Formations in oilset>d npt.' at Ou•rton, Hampshirt> Ma� 1995 photo: Lucy Pringle IN THIS ISSlTE Serpents and Dragons:- A sequence of patterns proYides clues for Wolfgang Schindler and ... Energy Lines & Dowsing suggest Predictions to Peter M earns & Michael Ne\\·ark John Sayer describes Carpet-circles & other Trul�· Strange Things Bottles and Brainwa\•es- Lucy Pringle reports progress and Anne Silk enlightens us on human reactions Chris Kenworthy pleads the cause of the human circlemaker Simon Burton urges respect for Sacred Space plu.'l· •••other letters and articles, and a brief 1995 update andJor you to copv and use: the ·Non-human Effects' reports form with Conference dates and details The Journal or the Centre ro,· Crop Circle Studies - Spring Volume 5 e e Number 4 0 1995 e The Quarterly Magazine of The Centre for Crop Circle Studies Editorial Team Barbara Davies (overall and layout) John Sayer (assistant editor- CCCS notices & news, etc.) Additional typing by Claire Upton & Steve Jones CCCS HOTLINES: Circles' Reports, from 1st May 1995 - 0171622-5044 (Michael Green) (Old Hotline number (01726 832367) will still be ac..tive, but graduallyphased out) General Queries to Secretary - 01603 611336 Contents CCCS NOTICES &NE WS - John Say�r 3 EDITORIAL & UPDATE- Barbara Da,'it'"S 4 CCCS AGM - Ra�· Cox 4-5 CHAIRMAN'S SPEECH - Micha�l Green 5-6 THREE LINES OF RE SE ARCH - Water-memory: Human Effects - LucJ Pringk 7-8 HU MAN EFFE CTS - A plea tor academic analysis - Ann� Silk 9 THE SE QUE NCE AN D HOW I FOUND IT- •wolfgang Schindl�r {Part 1 in ne:ct issue] 10-11 DOWSING CROP CI RCLE S Part 2 {continued from last issue/- Pet� r M�arns 12-14 CRO P CIRCLES, CARPETS, CLUES, COINCIDENCES & CO MMON SE NSE - John Say� r 15-16 RAY' S COLU MN - Ray Cox (illus. Barbara Davit'"S) 17 LETTERS & SHORT ARTICLES 18-20 Humans in Black - Chris Kenworthy (·UFO no 20' cartoon by Richard P�acoc k) Offending the Spirits - Simon Burton Predicting crop lay - Micha�l Newark Let's Keep it positive - Chad Deetkin Simple Circles - Bob Boyd REVIEW: The Wanninster triangle - Ray Cox 20 POE M - St�n Jont'"S 20 ANO MALOUS EFFECTS REPORT FORM ("Non-human. effects) 21 COUNCIL ME MBERS' and CONVENORS' AddftSSeS 22 The Circular is published quarterly and supplied free to CCCS members. Non-members: Europe £3 per issue, £12.50 for 1 year (incl. p&p); overs� as: £15.00 ($30) for 1 year (airmail)- back numbers are also available at this price. JVrite to: Patrick. Palgrave-Moore. 13 West Parade, Norwich, NR2 3DN for CCCS membership and/or Circular orders/subscriptions. Cheques made payable to The Circular (Overseas: sterling. money order drawn in sterling, or US dollars only). Advertising rates: £I 00 full page . £60 half page, etc. ifor camera-readvcopv . F'or type-setting &!or artwork enquirefrom the editor:­ This issue: Barbara Da\ies, Old Stables, Lescrow, Fowey, Cornwall PL23 IJS (01726 833465) Next issue: John Sayer 34, Constitution Hill, Norwich, Norfolk NR2 4RU (01603 403 012) Views expressed in The Circular are not necessari(v held by the CCCS or the editorial and publishing team. All material in this journal is copyright and may not be reused without pennission. Copyright for articles'and illustrations rests with the original authors, photographers and artists. Printed by Mffln Vall�y Printers, AbMy mill, Station Road, Bishops Waltbam, Southampton SOJ lDH mation is going to all the right destina­ SUBSCRIPTIONS The new Hotline number: tions, i.e. Hotline, formations updates, 0171-622-5044 The Circular, computer Database and Payment can now be made by standing Archives. Michael will also be alerting order. The appropriate form will be en­ Our Chairman, Michael Green, has taken localBranches to any formations in their closed in The Circular along with your over from Barbara Davies on the Hotline areas which need surveying. next reminder notice about renewal. and producing the formations updates (Datalists) throughout the season. The lat­ Paul Vigay is responsiblefor merging the PROJECT SKY ter are sent regularly to the local Branch Database. This involves receiving up­ Convenors by John Sayer, but not all dates from Branches and incorporating Karen Douglas will be organising Project Branches can afford to then send out cop­ all new informationin the main Database Sky again this year, with a few alterations. ies to individuals. A suggestion was made then distributing it back to the local The dates set are Friday, 30th. June and at the AGM that CCCS members could Branches. To ensure the smooth running Saturday, 29th. July. Karen asks that those supply their Branch Convenor with the of this wieldy and time-consuming op­ participating send in individual, ratherthan necessary costs (and/or stamped, ad­ eration, Convenors have been asked to group, reports. For further information, dressed envelopes) to cover this. send to Paulany new data (and their disks please send a stamped, addressedenvelope for the current update of the main Data­ to Karen at 62, New Te rrace, Upper REPORTS/ARCHIVES base) in May and October of each year. Pleasley, Mansfield, Notts. NG 19 7PY. If you need help with the Database, (Talks on last year's project can also be The Archives are now held by John Sayer. please contact Paul. booked.) For the July session, the main A request has gone out to Branch Con­ group will be in the Avebury area. venors for a check to be made of their lo­ SURVEYING cal formations on the computer Database PUBLICATIONS in case anything has been missed. It would Jim Lyons (Scientific Research Officer) help enormously if individuals could li­ is preparing an updated "fieldguide" to Following the runaway success of the 1995 aise with their Convenors to make sure that be sent to all Convenors. His plan for the Calendar, CCCS intends to produce an­ all local information is actually on the next two years is to have a consistent and other one this year. If anyone wishes to Database. (Next Convenors' meeting, by systematic approach to data-gathering, submit photographs for consideration for the way, is 2nd. July 1995 in Alton involving dowsing, high altitude photog­ inclusion, please send them (clearly iden­ Bames.) John is sifting through the Ar­ raphy, electrostatic voltmeter testing, tified on the back) to Michael Green. We chives to make sure that everything there homeopathy and sampling, as well as may also be producing a set of postcards has been put into the Database. If you have detailed photography and measuring. in time for the CCCS Conference, which any pre-1995 information to send in to Because of the emerging significance of is to be held at the Cricklade College, him, please do so. Don't worry if it isn't geometry, detailedand accurate measure­ Andover, 22nd. - 23rd. July. Again, sub­ in the standard CCCS Report format, as ments are essential. Nancy Talbot has missions invited. he will convert it. produced a Sampling Protocol, from which Dr. Levengood works, a copy of CCCS COUNCIL All new reports/photographs should go to which can be obtained from Jim by any Michael Green. (These will then be for­ Branch which doesn't yet have it. Half a There have been one or two changes on warded to the Archives, after being entered dozen "hit squads" have been estab­ Council for the coming season: Anthony on the formations update. Copies will also lished, to survey formations in depth. Cheke has stood down after his one-year go to The Circular.) In the case of local term as a eo-opted member; Michael reports from your own area, it would help AVIATION Glickman has stood down; Richard An­ to keep things streamlined if reports are drews has stood down after his three-year channelled through and collated by your The system for detecting and photo­ term and not sought re-election because Convenor: these will be entered on the graphing formations fromthe air last year of ill-health (although he will be "there in local computer Database (to be merged at worked extremely well. A portion of the the background" and willing to offer his a later date) and then sent to Michael budget has been set aside to cover flying services and expertise to anyone who re­ Green. In the case of a Branch without the costs, but please note that any requests quests it); Michael Green has also stood computer Database, the reports will go to for CCCS-funded flights must be made down after his three-year term and been Michael, beforwarded to the Archives and to Richard Smith (Treasurer) by the lo­ re-elected (as well as Chairman); and join­ copies sent to Bob Walker, who will enter cal Branch Convenor. Funds are limited, ing Council this year is Ron Jones, who· them on the computer. If you have infor­ so priority is generally given to those was there in the early days along with Pat mation on circles outside your own local areas where the geography means that Delgado, Colin Andrews, Busty Taylor Branch, please send it direct to Michael. finding formations on the ground is vir­ and Don Tuersley, and who will be avalu­ This way, we can be certain that all infor- tually impossible. able addition. (Hi, Ron!) The Circular Volume 5 Number 4 Page3 r and, more revealingly,scrapes along the stems. EDITORIAL West Overton, near Avebury, sported a much TheCCCSAGM broken design near the site of the 1993 1995 '666'. At King's Somborne, nr Stockbridge, Barbara Davies Hampshireshire, a perky but again damaged Reviewed by Ray Cox First - something personal: 1994-type figure appeared:- AB you see from the previous page, since May 1st Michael Green has kindly been The CCCS Annual General Meeting attended running the hotline and data-collating, and by some 50-60 members, was held this year John Sayer has taken the ever-increasing on 1st April at the Fayre Deal Motel, archives under his wing.