June 11, 2000 Silbury Hill, Wiltshire, England - Photographer Peter Sorensen has been photographing the mysterious crop formations in England since 1992, both on the ground and in the air. He is back in Wiltshire, England for the 2000 crop formation season and e-mailed today:
June 10, 2000 West Kennett Long Barrow, Wiltshire, England - Peter Sorensen found a new formation at the West Kennett Long Barrow across the road from Silbury Hill on June 2nd which he estimated to be about 150 feet in diameter. The next day, June 3rd, the pattern had changed, "which is unusual. Apparently Paul Vigay went there early this morning (Saturday, June 3) and discovered that large areas had been flattened."
"For me, it's no question. I think this energy comes from above.
Not from the ground. It comes from above."
-Frank Laumen, Crop Circle Researcher, Germany
May 30, 2000 Kassel, Germany - Since May 1, 2000, nine mysterious crop formations have been discovered in Germany, the greatest number in one month since the phenomenon began to seriously show up in the world in 1990.
May 22, 2000 East Field in Alton Barnes, Wiltshire, England - Photographer Peter Sorensen e-mailed me the following report before Lucy Pringle was able to fly over the East Field on May 23, 2000 and take the aerial photograph above:
"It was like we were in a pitch black universe floating or something. It was really weird! Like something I've never seen before."
- Janet Ossebaard, Writer and Photographer, Gieten, The Netherlands
May 21, 2000 Burghasungen, Germany - For the past several years in a beautiful farm valley between Kassel and Zierenberg, Germany, a crop formation has been discovered the same day of each year on May 1st. Anticipating the possibility of watching whatever light or energy or unknown process makes the crop glyphs, a group of about twenty people gathered on the hill tops around the valley on April 30, 2000 to watch all night.
- Robert O. Becker, M. D., Orthopedic Surgeon
May 14, 2000 London, England - The British government this past week received a medical research recommendation that controls be placed on mobile phone use, especially for all young people under the age of sixteen. Tayside University Hospitals in Scotland reported that in its study of the sort of microwave radiation emitted by cell phones on worms - scientists discovered changes in proteins consistent with cooking of the tissues. The British report said that children in particular are considered to be at risk because their nervous systems are still developing and because the smaller size of a child's skull allows greater absorption into the brain tissue of the low level microwaves emitted by mobile phones. Right now in Britain, one in four mobile phone users is under 18 years of age.
"Foremost is the rapidness with which the water level has dropped three feet over the past two years. On Lakes Michigan and Huron, this is the largest two year drop that we've had in our 140 years of record."
- Frank H. Quinn, Ph.D., May 2000 Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory
May 7, 2000 Ann Arbor, Michigan - Drought has taken hold in the Great Lakes in a severity not seen since the mid 1960s and the 1930s. With water levels in the lakes near record lows, big cargo ships can no longer carry the heavy loads they used to. So far in 2000, the Great Lakes Carriers Association estimates it's having to lighten each trip by about 8,000 tons and the costs are climbing. For example, iron ore and coal are valued at $35/ton per trip. So, every 8,000 pounds left behind to get a cargo ship across the shrinking lake waters is a loss of $300,000 in cargo.
April 30, 2000 Raleigh, North Carolina - There was an astonishing discovery in the Hell's Creek sandstone of northwestern South Dakota back in 1993: a 13 foot long dinosaur with a heart in its rib cage. It's all fossilized, of course, but now modern CT scanning technology has confirmed it's four chambered with one aorta like warm-blooded animals today, not the cold-blooded reptilian metabolism assumed for dinosaurs over the past 150 years.
April 24, 2000 MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts Ten years ago on April 24, 1990 the Hubble Space Telescope was launched with its imperfect mirror. Later astronauts repaired it. Since then, Hubble has provided some of the most astounding photographs of the universe over the past decade. And recently, Hubble and the Chandra X-Ray telescopes were focused on a spot in the Big Dipper about 6,000 light years from earth to help solve a mystery.
