August 20, 2000 Langdon, North Dakota - Today I talked with crop duster pilot, John Boe, who has been flying and spraying cereal crops for the past seven years around Langdon, North Dakota - a farming community near the Canada and Minnesota borders. Last month, on July 20th, he was flying over the Janelle and Randy Bata farm three miles west of Langdon when he saw what looked like a tinkertoy of half a dozen circles connected by a path in a wheat field.
August 20, 2000 East Kennett, Wiltshire, England - This weekend I learned from crop circle researchers, Ed and Kris Sherwood of Millennium Research in Santa Monica, California, that when they were in Wiltshire this summer doing a meditation experiment, the couple had a close encounter with a helicopter and two unidentified aerial craft. The date was July 31st around 11:30 PM and the location was the East Kennett square inside a circle formation. Part of their meditation experiment was psychic photography, to photograph with a flash camera the air around them in an effort to capture images of luminosities and translucent spheres that increasing numbers of people have photographed the past several years. The exact source of the images is still a mystery. Their camera was flashing in the darkness when they first heard a loud helicopter approaching.
August 17, 2000 Woodborough Hill, Near Alton Priors, Wiltshire, England - This past Saturday night of August 12, 2000, around 10:30 PM, three of us had climbed Wiltshire's famous Woodborough Hill which has been a central focus for crop formations since the phenomenon seriously began on a global scale in 1990. With me was Andrew J. Buckley, a graphic artist from Manchester, England, and his friend, Hazel. Andy had videotaped six small, white, glowing lights moving over the wheat field between Woodborough Hill and Pickled Hill on July 18th and wanted to visit again to see if any more would turn up.
July 16, 2000 Wiltshire, England - In the past week, there have been nearly a dozen formations in southern England and five of them emerged between July 15 to 16. Charles Mallett and his wife, Frances, have been studying, photographing and drawing crop formations in England for some time and produce a great web secton at the cropcircleconnector.com called C& F Phenomenon. I talked with Charles this afternoon about what happened this weekend.
July 9, 2000 New Bern, North Carolina - In southeastern Europe the past several days, temperatures above 100 degrees in many places - and up to 113 degrees in the Turkey and Romania region - have killed at least 38 people. Strong winds from the Sahara desert began blowing on Friday causing hundreds of fires in Greece, Italy and Croatia. And this is only the first of July. What happens in August and September?
July 6, 2000 Wiltshire, England - By the first week of July 2000, with so much of the summer yet to unfold, the crop circle mystery has been more global than 1999. Thirty-six crop formations have been reported in England, eighteen in Germany, three in The Netherlands, two in Spain, two in Italy, two in the U. S., one in Russia, one in Canada and one in the Czech Republic. In the past two weeks in England alone, two of the most extraordinary formations of the past decade appeared. The checkered one featured at the top of this report emerged in a field of very green immature wheat. Researcher Charles Mallett of Horton, Wiltshire discussed the Windmill Hill pattern at the web site where he and his artist wife, Frances, produce C & F Phenomenon Research Field Reports.
July 2, 2000 Stony Brook, New York - Biologists in the Marine Sciences Research Center at State University of New York at Stony Brook are puzzled by the vigorous brown tide algal bloom this spring that has killed off most of the shellfish in Long Island's Great South Bay. Part of the problem, in addition to the more traditional link of algal blooms to pesticide and fertilizer runoffs from land, is global warming. Winter 2000 was warmer than normal and Spring 2000 was the warmest spring on record in the United States. But no one expected brown tide algae to persist through the winter and then flourish and spread as far as it has in the Great South Bay.
June 26, 2000 Boulder, Colorado - Major breaking news this past week was NASA's press conference in Washington, D. C. at NASA Headquarters on Thursday, June 22nd, to announce 250 photographs of widespread areas on Mars that closely resemble gullies and springs of water on earth.
