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   SUBJECT: SCIENTIST'S WATCH CIRCLES DEVELOPE                  FILE: UFO1227   
      
      
      
   =START=   XMT: 11:41 Wed Jul 25  EXP: 12:00 Wed Aug 01   
      
   SCIENTISTS RECORD FLASHES AS MYSTERY CIRCLES FORM IN ENGLISH CORNFIELDS   
      
   LONDON (JULY 25) REUTER - Excited scientists said they recorded evidence on   
   Wednesday that could solve the centuries-old mystery of circles in English   
   cornfields which have aroused speculation of visitors from outer space.   
      
   Experts filmed two big circles being made during the night amid a barrage of   
   unexplained flashing lights in a field in the southern county of Wiltshire.   
      
   It was the first known recording of the formation of symmetrical circles that   
   have puzzled Englishmen since the Middle Ages.   
      
   Theories of what causes them range from earthworms to whirlwinds to spaceships.   
   In medieval times, countryfolk believed they were the work of the Devil.   
      
   Scientists from Britain, Japan, West Germany and the United States monitored   
   Wiltshire cornfields round the clock this week with thermal imagers and   
   low-light cameras.   
      
   On Wednesday, they recorded two circles being made, one about 100 metres (330   
   feet) across, the other half that size, said Colin Andrews, leader of the   
   project coordinated by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).   
      
   Analyzing their recordings hours later, they sent in helicopters to take   
   daylight pictures of the find and said they had made a significant scientific   
   discovery.   
      
   ''We do have a major event here, very much excitment as you can imagine,''   
   Andrews said. ''We do have two major ground markings in front of all the   
   surveillance equipment performing absolutely to form,'' he told BBC television.   
      
   ''We had a situation at approximately 3.30 this morning on monitor -- a number   
   of orange lights taking the approximate form of a triangle and within that   
   triangular form was a second triangle,'' Andrews said.   
      
   ''We had many lights, following that a whole complex arrangement of lights   
   doing all sorts of funny things. It's a complex situation, we are actually   
   analysing it at this very moment. But there is undoubtedly something here for   
   science.''   
      
   Andrews said the circles could not be a hoax.   
      
   ''We have high-quality equipment here and we have indeed secured on   
   high-quality equipment a major event,'' he said.   
      
   Asked what caused the circles, Andrews said: ''As you can imagine, this only   
   happened some hours ago. We have experts arriving by the minute here now to   
   analyze this. We do have something of great, great significance.''   
      
   Describing the circles, he said: ''One formation is about 100 metres in   
   diameter, a circle with two satellites and two concentric rings, another   
   brother nearby about 50 per cent of the size of its nearby neighbour.''   
      
   Andrews said the field had been cordoned off. ''We're doing nothing more now   
   until we have helicopters over the top to film in detail what we have before   
   anybody enters that field.''   
      
   The authoritative New Scientist journal published an article last month which   
   said corn circles, more than 300 of which appeared last year, were caused by   
   weather conditions creating whirlwinds and electrical discharges in the   
   atmosphere.   
      
   Author Terence Meaden said his theory could explain flashing lights seen by   
   eyewitnesses and patterns of flattened corn.   
      
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