Click2Flicks - Signs, The Story Behind the Movie, Pictures Of Crop Circles, Chapter 4

</head> <body link="0000ff" alink="ff0000" vlink="000000" bgcolor=000033> <table width="100%" bgcolor=000033> <tr> <td align=center valign=top> <table width=90% bgcolor=ffffff> <tr> <td align=center valign=top> <tr> <td> <div align=center><p><b><font face="arial, helvetica" size=5 color=000000><b><i>SIGNS</i></p> <p><font size="4">CHAPTER 4 - PICTURES OF CROP CIRCLES</b></font></p> </div>  </font> <center> <table width="90%"> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top"> <div align="justify"> <p><font face="arial, helvetica" color="000000" size="3">Lucy <a href="http://lookinside-images.amazon.com/Qffs+v35leoqfxnP6w7nDo0we6mC+oSy2W7ZM9MI6RkCMJ/m36+joMUxcK7EHZS0sP36FdQpZC1RJDaobbe9ifnwT6Fm8gmjs2uhT+crCskrLDy5FjOetfV9kxoOT//diar+jyJU7bRpMgtz+sFP/A==" target="_blank"><b>Pringle</b></a>, a British circle crop photographer, researcher, and lecturer, took (and published) stunning crop circles photographs. They have been used by various people, for various <a href="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002IQ1.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg" target="_blank"><b>purposes</b></a>, throughout the world.</p> <p>In addition to her <a href="http://lookinside-images.amazon.com/Qffs+v35leoqfxnP6w7nDo0we6mC+oSyg+ki+EK9LKvSO+a5katsE/dpdnbQJWFDMYrQjy/QC4w=" target="_blank"><b>book</b></a> of photographs and <a href="http://lookinside-images.amazon.com/Qffs+v35leoqfxnP6w7nDo0we6mC+oSyU+ygKHFoGzhr7x9F+yUULCaDDMpjhpCUWSLRAHndD61nZkE8A8iKRgKwg6uuH+ogLC2nxtaa8FlbzGy12VmlZcZQLNSPjLrTf3wyQCrdpvb5HvYlbL6X3w==" target="_blank"><b>interesting</b></a> <a href="http://lookinside-images.amazon.com/Qffs+v35leoqfxnP6w7nDo0we6mC+oSyk/Do5otArrJ1PxGkXaVoHjq0iTVk+kYhg22gXCqmlZ4eGLuy53OJfnCFaArwpV5nGCkf1M+HSYjFNwPelab2setUwnQLNKcC0gI/rZynCAClGTt014O+Dg==" target="_blank"><b>interviews</b></a>, Lucy has graciously made her pictures available on-line. They present an interesting picture of the crop circle phenomenon during the last decade.</p><ul> <li>A 1990 <a href="http://home.clara.net/lucypringle/photos/1990/uk90bi.html" target="_blank"><b>pictograph</b></a>, at <a href="http://www.m-roberts.com/folio19.html" target="_blank"><b>Alton Barnes</b></a> in <a href="http://www.wiltshire-web.co.uk/history/wilts.htm" target="_blank"><b>Wiltshire</b></a>, England, wasn’t the first unexplained phenomenon in this part of the UK. Home to many fascinating subjects - like <a href="http://www.arthistory.sbc.edu/sacredplaces/images/stonehenge.jpg" target="_blank"><b>Stonehenge</b></a> - Wiltshire Downs is a place to <a href="http://www.mysterious-wiltshire.co.uk/WiltshireWallpaper2.htm" target="_blank"><b>explore</b></a> both natural and man-made history. Many crop circles have appeared there in the last decade.</li><br><br> <li>Another Wiltshire crop <a href="http://home.clara.net/lucypringle/photos/1991/uk91ak.html" target="_blank"><b>formation</b></a> - this one at Ogbourne Maisey - was found in 1991.</li><br><br> <li><a href="http://witcombe.sbc.edu/earthmysteries/EMAvebury.html" target="_blank"><b>Avebury</b></a>, the site of a Wiltshire prehistoric stone circle, was home to a 1994 "<a href="http://home.clara.net/lucypringle/photos/1994/uk94cg.html" target="_blank"><b>Spider’s Web</b></a>" formation.</li><br><br> <li>An interesting and famous <a href="http://home.clara.net/lucypringle/photos/1996/uk96ay.html" target="_blank"><b>formation</b></a>, known as a "Julia Set," was found opposite Stonehenge in 1996.</li><br><br> <li><a href="http://witcombe.sbc.edu/earthmysteries/EMSilbury.html" target="_blank"><b>Silbury Hill</b></a> is an intriguing, mysterious Wiltshire destination. In 1997, investigators found a "Koch" fractal <a href="http://home.clara.net/lucypringle/photos/1997/uk97bw.html" target="_blank"><b>snowflake formation</b></a> at Silbury Hill.</li><br><br> <li>Investigating the story behind crop circles, the BBC commissioned a 1998 "<a href="http://home.clara.net/lucypringle/photos/1998/uk98cq.html" target="_blank"><b>hoax</b></a>" near Milk Hill, Wiltshire.</li><br><br> <li>Silbury Hill was the scene of another <a href="http://home.clara.net/lucypringle/photos/1999/uk99dp.html" target="_blank"><b>pictogram</b></a> - shaped like a parallelogram - in 1999.</li><br><br> <li>Alton Barnes, Wiltshire, is the scene of one of England’s famous white chalk horses. In 2000, nearby Milk Hill was home to a six-pointed <a href="http://home.clara.net/lucypringle/photos/2000/uk00bm.html" target="_blank"><b>crop star</b></a>.</li><br><br> <li>Many circle crops have shown up in the fields of Hampshire, England. In 2001, a <a href="http://home.clara.net/lucypringle/photos/2001/uk01bv.html" target="_blank"><b>formation</b></a> was found in Longwood Warren, near Hampshire.</li><br><br> <li>On the 4th of July, 2002, an elaborate <a href="http://home.clara.net/lucypringle/photos/2002/uk02ba.html" target="_blank"><b>formation</b></a> near Stonehenge leads one to question whether it was a hoax.</li></ul> <p align="justify">"Croppies," people who acknowledge their destruction of farmers’ fields to create crop circles, are now being <a href="http://www.100megsfree4.com/farshores/ncircle.htm" target="_blank"><b>prosecuted</b></a> in the UK. Scientists who study the phenomenon, called cereologists, acknowledge that the vast majority of crop formations are now made by hoaxers.</p> <p>By what of the others? 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