September 24 and 28, 1999 Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Alabama This week NASA released new photographs from its Chandra X-Ray Observatory launched in July 1999. One surprising image is in the Small Magellanic Cloud, a galaxy 190,000 light years from earth. It's the aftermath of a supernova, a sun that blew itself apart, which looks like a wheel with spokes. The "wheel" is forty light years in diameter.
Graphics and Photographs: My thanks to Judy Arndt for allowing her color graphics and photographs to be shared with the Earthfiles audience. Thank you to Paul Anderson for allowing his black and white diagrams of Canadian formatins to be shared as well. And thanks to Melody Watts for her Whitefish, Montana information, near the Canadian border.
1) July 11 - 22 Hagersville, Ontario,
303-foot Pictogram in Wheat. See report with photographs in Earthfiles 9/9/99, Parts 1 and 2.
© 1999 by Linda Moulton Howe
September 12, 1999 Battle Mountain, Nevada Recently I received an e-mail from Sergeant Investigator Klaus Altemueller with the Lander County Sheriff's office in Battle Mountain, Nevada. He wrote: "We have been having cow mutilations here for at least the past ten or so years."
I also received photographs of one of those mutilations that occurred on January 12, 1995 from Battle Mountain rancher, Eddyann Filippini. With the photos, she wrote: "It was very wet that day, so it looks like there is blood on the ground. It was the snow and rain on the fresh cuts that pooled where she was laying."
© 1999 by Linda Moulton Howe
August 29, 1999 Upavon, England - Photographer Peter Sorensen reports that about 25% of the wheat fields in Wiltshire are still uncut. The formation below was discovered a few days ago, but Peter and his partner, Ulrich Kox, were not able to get an aerial of it because the field is inside the military air exclusion zone at Upavon. But finally, Ulrich and his pilot were able to obtain a special permit to fly in a micro light airplane over the area for five minutes only and photographed with Peter Sorensen's digital video camera.
© 1999 by Linda Moulton Howe
August 29, 1999
Oddball Quasar
Cambridge, England Last week Cambridge scientists said they were puzzled by mysterious, dark bands in the sky just before and after the August 11th eclipse. But Dan Green, Director of Harvard's Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, told me that the horizontal bands have been seen before in other total solar eclipses and are thought to be atmospheric distortions.
This week I also talked with Astronomer George Djorgovski (jor-GOV-ski) at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, about a mysterious star his team photographed during their Large Digital Sky Survey. The astronomers noticed an oddly colored star in the constellation Serpens, the Snake.
© 1999 by Linda Moulton Howe
August 25, 1999 Victoria, Australia A "mysterious killer" is stalking sheep in Gippsland and 250 kilometers (155 miles) across country in northeast Victoria and about eighty miles northeast of Melbourne. "Killers strike again," headlined The Herald Sun on July 11, 1999. Beneath the headline is a photograph of farmer Adrian Jackson with one of his slaughtered rams. The Jackson farm in Violet Town, Victoria has been losing 100 sheep a year.
© 1999 by Linda Moulton Howe
August 24, 1999 Wiltshire County, England Photographer Peter Sorensen has e-mailed some updates from Wiltshire, England where he has spent the summer photographing the extraordinary series of patterns in cereal crops since the early spring. First, another formation has been destroyed by an angry farmer.
