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on October 23 THE foot and mouth epidemic may have hampered the search for crop circles in Wiltshire's corn fields but the people who spend time looking for them still managed to record some incredible formations. And whether you believe in them or not, many of the formations they photographed during the simmer are some of the most impressive ever seen. Francine Blake of the Wiltshire Crop Circle Study Group said: "Every year they blow our minds and just seem to get bigger and more exciting. " We are continuing to build up a picture about them but I have no idea yet who is actually pressing the button. "We can say how many there are and record the fact that they alter the soil and plants show radical changes at cellular level, but we do not know how they are created." Serious crop circle spotters are often ridiculed by people convinced they are the work of hoaxers. But they don't seem to care and carry on with their search for the force or energy power they claim makes the formations which appear overnight in remote Wiltshire cornfields. And now the Wiltshire Crop Circle Study Group is using photographs of the best of this year's formations in a very polished full colour Crop Circle Calendar for 2002. Some of the shots taken by Francine, who is the group's co-ordinator. She says she has experienced strange happenings when taking photographs of a complicated diamond formation that appeared in a wheat field at Windmill Hill, near Avebury. She said: "I was in a helicopter above the formation which was 280 feet in diameter. "I took three shots which came out all right but when I asked the pilot to fly lower I started having problems with my camera and later found that all the electrics were literally gummed up." She took her camera to a specialist firm to be repaired and they told her they had never seen anything like it before and could offer no explanation as to why it had happened. Francine believes that the damage was caused by an electrical force within the formation. She said: "An exciting new era of research has been the photographing, at photon level, of water that has been subjected to the energies of crop circle formations, showing clusters of energy patterns." Francine said that on average between 200 and 250 formations are reported world wide every year with most of them in England. Wiltshire, particularly around the ancient stone temple of Avebury is the most active area, usually with the most complex formations. In spite of the foot and mouth restrictions which meant that the croppies had to keep away from fields and could not fly overland, about 40 formations were officially recorded in Wiltshire. Copies of the calendar (including postage) can be bought for £10 from Francine Blake at PO Box 939, Devizes, Wiltshire. Back to 2001 index |
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