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"Puffed barley may be no food for kings, but it is fit food for angels"

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July 7 1947 - california, usa.

'..Two farmers harvesting barley noticed the sun reflecting off three "rows" of discs flying overhead.. at least 25 craft (were) flying at great speed.. with an up and down and side to side tipping motion. Before they passed out of sight the three row formation changed into a perfect V formation.'
(Michael D.Hall & Wendy A Connors Alfred Loedding.../The Willows Journal)

October 1963 - West Sussex, UK.

'Farmer Alfred Gadd peered down the mysterious 20ft deep hole in his barley field at Fittleworth and scratched his head. "Never seen anything like this before," he said.
"But I suppose someone will start saying it was made by a flying saucer from outer space."
Bomb disposal experts - who also investigated the Wiltshire turnip field riddle - were called in, but were non-committal. No full-scale digging operations were started, although the soldiers left nothing to chance, squelching across the muddy stubble to probe around the hole with a detector.
They found nothing. Still, they are coming back to have another look,
because a 1,000 lb bomb could have buried itself up to 40ft deep in soft earth.
Mr.Gadd, aged 65, of Fitzleroi Farm, thinks the 2ft wide hole could have been caused by an unexploded German bomb during World War II. "I have heard them fall but I didn't hear them go off," he said. "We have been ploughing this field for 30 years and the hole appeared after the combine harvester had gone over the spot to cut the barley."
Bomb or no bomb, it won't stop him working in the field. The only clue that there is a hole is a bale of straw sticking up in the middle of some of the most isolated countryside in West Sussex.
And that's been there to stop some unsuspecting rambler from falling down the hole.'
(Leonard G.Cramp Piece For A Jig-Saw/Hastings Evening Argus, 7.10.63)

June 1965 - Essex, UK.

'Until Army bomb experts visit Rockingham's farm, Layer Marney,
the mystery of the crater in the barley field will remain unsolved.
The sudden appearance of the crater, about 5ft by 3ft 6in, was reported to the police by the farmer, Mr.J.W.Black. He found it in a field of young barley, with the crops around the crater flattened.
A puzzling feature of the crater is three 3in holes, arranged in a triangular shape near one side of it, that extend 3ft into the ground.
The police are unable to offer any clue as to what had caused the hole, but among the theories advanced so far is that it was caused by a meteorite or some object dropping from an aircraft.'
(Piece For A Jig-Saw/Colchester Gazette, 6.65)

July 1967 - Whippenham, Isle Of Wight.

Sightings of a white, apparently disc-shaped UFO by boys attending Whippingham Primary School on the morning of July 10th, were followed by one of the witnesses noticing marks in a barley field adjoining the school playground.
An investigation by Leonard Cramp and others found that several barley fields in the immediate area were damaged. The damage was found to be consistent with the witnessed trajectory of the unidentified flying object. Other explanations were considered and ruled out.

'Several young children in the small Northamptonshire village of Irthlingborough claimed, on July 16, 1969, to have seen a flashing red object land in a field near the village during the previous evening.
Two young sisters, Sharon and Denise Cuddihy, said
they saw the strange object from their bedroom window.
Ten-year-old Denise said: "When it landed in the field it turned into a number of flashing yellow light. The whole sky seemed to turn a pale blue colour at the same time."
Sharon said they told their father about it and he came to have a look.
However, he did not know what it was.
Several other children in the village also witnessed the mystery object, including five young boys camping in a tent for the night. One of them, Kevin Spence, 11, said: "It came hurtling through the air and flashing on and off red before it came down in the barley field at the back of the house."
Next day, cautious mothers refused to allow the children to explore the field.
The local police received no reports of the object.'
(FSR 15-5/Greville Brown, Northants Evening Telegraph)

FEBRUARY 25 1976 - NORTHERN SPAIN.

'The newspaper La Voz de Galicia quoted a report from the Bilbao paper La Gaceta del Norte that a UFO had landed.. at Maneru in Navarre Province, and left marks.
Five children from Maneru were playing on a nearby hill at 4.00 p.m. when they saw it land in a field of barley. They said it had a transparent cupola on top and was a disc of metallic appearance
and some eight to ten metres wide.
From the machine, according to the children, there emerged a being more than 2 metres 30cm height. The being took a few paces in the field and then returned to the disc.
He was dressed in a sort of black overall from head to feet.
The report stated that the representative of the Gaceta del Norte found five big footprints in the field, and that these prints were over 40cm. long.
This case was also investigated by the Charles Fort Group of Valladolid.'
(Gordon Creighton, FSR 22-6)

MAY 1978 onwards - AUSTRALIA.

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SEPTEMBER 1978 - ISLE OF ANGLESEY, UK.
'During the evening of Friday, September 1, 1978, the small Anglesey village of Llanerchymedd was the location of a remarkable series of UFO sightings. These included observations of a red and white bullet-shaped object seen to descend to ground level, a rectangular purple and blue object with yellow lights, and two independent sightings of strange humanoids...
...During the investigation on Saturday, September 9, Derek James and I located an area in a crop field that appeared to have been badly disturbed. It looked as though an object had gradually come down into the crop in a west to east direction, eventually coming to a halt and swirling the barley in a clockwise manner. The path was about 100 feet long, and the diameter of the swathed area was some fifteen feet. A thorough investigation of this was made and photographs were taken. Unfortunately the pictures of the area were not successful and premature comment by certain individuals involved with the case meant that this particular matter has become very confused.
The investigators could find no apparent rational cause for the traces,
namely the swathed barley and the path leading to it...'
(Excerpts from a long article by Martin Keatman in FSR 25-5)

May 1994 - ferritslevvej, denmark.
'..The witness is a pensioner and works in his vegetable garden. He hears a low whistling sound and looks up. At 150 metres utmost a blue-black object is flying above a grain field. At a velocity of about 70 km/hour. While it is flying it moves from one side to the other - it almost stands on its edge sometimes. It flies under the power lines on the highway, over the highway and over a large barley field, adjoining the man's property.
When the object is about 400-500 metres distant from him it almost stands still in a depression in the field in front of the farm. Here it almost touches the ground, then it flies on in a northern direction towards Ullerslev.
The object is approx. 1 metre in diameter and.. a little flatter than a perfect ball.'
(Danish Sightings on SUFOI - Skandinavisk UFO Information website)

MAY 1997 - EAST DEVON, UK.
Graham Inglis and Jon Downes were approached by a farmer at a Devon County Show, who
'...had been experiencing some very strange things.'
Over the previous few weeks, he'd heard nightly sounds of someone walking around loudly on his kitchen floor (below where he slept), as well as sightings of
'...strange lights hovering over a field of barley about a hundred yards from his farm...'
Then, one morning '...he visited his chicken run.. to find about two thirds of his fowls dead with no apparent injury...'
(Jonathan Downes & Nigel Wright The Rising Of The Moon: The Devonshire UFO Triangle)

february 2000 (?) - les garrigues, spain.
Illustration, comments with reference to two newspaper articles reporting on
two burned circles found in barley crop in a small village 100km west of Barcelona.

june 2000 (?) - southern russia.
A Russian farmer reported serious damage to his field of ripe barley. Local officials found '..four distinct circles - one 20 metres in diameter in the centre and three outer ones 5-7m in diameter each.' In the middle of the largest circle, there was a '..20-cm-deep cylindrical hole with polished walls.'
The barley had been smoothed down "as if by hand" in a clockwise direction.
Eyewitnesses were found who said that they had seen a UFO land in the field.
Vasily Belchenko of the Stavropol security council stated: "There is no doubt that it was not man-made.. An unknown object definitely landed there.. Eyewitnesses say that the landing was very quick and the take-off was immediate.. It all happened in a few seconds."
(Complete report with photographs on BBC website)

april 2001 - alhama de granada, spain.
Sighting by tractor driver Jesus Maldonado.
Jeff Rense Sightings Article.
Investigation by Sociedad de Investigaciones Biofisicas (SIB-Betelgeuse) -
Spanish language/illustrated; look for Expediente 19970525 in 'Archivo.'

Miscellaneous Links:

Leonard Cramp
The Earliest Crop Circle?
Book of Ezekiel barley references
UFO association with Village of Barley
Simon Barley association with The UFO Club
Pink Floyd 'The Scarecrow'

 

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