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Hi Wally, hi aus-group,

just read the news-mails and thought this could be of some interest to you

cheers
detlef





CROP CIRCLE CRAZE CONTINUES
Trying to maintain our sanity during the current crop-circle flap, we have
adhered closely to reports in the conservative Journal of Meteorology, U.K.
But don't imagine that wilder accounts are not surfacing in the newspapers.
Two accounts should suffice.      (the other one was Canada  - dd)

Australia.

"Three frightened farmers believe a gigantic UFO landed last week on their
Victorian wheat property.
"A pattern of five perfect circles - in which unbroken wheat stalks swirl
anticlockwise - have been found on the 9000- hectare farm, West Park, run by
Max and Nancee Jolly and their son Stuart, 29.

"The startling discovery comes only weeks after the family's 700 sheep were
panicked by a huge yellow object pulsating above the paddocks in western
Victoria's Mallee region."

(Pickney, John; "Sheep Panicked by Eerie Light in Fields," Melbourne Truth,
December 16, 1989. Cr. P. Norman via L. Farish)



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Australia now a target.


"Dozens of flattened rings of wheat have been reported recently in Australia
over a wide area of arable country in northwestern Victoria. The rings
resemble the corn circles found in southern Britain.
"Max and Nancee Jolly, farmers at Turiff West, found 12 rings in their wheat
crop. Each ring was 12 metres across and rock-hard in the middle. 'The wheat
in the rings was bent over at the base but not damaged in any other way.'
said Nancee Jolly."

The Australian Sceptics suspect pranksters. (Anonymous; "More Circles," New
Scientist, p. 23, August 11, 1990.)

An article in a Perth newspaper puts the number of wheat circles in Victoria
at 400, as of July 9. That's a lot of work for hoaxers! It is also said that
the soil in the rings is "magnetically altered," whatever that means.
(Anonymous; "Outback Martian Rings Riddle," Perth Daily News, July 9, 1990.
Cr. P. Norman via L. Farish)




"...we believe that the formation of real crop circles is a rare phenomenon
resulting from the motion of a spinning mass of air which Professor Tokio
Kikuchi has modelled by computer simulation and calls a nanoburst. This
disturbance could involve the breakdown of an up-spinning vortex of the eddy
or whirlwind type. On this theoretical model such a process leads to plain
circles and ringed circles -- types which are known from pre-hoax times in
Britain and other countries, and are the only species which credible
eye-witnesses have seen forming. All other so-called crop circles reported
in the media news in recent years are likely to be the result of intelligent
hoaxing, while the so-called paranormal events to which Deardorff alludes
are nothing but the consequence of poor observation and/or exaggeration by
susceptible mystics and vulnerable pseudoscientists. In the absence of
hoaxing the subject would still be unknown to the general public because the
average number of real-circle reports per annum is small (indeed in some
years it may be zero)."
(Meaden, G. Terence; "Crop Circles: The Real and the Hoaxed," Weather,
47:368, 1992. Deardorff, J.W.; "Crop Circles: Someone Had to Say It!"
Weather, 47:142, 1992.)







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"Wally AngleseaT" <wanglese@spbigpondam.net.au> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:kkfootged4561g7100h9d6o5aism6epcv5@4ax.com...
> Is it purely a European phenomena?
>
>  or would we find ourselves being charged with Vandalism?
>
> Surely there's a T/B tourist market in this.
>
>
> --
>
> Find out about Australia's most dangerous Doomsday Cult:
> http://www.ozemail.com.au/~wanglese/pebble.htm
>
> "You can't fool me, it's turtles all the way down."