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First published on July 7, 1990 TILES started rattling on the village roofs of Alton Barnes at 2.20am on Saturday and all the dogs started to bark. And when farmer Tim Carson drove past his cornfield at Stratton's Farm later that morning he found seven corn circles had appeared simultaneously overnight. Cornfield circle experts are scratching their heads over the phenomenon, found at Alton Barnes, near Marlborough, on Saturday. Circles Phenomenon Research Group representative Colin Andrews says the group of circles are of a type never found before. The first circle, some 20 feet in diameter, is said by circle experts to be the largest they have ever seen. In a concentric pattern the outer circle lies anti-clockwise and the inner clockwise. The circles are joined by corridors of flattened corn and straight-edged symbols go off to the sides. As the yards-long pattern stretches away from the road the corridors become narrower and one small circle, about a foot in diameter, lurks to the side in the chest high crop. A further two isolated circles appear to one side of the main pattern. Colin Andrews of the Circles Phenomenon Research Group which examines the patterns throughout the world says: "These formations will have eliminated any possibility of a meteorological phenomenon of any kind." He said the corn did not show the angular momentum one would expect from something produced by the weather. As awestruck visitors made their way through the site afterwards a number of them said they could feel tingling sensations, and one told of a man of 70 who had been on the scene soon after the circles appeared. The elderly man had been unable to get near the centre of the circles, feeling himself pushed back by some force until he felt he would lose consciousness. Others could hear humming as if they were under an electric pylon. "The voltmeters have been jumping around when people took them in there," said Tim Carson. "And a lot of people heard a humming noise." Mr Andrews is convinced the phenomenon is linked to ultra-sonic sound, which explains why the dogs, which can hear high frequencies, started barking. There has been a dramatic escalation recently in the appearance of corn circles, he said. Between early May and last weekend 80 formations, mainly circles, appeared in two square miles between Calne and Devizes. In the 48 hours prior to the appearance of Alton Barnes pattern many new circles appeared, particularly in Wiltshire and Hampshire. The circles now stretch from Dundee in the north of the British Isles to the Isle of Wight in the south. Back to 1990 index |
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