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First published on July 26, 1990 A MYSTERY group has claimed responsibility for yesterday's crude crop circle hoax which embarrassed researchers. The claim was made in a letter to Colin Andrews who is leading a £1 million round-the-clock surveillance operation at Bratton, near Westbury. The letter was posted in Nottingham by a group calling itself the Justified Ancients of MuMu (JAMM). "It is from some kind of nutter group by the sound of it," said Mr Andrews. "They apologise for the inconvenience, but say they are having fun while we are raking in money. It is all very sad." He said the letter was difficult to read because much of it was written upside down and back-to-front. Experts are still examining film to find out more about the fake crop circles formed in front of elaborate monitoring equipment. Members of the team who are keeping watch on the site ruefully admitted they had fallen victim to hoaxters after initially proclaiming the new circles were an exciting new development. The crude circles and lines were created early yesterday morning in a field half-a-mile from the team's base at Westbury Hill, the site of a prehistoric fort. In the centre of the largest circle observers found a ouija board, two sticks forming a cross and a coil of red insulated electric cable. Sightseers, camera crews and reporters descended on the field after researchers' monitoring equipment based on the hill recorded flashing orange lights in the night sky. Two large circles with parallel lines running along them were discovered where the lights had been. Another set of circles in a nearby field formed the shape of a smiling face when viewed from overhead. An unamused Mr Andrews commented today: "This hoax was totally irresponsible. It was only funny for about ten seconds. This is a serious research programme, and it has been abused for some sort of financial gain or one-upmanship." Among those taking part in the surveillance, codenamed Operation Blackbird, are Japanese television, the BBC and Mr Andrews' own organisation Circles Phenomena Research. Farmer Jonathon King, whose land was marked by the new circles, said he always thought it was a trick. "I just wish somebody would go and capture the bloody Loch Ness monster and get all these people off my land," he said. The circles of flattened corn have been recorded since the Middle Ages, when they were thought to have a magical connection. Back to 1990 index |
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