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First published on June 27, 1991 A JAPANESE professor believes he has cracked the riddle of corn circles, UFOs, ball lightening and other 'supernatural' forces. Dr Yoshi-Hiko Ohtsuki, professor of physics at Tokyo's University of Waseda, is spending three weeks sitting on the top of a mist-shrouded hill north of Bishops Cannings, near Devizes, surrounded by scientific equipment. With Bradford-on-Avon scientist Dr Terence Meaden and a team of Japanese and British researchers, he is waiting for the corn circles to reappear. Their five week 24-hour watch with video cameras and machines will monitor electrical noise and weather, and hopefully be the first to record a circle forming on film. Professor Ohtsuki is no stranger to the corn circle phenomenon, they appear in rice and corn fields in Japan and are the subject of 13th century Japanese legends. Farmers were as angry then as they are now about ruined crops. Now Professor Ohtsuki has recreated the phenomenon in his laboratory and believes it is created by plasma. He says we think of matter as coming in three forms: liquid, solid and gas. But plasma in a fourth, and unstable, state akin to ball lightening which can enter a room through a window without damaging the glass. He also believes UFOs are a form of plasma. "Ninety nine per cent of UFO sightings report only a ball of fire moving in the sky which moves with great acceleration like the speed of light and turns very quickly, unlike motions we normally see on earth," he says. Plasma also occurs, he believes, as a bright smog in the sky during earth quakes. Such 'paranormal' sights result from abnormal weather conditions like thunderstorms. "But we believe they are natural phenomena and not paranormal or supernatural," he says. The professor is in Devizes for three weeks and intends to return for another ten days in July. Operation Blue Hill is using radar, infra-red cameras, thermal imaging devices and an automatic weather station. Dr Meaden hopes it will conclusively prove his theory that electronically-charged columns of air cause the circles. But he says: "I don't mind if it is aliens as long as we get the truth." He believes the team will finally solve the mystery once and for all by being the first to film a circle forming. The operation, which is costing more than £100,000, is a huge gamble with the investigators banking on a circle appearing while they are there. Scaffolding has been erected to give the best possible view of the landscape, where numerous circles have appeared in the past. Says Dr Meaden: "There is a lot of evidence to suggest it is a natural phenomenon. I am fascinated by the mystery. We are picking up clues all the time and those that try the hardest will get to the answer." Back to 1991 index |
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