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SUBJECT: CROP CIRCLES REVEALED FILE: UFO1221
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106/113 28 Jun 90 02:05:57
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From: postmaster@scicom.alphacdc.com
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To: All
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Subj: Crop Circles Revealed?
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From: postmaster@scicom.alphacdc.com
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Date: 28 Jun 90 02:11:04 GMT
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Message-ID: <5176@scicom.AlphaCDC.COM>
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Newsgroups: info.paranet
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From: <MTG@csi.compuserve.com>
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Fresh off the UPI newswires:
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- Mark G.
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LONDON (UPI) -- International experts said the mysterious crop circles
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appearing in Britain and around the world are the work of Mother Nature, not
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aliens from outer space or pranksters, according to a report published Sunday.
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The newspaper Independent on Sunday said speakers at the first international
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conference in Oxford on the phenomena of crop circles said weather and
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topography cause the flattened circles which suddenly appear in fields.
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'They seem to form in conditions of warm days and cold nights when a
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temperature inversion is established,' said Terence Meaden, head of Britain's
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Tornado and Storm Research Organizaion.
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Meaden was one of 150 scientists and UFO enthusiasts at the Circles Effect
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Phenomena Conference. Several other experts put forth other meteorological and
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topographical theories on the causes of the mysterious circles.
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The circles, nearly perfectly round and ranging from a few yards wide to
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half
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the length of a football field, appear overnight during the crop-growing
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season.
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Sometimes their arrival is accompanied by noises and lights, witnesses have
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said.
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More than 200 have been sighted in Britain this year, most in English corn
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fields, the newspaper said. Their unexplained appearances and varied patterns
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have led to a variety of popular theories. UFO fans offered them as proof of
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extraterrestrial landings a decade ago. Others said drunken farmers or
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pranksters were to blame.
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But Mead and the other scientists said they believed the cause was much more
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down to earth. Meaden said the circles form when a layer of cool air becomes
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trapped under warmer air.
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A 'trailing vortex' develops in the form of a column of rapidly spinning
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air,
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Meaden said. When the vortex settles in a field, it sweeps out a ring of damage
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as it expands.
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John Snow, a professor at Purdue University in Indiana and Tokio Kikuchi of
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Kochi University in Tokyo said that the humming and bright lights witnesses
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report are the product of electrical charges built up by the friction inside
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the
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air columns.
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The mystery surrounding the circles encouraged some scientists to become
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crop
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circle experts and has drawn hundreds of circle spotters to tour farmlands.
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Farmers have complained of trampled crops left by the spotters.
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The circles were mentioned in 17th century accounts and have been found in
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the United States, France, Australia and Japan as well as in Britain. England
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may have more of the circles because of the combination of the weather fronts
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and land features, experts said.
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