Just a reminder that you need to keep an eye open for those mysterious field objects, crop circles. It’s all a weird business, open to interpretation - and even more, to misinterpretation. There are those who claim to make circles, or at least know someone who does - and if you’re interested in finding out about them, you could visit the Circlemakers website (top picture).
However let’s not laugh too loudly at people who think that ETs or UFOs are involved, as there definitely seems to be something odd going on. The Starcruzer crew has had a couple of close encounters with crop circle-type activities over the years. The first was in 1963 in Wiltshire, UK, when farmer Roy Blanchard reported mysterious happenings on his land. A neighbour also reported that a cow was suffering from an unusual skin disease, flaking as if it had been exposed to heat or radiation.
Robert Randall, an Australian astro-physicist of the time, offered the theory that a spacecraft had made a bad landing, bounced across three fields and then righted itself, to reveal three undercarriage marks plus a truck-sized crater. Randall thought the spacecraft had come from the planet Uranus, but sad to say, no Uranians or Little Green Men (LGMs) were ever spotted.
Now I was a boy at the time and actually saw some of this. I strolled up to the field in question early one morning, after my elder brother had reported talk in the pub the night before. And I did see a trio of equally spaced metre-wide depressions in the ground, and strange black cobwebby material covering nearby hedges. But by the time I had gone back to fetch a camera, the area was taped off, the army was investigating, and small boys were definitely not allowed back in!
So... something odd happened. There was mention of a buried World War 2 bomb going off without warning, but whether that was fact or deliberate misinformation, we’ll probably never know.
Coming up to date, only last month, I saw a ‘crop circle’ near Avebury, not so far away from Blanchard’s whodunnit, but this looked to be made by humans, without much idea of the symmetry normally expected of crop circles (middle picture). However, the new circle (bottom) delighted a small Avebury boy who was very pleased to talk about such mysterious goings on!
Visit Circlemakers here.
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