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SUBJECT: SCIENTISTS VIDEO TAPE CIRCLES BEENING MADE FILE: UFO3207
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XMT: 11:41 Wed Jul 25
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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
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evidence on Wednesday that could solve the centuries-old mystery of
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circles in English cornfields which have aroused speculation of
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visitors from outer space. Experts filmed two big circles being made
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during the night amid a barrage of unexplained flashing lights in a
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field in the southern county of Wiltshire. It was the first known
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recording of the formation of symmetrical circles that have puzzled
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Englishmen since the Middle Ages.
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Theories of what causes them range from earthworms to whirlwinds to
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spaceships.
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In medieval times, countryfolk believed they were the work of the
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Devil. Scientists from Britain, Japan, West Germany and the United
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States monitored Wiltshire cornfields round the clock this week with
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thermal imagers and low-light cameras.
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On Wednesday, they recorded two circles being made, one about 100
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metres (330 feet) across, the other half that size, said Colin Andrews,
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leader of the project coordinated by the British Broadcasting
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Corporation (BBC). Analyzing their recordings hours later, they sent in
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helicopters to take daylight pictures of the find and said they had
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made a significant scientific discovery.
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"We do have a major event here, very much excitment as you can
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imagine," Andrews said. "We do have two major ground markings in front
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of all the surveillance equipment performing absolutely to form," he
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told BBC television.
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"We had a situation at approximately 3.30 this morning on monitor -- a
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number of orange lights taking the approximate form of a triangle and
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within that triangular form was a second triangle," Andrews said.
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"We had many lights, following that a whole complex arrangement of
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lights doing all sorts of funny things. It's a complex situation, we
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are actually analysing it at this very moment. But there is undoubtedly
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something here for 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
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only happened some hours ago. We have experts arriving by the minute
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here now to analyze this. We do have something of great, great
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significance." Describing the circles, he said: "One formation is about
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100 metres in diameter, a circle with two satellites and two concentric
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rings, another brother nearby about 50 per cent of the size of its
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nearby neighbour." Andrews said the field had been cordoned off. "We're
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doing nothing more now until we have helicopters over the top to film
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in detail what we have before anybody enters that field."
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The authoritative New Scientist journal published an article last month
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which said corn circles, more than 300 of which appeared last year,
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were caused by weather conditions creating whirlwinds and electrical
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discharges in the atmosphere.
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Author Terence Meaden said his theory could explain flashing lights
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seen by eyewitnesses and patterns of flattened corn.
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