European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 05, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Thursday october 1989 the stars and stripes Page 9 Over Heire for Sas Terence Moa Den a Crucifix pattern u seen in a 1982 photo of a Wiltshire Field. At right Terence med in stands inside a Circle 50 feel in diameter photographed in a Field in june 1989. Weird Field patterns have Farmers going in circles . Bureau it s the kind of mystery thai can ruin friendships and put the scientific Community at each other s Pharynx is. Unexplained circular depressions have been turning up in the farm Fields of Southern England neatly flattening crops in a precise swirling pattern that inexplicably docs not prevent the plants from reaching maturity. Researchers have ruled out hoax but that s about where agreement ends. To Date theories on the circles Range from weird weather patterns to the paranormal to yes visitors from outer space. The circles were first spotted about 15 years ago when workers in Hampshire found a targe circular pattern in a Field near Highway a34. Since 1980, hundreds of the circles have been reported in Britain while similar reports have come from As far away As Japan and the soviet Union. But the greatest number of sightings More than 2so this year alone have been in the counties of Hampshire and Wiltshire an area of England already famous for its strange Stone formations As some researchers arc Quick to Point out. Terence Meaden an Oxford educated physicist and the author of the circles effect and its mysteries has evidence of 20 different patterns including some surrounded by one or More concentric rings. Other forms include a tadpole design of one Circle with a Curling Tail and a celtic Cross of four circles linked to one Large ring. Most of these reports have been ignored by scientists the 54-year-old Meaden said in an interview with the stars and stripes. This is a major contribution to Mcaden s Book theorizes that the circles Are caused by what he Calls the plasma vortex phenomenon a previously unknown whirlwind of air similar to the vortexes that come off the Back fan air plane in flight. He believes the process begins when a gust of wind usually from a cold front interrupts Cal Hillside air. The result is a mass of swirling air that carries an electrical charge and can produce the sound and Light some witnesses attribute to the extraterrestrial. I m talking about a kind of glowing Ball which comes Down Low Over a Field. And it makes a humming noise he said. A brisk wind can destroy the vortex. Meaden believes sending shards of rapidly turning air downward and virtually screwing them into the he suggests that a negatively charged whirlwind will be opposed by the negatively charged Earth making the air mass appear to hover before petering out. The whirlwinds can happen anywhere Meaden said but the counties of Hampshire and Wiltshire have the right climate and the 200-foot Hills needed to create them regularly. It is a Beautiful mystery said Meaden who has heard and read accounts from dozens of eyewitnesses but has never seen the whirlwinds himself. Pat Delgado and Colin Andrews Advance a dec idly different explanation for the circles in their Best Selling Book circular "1 would say til at we arc looking at the result of unexplained Energy possibly created by unexplained intelligence Delgado said. It is impossible for any form of natural science to create these enormous circles in a Delgado once a Friend of Meadins said there is no Way that whirlwinds can cause this and noted that Meaden has come up with several explanations for the circles Over the years. What is it going to be next year asked Andrews an electromechanical Engineer who has been studying the circles for about nine years. He is grasping for straws Delgado added. I tried to make him Sec the error of his ways. To say these Are charged particle vortexes is really stupid. He can t prove it anyway. It is rather a silly thing in Meaden s defense the Delgado Andrews Book although fabulously illustrated comes up a Little Short on specifics. Delgado estimates that it takes thousands of pounds of pressure to make the circles the research that we be conducted to Date produces a very alarming fact that there is an enormous amount of unexplained Energy using a method similar to dowsing Delgado says he can use his Palms to detect Energy at the Sites of the circles. He would like to find a Way of harnessing that Energy once an answer to the mystery is found. His dismissal of Meaden s explanation aside Delgado said he does t Rule out any theory including the supernatural. We arc quite open minded about it Delgado said. Maybe the answer is in the paranormal. Who am 1 to say that it is not for his part Meaden suggests his research is based on higher Grade sightings.""1 think a lot ofic Nuino people Over the years have thought that there has got to be something behind the circles which does not involve creating outer space visits he said. Meaden who taught physics for five years at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia said his research is far from finished. And he plans an announcement on the circles next june that he said will Send the scientific Community spinning. Delgado whose Book has sold some 17,000 copies said he would like to see an International Effort aimed at solving the mystery. I would like to get some government funding perhaps make it International he said. A sort of a circular a
