CCCRN NEWS
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June 25, 2003
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1880 Crop Circle Report - Nature Magazine
In the July 29, 1880 issue of Nature magazine,
a short letter to the editor was published, written
by a respected scientist of the time, spectroscopist
J. Rand Capron, describing circular flattenings in
a wheat field in Surrey, England. The description
given is very similar to many other cases of crop
circles of the simpler variety, both current and
older, of circular flattened areas with standing
centres of stalks and untouched walls of standing
crop around the outside perimeters of the circles.
This case was first discovered by Peter Van Doorn
as a reprint in the January 2000 issue of the
Journal of Meteorology. For anyone who may not
have seen this report yet or is interested in
a copy of the original published letter in Nature,
CCCRN has obtained a print copy from the
microfilm archives here in the Vancouver library.
This is the original letter in Nature, not the 2000
reprint. The copy also includes the volume cover
page (Volume XXII, May 1880 - October 1880)
as there is not a separate copy of the cover
available for that specific issue (July 29, 1880).
The mentioned sketch was not published with
the letter unfortunately.
New 'Randomly Downed Areas' Reports
- British Columbia and Ontario
Three new reports of 'randomly downed areas'
(RDAs) from May 25 to June 19 have been added
to the RDAs archive in the Possibly Related
Phenomena section on the web site, one in British
Columbia and two in Ontario. The BC one, at
Abbotsford, is not far from the area of the
two large corn formations in Mission last year, and
the two Ontario reports, at Caledon East and
Cheltenham, are in the same region as similar
reports from the same time last year, which
preceded additional 'regular' geometric formations
in the following weeks. As they are not circular or
geometric per se, they are not listed in the main
2003 crop circle report archive, although some
semi-geometric patterns and other interesting
characteristics were noted. While many random
patterns are ordinary lodging or weather damage
of course, similar appearing occurrences have
sometimes exhibited complex lay patterns and
stretched or ruptured stalk nodes like those often
found in the 'regular' circular or geometric
formations, extensively documented by the BLT
Research Team and others.
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* Please also note my primary new e-mail address:
psa@cccrn.ca. This replaces my previous one,
psa@look.ca - Paul
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