Reported and Edited by Linda Moulton Howe
October 14, 1999 Avebury, Wiltshire, England
Peter Sorensen, Videographer, writes in an e-mail: "This eight-armed formation that appeared with the mathematical symbol for Pi next to it at Avebury, Wiltshire was discovered on September 1, 1999 the latest date so far on record for an English crop formation to appear."
© 1999 by Linda Moulton Howe
August 29, 1999
Oddball Quasar
Cambridge, England Last week Cambridge scientists said they were puzzled by mysterious, dark bands in the sky just before and after the August 11th eclipse. But Dan Green, Director of Harvard's Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, told me that the horizontal bands have been seen before in other total solar eclipses and are thought to be atmospheric distortions.
This week I also talked with Astronomer George Djorgovski (jor-GOV-ski) at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, about a mysterious star his team photographed during their Large Digital Sky Survey. The astronomers noticed an oddly colored star in the constellation Serpens, the Snake.
© 1999 by Linda Moulton Howe
August 15, 1999 Stanton St. Bernard, Wiltshire County, England Today I joined photographer Peter Sorensen at new formations in wheat that were discovered August 14th. These can be seen clearly only from the air. On the ground or from the car on the road, the large spiral and Celtic knot with side "signature" are barely visible.
© 1999 by Linda Moulton Howe
July 21, 1999 Greenbelt, Maryland In last week's journal Science, scientists at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland reported the first confirmed link between warm ocean surface temperatures in the Pacific and Indian oceans with epidemics of Rift Valley Fever in Africa. Goddard senior earth scientist, Compton Tucker, Ph.D., said, "We feel that the links are solid and the associations are clear."
The warming ocean waters begins with El Nino in the Pacific which produces more rain in parts of Africa. More rain means more mosquitoes, specifically the Aedes mosquito.
© 1999 by Linda Moulton Howe
June 28, 1999 Sussex New Jersey Back on June 3, 1999, I interviewed Charles Warren of www.contrailconnection.com on Coast to Coast AM radio about unusual contrail patterns and some linked to unidentified aerial objects in or near the white trails. In my June 3, 1999 Earthfiles report associated with that radio broadcast, I posted two x-shaped contrail photos shown below dated May 14, 1999 taken at 3:30 p.m. EST by a New Jersey eyewitness, Ed Davieau, of Vernon in Sussex County near the New York State border. A bright, round object with a pale corona stands out in the sky near the X-shaped contrails.
