The article featured below has just appeared on centrexnews. I happen to know the writer, Charles Mallet, so I phoned him to tell him about his article's appearance. Unfortunately he was out; like me he doesn't drive so he has to cycle everywhere, including to the shops. However I did manage to tell his wife about the article's appearance and as I was doing so we suddenly heard a loud . . .Click . . .Click . . . Click . . . on the telephone line.

The trouble is that this is not the first time that this has happened. Linda Mouten Howe recently interviewed Charles for her radio show. The interview was done via a transatlantic telephone call and during a break in the broadcast the same . . . Click . . . Click . . . Click . . . was heard. It came as something of a surprise to Linda, so much so that she asked him: "What was that noise"!!!

Like me Charles believes that the clicking sounds indicate that his telephone line is tapped. But can you believe it? What kind of threat does a crop circle researcher, who works for charity and cycles everywhere, pose to the realm?

Could it be that he's revealing too much and asking too many questions? Disinformation is assuming a new guise, often it is posing as conspiracy research, or in this case, crop circles. And anyone who exposes the lies and very, very subtle disinformation is now seen as a threat. In effect those who seek the truth are seen as the enemy and Charles exposure of the faked Masonic symbolism in this formation has upset the powers that be.

"Oh dear," begins Charles's article, "yet another ridiculous and obviously hoaxed formation has been discovered. This time the famous East Field at Alton Barnes has been the target for a team of incompetent and clearly uncoordinated fakers.

One would think that these individuals would at least choose a field that was mature enough to receive a formation, instead they go out in a field of very young wheat and make a 200ft mess that, from ground level is shocking to the eye and disappointing at every other level. What a shame this beautiful canvas had to be defaced in such a crass way.

Do these jokers have no respect?

What is it!

A 200ft ring with a kind of 3D Pyramid and some sun-ray or wedge shape chunks either side of the apex creating a rather Masonic looking emblem. The whole thing is laid down in a very haphazard manner with too many irregularities and inconsistencies to list.

Although the brief field report above represents the firm opinion of the writer, it is not an established fact that this formation is a "hoax", our observation and experience says it is, no doubt. However it is up to the individual to draw their own conclusions when viewing imagery and text in relation to any particular formation.

I would concede, from a 600'ft altitude with a squint it's not a bad effort…" © Charles R Mallett

Finally it should be stressed that, as Charles points out, what may look good from a distance appears very differently when you are, so to speak, up close and personal. Rixon.