"Researchers are spoiling the real truth and are determined to say that all crop formations are the result of another life form - when they know this is not always the case."Ĭrop circle students refused to allow the courtroom admission detract from their studies.įrancine Blake, coordinator of the 400 member Wiltshire Crop Circle Study Group, said she believed vandals were trying to take advantage of the interest in crop circles to get into the news. The majority of crop circles are man-made, although I do believe some are the work of the paranormal. "A lot of people will be upset by the creation of this seven-point star because they have a lot to lose by the truth coming out. "There is a phenomenon that is being ignored. "There are some real circles but unfortunately there are researchers who aren't telling the truth," he claimed. But he believed the academic world was conning the public into believing crop circles were an extra terrestrial phenomenon. Outside court, Williams, who has set up his own magazine and website devoted to crop circles, said it had never been his intention to mislead. "We suggest in future that before you go running around making artifical circles you get permission from whoever owns the field otherwise you will be committing criminal damage." He said the farmer would have to pursue compensation through other agencies.įining him and ordering him to pay £40 costs, the magistrate told Williams: "If you had found out who owned the field before you did what you did then the bench would certainly not be hearing this case today. Magistrate Geoffrey Olsen told Williams he was unable to order him to compensate farmer Michael Maude who suffered damage to a crop of winter wheat put at £200. He was simply trying to prove that a seven point star can be man-made." His actions did not result in any financial gain for himself. Mr Clifford told the court: "'My client has strong beliefs that the public were being misled. The court heard that in a police interview Williams was "quite candid" and admitted creating the circles, going into some detail about how he did it using planks and bamboo. Stephen Clifford, defending Williams said: "His desire was to prove Mr Glickman wrong." Yesterday, in what is thought to be the first prosecution of its kind in Britain, he admitted a charge of causing criminal damage to farmland and was fined £100.ĭevizes magistrates heard that Williams had become increasingly angry at Glickman's claims that crop-circles were the work of "strange forces, aliens or otherwise". It was passed on to the professor who alerted police. He then emailed a picture of the work to the presenter. When the presenter challenged him to prove the professor wrong, Williams went under cover of darkness with his friend to the field at Manor Farm, West Overton, near Marlborough, to create the design. He heard Professor Glickman claim on an American radio show that is was impossible for a human to create a seven pointed star shape in a crop field - it could only have been created by aliens.Īfter listening to the show via the internet, Williams contacted the show's presenter by email dismissing Prof Blickman's claims. See details of your web browser for how to enable JavaScript.Williams, 29, of Bishops Cannings, near Devizes, Wilts, decided to act after becoming incensed by the claims of Michael Glickman, a former professor of architecture who has studied crop circles for many years. This site attempts to protect users against See details of your web browser for how to enable JavaScript. In order to do so, you must have JavaScript enabled in your web browser otherwise this site will fail to work correctly for you. Databases This site attempts to protect users againstĬross-Site Request Forgeries attacks.
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