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26 lines
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SUBJECT: CIRCLES APPEAR AT LOCAL AIRFIELD FILE: UFO1236
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EVENING TELEGRAPH, Peterborough, England
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July 26, 1990 CR: T. Good
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WHAT ON EARTH?
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CIRCLES APPEAR AT LOCAL AIRFIELD
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FOUR strange rings-up to 200 feet across-appeared overnight in wheat fields on the edge of a Peterborough airfield.
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Parachutists at Sibson, near Wansford, were stunned to find themselves plummeting at over 100 mph towards a cluster of mysterious crop circles.
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And now the questions are being asked: Waht on earth are they? Alien IQ tests or amazing hoaxes? Or something else?
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What is causing them? Freak weather conditions or pranksters running rings round us?
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Pilots flying from the Peterborough Parachute Centre saw four of the mystery circles in fields a few yards from where their planes were taking off.
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The patterns are similar to the phenomena that have been baffling some of the best brains in the country for weeks.
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Evening Telegraph reporter Paul Gregan and chief photographer Rowland Hobson walked right into the centre rings of three of the circles. They were amazed by the size of them-up to 200 feet across-and think they were beyond anynormal hoaxer.
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"We trod down wheat to get into the rings and those stalks were crushed and lying in all directions," said Paul.
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"But the crops inside the circles had not been trampled at all. They looked more like they had been carefully plaited together."
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Norwich Weather Centre said they were trying not get pulled into the national controversy raging round rings. But a spokesman did say some of the local whirlwinds blamed by some experts for the circles had been reported in Norfolk.
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*A rainbow that appeared over parched Peterborough last night was caused by ice crystals 25,000 feet above the city, say weathermen.
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The parahelis, or mack-sun, happens when the sun hits cirrus slouds at a precise angle.
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* THE U.F.O. BBS - http://www.ufobbs.com/ufo *
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