintelligence rith purpose, increasing init t s conplexity (presgnably it t
"neaning), targetting certain areas,understood only by certain people rrhohave the ability to see the Real Truth(so we nust depend on them to translatethe ltlessage to us nere nortals); defyingeven basic scientific reason becauseThey (the Circles) are Special.
Itrs the Contactee Cults all over aEAin!
Those friendly old, innocent Circles arenutating into the new Contactee Era. Andthe consequences look like being very
rCalifornianr l with new High priests tobring the ltessage of the HighIntelligence to the Masses.
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And the Press? I{hen they get wind ofthis 1ot (yes - pun intended) we aregoing to be geen again as the sillyseason, sloppy, unscientific bunch ofclowns they so desperately desire fortheir tabloid papers. Ufology vill havecone ful1 Circle.
BltFOM nust take the lead - as it hasdone so often in the past - in bringingrational rhinking to this subject. iauiFu1ler and Jenny Randles have alreartydone nuch in this regard. And I ilonrt-believe ny views are borne only ofloyalty to the Association; Ralph Noyesseerns to take a quite different view ofthe Circles to either paul or Jenny yetI adrnire his crisp demands for proof asmuch aa I do their own. It is only adangerous few who might drive us backdown the road retve struggled so hard toput behind us.
If we can I t stop these ridiculousclains - and lre can t t, we rre uotUfological policenen after all - then wecan at least take every opportunity toshow these claims for what they are andto continue in our scientific study tounderstand the physical nechanisms whichgive rise to these forrnations.
And we can recognise that here isevidence we can use to show to the worLtlthat we have cone of age.
If we fail, the circles will become arnirror which the world will holrt up tous, as the Knight of the ltirrors d:i.d toDon quixote, to show us how foolish weall real1y are.
LATEST NEI{S
I)AIH.INE: IJNTIE) S'lfiIES. ControversviF.raging as a mdel similar to th6opjects de-picted in the Gulf Breezeprctures has -been discovered in aforner home of Ed Walters. However.the evidence seems to show that th6mod.el_ was a deliberate plant. Morein 1IT9.
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CIRCLES, CIRCLESEVERYWHERE...
by Paul Fuller
As regrlar readers of Il80 Tines will lnos, BItFl0lA has bee! inveatigating thecurious phenoenol of the crop circler alace 198O. In 1989 re produceil our gecondprogrers rePort ncontroversy of the Gircles', rtich gas rn att€ pt to ilefeEd thecrerlibility of UFOlogy lnd to bring rore Linil of rationality to the subject ingeneral. Regretfully, over the part tro years the pmblicra perception of the cropcircles has been gEosslt/ dittorted by sensatioral aail irreslrcmsible pnblicity tobecme a rajor redia topic.
The reason for this dramatic turn ofevents will be known to nany. Over thepast twd years the crop circles haveacquired a fascinating social rnythologythat nasks and distorts 'what ishappening. Ttre wild clairns ofopporiunists and publicity seekers hasnow ensured that the UFoLogists will beuoeble to take a scrap of credit for ourresponse to the crop circLes. In theeyes of Science the actions of our lesscritical col.leagues will always be usedas a defence rnechanism against UFO1ogyand the very real anomalous phenonena westudy. Ttre history of crop circlesresearch rnirrors in microcosm thedestructive process that UFology itselfwent through nore than forty years ago -a process lhat ullinately led to theconplete disnissal of UF0s as a subjectworthy of scientific interest andresulted in our forty years of failure.It is to be hoped that. crop circlesresearch can stil1 be saved from thesame fate that UFology suffered becauseof this alL-too-hurnan tendency toattribute nalufal events to the actionsof non-hunan 'rintelligences ".
fhe 1990 Patterns
This summer, as in previous years, theconplexity of the f,eported fornationshas once again become more and morecornplex, thus leading to further intensespeculation about an rrintelligent'rphenonenon. So far more than Z9O ctopcircLes have been reported in Britain,
the najority (but by far not all)appearing in 'rhaunted Wessexrl(particularly in Wiltshire). Theseformations include
- a quadruple-ringed single onBeckhanpton Donn (south of Avebury,wiltshire);
- two quadruple-ringed quintuplets(nishops Cannings near Devizes, andUpton Scudamore, near Warminster);
- a single circle surrounded by sevensmaller satellite circles near Nenton
Abbott in Devon (appeared 15th/15thJune ) ;
- seven doublets linked with spurs andacconpanying rectangles ( "coffias" )
arranged in para11e1 about the spur(the so-called ndunb-bells").
- a triple-ringed single $ith trosatellites lying close to the outernostring;
- a linear triplet sith three ringsaround the central circle.
Ahnost all these fornations have beenexanined by Terence lleaden, rBustyrTaylor, and Richard Andrews - the lattera leading menber of lhe newly formedCentre for Crop Circles Studies who fortwenty years 'was a government cropinspect.or. 0r: June 5th I visited thefirst Chilconb doublet, after Terence
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lleaden and George Bathurst had obtainedprior pernission fron the farner to nalkon his land. This fornation wassignificant because it al1eged1yconpletely broke with all previouslyreported formations. The circlesthenselves exhibited that characteristicswirl pattern and were preciselysituated on a tramline. Extending frornthe larger circle rras a spur, half ofwhich 1ay between the tranlines, andwhich extended to nithin a metre or soof the snaller circle. The crop in thisspur pointed away fron the larger circlewhilst arranged about the spur butoriginally without connecting trackswere four rectangular areas about twometres in length. The wheat was laiddovn in a U-shape within each aectangleand the direciions were syrnnetricallyopposed on either side of the spur.
This fornation soon attractedextensive nedia interest with TVS ricoastto Coast" (May 24th) and the rrl{esternDaily Pressrr (June 12th) carrying iteruson the formation. My first reaction tothis lat.est twist in the crop circlesnystery was that the circles night begenuine but the rectangles and spur werea subsequent addition by hoaxers.However, nith so many sightseers havingtrampled the fornation and thesurrounding crop it was irnpossible tojudge. Nevertheless, the appearance oftnewr fonnation types has long been apainful thorn in the side of thoseresearchers who claim that crop circlesare the result of purely rnaturalIforces. lt may be that there arehistorical records of "durnb-be11s" lyinghidden in some obscure corner of Britishfolk1ore, thus proving that modern"durnb-bel1s" are not the latest in an"intelligent" evolution. However, weshould not forget that several years agornany UFologists were very quick to clainthat triplets, quintuplets and ringedcircles lrere all "newly evoLved"formation types and that therefore no'naturalI phenonenon could ever be thernechanism behind the crop circles. Thediscovery of pre 1980 complex formationtypes (eg at Earl Shilton, Twywe1l, andnow the Mowing Devil case) all suggestthat UFOlogists should retire to thehistorical archives before leaping toconclusions and proclaiming the "durnb-bells" as proof of alien visitation. 0nghe other hand i'- is easy to sympathise
with the view that the forrnationsappearing now are just SO conplex thatit seems almost impossible to reconcilethem with a purely neteorologicalnechanism (or any other rnatural lmechanism for that natter). Could it bethat we are witnessing a genuinetnaturalr phenonenon that is beingcynically rnanipulated by potr'erful vestedinterests in order to pronote a rnyth ?
Whatevef the truth behind the arnazingrrduub-bel1s'r, none of us $ere toosurprised when other well-known circlesresearchers quickly clained in nediainterviews that the durnb-bel1 fornations"ridicule the whirlwind theoryrr (?) andthat "The (new) patterns have thewhirlwind and plasrna vortex theoristsrunning around like headless chickens'r(Portsnouth News, July 3rd). Let ne putny meteorological head back on again andreiterate that N0 ONE to y knowledge issuggesting that ordinary "whirlwinds "are creating crop circles. The onescientist who IIAS been studyinS thephenomenon (Terence Meaden) for the lastten years haa been suggesting since 1985that crop circles are created by anITNRECOGNISED vortex mechanism. Whateverthe strengths or reaknesses of his caseMeaden is NOT prornoting the theory thatis so enotively and feebly disrnissed onpage 167 of rrCircular Evidence"
on the Girclea Effect
Since the UFO phenornenon firstattracted mass media interest in 1947 vealL know how the subject was quicklyrernoved frorn a topic of scientificinterest and relegated to a natter forcrackpot UFologists and mystics, Overthe past few years we have seen the sarnesort of process contaminate the cropcircles, vith a corresponding reluctanceby professional scientists to become
fhe Firrt International Conference
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associated with the subject through fearof losing their professional status.This reluctance by the worldrsneteorologists to cometrt on such anemotive subject was finally dispersed atan International Conference on theCircles Effect which was held at oxfordPolytechnic on June 23rd. The conferencewas organised by the Tornado and StornResearch organisation (IORRO) and rlasattended by 150 UFologists' physicists'neteorologists and nembers of thepublic.
The conference was opened by Dr DerekElson, Head of the TORRo Research Centreat Oxford Polytechnic. The firstl-iberally illustrated lecture ras givenby Dr Terence Meaden, Director of theCircles Effect Research Group (cEREs) ofTORRo. Dr Meaden began by describing hisdecade of research into the Phenomenonand his reasons for believing that allthe evidence so far collected pointsconclusively towards a neteorologicalexplanation for the crop circles. In hislecture Dr Meaden enphasised thathoaxing was only a minor Part of thephenomenon, and that accounts of croPcircles 'were NoT lirnited to just thesouth of England or to the past fewdecades (as had been clained elsewhere).Ilis talk included many exanples of croPcircles forning on hi1ls and in the leeof hills and several examples of circlesforning when frontal systems passedoverhead .
Meadents introductory lecture wasfolloved by a short video show corupiledby arch circle hunter rBustyr Taylor,who is rePuted to have the largestcollection of croP circle photos in thervorld. Taylor t s undoubted expertiseallowed the audience to exanine inclose-up the intricate and cornplexlayering and banding effects thatcharacterise genuine croP circles.Professor John Sno$ of PurdueUniversity, Indiana then Save a lectureon behalf of hirnself and Professor TokioKikuchi of (ochi University, Japan. Snow
described the basic mechanisms that aregenerated within ordinary atnosphericvortices and speculated about the typeof vortex that f,tould be required toaccount for both the sinPle crop circlepatterns and the more complex fomationgthat have generated so much publicitythese past few sunmers.
FoLlowing lunch, David Reynolds of theUniversity of lancaster presented apaper which discussed the anazing cropdar0age at Kings Brornley, Staffordshire(first observed on z4th June 1989),which was so complex and extensive thatbarely any of the field escaped circuLaror swathe-Like danage. Reynoldspostulated that the damage was createdby the explosion of a "rulti-nodaltoroidal vortex'r (sonethiug I irnaginethat few of ue would care to meet on acold dark night in darkest l{anpshire).Reynolds further described a secondexarnple of this type of damage reportedon a beach near Broadstairs (Kent) in1980 -
the next speaker was Professor Yoshi-Hiko Ohtsuki of Waseda University,Tokyo, Japan. ohtsuki is one of theworldrs premier experts on BallLightning and his talk was in my viewprobably the most important ever givenby a professional meteoroLogist to thelarge gathering of UFOlogists present.ohtsuki discussed the detection of anunidentified radar target near theIlawai-ian Islands in Decenber 1986. Thetarget was detected on two differentradar systems and approached an OceanicResearch vessel at a speed ofapproxinately 5000 kn/hr, circled theship twice and then executed an abruPtV-shaped turn before disappearing. A
second target subsequentLy appeared andlvas confirrned visuallydisappearing. Professor
before0htsuki
interpreted these events as anobservation of Meadenrs proposed p1asrna-vortex and lrenc on to show a video ofhis I endurance I style attenpts torecreate the plasma fireball in hislaboratory. I am aure that manyUFOlogists present were irnmed iatelyreminded by this Lecture of many of theclassic radar cases in UFo history. Itmust be the supreme irony of croPcircles research that the Ul'O1ogists andthe meteorologists are both studying thesame naterial but coning to entirelydifferent conclusions about the oriSinof these phenonena.
The second Japanese professor eolecture was ltiroshi Kikuchi, a wellknorr'n aimo6pheric physicist from NihonUniversity, Tokyo. Kikuchirs lecture waspurely theoretical and I susPect thatrnany members of the audience found the
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series of complex equations presented by interference cases that seened i<tealKikuchi quite beyond theirconprehension. They certainly had nebamboozled ! Neverlheless it was clearthat Kikuchi was quite h.ppy toentertain the idea that crop circlesnight be created by an elec trostaticallycharged vortex phenomenon, and hesumarised by suggesting areas of workthat would be required to iEprove uponour lirited understanding of suchphenomena.
Circle corplor in PerseyIIiltshire
Finally, BUFOMT s Jenny Randles andPaul Fuller attempted to apply I'leaden I sproposed plasma-vortex mechanisn to theunexplained UFO data. Their basiccont.ention, that the UFO Myth has rnaskeda scientific understanding of afascinating natural atnosphericphenonenon, lras supported with nany casestudies of close encounters and vehicle
candidates for a rotating electrically-charged vortex mechenisn hovering in thelower atmosphere and being generated bythe flow of air over topographicalfeatures. Randles and FuLler went on toannounce the inpending publication oftheir book "Crop Circles, A MysterySolvedrr (Robert. Itale), which is ro bepublished in August. T'he fact that twoUFo researchers lrere alloced to sharethe stage with some of the worldtsprernier authorities on unusualatmospheric phenonena nust surely rankas a major turning point for the subjectand an outstanding achievenent forBUFORA, Britainrs prenier UFO researchbody.
Overall I found the conference afascinating and pleasurable experience,although it would have been nice tospread the conference over two days sothat speakers and investigators couldhave spent more tine discussing theirfindings at Length. The proceedings ofthe conference, to be titled 'rCirclesFrom the Sky" (details to follolr), areto be published in hardback by Artetechlater this sunner, and are recomnendedto anybody who couldnrt circumnavigatethe fire regulations (which set a lirniton the numbers in the audience to 150)to attend the conference in person. Ihope that this publication will proveabsorbing ruaterial for the many rnerobersof the public who attended theconference and who may have found themeteorology more than a 1ittle daunting.
triag of the Circles
Despite this growing sc ient i ficinterest in the crop circles, it isregrettable ehat two circles researcherssubsequently clained that Dr lteaden vas"in league nith the governrnentrr ( SundayExpress June 24th) and that Dr Meadenrstheory nas "insulting the intelligeacerlof 'rruany peoplerr and that it was "veryarrogant of anybody of any scientificdiscipline to set thenselves up as kingsof understanding about how (circles)occuf and why" ("Southern Evening Echo'lJune 27th)- We look forward to seeinghow these researchers who have noqualifications and training in physics
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anamnesis updateby Ken PhllllPs
For ovet tto yeatr noe, the llll
like hot iron and about 80 metres longri.The oblong shape seerned to have two rowsof rrwindows rr and a 'rdoorrr.
After the standstill the object shotaway at great speed naking a itshab-shab-shabrr sound and gave off sparks in theprocess. The tractor engines, which hadbeen left running when the wilnessesleft then to witness the strange aerialphenonenon, were off when the witnessesreturned and, moreover, their watcheshad stopped.
Belief Systets
Further questioning of the principlewitness revealed he was single and veryrnuch a loner. A year before the incidenthis fiancee had left. hin shortly beforethey were due to get narried which leftthe lritness suffering frorn nightrnares.he also suffered fron insonnia after his1987 encounter and was only able to getto sleep after 4 am. He is a nernber of areligious sect believing in a"niraculous place'r lwhatever & whereverthat is!l lrith all its attendant wish-fuLfilrnent associated with such abelief. Before the breakup of hisengagement he used to go dancingregularly, but now no longer does so. IIeis also a vertigo sufferer.
Before the 1987 encounter, one of hisuncles also saw a UFO and consequentlysupports the witnesses account, butthose of his workmates who atid notparticipate in the observations rrerehighly sceptical of the whole episode.Subsequent to his 1987 experience, thewitness has had further, but noredistant, UFo sightings.
The witness believes that UFOs ficomefrom another country, i.e. frorn Russiaor United Statesir and is ambivalentto$ards society in general.
One final mention was that in August1988, whilst working late and alone inhis office around 4 am, he clairns heheard rrfootstepsrr, but there was nobodythere at all.
I would now like to give you sonesalient points which energed during theANAIINESIS interview:-
This is not the only case using theANAMNESIS nethod to originate fronoutside Europe and in fact, during the1989 ICUR CoNGRESS here at the LondonBusiness School, I was privileged toread out synopses of two non-Europeancases nithout identifying the country oforigin and then inviting the audience towrite down lrhich country they thoughtthe cases emanated. The interestingoutcone of this nini-study was that mostof the audience thought that the casesoriginated from western, first-world.countries. Indeed, one case took placein Nigeria, the other in Argentinaj thecase cited above.
Now the proninent questions arisingfrorn such a poll outcone is: firstly,why is it nost of the ICUR audienceconsidered the two cases to haveoriginated within the western, first-world (renenber, most of the audiencewere very well read in Ufology!) and
Parental fanily disorderi llness /handicaodream recall
reams/UFO dreansrel igious /rnys t ical experience(s)ESP event ( sreligious conviceionlife changeETI belief
f,en Pbillips
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secondly, what is the comon denominatorlinking all these widely varyingcultures which causes people to havesuch bizarre UFO encounters the oatureof nhich, quite frankLy, nake no senseat all? More to the point - and this iswhere the ANA NESIS cones into play - isthere sonething about CE witnesses whichsets then apart fron the rest of the\rorld I s population?
Fron the point of view of WesternEurope the ANAMNESIS studies continue toprof ile a witness wiro is, ii-offi orthe strength of response: a) a seLf-reporter of ESP phenonena, b) a UFO-dream recaller and c) a socialinconsistent within his [usually] highlycreative and intelligence faculties.Make no misiake: these people are veryunusual in this respect and their rinnerworldr Iread: subjective truths] isextremely rich and creative. Ilo$ever,does this situat.ion apply to CEwitnesses from other cultures of theworld? I{ell, although it is early daysyet to junp to too hasty a conclusion,the results according to the prelininarycases now coning in agree with theEuropean Witness profile very closelyindeed. In other wofds, these people arethe rvisionaries t and rplophets I whohave always been with us fron the JudaicPatriarchs of the early Biblical O1dTestament right. up !o the present daywhete now the contactee nesaage seems tobe: rNew Ager ! The only variant in allthis seems to be the social situation inwhich alL these various witnesses havelived, but then again, as anyone whotakes the trouble to find out bystudying cultural and religiousnoveEents throughout the ages, thesechanges are caused, by and large, by thevery same psychic elenents which appearin our ANAMNESIS studies !
Well, what does all this teLl us aboutthe physical nature of UFOS?Unfortunately nothing at all, but whatthe ANAMNESIS study does outline is thesocial inpact the UFo phenodenon ishaving upon the various cultures in ourever shrinking world; this inpact, lrhichhas been outLined so elegantly inVa1lee's book rDinensionst [do read thisbook if you have not alf,eady done so, Icomend it to you] , is rNe* Age I .
There is sti11 nuch research to be
done. For exanple: what is it thatseparates CE rritnegses fron the rest ofthe worldrs population? Ta it bloodgroup? sonething to do wirh diet? Is itgenetic or what?
After 40-odd years ve now have ourconstant, physical residue of the ttFOexperience [in fact itrs been there allthe tine! l: the hunan witness.Furthernore, vith the help of theprofessions who have the necessaryresources with which to advance ourunderstanding of this seeninglyinconprehens ible and highly conplexsubject of Ufology we can, perhaps, putalr into the perspective of the overall
pheflomenon.
I lrish all your readers interestingthoughts about this aspect of oursubj ect .
-5=fcl+Circler..continueil fror page 15.
and neteorology can justify suchcoments when almost a dozen people havecone fornard claining to have seerr cropcircles being created by ameteorological nechanisrn.
1990 will surely be seen as theturning point in the history of the cropcircles. No longer is the phenonenonrestricted to the an0ateur investigatoror to seLf-styled rrexpeftsrr clainingthat crop circles are created by "anunknown force manipulated by an unknownintelligence in an unknorn manaer'r. Theprofessional neteorological connunityhag now turned its attention to the cropcircles and it. is to be hoped that theirbetter understaflding of unugualalmospheric rnechanisns will finally putpaid to those hoary old tales aboutgiant spaceships with retractable legs.UFOlogy has now reached a turning poifltin its chequered history and nust deciderrhether it is a movement that existspurely to promote myths or whetherUFOlogy can come to terns with its owndernise and accept that scientificknowledge transpires manrs need tobelieve in the fantastic and theirnpossible.
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John Spetrcer t s carefulstudy of the f,illabiluctiotr accormt leadghir to sorle thougbtfulcautiotraEJr colclugioag.lte Eill case hokls annique position ia thehistory of aMuctions.Aot only because thiscare Yas the firrt tocore to prblic rttentiotr,but because thatattentioo has includeda popular bool, nationalnagaziae gerialisationandafl[ovie.ortele[etr'ts of theabduction atort aPPearfull-gorn in thigaccoEt.
Spencer builds a powerful argumeotfor this abduction being subjective inorigin and a guiding influence onsubsequent reports, especially lrith thehelp of investigators overzealous andundercritical in their efforts toestablish the ETH.
These warnings deserve study by anyoneconcerned with the abduction phenomenon.Yet as strong as his argunent is, Istil1 find reason to disagree withseveral of his points:
- The proposition that Barney Ili11derived his experience from Bettytsdrearns runs into serious difficulty whenwe realise that his account conplimentshers, rather than duplicates it, He wasless conscious, less aware throughoutthe period of captivity, according toboth witnessesr accounts. The Hills te11similar stories of the time they spenttogether in captivity, allowing for thisdifferential consciousness. But whenBarney separates fron Betty, his storybecomes his orn'n. It is not an elaboratestory, again in keeping rith theapparent effectiveness of roind controlover hirn, but the course of eventsdeviates fron hers. If he picked up herdrearn , why did he choose selectivityfrom it? His experience tallies withhers when they are together but fails tocopy hers when they are apart, yet heknew the fu11 cont.ents of her dreams.This independence strikes me as morelike true memory than contamination.
- Barney felt himseLf floating, whilebetty saw hin half-lifted and halfhauled. There is a clear confLict ofperceptions here, but not necessarily aconflict of facts. The line separatingdrearnlike feelings from actual dreamsmaybe fine, but it is also irnportant. Ifhe was truly deeper rrunder theinfluencerr of some forrn of rnind control,the differential perceptions nake seflse.In this light the scuff rnarks on thetops of his shoes gain significance aswe11.
- A case can be nade that Bettyrsimage of alien abduction grew from herreadings and faltasies. Yet an equallypersuasive case can be argued thatrepressed memories notivated herinterest in UFOS, inspired hernightrnares and provoked her anxieties atsuch sights as an ordinary road-b1ock.Barneyrs u1.cer problerns and pertraps hispsychosonatic warts could trace as wellto terrifying memories rising to thesurface. otherwise the warts remaindifficult to explain,
- Story elernents in the Hill caserecur throughout the abduction reportsnow on record- Influence is oneexplanation, but similarity ofexperience is another. Spencer listsmissing time and genetic nanipulationanong the recurrent elements, but hecould have builc up a long list. Oneelement in the Hill case is "doorwayamnesia", a monentary lapse of
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consciousness while the ritness passestLrough the doorway of the craft. Thiselement appears in Barneyts account andonly heroic efforts by the hypnotistfilled in the gap. This sane incidentrecurs tine and again in other rePolts,yet it flas never thenatised indiscussions of the llill case and theevent itself is a nonsense occurrence,sithout logical integrat.ion in the storyor any apparent purpose. we must inaginethat abduction investigators are sorenarkably perceptive that they pick upeven the nost trivial and unorganiseddetails and use then to influence theirwitnesses, or $e can regard such anincident as a repeated part of theabduction experience.
- The experts indeed caution thathypnosis may lead to confabulatedfantasies and false testinony. Thesedangers are real possibilities' but arenot necessarily realised. Hopkins hasreported that some people came to hinthinking that they have been abducted'but no abduction story energes underhypnosis. I.et us not forget that someabduction reports emerge without help ofhypnosis. I found that about one fourthof 104 high-information, highreliability case did not involve thistechnique, yet a comparison of sequenceand content showed that the stoties rtereessentially the same. Contrary toKlass I g proposal, abduction oarrativesdo not seen to reflect the personalitiesof the hypnotists to any sigrrificantdegree. Sone 50 independentinvestigators contributed those 104cases to the literature, yet the storiesare strikingly coflsistent despite 3onany opportunities for investigators toinfluenee the witness nith theiridiosyncrasies. Hypnosis is undeniablyrisky to gain the truth, but comparativeanalysis of the evidence sinply fails toconfirm these fears.
Gonclrrsiol
I do not mean to sugges! that allabduction stories are identical. Anyonewho has read a few accounts knows thatthe appearance of the beings differs nowand then, that sone abductions are moreelaborate than others, or that somedetails nay vary. Yet the overallpicture is one of sinilarity. It is a
greater degree of sinilarity than thenornal dynamics of folk narratives wouldlead us to expect aad nore thalr seensreagonable for investigators to inposein any vay short of careful anddeliberate collusion. If thesenarratives arrive thf,ough the channelgof drean, fantasy, of fiction, we wouldeipect a great deal more creativity andpersonalised variation than we see. Theconsistency of abduction reports renainsoue of their nost rernarkable qualitiesand squares nost iEperfectly with thesubjective explanatiofls hithertooffered.
An objective explanation fareg littlebetter. By any standard the storiesremain bizarre and leave roany questionsunanswered. I too would like to knor nhythe aLleged aliens can seen so farniliarrrith some aspects of our culture and sonaive towards others. subjectiveexplanations can ansner some questions,objective explanations others. Bothleave holes big enough to fly a nothership through ! This noral is perhaps theupshot of all our studies of theabduction phenomenon and needs recallingin the wake of such an excellent paperas John Spencer has given us.
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SI WATCHEREdited by Gary Anthony
ht rod[c t ion
h thir ealition of Styratcher re h6veall the regu.Lar fe.tures, the platets,stlnlata and space ners. 0r the 12th anil13th lnrgltrt, Yenus parser cloge toJupiter trile the bf,ightert anaualreteor stoeer - The Perseials - is at itgpeat. Ile also have updates (m theprogresr of the Esbble Sprce Telescopeaoal the Eipparcoe astroretry nissioa.
tte Planets
August. Venus rises two hours beforethe sun on the lst at nagnitude -3.9. Itthen passes close to Jupi.ter on the1.2th/13th. Moon is close on the oorningof the 19th.
ll.ARS - July. Will rise by nidnighton the lst and half an hour earlier bythe 31st. The planet is at 0 nagnitude,slightly brighter than May and June.Moon is close and to the north on the16th.
August. llars is non a conspicuousruddy coloured object at nagnitude -0.4.Moon is nearby on the 13th.
JttPItTR - Ju1y. Is in conjunction withthe sun on the 15th and thusunobservable on this nonth.
August. Jupiter is now a morningobject, risiog at 02hrs. Moon nearby onrhe 18th.
SAfltf,I{ - Ju1y. Is above the horizonall night, at opposition on the 14th,reaching 0 nagnitude. ltoon passes acouple of degrees to the south on the8rh.
AuSust. Saturn vill set soon afternidnight by the end of the nonth. TheIiloon passes south of Saturn on the4rh/5rh.
YET{USrhe 15th.rhe 20rh-
- July. RisesCrescent noon
before 02hrsto the north
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JupiterSa turn
02h > 04h +00o06h > 08h +00o18h > 20h -15"
Bad i ant315" RA46" RA
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8rh 02 h15rh 11 hzzt-h 03 h29th^ 14 h
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f,are Begins llarilu[ EndsCapricornids JuI 10 JrtL 25 Aug 5Perseids Ju1 25 Aug 12 Aug 17Kappa Cyg Aug 18 Aug 20 Aug 22
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The Perseids
I.lie richest annual meteor shower, theperseids is act.ive during early August.Tlte light froo the waning noon naYobscure all but the brighter meieoroids.The shower reaches maxirnum on the 12thand is over by ehe 17th. No oPticalequipnent is required to viev a meteolshower, so if youtve nevef seen ar shooting star I (comon name f or a
neteor) take half-an-hour observing onany clear night in earlY August.
SPACE NEWSEubble Trouble
Disaster has struck the Hubble sPaceTelescope. After taking twelve years tobuild and suffering launch delays afterthe Challenger tragedy' hopes were highfor a successful, trouble free launchand deploytrent for the billion Poundt scientific narvel-.
But it was not to be. A serious desigrrflaw has shown up in one of thesatelliters nirrors, literally giving itdouble vision. The fault described as atspherical aberration' is producing adistortion equal to 1/50th rridth of ahurnan hair causing focussing problens.
Hundreds of experimenis have now beencancelled, however, Hubblers othercapabilities like its deep space infra-red and ultra-violet viewing will beused to the fu1l.
Astronauts are not scheduled toservice Hubble until 1993 when repairsto correct the aberration nay bepossible.
Eippatcog Gloae Gall
Ilipparcos, the first aslrometrynission in space was launched fronKourou in French Guiana in August 1989(see UT 6 pp 26) but was ttapped in ahighly elliptical orbit, following thefailure of the Apogee boost motor.Experts irnnediately met at ESoC, theESArs European Space Operations Centrein Damstadt and planned a revisednission for Hipparcos.
The long eclipses in Harch this yearwere the most critical test for thesatellite. For long periods, Ilipparcosrenained in the shadow of the Earth andthe solar paoels received less ponerfron the Sun. 0n the 15th llarch thecritical point came when scientistsfeared the satellite would loose powerduring a 105 minute eclipse, but ltithbarely 5 minutes to spare, Ilipparcoscontinued !o operate and neaaurenentsproceeded without interruption.
If llipparcos has a lifetirne of 18months, the parallaxes and propermotions of around 100,000 stars Eaybeobtained. l{olrever, lhe satel l iterequires a two and a half to three yearslifetine to obtain the intended accuracyof two rnilli arc seconds. 0n thequestion of Hipparcosr opef,ational life-span, ESA scientists are cautiouslyoptinistic.
Three ground stations now supplenentthe initial staiion at Darnstadt: thecNEs station at Kourou, French Guiana,the EsA Perth station in Australia andthe NASA Goldstone Station in the MohaveDesert in California.
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Ufological Stagaation
Dear Ed i tor,
The UFo fraternity seems to be blessedwith a few prominent personalities eachwith an outrageous ego and each tryingto oue do the other by pronoting socal.l.ed alL encompassing theories to thephenonena and discounting all theothers. This generally goes hand inhand with the publication of new booksas part of the pronotion technique.
Ttey tend to be wrapped up in theirindividual belief systems and totallyunbalanced in their judgenents Irithregard to the overall situation. Thischaracteristic would not be a problen ifaLternative and nore open ninded andbalanced vi.ews by other individuals werealloved to be heard. The situation thatmanifests itsel.f however is that theseproninent individuals having been on thescene for nore than a little time have agreat deal of instantly availablehistorical data to help pronote theirideas, and aa such, by the use ofhistorical rhetoric are able to shrugoff aoy criticisn, so keeping thelinelight to thenselves.
Research cases tend to be selectedaccording to the credence they give thatparticular vienpoint, and discounted ifthey cannot be explained by theindividual hypothesis. Also in a greatmrnber of cases the conclusions reachedby the individual bear no relationshipto the actual research done. Sonenherebetween research and conclusion, atotally unrelated speculative idea isoften introduced purely to enhance thehypothesis of that individual whilstadding nothing to ( and dare I say it) a
valid scientific judgenent. Ir isbecause of this situation, pronulgatedby only a very few people that ufologyin this country is suffering frornstagnation.
Personalities have becone moreinportant than ideas and belief systenshave becorne nore iroportant than soundjudgenent. If anyone is under theillusion that this is not the case thenan examination of the specific detailsassociated nith those concerned willdispel all doubts.
Jenny Randles and paul. Fuller bothrespected nembers of BUFORA have firnlycast all doubts aside and solved themystery for us in their new book,"CropCircles, A nystery solvedn. The orderform resune actually states that theyhave unveiled astonishing new evidencethat an atmospheric force called TheIteaden vortex is causing all the cropcircles, whilst rare neteorologicaldata- such as ball lightning andelectro!0agnetic clouds can account forall the cases of ralient literature.They also go on to oay that the death ofthe UFO as popularly conceived isiminent. I for one can t t wait to readit so that I can progress to anotherenigma instead of UFOrs, or perhaps goon to study meteorology.
At the first international Circleseffect/Plasna Vortex conference on 23rdJune in Oxford, Jenny Randles and PaulFul1er stood up in front of all theconference delegates and blatantlyproceeded to relat.e specially selectedUFO cases in a bid to prove that theactual subject itself should no longerbe considered worthy of too nuch seriouseffort, at least by us amateurs. Theythen went on to throw the whole of theirweight behind the scientificpostulations of Dr. Terence Meaden.
lleteorological Phantos
At the Phantons of the Sky Conferencein Sheffield, organized by I.U,N., JennyRandles again gave the same sort ofdiscourse- this tine entitled t'The deathof Ufology", where she firmly placed thesubject. in the hands of the scientists-especially rneteorological scientists. Isuppose this neans that with lhe death
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of ufology Jenny Randles hae nritten herlast book on the subject. I ronder !Three hours before Jetrny got up tospeak, a lady by the nane of Elsieoakensen gave a talk entitled- Apersonal UFO experience recounted. Thisparticular experience before theconference was considered to be a validUFo abduction. It I'as in fact JennyRandles who researched this case andbrought it to the publicrs attention inher book calLed Abductions'r, except thename had been changed to protect thelady from adversepublicity.
little did Elsie know that three houf,safter her talk and on the srlme stageJenny Randles would tel1 the world thatthey had both been nistaken. Elsie vasnot an abductee but the victin of adescending Meaden vortex, interspersedwith ball lightning and eLectromagneticclouds. Poor Elsie !
Citcles Circus
Now what of Dr. Meaden, Jenny Randl.esand Paul Fullerrs nentor. ltow is itthat where science has failed UFOrs forthe last 40 years Dr. Meaden hassucceeded. Eis clain to fame was thesuccessful postulation of a type ofatnospheric vortex that could descend toground leve1 and provided all the rightconditions prevai led, create the cropcircles effect that rre are currentlywitnessing.
Ilowever, apart fron Colin Andrews andPat Delgardo vho get extremely agitatedat even the mention of Dr. TerenceMeaden, and firmly believe that cropcircles are produced by iotelligeotlycontrolled forcea, no otre has deigned tomention the basis prenise on nhich hebaged his theory. It was in fact basedon the testimony of vitnesses nho statedthat they natched the crop circlesforning. It is interesting to note tbathad they stated they san a UFO at thetine the circles forned they would havebeen ridiculed and discreditedespecially by Dr. Meaden, but becauseall they heard was hurming noises, sawsone dust and felt atnospheric wind andpresgure changes a whole new science wasborn in the nind of Dr. I'leaden. Bravo !
what I nould like to postulate however
is, what if all the effects that thewitoesses perceived were only secondorder factors to Andrerrs I and DelgardotsI intelligent force r . Perish thethought . Anyway the neteotologistsslide rules will be ultra busy this yeartrying to calculate how a desceodingvortex can possibly pLait the corn. Asfor r€r I thiflk it is part of aprogf,amre being researched by thebreakfast cereal manufacturers, toproduce inslant shredded wheat.
Sttn CotrYrylondon.
Editorts corrent: Thanks Stan for yourcritique. Ia sone respects I quite agreewith you. Although researchers arepreeenting t'hat appear to be sensible,coherent hypotheses, none seen to clearup the whole phenornenon conpletely -there are too many loose ends. But I amsure in time ne will crack it! Butequally, I am sure that the UFophenonenon will not be the sane (as itis today) in 50, or maybe even 10 yearsfron now - it will evolve just as manwi1l.
rFear leapooser - A lesDonge
Dear Editor,
Although I nust say io truth that Ifound Steuaf,t Canpbellrs article; lFEarRespoflse ia UFO Reportersr of interest,I still feel that sonewhere in histheorising, he misses the boat, so tospeak.
Deducing, as he does, that resultingphysiological effects apparent to Utr'O
sightings, etc, are prinarily due tohuman fear sJrDptoms, Steuart also rulesout the possibility that the UFO sourcenay be itself responsible for the sameeffect upon the lritnegs.
In his own account of a personalattack of hyperventilation, he rightlystates the fact that this nas due tostress. In his own words, we have herean expla[ation to the stiltruli for hisattack (ie, his recovering fronhepatitis and the rfearr of sufferingHeart attack).
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Ff,on this, fle are re to deduce thatall witneaaes to UI'o eveats aresuffering fron rnedical conditions? Ofcourse not !
To arouse FEAR in any situation, IwouLd say that some kind of influencingstinuli must be apparent,. This stinuliwould be recognisabl.e to the degree chatit would pronote FEAR through either itsactions or sinply its being. Steuartmentions an exanple of synptons reportedby Anerican aircrews during conbatincluding a list of effects that couldbe associated with a nunber of rnedicaldisorders, iacluding hyperventilation.Again, rightly so, these are found innany llFo-related experiences. But,surely Steuart realises that those ganeairnan rshouldr be realising lheseeffects because of the situation that.they were in. Its not every day thatyour flying a mission that nay mean theend of your life! The stinuli of feelingfear in this case would be both internaLand external, involving thoughts aboutthe situation and the persons own wellbeing for s tarters.
To rule-out the possibility thatinduced fear nithin UFO witnesses couldbe the effect of the object observed/theUFO experience, does not explain themany cases where other physiologicaleffects are found - ie. exaltation anddeepLy felt enotional feelings of long-lasting periods. I have yet to find anaccount of soneone suffering a severernedical condition rrho actually tdesirestthe synptons to continue. Yet thissiguation IS apparent in some closeencouoief cases. In one such case (fronTodrnorden - W. Yorks., November 1980) areporter to a CE3 claims a sense ofaffinity wirh the UI'O and entities that.she saw - even after hef legs beingparalysed at the tine of the experience(which heLd her down to the ground bysome externaL force) and has notdivulged any sense of fear, before,during or after the encounter !
trigel HortirerAddingharn, I{est Yorkshire.
Editorts conents: I nust adni! thatlthen I first read Steuartrs rFearrarticle I thought "Looks like a newCanpbell theory in the naking. rr l{owever
Steuart does have a point. If a witnessgenuinely nisperceives the planet Venus- fear could be aroused to a level rhichanplifies the perception of antunknownr. But this cannot, in xnyopinion, explain physiological disorderslike radiation sickness for exanplewhere witnesses loose their hair andsuffer fron gores and wounds that villnot heal nornally. These surely cannotbe self inflicted. Steuart wouldprobably eay yes, but like me he is notan inforned opinion otr the subject.
Blactpool Sighting - ttbgfight I
Contituer !
Dear Editor
Two different versions of the Tornadoaircraft are built and test fLorn at anairfield only seven or eight miles fronBlackpool pronenade. One of theseversions were designed as a low levelstrike aircraft, whilst the other is anediun/high level fighter. The tlrovetsions look very different as regardsexternal weapons, shape of fuselage andcolour schene. Perhaps the witness wouldcare to describe the tornado which henitnessed ?
In UT7, the witness seeks to convinceus that the tornado had been scranbledspecifically to intercept an alleged UFO- there is absolutely no proof tosustain this allegation (the scrarnblethat is). Has the witness actually seenrnissiles fired fron an aircraft prior tothis sighting? I think not, orherwise hewould know that nodern air launchedmissiles produce rhitish snoke - notblack. In ansver to the obviousquestion, yes, I have seeo thern firednany tirnes.
Tornados produce blackish snoke frontheir engines when operat.ing at highpower setting nithout reheat: this ismost marked when power is reduced fromreheat. to tnaximum dryr power (in reheatno srnoke is produced ) ,
Incidentally, the istriker Tornado isperfectly capabl.e of operating as 1ow as50ft over water at supersonic speeds forlong periodsl the fighter version nay becapable of operating at this level but
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only for very short periods.
Teaence F. GlattAir Traffic Services consult.aotFrinly, Surrey.
Dear Editor
With reference io the rWitness BitesBackr letter in UT7.
It is true to say that RAF Leeming(not r,eaning) is Inot far fromBlackpoolr. England is rather oarron atthis point; even Scarborough is oot farfron Blackpool.
The writer coments that the TortradoI'as not ofl a training nission. I take itthis confinnation has come frorn the RAF
thenselves? The writer then goes on tosay that I think rTornadoee cannot flyon the lrest side of the couotryi. I saidnothing of the sort. I sinply pointedout that the af,ea of operation forTornado Interceptors was the east coast,rhere the tf,eat is said to lie. Ofcourse Tornadoes have the capability offlying to the lrest coast. They have thecapability to bonb Paris, but it isunlikely that chey would. When willpeople learn that nisinterpreting theopponent is no way to win the argunent?
I adnitted in ny original letter thatI knew little of the actual event andvas just offering a possible explanationbased on my onn experience. T0 attenptto ridicule such inputs is coutrter-productive and can put many peoPle offentering the debate, thereby doing adis-service regarding pursuit of thetruth.
The writer went on to speak of a dul1flash under the fuselage with blacksnoke in front and behind the aircraft.For future reference, readers nay wishto know of several explanations for suchan effec!. Air can build up withifl a jetengine and ignite. Ititting airturbulence can cause imediateevaporation of water molecules againstthe fuselage. Flying over the sea, fueljettisoning can occur (at high speed,this could Look like srnoke). Finally,bird strikes can give a sinilar visualeffect.. Is Blackpool ninus a seagull?
Perhaps I should end $ith a coment inthe Aptil 1990 issue of NltN: tThe caseis now officially labelled HOAX. I
tothory XortbLondon.
Ealitor I s Gonent: Thanks f or yourenlightening coments. This case hasbeen clearly debated to its full, so Iwould like to draw it to a close. Exceptto say that according to the principleinvestigators the case is stillofficially 0PEN!
Ihose Blinlered?
Dear Editor,
whilst I dislike t continuingcortespondences t in any journal, it isclearly necesgary to reply to yourcomenls on may letter published in UT7since sone are irrelevant and others area matter of opinion or eeEantics.
1. I did not clain Dave Clarkets viewsvere same as those of BUFORA (which, ifI recall conectly, does not have acorporate view anyray ) or, indeed, youronn: nor did I suggest you should nothave printed hii rossettr review.
2. He is perfectly entitled to his ownopinions, but BUFoRA nenbers are alsoentitled to know there is another sideto the coin - hence ny letter.
3. I agree with your cormeat insofar asrUFOr meaning rcraft of unknown origintis concerned: ny phraseology could havebeen clearer. nhat I intended to conveywas that investigating, correlating andresearching the lO7 , 57", 3% - orwhatever - of UFo reports that are ofcraft of unknown origin should be theprine object of UFO research.
4. Certainly'I do not disniss mO data.The first thing to do with any UForeport is to go through all possibleexplanations - and then some ! ltyI tinkering around I renark referred tothe endless astrononical/meteorologicaletc. tables and arguments that areprimarily concerned to prove the snallpercentage that are craft do not exist.
5. If the rord rcraftr is objected to in
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cases nhere it is perfectly justifiedthen it is those nho object to it $hoare blinkered.
6. I did not say I wanted to believe ordisbelieve in the rS.A. Crash Retrieval t
story. I'ly rordg rrere chat it was rbeinginvestigated (by WFOS) in a far moreactive and detailed nanner than I havecome acfoss elsewhete | .
7. UFO - then Flying Saucef - societiesl'ere first established to discover theorigin of the ralienr (not necessarilyE.T.) objects that were flying aroundour skies. The basic difference - as Isee it - is that I consider we shouldconcentrate on this (adnittedly snall)percentage, whilst others seem to denythat any such percentage can possiblyexist.
Cone along !o xny talkBUrORA series and theuextent you disagree.
Xonrau OliverLincoln.
in the nextsee to what
Editortr coment: I{ell Nornan, you seento only reiterate the points you made inyour previous lettef rather than answerthe points I raised. I agree with pointmlnber one, however at the tine there
were many people who were outraged atsoneone being allowed to express hisopinion io public - to the point ofthreats of legal action. My openingparagraph set the record straightforthose individuals and was notnecessarily direct.ed to you.
obviously have a differingvie{point of wha! ufology is. f amalways intrigued and inpressed with nanycases, but as an individual, I sinplywant to get to the botton of thephenomenon. If your raliensr are novelatmospheric events rrith a large slice ofpsychology thrown in, Irm happy: wervebeen successful in explaining anotherxlystery - pushing the bounds of hurnanscience a little further back.
Looking at the S.A. case most if notalL the evidence points to a conpletehoax and if you had read the IttNresearch in UT7 (which has been ahighly active investigation) you naychange your nind. Once again yttFOSseen to be backing another dead duck(do I hear echos of Crecoe again?)Stop filling ufology with rubbishand lets get do.lrn to the realstuff.
I will be along to your talk and younever know your luck, I nay even chairthe neeting !
LrCr.rItrtl=r-
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