SUBJECT: 1993 CROP CIRCLE REPORT BULLETIN #3 FILE: UFO3191 CENTER FOR NORTH AMERICAN CROP CIRCLE STUDIES P.O. Box 4766 Phone: 410-628-1522 Lutherville, MD 21094 Fax: 410-628-1524 1993 CROP CIRCLE REPORT BULLETIN #3 May 27, 1993 From Rosemary Ellen Guiley and Dan Smith, directors Here is the latest in crop circle activity reported in England. This bulletin includes information in all previous CNACCS bulletins. The most recent activity is given first. The Center for Crop Circle Studies, England, has assigned a quality rating scale from 1-9, with 1 being the poorest, especially in terms of "authenticity" (of unknown origin) and 9 being the highest. Ratings are given in some reports. Map reference numbers are for Ordnance Survey maps. May 22: Beckhampton, Wilts. Unconfirmed report of a "tiny circle." Crop unknown. May 20: Tawsmead Copse, Wilts. Unconfirmed report of circle activity associated with UFO sighting. Circle-UFO activity reported here last summer. May 17: Near Harwell, Oxfordshire. Map reference SU 484845. 80- ft. tight, neat circle in rape, with a 1.5-foot spiral and a ridged, "ripple wave flow effect." Rating: 6. No sign of entry to field or bruising to flowers. Difficult area to access. Inspected by Stanley Morcom, Lucy Pringle and Una Dawood, CCS. May 13: West Overton North Farm, Wilts. Map reference SU135698. 60-ft. circle in rape with sunburst center. Rating: 6. Remote location, found by Busty Taylor, CCS. Later was inspected and videotaped by two individuals. Samples taken. May 13: Near Ropley, Hants. Map ref. SU642339. D-shape growing in grass. Possible wind damage. Rating: 1. May 12: Glazedgate, Totnes, Devon. Circle reported in Torquay Herald. May be reference to 1992 activity. May 11: St. Neots, Cambridgeshire. Tailed shaft with large and small circles in wheat. Visible from housing opposite field. Found by Montague Keen, CCS. Farmer denied access for inspection. May 5: The following five events were reported by Maria Ward, and were confirmed by a private pilot. They all occurred near the Ridgeway Trail. Details still unavailable. 1: Stoke Hayward. A large circle in wheat. 2: Iving Oho, north of Tring. A large circle in wheat. 3: Leighton Buzzard. 30-ft. ring in rape. 4: Childrey Field in Buckinghamshire. A 50-ft. circle in grass, not rape as originally reported. Busty Taylor believes that this was a natural depression in the land. 5: Near M40 before Wantage. 50-ft. circle in rape. May 3: Aston Rowant, Oxfordshire. 60-ft. donut-shaped ring in rape. Reported to be "perfectly laid, bent not broken," swirled anticlockwise with an eight-foot standing crop center. The site is not far from a dumbbell found in wheat last July. May 2: St. Loe, near Bath. 115-foot circle with seven grapeshot satellites on one side and four satellites in wheat. Probable human origin. The formation is marred by muddy bootprints, and the wheat shows evidence of having been trampled by foot. April 21: Near Kennington, south of Oxford. Double ring in grass. OTHER CIRCLE NEWS FROM ENGLAND: 1993 surveillance/research projects: ...The CCS is working with small teams of Germans (a group called FGK) and Americans to measure environmental changes (sonic, ultrasonic, electromagnetic, etc.) in high activity areas, specifically the Vale of Pewsey, near Silbury Hill, and in the vicinity of Alton Barnes. Teams will work from early June through the end of July and beyond if necessary. ...Project Argus, the U.S.-U.K.-Canadian sampling effort mounted in 1992, will not return to England this year. Soil samples from last year are nil, and plant sample results are inconclusive. Publication of a final report awaits additional funding. ... Dr. W. C. Levengood (Pinelandia Biophysical Laboratory in Grass Lake, MI) is working with Nancy Talbott of Boston to continue plant sampling in England. Levengood's findings of significant results in samples to date are contested by some plant biophysicists. ...Dr. Steven Greer, founder and international director of CSETI (Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence), Asheville, NC, will again experiment for CE5's and circle activity in Wilts. Unconfirmed if he will return to the Carson farm in Alton Barnes. The Carsons do not want a repeat of last year's crowds. ...Andrew Collins, English paranormal investigator and author of The Circlemakers, will work out of the Carson farm in late July (where Project Argus was based last year). His project, ORGONE93, will investigate a relationship between biologically or organically produced energy (orgone), crop circles and luminous anomalies. "Schnabelgate": Jim Schnabel's long-awaited critical book on crop circles, Round in Circles, has just been published in England, and the first copies have been snapped up. Schnabel, an American journalist and graduate student in England, was the center of a hoaxing controversy last year. He acknowledges making some formations with Robert Irving, a circles skeptic from Bath. Initial reaction among English cereologists is that the book emphasizes personality gossip and sheds no new light on the phenomenon itself. At least two prominent persons featured in the book were anticipating filing lawsuits, but no grounds have been established to support legal action, as of this writing. The book, not yet reviewed by us at the CNACCS, is due to be published in the U.S. this summer. CIRCLE IN SPAIN: The largest-ever crop formation was discovered in September 1992 in Samera, a remote region of north Spain. Approximately 1 mile in diameter, it consisted of five concentric rings, each about 20 to 30 feet in width. The total circumference of the rings was calculated to 10 miles. The field is 1.5 x 1.5 miles in size. Crop unknown. The formation was spotted by a Englishman aboard a chartered plane out of Portugal. He shot video footage. The farmer confirmed the report. Further information is being sought. ** END ** ======================================================================== ********************************************************************* * -------->>> THE U.F.O. BBS - http://www.ufobbs.com/ufo <<<------- * *********************************************************************