TZUTC: -0500
MSGID: 376.fidonet_ufo@1:3634/60 2db8f90a
PID: Synchronet 3.19b-Win32 master/a2a9dc027 Jan  2 2022 MSC 1928
TID: SBBSecho 3.14-Win32 master/a2a9dc027 Jan  2 2022 MSC 1928
BBSID: RICKSBBS
CHRS: UTF-8 4
SUBJECT: CIRCLES APPEAR AT LOCAL AIRFIELD                    FILE: UFO1236


EVENING TELEGRAPH, Peterborough, England
        July 26, 1990  CR:  T. Good

                  WHAT ON EARTH?
          CIRCLES APPEAR AT LOCAL AIRFIELD

FOUR strange rings-up to 200 feet across-appeared overnight in wheat fields on
the edge of a Peterborough airfield.
     Parachutists at Sibson, near Wansford, were stunned to find themselves
plummeting at over 100 mph towards a cluster of mysterious crop circles.
     And now the questions are being asked:  Waht on earth are they?  Alien IQ
tests or amazing hoaxes?  Or something else?
     What is causing them?  Freak weather conditions or pranksters running
rings round us?
     Pilots flying from the Peterborough Parachute Centre saw four of the
mystery circles in fields a few yards from where their planes were taking off.
     The patterns are similar to the phenomena that have been baffling some of
the best brains in the country for weeks.
     Evening Telegraph reporter Paul Gregan and chief photographer Rowland
Hobson walked right into the centre rings of three of the circles.  They were
amazed by the size of them-up to 200 feet across-and think they were beyond
anynormal hoaxer.
     "We trod down wheat to get into the rings and those stalks were crushed
and lying in all directions," said Paul.
     "But the crops inside the circles had not been trampled at all.  They
looked more like they had been carefully plaited together."
     Norwich  Weather Centre said they were trying not get pulled into the
national controversy raging round rings.  But a spokesman did say some of the
local whirlwinds blamed by some experts for the circles had been reported in
Norfolk.
  *A rainbow that appeared over parched Peterborough last night was caused by
ice crystals 25,000 feet above the city, say weathermen.
     The parahelis, or mack-sun, happens when the sun hits cirrus slouds at a
precise angle.
  
              
  **********************************************
  * THE U.F.O. BBS - http://www.ufobbs.com/ufo *
  **********************************************
--- SBBSecho 3.14-Win32
 * Origin: Rick's BBS - telnet://ricksbbs.synchro.net:23 (1:3634/60)
SEEN-BY: 1/120 18/0 50/22 105/81 106/201 123/0 126 180 525 755 3001
SEEN-BY: 123/3002 124/5016 128/187 129/14 305 153/757 7715 154/30
SEEN-BY: 154/110 203/0 218/700 220/6 221/0 222/2 226/30 227/114 229/110
SEEN-BY: 229/112 134 206 317 426 428 470 664 700 705 240/1120 5832
SEEN-BY: 250/1 263/1 266/512 280/464 5003 5006 291/111 292/854 8125
SEEN-BY: 301/1 320/219 322/757 341/66 234 396/45 423/120 460/58 256
SEEN-BY: 460/1124 5858 633/280 712/848 1321 770/1 902/26 2320/105
SEEN-BY: 3634/0 12 56 57 60 61 5020/400 8912 5054/30 5075/35
PATH: 3634/60 12 222/2 263/1 280/464 460/58 229/426