Circles on the field and other formations. United Kingdom

The MARTIANS are DELAYED (in Front of you - an essay on actual events, described in detail in last year's English magazines and Newspapers.)

In the morning in a potato field

Even in densely populated industrial England still remained a quiet rustic area. Between the low hills, almost the whole year round covered with green trazoi, are one-storey stone towns with the same pub on the main street. Carlton is one of those villages in Wiltshire County warm South West of England where houses are twined with ivy and grapes.

July morning Roy Blanchard, the owner of one of Carlton farms, decided to visit his potato field, supplying good views of the harvest. In a good mood Mr. Blanchard looked at the neat rows of green bushes, suddenly discovered that doubtless suffered material damage. On the dark green field big gaping black pit more than two meters in diameter. Coming closer, Mr. Blanchard was able to see that around the pit there were no traces, nor any other indication of its origin.

It was a small saucer-like crater with a small, about a palm, a hole in the middle. From the edges of the crater ran a strange pattern of three grooves form a sort of Trident, and in front of them, on the other side of the crater, lay another, devoid of vegetation, naked furrow. Amazed, the farmer went to tell the neighbours about the incident. But it turned out that the neighbors had something to share.

In a few places wheat and barley fields near potato fields Mr. Blanchard, an unknown force pushed the stems of plants spots ellipsoidal shape with a size of up to ten meters. Rumors have spread through the village, get to the nearest town of Shaftbury and soon was to reach the military authorities in South West England.

Appears Dr. Randall

Wheat field on a slip wizened figure of a little man. About oval hammered wheat man stopped, looked around as if checking with the unknown landmarks, and began to make a hasty entry. Next door was the garden Mr. Blanchard. People went there, but suddenly, approaching the hedge, turned to stone. Instead of a Jolly green climbing plants, forming a fence in front of him blackened charred remains with a big hole in the middle. It seemed burnt and the grass for a few meters around. Making a spatula out of paper, people gathered a pinch of black ash and wrapped in several layers of paper, put in the breast pocket. Climbed along and across the charred place, people came to the garden of Mr. Blanchard, constantly looking back and up, as if waiting for a signal from the sky. He descended into the crater, around which were deserted, and began to dig with my bare hands...

Finally, the military command was informed about the Carleton incident.

"Yeah," decided the military - here the main crater, the hole, in other words, a funnel. But if you have a funnel, so had a blast. But if there was one, then maybe the second. So, you need to urgently send a team to remove unexploded ordnance. The order was given, and four sappers with mine detectors under the command of the gallant Sergeant Jimmy rice walked along the road at Carlton. Arriving to the location indicated by villagers rice as healthy soldiers ordered these people to remove and hang around scaring away the signs "do Not approach! Dangerous!". The engineers broke into squares potato field and began the search.

- Sir! - shouted one of the soldiers, turning to the Sergeant. - A man is asking for you.

The Sergeant approached the wizened man not more than a day ago, we left burrowing in the crater.

- Dr. Randall, Sergeant. A former employee of the laboratory Woomera in Australia. Now I live in Tilwara. I need to talk to you.

- At your service, Doc.

You undertook a serious problem extremely serious. Do you think that you are removing the mines? No, now your work may depend the fate of humanity! Are you looking for tracks. Traces of aliens from there, Randall bony finger pointed to the sky. - I knew something like this would happen here in England. For this I left my job and house in Australia and moved here. Many times they slipped away from under my nose. But now I know everything about them, everything!

Crater meanwhile there were some local residents and from nowhere a reporter for a London newspaper.

They landed here, their traces, showed Dr. Randall audience at the crater and on the field. We call these things flying saucers. But it is this research a space ship. He came from the Uranium. It was a team of 50 people. The same meat and bones we are with you. Some talkers talking about little green men. They were trouble - refused solar panels. The commander ordered to make a landing, but did not calculate the height. Got a few jumps. The exhausts of the engines sometimes threw the wheat in neighboring fields.

- And over there under the exhaust hit the fence. It burned to the ground and planting the tripod broke a hole.

- Ronald, look - ordered the Sergeant. Soldiers ran to the fence:

- Yes, sir, it all burned.

- I warn you, Sergeant, intervened Randall, the ash can be radioactive.

- What about the pit Doc? Sergeant warily glanced at the crater.

- You have to dig. Here can be a real trail. On top you will see the crystal coal, and under it glittering pieces. If you will find glittering metal, don't touch it for his own life.

The sappers set to work. The shovel rolled back the layer of the other, and all saw black, dimly shining specks.

- Coal! Here you can see the coal! I told you, ' cried Randall. The reporter grabbed the lapels of the doctor:

- How do you know that, sir? Just a few questions for our newspaper!

- I have seen such things in Australia. They were there in 1954-1955 years. Here on Earth, their ships prefer to fly on the magnetic field lines.

- Why do they come?

- They do not want evil. Their purpose of peaceful research. I think their worried about our nuclear explosions. Perhaps their stability depends on our.

~ What can you say about their plate, that is, excuse me, on their ship?

- They are not very far removed from us in technology. For a hundred years, not more. The principle vehicle available to our understanding, and perhaps, already in this century we ourselves build a ship is not worse. They skillfully use solar energy. Landed here about the ship and Dr. Randall drew in a notebook reporter a small scheme.

Dr. Randall disappears

In the morning London newspaper came under major headings:

- Visit with Uranium!

- Not dug out if the Martians are our potatoes?

- Dr. Randall knows everything!

To the humble village rushed cars newsreel, television and press, the army, air force and the London "Society for the study of deidentification flying objects". In the house of Commons by two members of Parliament asked the government to inquire on the Wiltshire crater.

In the potato field Mr Blanshard something unimaginable happened. Herds of curious people from nearby villages and representatives of various stripes and varieties trampled so many potatoes, how many would not be able to destroy a whole squadron of larger craters. Here and there chatter the cameras, the cameramen were preparing their difficult economy. The highlight of the program was estimated speech in front of the lens of Dr. Randall, has turned overnight into a celebrity. However, the celebrity is forced to wait.

Reporters were crawling, looking at the crater, the charred fence and fallen wheat. Meanwhile, began to receive new news.

The army reported that no radioactivity neither the soil samples nor in the blackened plants hedges was not detected. Moreover, the hedge wasn't burned. This is a microscopic predatory fungus mildew or powdery mildew, turned green plants in black dust, like ash.

Crystalline coal in the crater also appeared due to purely terrestrial causes. Mr. Blanchard, careful owner, regularly fertilized in the potato field, and furnace ash was not the last of them.

The search for the bomb squad Sergeant rice has not yet yielded not only the magic of shiny metal, but even old rusty pieces of iron.

Dr. Randall did not appear. Finally, the impatient young reporter rushed to the village Chilworth where like lived doctor. At the end of the village, the journalist pointed to a small house. Half of it belonged to Randall. Reporter knocked on the door, and in the doorway stood an elderly village woman. To the question about the doctor she said that it is not, and she doesn't know when he will appear.

- Tell me, Mrs, what kind of research was Dr. Randall and didn't know if he's with these guys with Uranium?

The tone of the question, obviously, did not like the woman, and she frowned her forehead.

- Of course, he's a doctor and knows what he's talking about.

- Mr. Randall - doctor of physical or medical Sciences?

- Both, - the surly woman answered and with a Bang slammed the door.

The crater comes the astronomer

As always, scientists have learned about the incident later, the military, and therefore, when Carlton arrived, the famous English astronomer Patrick Myp, the hype was already in full swing. From the original crater has been preserved only remnants, and Moore had to rely on the description of Mr. Blanchard. However, trampled traces of three furrows forming a Trident, you could still see, but the crater itself through the efforts of the sappers from the command of Sergeant rice was spoiled completely and irrevocably. The soldiers continued to dig, but hope to find like glittering metal, and an unexploded bomb seemed to be highly questionable. Suddenly the spade of one of the soldiers struck something hard. On light there were two small stones.

- A meteor, - the crowd hooted.

Stones for inspection was transferred to Patrick Moore. The scientist carefully Examined the find, but was in no hurry to Express their opinion. Finally, Moore said:

- In my opinion, nothing like a meteor, to I am in no way an expert in this field.

The stones were immediately sent for analysis to the British Museum.

However, Moore was right, and the Museum authorities quickly confirmed that the rocks excavated at the crater in the potato field - the most ordinary fragments of local rocks and have no relation to space.

In search of explanations

However, Moore adheres to the meteor version of the Carleton incident. And here's why. A fall wheat, "several strange", says the scientist, was an ellipsoidal or oval spots up to 15 meters in length and a width of about 4.5 meters. One of the sites is also oval in form, had in the centre right round the area where the wheat was left untouched. The actual lowering of the soil Moore did not notice on one of the fall-outs. The location of the patches was such that they, as expressed by Moore, a "lead" directly to the crater in the potato field. Therefore absurd, for example, would try to explain the appearance of the crater is a natural settling of the soil. Only the body that fell from the air, could cause turbulent flow, pushed in some places wheat, and at the same time to dig a small crater.

Along with the crater when the impact ripped off the top layer of the earth, could appear and the "Trident" formed from furrows dug many times in various directions of the field. The body in principle could represent not only a meteorite, but a piece of an artificial satellite or of the aircraft. But while on Earth so many satellites and they are not so great painless to overcome the dense layers of the atmosphere. In addition, there were no reports of aircraft in distress in these areas. Had to think over Carlton fields raced a small rock.

"But on the other hand, finishes Moore your message, I couldn't detect any traces of the meteor material, and therefore some evidence of a meteorite does not exist."

"And may not exist and anyway, even if the fall of the meteorite took place, - says a colleague of Moore Houston, in that case the meteorite ice".

Very often after the fireballs zing across the sky and fall almost under your feet, there is nothing to find. Ice meteorite can dig a crater, but by the time the crater is detected, the ice will melt. It is possible that a thorough microscopic examination of the crater bottoms will be able to detect the cosmic meteorite dust. But for Wiltshire meteorite this question is only speculative interest. After all, the crater was dug up...

But there is another, not meteor possibility of an explanation, Carleton events, and to tell about it, will have to enter in two of the crater. They appeared under unknown circumstances at about the same time, but on the other end of the island, in Scotland, sung by Walter Scott Lamermurskaya hills. Craters visited the chief astronomer of the Edinburgh Observatory Butler. It was a ragged hole about 3 meters wide and about a meter deep. On the sides at a relatively far distance lay scattered in the Heather, peat and grass. And from the edges of the pits snaked radiating radial cracks up to about 10 meters in length.

According to Butler, these craters was the place where lightning struck. Indeed, 10 days before the craters found on Lamermurskaya hills the storm was raging. A powerful discharge hit the ground in zip instantly warmed a small amount of water above the boiling point, and steam is turned into explosives, dug these jagged craters.

The Scottish meteorological office in Edinburgh Butler received a certificate that for the last 15 years there have been three such crater. On two of them firmly attested that they were the result of a lightning strike. Perhaps, says Butler, a depression visible on the Moors from the plane in the slanting rays of the setting sun, formed in this way.

May be so formed and Wiltshire crater? The final answer is unknown, but in any case it is clear that before you blame the incidents in the earth's intelligent inhabitants of the stellar worlds, it is reasonable to look for explanation in our still not fully understood earthly home.

Translated by «Yandex.Translator»