From spw@... Mon Sep 03 18:55:06 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: spw@... X-Apparently-To: mysterylights@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_2); 4 Sep 2001 01:55:05 -0000 Received: (qmail 17840 invoked from network); 4 Sep 2001 01:54:57 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by m8.onelist.org with QMQP; 4 Sep 2001 01:54:57 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.cswnet.com) (209.142.136.133) by mta3 with SMTP; 4 Sep 2001 01:42:28 -0000 Received: from o3a2b9 (ppp258.ras.rue.centurytel.net [208.54.210.67]) by mail.cswnet.com (Postfix) with SMTP id E152D9D33; Mon, 3 Sep 2001 20:37:55 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <001c01c134f2$cb666560$43d236d0@o3a2b9> To: , "Sean B. Palmer" , "Richard Seifried" , "Marcia Prince" , "Lou Farish" , "Kathie Grimes" , "Joanne Scarpellini" , "Don Ware" , "Brent Cater" Subject: Fw: TUVPO UK: 99 Worldwide: 165 Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2001 20:36:30 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 From: "Sam Wright" Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable More stuff on circles. Sam ----- Original Message ----- From: adminTUVPO To: 2001 Sent: Monday, September 03, 2001 11:37 AM Subject: TUVPO UK: 99 Worldwide: 165 ADVERTISEMENT =20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20 Start here... Height: 345678 ft 01234567891011in Weight: lbs. kg. =20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20 =20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20 =20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20 =20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20 =20=20=20=20 My Groups | tuvpo2001 Main Page=20 =20=20=20=20 =20 Number of formations: UK: 99 Worldwide: 165 By Country: 99.uk 22.de 15.nl 7.ca 4.ya 1.us 1.il 3.dk 2.po 10.cz 1.au 31 August 2001: It's amusing to see crop circle sites buckling under the pr= essure of excessive traffic due to the massive public interest generated by= the recent batch of crop circles here in the UK. I think it would be fair = to say that interest in the phenomenon is currently on a par with or even e= xceeding levels reached back in the early 1990's, when crop circles first c= rossed over into the mainstream media. First cropcircleconnector.com buckle= d due to the wave of interest sparked by the spectacular Milk Hill formatio= n, eliciting a begging letter along the lines of "send more money, the serv= er buckled!" or some such, and now tech whizz Paul Vigay's cropcircleresear= ch.com has also succumbed to public interest "due to excessive traffic, thi= s site is temporarily unavailable". I'm sure viewers will be glad to hear t= hat we have enough friends in high places and bandwidth to ensure we stay o= nline 24/7... finger's crossed! 30 August 2001: More coverage on Art Bell's radio show. Richard Hoagland wa= s back on Wednesday night proffering recent "research" into the "Arecibo Re= ply" from Colin Andrews, Paul Vigay and himself. Art called it "the biggest= story this year in the paranormal community". One of Art's listeners suggested that he "get a bunch of "students" to try = and reproduce the formation at night" his reply "that's a good idea, I don'= t think they can". I know we can, so if Art want's to find us a field... Online broadcaster now.com have penned an article entitled "Excitement Over= Latest Crop Circles" about the "Arecibo Reply" formation which includes co= mments from circlemaker John Lundberg. 28 August 2001:Todays Daily Mail newspaper here in the UK carries a full pa= ge report on the "Arecibo Reply" formation. The cropcircleconnector.com hav= e some great aerial footage of the formation. Photos: Peter Sorenson After being inundated with enquiries about the "Arecibo Reply" formation wh= ich recently appeared next to the Chibolton radio telescope in Hampshire, S= eth Shostak from the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) instit= ute - who sent the original Arecibo message back in 1974 - has posted a sta= tement titled "Is the Latest Crop Circle a Message from E.T?" about the for= mation on the seti.org website. Unfortunately, uninformed statements such a= s there have only been "160" formations over the past ten years - it's actu= ally up in the 1000s - detract from his argument, none the less, it's still= interesting reading. Seth also spoke about the formation along with Richar= d Hoagland and Michael Glickman - who also spoke at length about the Milk H= ill formation - on last nights Art Bell radio show. Quote from Seth "I admi= re these people who make the crop circles", thanks Seth! Slow on the uptake, the mainstream media are now starting to show interest = in the "Arecibo Reply" formation. In the US Linda Howe appeared on "The O'R= eilley Factor" on the Fox News network yesterday. The Independent newspaper here in the UK recently ran an intriguing article= called "Crop circles - something else the Chinese had first " about the re= cent discovery of what are described as a series 2500 year old crop circles= in China! 27 August 2001: On the surface the "Arecibo Reply" formations seems unprece= dented, but if we take a closer look there are indeed two formations that h= ave also appeared this year that can be seen - in retrospect - as precursor= s to the formation. Paul Vigay has written a very thorough analysis of the = "Arecibo Reply" formation based on a recent site visit. If somewhat breathl= essly titled "World Exclusive - Arecibo crop formation decoded!" the articl= e does a great job of interpreting the data encoded into the formation. Pau= l writes of the original Arecibo message "The message was actually transmit= ted on November 16th 1974 and consisted of 1679 pulses of binary code... Th= e reason for this is down to mathematics. 1679 is the unique product of two= prime numbers; 23 and 73. Any sufficiently intelligent lifeform would no d= oubt look for unique, universal constructs - such as prime numbers". As yet= , nobody has been able to make any links between the "Arecibo Reply" format= ion and the earlier Milk Hill formation, in keeping with Paul's breathless = style I'll call the following text "World Exclusive - Arecibo Reply and Mil= k Hill formations linked!". On the surface the formations seem worlds apart= and this may well be so from a pictorial point of view, but, if we take a = look at the mathematics underpinning both formations there is a link, prime= numbers, the Milk Hill formation consists of 409 circles, another prime! Next, casting our eye over to the second element of the "Arecibo Reply" the= face, many observers have described the image as a pixel grid. In fact the= image is made up of a grid of circles - or dots - of varying sizes, so thi= s a halftone dot screen like those used in newspaper images and not a pixel= grid. Again, if we look back to a formation that was discovered at All Can= nings in Wiltshire on 30th June this year (see diagram right) we find what = is undoubtably another halftone dot screen! Food for thought and you heard = it here first, although I doubt many "researchers" will acknowledge that fa= ct! 26 August 2001: Another day, another Art Bell radio show dedicated to crop = circles! Once again, on Friday night Richard Hoagland joined Art to discuss= the "Arecibo Reply" formation which appeared recently at the Chibolton rad= io telescope in Hampshire (note: the formation has now been cut out by the = farmer so don't bother heading out to view it). 24 August 2001: Art Bell just can't get enough of crop circles this week. A= fter the Wednesday night programme which dedicated an hour of his US radio = show to the spectacular Milk Hill formation he followed it up last night wi= th another hour featuring Richard "Face of Mars" Hoagland talking about the= "Arecibo Reply" formation. Choice quote, Art's reaction to the formation "= Holy CRAP!!!!". Arecibo Reply: Perfectly timed to coincide with media interest in the crop = circle phenomenon reaching levels unseen since it first broke into the main= stream back in the early 1990's, was the discovery on Sunday 19th August of= the "Arecibo Reply" formation at the Chibolton radio telescope in Hampshir= e, a location which has been host to several impressive formations over the= years. On 16th November 1974, at ceremonies to inaugurate a set of upgrade= s to the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico (see pic below right), scie= ntists transmitted a brief, simple message (pictured below right) in the di= rection of the cluster M13, some 25,000 light-years from the Earth. The mes= sage was part of Frank Drakes Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SET= I) project. Interestingly at its base the "Arecibo Reply" incorporates both= the motif of a crop circle that appeared at the exact same location last y= ear (see pic below left) and the archetypal grey alien motif. We'll leave i= t up to you and the crop circle "researchers" to decipher the rest of the f= ormation. Why not start by playing spot the difference between the right an= d left hand images below. MEDIA COVERAGE OF THE SPECTACULAR MILK HILL FORMATION 23 August 2001: Press coverage of the Milk Hill formation continues unabate= d and is now spreading across the globe. We've given up trying to document = all the coverage but here are a few highlights. CNN in the US ran an item a= bout the formation, Fuji TV in Japan, ABC TV in Australia, ABC Radio breakf= ast show in Australia, Channel 4 TV's Big Breakfast in the UK, ITV's GMTV i= n the UK, Der Spiegel newspaper in Germany and not to be outdone, Art Bell'= s national radio show in the US dedicated an hour to the formation last nig= ht, with contributions from US researcher Linda Moulton Howe, UK researcher= Lucy Prinlge and German researcher Andreas M=FCller. They repeated the mem= e about us creating the formation but this time added the extra twist of in= ferring it was commissioned by Disney for M Night Shyamalan's upcoming crop= circle movie "Signs". Oh, Art also nicked my "my brain hurts" quote! (see = below). 20 August 2001: Coverage of the spectacular Milk Hill formation continues t= his week with a very positive article in today's Daily Mail newspaper spann= ing 2 pages and for those in London, there is also an article in Metro whic= h can be picked up at most tube stations. The formation was also covered on= BBC Radio 2 at the weekend and was also featured on the national BBC TV ne= ws at 6pm here in the UK with the item inferring that the formation was too= vast and complex to be man made. ITN Channel 5 news at 7:30pm featured the= formation, with a very positive spin and some great lingering footage of t= he formation which illustrated just how huge it really is. Not to be left o= ut the ITV News at Ten also ran a feature on the formation which had a brie= f interview with the musician and millionaire Reg Presley. Again they showe= d spectacular aerial footage of the formation. 18 August 2001: It's now a week since the spectacular Milk Hill formation w= as discovered and the UK media have smelt the coffee and are now starting t= o run articles about this unprecedented formation. UK press agency ananova.= com have run two articles about this years crop circles. The first is about= the Milk Hill formation entitled "Largest and most complex crop circle eve= r". The second article also mentions the Milk Hill formation and is sourced= from an earlier report from BBC Online (see below). BBC Online have published an article about the crop circle phenomenon which= includes the Milk Hill formation. In it local farmer Tim Carson talks abou= t the formation describing it as "something that defies belief." HTV ran the first TV news report about the Milk Hill formation which was br= oadcast here in the UK. The item also had footage of the formation we recen= tly created for HTV which will be included in their upcoming 30 minute docu= mentary about the crop circle phenomenon as well as footage of us creating = the formation. Bill Holive, a crop circle enthusiast from the states is so impressed with = the Milk Hill design that he's having it tattooed right across his back! Wi= ll it fit I ask myself... 17 August 2001: Awe inspiring, jaw dropping, mind warping, incomprehensible= , bloody huge, are a few phrases that come to mind when viewing this years = "finale" formation which was discovered on top of Milk Hill in Wiltshire ab= ove the White Horse on 13th August. It's difficult to take on board the she= er scale and complexity of this formation it spans ten tram lines and if yo= u walked from one side of the formation to the other you would have covered= approaching 1500ft! Compare that to the average diameter of formations thi= s year which is approx 200ft. There are over 400 circles incorporated into = the design a record amount dwarfing all previous formation. The formation h= as already been variously described as "Utterly AWESOME" by american radio = talk show host Jeff Rense, as the "greatest formation to form in the entire= world" by crop circle researcher Stuart Dike, as "the mother and father of= all crop circles" by crop circle researcher Charles Mallett, as "the pinna= cle, the very epitome of perfection, the paragon of all circles" by Mark Fu= ssell from the crop circle connector website, who goes on to say "there are= not enough words in the English vocabulary to describe how amazing this cr= op circle is". Everyone is saying this feat is beyond human ability. This i= s an unprecedented formation and definitely one for the history books and I= don't think it's an overstatement to describe it as truly paradigm shiftin= g. You can view some great aerial footage of the formation at the cropcircl= econnector.com. Here's something to ponder, if this formation was man made allowing for tim= e to get into and out of the field under cover of darkness the construction= time left should be around four hours. Given that there are over 400 circl= es some of which span approx 70ft in diameter that would mean that one of t= hose circles would need to be created every 30 seconds and that's not even = allowing any time for the surveying, purely flattening, this formation push= es the envelope and that's a MASSIVE understatement... my brain hurts! To give you some idea of the scale of the formation pictured right is an en= larged detail of the above photo showing just the center of the formation, = we've ringed the area to indicate where someone is standing, you can barely= see them, now can you see how massive the formation is!!! Photo credit: Steve Alexander. 14 August 2001: Below are a selection of formations that have appeared acro= ss Southern England over the past couple of months, as well as a diagram of= a formation that was destroyed: Photos: Nick Nicholson, cropcircleconnector.com, Steve Alexander. 19 June 2001: There are now fourteen formations on the ground in the UK wit= h the discovery of a new formation at Liddington Castle in Wiltshire close = to the M4 motorway. The formation is in barley and depicts a checkerboard s= phere surrounded by a snake swallowing its tail. It was discovered on 17th = June. There's also a formation at Winter's Down, nr Corhampton, Hampshire w= hich was reported on 18th June and is described as a wheel divided into eig= ht segments with a large grapeshot nearby. It's the first formation of the = year to appear in wheat. 10 June 2001: There are now eleven formations on the ground in the UK with = the discovery of two minor formations in the Avebury area of Wiltshire and = a real jaw dropper at Berwick Basset in Wiltshire (pictured right) discover= ed on Saturday June 9th. The Berwick Bassett formation is in barley and dep= icts a twisted triangular vortex consisting of fifteen curved wedges. The f= ormation seems to be of the same family of many of last years optical illus= ion formations. You can view aerial footage of this stunning formation at t= he cropcircleconnector.com website. 6 June 2001:There are now eight formations on the ground in the UK. Two sim= ple rape formations were discovered on May 30th at Honey Street near Alton = Barnes in Wiltshire. The second formation to appear in barley was discovere= d on 3rd June at Wakerley Woods, Northamptonshire. The design is approximat= ely 200ft in diameter and is too complex to discern form the ground. German= y's fourth crop circle appeared at Hessen near Zierenberg (pictured right) = which is now the epicenter of crop circle activity in Germany. The formatio= n is the first to appear in barley in Germany this year and is an appealing= six-fold flower formation. 2 June 2001: We've received a report of a formation in Yugoslavia! It's loc= ated in the Sombar region to the north of the country. It's estimated that = the large circle is 150ft in diameter which would make the formation about = 300ft in length. It's interesting to note that the main circle has a standi= ng center. The design is quite crude but it is reminiscent of the 'Snail' f= ormation that appeared in the East Field at Alton Barnes in Wiltshire back = in the early 90's. As far as we know this is the first crop circle formatio= n to appear in Yugoslavia. We don't know what crop the formation is in but = it looks like barley. The formation was discovered on May 30th. Thanks to R= adoslav for the report and photo. 29 May 2001: England's fourth and fifth crop circles were discovered at Peg= sdon in Hertfordshire on 28th May and Barbury Castle in Wiltshire (pictured= right) on 27th May. The Pegsdon formation is in oil seed rape with the for= mation being described as resembling a scarab beetle and sun. The Barbury C= astle formation is the first to appear in barley this year, spans 150ft and= is the most complex formation to appear so far. The design - reminiscent o= f last years east field formation - consists of a flattened circle with a s= tanding triangle dissected by three circles and three semi-circles with a f= urther flattened circle at the formations center. Germany's second rape formation was discovered on May 24th in Zierenberg, w= hich is fast becoming Germany's crop circle heartland, akin to Wiltshire in= the England. The formation is a variation on the Ying/Yang symbol looking = as if the two halves have been pulled apart (pictured right). There was als= o a report of a formation discovered on 24th May in Zierenberg next to the = earlier oil seed rape formation. The formation was in long grass and was de= scribed as having a wavy line motif which has been a common thread in many = of the formations to have appeared in this area over the years. Unfortunate= ly the formation was mowed out of the field almost immediately. 25 MAY 2001: With Foot and Mouth now seemingly under control - as of 25th M= ay - both Wiltshire County Council and Hampshire County Council have decide= d to open up public rights of way across the crop circle territories of Wil= tshire and Hampshire. Check out the Wiltshire County Council website - and = note the photo in the top right of the page! - and the Hampshire County Cou= ncil site for more info. Coinciding with the lifting of restrictions is the= appearance of Wiltshire's first crop circle below the Pewsey White Horse. = It was discovered on the 25th May 2001 and is a simple circle about 50ft in= diameter with a smaller grapeshot circle next to it in oil seed rape. 22 MAY 2001: England's second crop circle was discovered on Saturday 19th M= ay at Herne Airport near Bournemouth in Dorset. The local paper 'The Daily = Echo' published an aerial photo of the formation on 22nd May. The formation= is located at the end of the Herne Airport runway. The crop circle (pictur= ed right) is a seven-fold spoked wheel formation with a central ring and ap= peared in oil seed rape. It's approximately 200ft in diameter. 16 MAY 2001: Crop circle enthusiasts around the world can breathe a collect= ive sigh of relief as the spell of the much predicted barren UK crop circle= season because of the Foot and Mouth outbreak has been broken with the app= earance of the first UK formation in rape at Old Winchester Hill, Nr Warnfo= rd in Hampshire. The formation which consists of a circle containing severa= l rings was discovered on 13th May. Photos (from top down) courtesy: cropcircleconnector.com, Frank Laumen, Pre= drag Curcija, Peter Sorenson, Frank Laumen, Peter Sorenson, Bournemouth Dai= ly Echo, David Russell. Diagram: Kassel, courtesy Andreas M=FCller 15 MAY 2001: Well, with all the paranoia surrounding the foot and mouth dis= ease that has spread itself across the UK landscape and its possible effect= on the 2001 crop circle season it seems somewhat fitting that the first fo= rmation of the year should arrive outside of the UK, in Germany. It's inter= esting to note that because we've had the wettest winter on record the sowi= ng of crops was delayed by a month so regardless of foot and mouth we were = always going to have a late start to the 2001 season. The rape is now in fl= ower across the UK and we will no doubt start to see circles in the fields = of england in the very near future. The formation below was discovered on May 13th 2001, in a field of oilseed = rape just outside Zierenberg near Kassel in Germany. The formation is an el= aborate six-fold flower design and is probably the most complex formation t= o appear in oil seed rape to date. It's approximately 90ft in diameter. More information at: franklaumen.de and invisiblecircle.de [ Image courtesy Frank Laumen ] TUVPO -T=FCrkiye UFO ve Paranormal Olaylar Ara=FEt=FDrma Organizasyonu/Turk= ish UFO&Paranormal Events Research Org. Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]