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SUBJECT: SCIENTIST'S WATCH CIRCLES DEVELOPE FILE: UFO1227
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=START= XMT: 11:41 Wed Jul 25 EXP: 12:00 Wed Aug 01
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SCIENTISTS RECORD FLASHES AS MYSTERY CIRCLES FORM IN ENGLISH CORNFIELDS
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LONDON (JULY 25) REUTER - Excited scientists said they recorded evidence on
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Wednesday that could solve the centuries-old mystery of circles in English
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cornfields which have aroused speculation of visitors from outer space.
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Experts filmed two big circles being made during the night amid a barrage of
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unexplained flashing lights in a field in the southern county of Wiltshire.
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It was the first known recording of the formation of symmetrical circles that
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have puzzled Englishmen since the Middle Ages.
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Theories of what causes them range from earthworms to whirlwinds to spaceships.
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In medieval times, countryfolk believed they were the work of the Devil.
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Scientists from Britain, Japan, West Germany and the United States monitored
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Wiltshire cornfields round the clock this week with thermal imagers and
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low-light cameras.
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On Wednesday, they recorded two circles being made, one about 100 metres (330
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feet) across, the other half that size, said Colin Andrews, leader of the
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project coordinated by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).
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Analyzing their recordings hours later, they sent in helicopters to take
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daylight pictures of the find and said they had made a significant scientific
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discovery.
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''We do have a major event here, very much excitment as you can imagine,''
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Andrews said. ''We do have two major ground markings in front of all the
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surveillance equipment performing absolutely to form,'' he told BBC television.
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''We had a situation at approximately 3.30 this morning on monitor -- a number
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of orange lights taking the approximate form of a triangle and within that
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triangular form was a second triangle,'' Andrews said.
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''We had many lights, following that a whole complex arrangement of lights
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doing all sorts of funny things. It's a complex situation, we are actually
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analysing it at this very moment. But there is undoubtedly something here for
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science.''
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Andrews said the circles could not be a hoax.
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''We have high-quality equipment here and we have indeed secured on
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high-quality equipment a major event,'' he said.
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Asked what caused the circles, Andrews said: ''As you can imagine, this only
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happened some hours ago. We have experts arriving by the minute here now to
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analyze this. We do have something of great, great significance.''
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Describing the circles, he said: ''One formation is about 100 metres in
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diameter, a circle with two satellites and two concentric rings, another
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brother nearby about 50 per cent of the size of its nearby neighbour.''
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Andrews said the field had been cordoned off. ''We're doing nothing more now
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until we have helicopters over the top to film in detail what we have before
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anybody enters that field.''
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The authoritative New Scientist journal published an article last month which
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said corn circles, more than 300 of which appeared last year, were caused by
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weather conditions creating whirlwinds and electrical discharges in the
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atmosphere.
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Author Terence Meaden said his theory could explain flashing lights seen by
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eyewitnesses and patterns of flattened corn.
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* THE U.F.O. BBS - http://www.ufobbs.com/ufo *
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