May 31, 2001 Southern England - Since May 12 when a farmer near Warnford, Hampshire found a flattened circle surrounded by rings in his yellow flowering oilseed rape, there have been four more reported in the counties of Dorset, Wiltshire and Hertfordshire.
May 2001
May 12, 2001 - Double ringed circle, 100 feet diameter, oilseed rape,
at Old Winchester Hill near Warnford, Hampshire.
News Update - May 24, 2001 Lexington, Kentucky - Tonight laboratory experts confirmed that liver enzymes which indicate cyanide poisoning were confirmed in pathology analyses of aborted fetuses and foals. The main suspect for the cyanide source remains the Eastern Tent Caterpillar combined with the cyanide in wild cherry tree leaves containing more cyanide than normal because of the freeze after record high temperatures in mid-April. Still unknown is exactly how the caterpillar cyanide gets into the pregnant mares. While scientists begin more tests on pasture grasses, Lexington horse breeders are going to cut down wild cherry trees near their pastures and spray the Tent Caterpillar moths before they lay eggs that would hatch next spring.
Updated above with photo of May 23, 2001 new formation at Niederelsungen, Hessen, Germany.
May 21, 2001 Aalten, Holland - On May 6, 2001, Dutchman Barend Lubbers was driving along a small road in Aalten, Holland when he found an unusual formtion in grass. Mr. Lubbers took measurements and made a drawing on May 9. The "insect-like" series of circles and "antennae" were about 150 feet long. As in the Hampshire formation, this pattern was an echo of the early patterns of 1990 to 1991.
May 19, 2001 Zierenberg, Germany - The fourth European crop formation since April 26 was discovered on Sunday, May 13 at 7:30 a.m. by the farmer in yellow flowering oilseed rape not far from Kassel, Germany in the farming community of Zierenberg. Each year for the past several years from May 1 on, formations have emerged in Zierenberg crops. The sixfold formation in 2001 is one of the most intricate ever to appear in crisp, dense oilseed rape (canola). On either side of the sixfold pattern are "signatures" of an "L" an a crescent ring.
"We are the first people ever to see the bottom of Cuban waters over 50 meters...It's so exciting. We are discovering...even possibly a sunken city built in the pre-classic period and populated by an advanced civilization similar to the early Teotihuacan culture of Yucatan."
- Paulina Zelitsky, ocean engineer, Advanced Digital Communications, May 2001
May 18, 2001 Washington, D. C. - Reporter Andrew Cawthorne reporting from Havana, Cuba for Reuters bylined a May 15 story entitled "Explorers Comb Cuban Seas for Treasure, Mysteries." (See complete text below.) He interviewed ocean engineer Paulina Zelitsky, employed by Advanced Digital Communications and based in Tarara along the Cuba coast east of Havana. According to the article, Ms. Zelitsky said, "We are the first people ever to see the bottom of Cuban waters over 50 meters. It's so exciting. We are discovering ...even possibly a sunken city built in the pre-classic period and populated by an advanced civilization similar to the early Teotihuacan culture of Yucatan. ...Researchers using sonar equipment have discovered at a depth of about 2,200 feet (700-800 meters) a huge land plateau with clear images of what appears to be urban development partly covered by sand. From above, the shapes resemble pyramids, roads and buildings. "
May 16, 2001 Lexington, Kentucky - Seventeen thousand thoroughbred mares live in the Kentucky blue grass fields around Lexington, the largest racehorse breeding area in the United States. Since the end of April 2001, pregnant mares have lost 477 fetuses and stillborn foals. Last year, only 46 aborted foals or fetuses were reported to the University of Kentucky Livestock Disease Diagnostic Center. That means something has caused a 700% increase in fetal deaths.
"The vet said there was a 10-inch hole in her digestive tract about 10 inches inside her rectum. He had another doctor confirm it and told us: 'This horse has been mutilated and we cannot save her.'"
- Guy Elford, Calgary, Alberta Resident
May 11, 2001 Calgary, Alberta, Canada - The Canadian Calgary Herald newspaper recently headlined, "Police say horse mutilations likely work of sexual deviate: Investigators examine links in equine attacks." Calgary law enforcement confirm two horse slashings on April 9 and another eight months before on the Guy and Christine Elford residence. A fourth attack killed Tammy Hambrook's pet horse in 1999. Over the past twenty years, there have been at least a dozen similar equine attacks in the Spy Hill of Calgary. Yet, despite the suspicions that a sexual predator is on the loose, no person has ever been arrested and arraigned on a horse slashing charge.
May 6, 2001 Caral, Peru - Archaeologists reported in the April 27, 2001 journal Science that the mounds and ruins in the Supe Valley 120 miles north of Lima are as old as the pyramids. Now Caral, Peru is the oldest city in the Western Hemisphere. Even though the site and seventeen others were first discovered in 1905, age was never precisely dated. Now Jonathan Haas, Curator of Anthropology at the Field Museum in Chicago and co-author of the report, says that disintegration of carbon in plant fibers in the ruin walls definitely date between 2627 B.C. and 2020 B. C. That makes the Peruvian Supe Valley home to a civilization as old and advanced as those in Egypt where the pyramids were being built, to Mesopotamia where the Sumerian culture dominated, to the Indus Valley, China and the newly discovered Central Asian civilization near Iran and Afghanistan which was making fine ceramics and had its own independent writing symbols. See: Earthfiles Science report 05-05-01.
May 5, 2001 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - A large, sophisticated civilization equal to Sumeria and Mesopotamia and thriving at the same time at least 5,000 years ago was lost in the harsh desert sands of the Soviet Union near the Iran and Afghanistan borders. But now details are beginning to emerge. This week I visited archaeologist Fredrik Hiebert at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Anthropology and Archaeology. There he has some exquisite pottery shards the Russian government gave him permission to bring back to the United States from his recent excavations in the Kara Kum desert of Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan on the Iran and Afghanistan borders.
