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SUBJECT: ALIENS IN ADELAIDE FILE: UFO70
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Adelaide Hills grazier Andrew Davidson is frankly baffled.
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What spooked one of his horses to go into a wild, galloping,
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whinnying panic for a couple of nights recently? What caused a
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big, egg-shaped "circle" to appear mysteriously on a remote
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paddock about the same time?
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"It's almost as if you'd brought a huge branding iron down
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and went whoooosh and pulled it up again," Andrew says, shaking
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his head. "Like putting a brand on the hide of a cow - but the
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strange thing is, the grass isn't burned. It's more like it has
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had the life sucked out of it and been left lying down in flat
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patterns."
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Andrew, who owns a large sheep farm 35km east of Adelaide,
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points out the odd patterns - one clockwise, the other
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anti-clockwise. The dead grass patch [ring] is 56cm wide, forming
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an egg shape 22 metres by 13 metres. "There were no wheel marks
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- no trucks or tractors or rollers," Andrew says. "My mate can
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back me on that." (There were definately no signs of tracks when
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we went to the site 11 days later)
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Andrew's friend John Purvis was the first to find the circle
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as he cut across the paddock to get wood for his fire early on
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november 16. "The untouched surroundings really puzzled me. I
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raced home (he lives in a cottage on the property), got my video
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camera and recorded it.
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"It was weird about our horse, too. He was in the same
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paddock as the circle, and a few nights before I found it, he
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was galloping and whinnying and carrying on like a mad thing."
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Andrew Davidson's way of heading off the sceptics who might
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think he is crazy has been to call in a group of experts to
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unravel the mystery.
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"I got the agronomist from the Department of Agriculture at
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Mt Barker. I wasn't there when he called, but from what I've
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heard he was totally perplexed. When I talked to him later he
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said, 'Look, there's no biological or agricultural explanation -
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no fungus, no root-rot or weedkillers or anything like that."
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Graeme Budgen, a scientist with a consulting engineering
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company who did soil and radiation tests, found strange readings
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in the circle. The salt content in the circle was 40% higher
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than the rest of the paddock (a characteristic of "UFO circles")
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and radiation was up.
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"The moisture content is especially weird," Graeme says.
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"It's much higher on the circle than away from it, yet the soil
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on the circle feels and looks dry and crumbly and the rest of
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the paddock is soaking wet. There's something very strange here
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and I cannot conclude what has happened. My opinion is that it's
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no hoax. A hoaxer couldn't duplicate an elaborate thing like
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this." [There's a couple of very good photos, one showing the
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egg-shaped 'track' from an elevated position with three men
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standing inside, and one close up showing the 'dead' grass]
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Colin Norris, director of Australian International UFO
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Research, agrees. "I've looked into thousands of UFO phenomena
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and I can spot a fake a mile off. This is no hoax. There has
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been a visit from an extra-terrestrial craft here, for sure. In
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the eight weeks leading up to this I had a spate of UFO reports
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around these parts. The Air Force rang me because they were
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getting so many reports of lights moving and standing still in
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the Adelaide Hills."
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As the evidence piles up, Andrew Davidson admits his
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lifetime disbelief in UFOs has taken a battering. Crop circles,
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or "the calling cards of UFOs" as their believers call them,
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were first reported in 1976 and serious research began in 1980.
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One of the most controversial sites has been in the Wessex
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Triangle in England - an area rich in mystical associations and
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location of Stonehenge. XX
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***End***
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* THE U.F.O. BBS - http://www.ufobbs.com/ufo *
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