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THE CHILBOLTON OBSERVATORY FORMATIONS Response to a 1974 Earth Transmission? by Linda Moulton Howe © 2001 wheat field near the Chilbolton Observatory in Chilbolton village, south of Andover, Hampshire. The one from August 2000 now seems linked to the August 2001 formations. Last year's was one of England's largest formations in terms of square footage, and it appeared next to the government-owned land upon which the radio telescope complex was built in 1965. The facility is sectioned off from the public and is surrounded by a high barbed-wire fence. The estimated measurements of the code formation are 200 feet (60.9 metres) long and 85 feet (25.9 metres) wide; the estimated face measurements are approximately 160 feet (48.8 m) wide and 180 (54.9 m) feet long. Both are framed by wheat laid down in almost identical fashion, according to field researcher Charles Mallett from Roundway, Wiltshire. According to an employee at the Chilbolton Observatory, on Tuesday 14 August 2001 a framed "face" appeared, followed the next Monday, 20 August, by a "binary code". When Paul Vigay, the director of the Independent Research Centre for Unexplained Phenomena in Southsea, Hampshire, England, first saw the aerial photograph of the "code" formation, he immediately recognised it as extremely similar to the digitally encoded transmission sent on 16 November 1974 from the Arecibo, Puerto Rico, radio tele- scope out into space. The Arecibo transmission was planned by "Face" in the wheat field near Chilbolton Observatory, Wherwell, astronomers, including the late Carl Sagan, at Cornell University. Hampshire, first noticed on Tuesday 14th August. Aerial photograph © 2001 Cornell operates the 300-metre-diameter (985 feet) radio tele- by Steve Alexander. scope, built into a mountain, under a cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation. I | ite TI That original 1974 Arecibo transmission is shown here in a = sts Is black-and-white graphic of the binary code beamed at a star clus- ter called M13, about 23,000 light years from Earth. The Chilbolton 2001 "transmission code" is presented for comparison = PY a . F: the past few years, crop formations have appeared in the ee with Arecibo's. The 1974 Arecibo transmission indicated human double-helix DNA with the double arched lines above the humanoid figure. In = i the crop formation at Chilbolton, there is a difference in the pat- P| = < manera, tern compared with the schematic of the Arecibo transmission. =. ee (Source: by Linda Moulton Howe, www.earthfiles.com) Lal be — oY OS wee ‘a EMR Ma i = | = oo | Rue "ayy: rites ht ON) Ne oe ee oe crite Chilbolton Observatory near Wherwell, Hampshire, England, were first seen on different dates, according to a Chilbolton Observatory employee. Comparison produced to show the Chilbolton "transmission code" on the left, The "face" near top centre was reported on Tuesday 14th August. The and, on the right, the schematic of the transmission sent on 16th November "binary code" to the left was reported on Monday 20th August. Aerial pho- 1974 from the Arecibo radio telescope towards the M13 star cluster (from tograph © 2001 by Steve Alexander. Cosmos © 1976 Carl Sagan). THE CHILBOLTON OBSERVATORY FORMATIONS Response to a 1974 Earth Transmission? by Linda Moulton Howe © 2001 NEXUS * 65 OCTOBER — NOVEMBER 2001 www.nexusmagazine.com