Reported and Edited by Linda Moulton Howe
August 24, 2002 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada - Paul Anderson, Director of the Canadian Crop Circle Research Network, (see website below) is reporting six patterned crop formations since July 23rd.
Georgetown, Ontario
August 24, 2002 Colt's Neck, New Jersey - On Thursday, August 22, I drove to central New Jersey into the beautiful horse and farm community of Colt's Neck. At one end of Dorbrook Park running along a forest of deciduous trees is a rye field rented by a farmer from the township. On August 15, Colt's Neck residents reported a large crop formation in the rye.
Notice from http://www.cropcircleconnector.com:
"LATEST NEWS ON THE GROUND
Michael Glickman and The Crop Circle Connector with many others have
contributed towards a fund to ask the farmer to keep the crop Circle in the
field until after the UK Bank Holiday 27th August 2002. We would like to
thank the farmer and the contributors for this gesture and hope many more
people will visit the crop circle in the next few days."
August 22, 2002 Pitt near Winchester, Hampshire, U. K.
Please see the following e-mail responses to ongoing discussion about the August 15, 2002 formation on the Vale Farm bordered by the Crabwood copse in the village of Pitt east of Winchester, Hampshire, England.
1) On 8/19/02 9:51 AM, Bill Hamilton at [email protected] wrote:
"IS THE MILITARY BEHIND CROP GLYPHS?
Update on August 19, 2002 - The following is the Sunday, August 18, 2002 E-mail I received from Earthfiles viewer who described himself as: "A large part of my full time job is decoding ciphers and reverse enginereering communication protocols." His original text below is updated with additional notes about the bell ringing sound. (He requested anonymity and later gave his name as Richard Brain.)
August 19, 2002 Pitt near Winchester, Hampshire, U. K. On Thursday afternoon, August 15, 2002, editors Mark Fussell and Stuart Dike at the website, www.cropcircleconnector.com, received an e-mail from a man who also e-mailed Lucy Pringle. The text said there was a "new crop circle near Winchester" and also gave street guidance to the farm location along the Crabwood copse in the village of Pitt near Winchester. The editors needed someone to fly over the formation which Julian Gibsone did on Friday morning, August 16. The editors also called Charles Mallett at The Silent Circle Cafe in Cherhill. Charles and his wife, Frances, operate the cafe and have investigated and photographed more than a hundred formations the past few years in southern England. The couple went to Winchester also on Friday morning to study and photograph the ground lay of what Charles perceived to be an "amazingly precise" pattern.
September 12, 2002 - For the most up-to-date research on this evolving story, see Lucy Pringle's report at: http://lucypringle.co.uk/
EDITOR'S NOTE ABOUT TIME LINE OF EVENTS: Since the interviews below with Winchester farm owner, Mike Burge, and his farm hand, Sydney Collis, Charles Mallett in Cherhill, England confirms that www.cropcircleconnector.com was contacted by e-mail on Thursday, August 15, about the Winchester formation. Also contacted by e-mail that day (by the same person who mailed the connector) was researcher and photographer, Lucy Pringle in Hampshire. Mike Burge and Sydney Collis both were in the cherry picker above the field on Monday afternoon, August 12, and are adamant the wheat field was perfectly normal then. So, the possible creation period is Tuesday night, August 13, producing what seemed to be a partial formation according to farm worker, Sydney Collis, who found "marks in the wheat" at 8 a.m. on Wednesday morning, August 14. That leaves Wednesday night into Thursday as other possible creation times. The formation notification first went out by e-mail on Thursday, August 15, followed by an Ocean FM radio report on Friday morning, August 16, around 9 a.m..
August 17-18, 2002 Winchester, Hampshire, England - Crop formation researcher and photographer, Lucy Pringle, received an e-mail dated August 15, 2002 at 19:30 (7:30 p.m.) Hampshire time from a man who reported a "New Crop Circle Near Winchester" which Lucy did not download until midnight, working into the early hours of August 16. Lucy e-mailed a request for the Survey Ordnance and he replied with SU447297, which Lucy received in e-mail early Friday morning, August 16, and notified Paul Vigay, Director, Independent Research Center for Unexplained Phenomena.
Lucy booked an airplane to fly over the field at 2:30 p.m. She did not know that the Ocean FM station in Southampton, Hampshire, received a telephone call around 9 a.m. on Friday, August 16, 2002, from a woman who said she had been riding her horse by the Vale Farm in the village of Pitt east of Winchester when she saw a formation in the wheat field. The radio announced the discovery and farm owner, Mike Burge, heard about it from his farm hand, Syd Collis.
July 24, 2002 The Netherlands - Robert Boerman of the Dutch Crop Circle Archive called me tonight to report that two more circles have arrived in a Groote Keeten, northern Holland field that have a lot of twisted and bent seed heads, expulsion holes in the growth nodes and nodes that are cracked. He sent me some very good photographs tonight so I could see and compare them to similar anomalous stems from Avebury, Wiltshire and Whitefish, Montana in 1999. I'll begin with the historic background of the "somatic developmental abnormalities," named by W. C. Levengood, the Michigan biophysicist who has studied plants and soil from crop formations since the early 1990s.
1) Whitefish, Montana:
July 20, 2002 Corvallis, Oregon A study by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) was released this month which says that at the current rate of extinctions in 350 mammals, birds, reptiles and fish studied by scientists, in the middle of the 21st century, the oceans will be empty of marine life, forests will be gone and 25% of the world's mammal species could be extinct. Human over-population will have polluted water everywhere.