by Linda Moulton Howe
The "binary code" on the left and "face"
to the right
in the wheat field near Chilbolton Observatory
near Wherwell, Hampshire, U. K.
were first seen on different dates,
according to a Chilbolton Observatory
The "face" near top center was reported on Tuesday, August
The "binary code" to the left was reported on Monday, August 20,
Aerial photograph © 2001 by Steve Alexander.
August 25, 2001 Wherwell, Hampshire, England
For the past few
years, crop formations have appeared in the wheat field near the Chilbolton Observatory in Wherwell, Hampshire.
The one from August
2000 now seems linked to the August 2001 formations. Last year's was
one of England's largest 2000 formations in terms of square footage
and appeared next to the Chilbolton government-owned land upon which
the radio telescope complex is built.
The facility is sectioned off
from the public and is surrounded by a high barbed wire fence. The
estimated measurements of the code formation is 200 feet long and 85
feet wide; the estimated face measurements are approximately 160
feet wide and 180 feet long.
Both are framed with crops laid down in
almost identical fashion, according to field researcher, Charles Mallett, from Roundway, Wiltshire.
August 2000 aerial photograph of the large formation that emerged in
next to Chilbolton Observatory, Hampshire, England.
Aerial photograph © 2000
by Peter R. Sorensen.
Then, according to an employee at the Chilbolton Observatory, on
Tuesday, August 14, 2001, a framed "face" appeared, followed the
next Monday, August 20, 2001 by a "binary code."
When Paul Vigay,
Director, Independent Research Center for Unexplained Phenomena in Southsea, Hampshire, England, first saw the aerial photograph of the
"code" formation, he immediately recognized it as extremely similar
to the November 16, 1974 digitally-encoded transmission sent from
the Arecibo, Puerto Rico radio telescope out into space.
transmission was planned by astronomers at Cornell University,
including the late Carl Sagan. Cornell University operates the
300-meter-diameter (985 feet) radio telescope built into a mountain
under a cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation.
That original 1974 Arecibo transmission is shown below on the right
in a black and white graphic of the binary code beamed at a star
cluster called M-13, about 23,000 light years from earth; in the
middle is the Chilbolton 2001 face; on the left is the Chilbolton
2001 "transmission code" for comparison to Arecibo's.
Comparison produced by Paul Vigay to show the Chilbolton
"transmission code" on left (aerial photograph © 2001 Lucy Pringle);
Chilbolton "face" in the middle (aerial photograph © 2001 Steve
Alexander); and the actual November 16, 1974
Arecibo radio telescope transmission to M13 star cluster from book,
Cosmos © 1976 Carl Sagan.
Translation of the November 16, 1974 Arecibo, Puerto Rico radio
telescope binary code transmission by Cornell University astronomers
to M-13 star cluster.
Source: Cosmos © 1976 by Carl Sagan.
The 1974 Arecibo transmission indicated human double helix DNA with
the double arched lines above the humanoid figure. In the crop
formation at Chilbolton, there is a difference in the pattern on the
left compared to the right and compared to the Arecibo transmission.
I asked Paul Vigay what he thought about that discrepancy and others
he has analyzed.
The "pixels" of the face with Chilbolton Observatory in background
Wherwell, Hampshire, England.
Photograph © 2001 by Charles Mallett.
"Face" in the wheat field near Chilbolton Observatory, Wherwell,
Hampshire, first noticed
on Tuesday, August 14, 2001. The "transmission code" that followed
noticed on Monday, August 20, 2001 by observatory employees.
Aerial photograph © 2001 by Steve Alexander.
Interview Paul Vigay, Director,
Independent Research Center for
Unexplained Phenomena, Southsea, Hampshire, England:
"It could be
that their DNA is uneven in the helix, so it's got extra components.
I won't know for certain until I've decoded the center bit. Because
if you look down between the two strands, there's like a vertical
bar in the middle between the two."
Now, the original Arecibo
transmission that corresponded to the number of nucleotides in the
DNA itself as a binary code. Now that was subtly different on the
ground. So obviously that could give a key to why the strands are
different on the outside.
Because if they have a different number of
strands in the DNA itself, then that could account for the off
balance as it were.
Excerpt from B&W 1974 Arecibo radio transmission on right in which
double helix DNA is shown in upper curving
lines. Below is the humanoid depicting people between binary
information about population and height of the
human figure. Below the symbolic human, the sun is depicted as a
square with its 9 planets.
The third planet from the
sun is raised up toward the human figure. The bottom symbol of the
arc over the "M" depicts the shape of the
Arecibo radio telescope and the bottom binary code states its
diameter at 300 meters. You can compare each
segment in the Chilbolton formation on the left.
produced by Paul Vigay.
Linda Moulton Howe: IS THAT WHAT YOU WERE ABLE TO CONFIRM TODAY IN THE FIELD?
Paul Vigay: Yes, I confirmed that on the ground. There is a single dot. It's a
single digit that has been changed in the middle.
A SINGLE DIGIT.
Basically where you've got the binary code where you have the zeros
and ones, the squares and empty squares in the vertical bar between
the two sides of the DNA. There's actually change in the original in
the middle there. But I won't know until I actually count those on
the computer and run it through to calculate the DNA sequence. Then
hopefully that may give an indicator as to why the outside is
OK, THERE IS SOMETHING BEING IMPLIED THAT THERE IS A DIFFERENCE IN
DNA. ON THE PLANETS, OURS IS VERY CLEAR THAT WE SHOWED IT WAS THE
3RD PLANET FROM THE SUN. THAT PLANET IN THE SEQUENCE WAS MOVED
TOWARDS THE HUMANOID FIGURE THAT WE DEPICTED IN THE ARECIBO
TRANSMISSION AS A FIGURE WITH A HEAD, TWO ARMS, TWO LEGS AND A
TORSO, STANDING ABOVE WHERE THAT THIRD PLANET WOULD BE.
IN THIS TRANSMISSION WHICH IS NOW IN THE CHILBOLTON WHEAT FIELD, IT
GOES OVER TWO PLANETS AND THEN THREE PLANETS ARE MOVED UP THE WAY WE
MOVED THE THIRD PLANET UP.
The third one is moved up. The fourth one is also moved up. The 5th
one is moved up, but it is also changed from a single dot into four
little dots, forming a sort of cross.
WHAT DO YOU THINK THAT IS?
That one is interesting. It could mean that there are 3 planets in
their solar system are inhabited and they actually come from the 5th
planet. Because it looks like they've indicated 3 planets, but they
have also indicated that 5th because they have highlighted that all
the more, as it wee. Or it could mean that possibly the 5th planet
could have 3 moons around it.
IF THERE IS A ONE-TO-ONE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE NEW CODE AND THE
1974 EARTH CODE, WHERE WE PUT A HUMAN FIGURE, THERE IS WHAT COULD BE
PERCEIVED AS A FIGURE IN THIS NEW CHILBOLTON CODE. IT LOOKS LIKE IT
HAS A VERY LARGE HEAD AND WHAT LOOK LIKE VERY LARGE, PROTRUDING EYES
AND A SHORT, THIN BODY. WOULD YOU THINK THAT IS A FAIR DESCRIPTION?
Yes, some people have likened it to a gray alien or something. The
other thing that also ties in with that. there is another
discrepancy, but on the other side of the population, there is a
little chart that shows the height of a human. Now on the original
Arecibo one, you've got 3 digits there which in binary would
correspond to 7.
Obviously, if you are transmitting to the other
side of the galaxy, you're not going to use feet, inches, metric. I
interpret that as 7 units, whatever that is. If you then look on the
crop circle one, you've only got one there, 1 unit. So it is
indicating that whatever it is, it's a lot shorter than the human.
IT'S CONFUSING BECAUSE IF IT IS A CODE TRANSMISSION REPLY ABOUT THEM
IN RESPONSE TO OUR 1974 TRANSMISSION FROM ARECIBO, WHY WOULD THE
FACE - ASSUMING THEY WERE PUTTING DOWN SOMETHING REFLECTING THEM -
WHY WOULD IT SEEM TO RESEMBLE A HUMAN FACE?
I wouldn't like to speculate on the origin. I like to focus on my
research and let people come to their own conclusions by showing
them the research. But I can't for the life of me see how you would
go about hoaxing that. You can't see the pattern at all from the
ground. It's very neat and tidy, but it looks a mess if you follow
in terms of the shape.
You can't say, 'Oh, yes, this is a circle and
crescents like a normal crop circle.' It just looks like a load of
random dots. And yet to get that effect from the air which is
obviously designed to be seen from, it's quite incredible. I can't
see how you could hoax it without someone in a helicopter speaking
to you on a radio or something saying, 'Left a bit. Right a bit.'
Because it's just so complex and unrecognizable on the ground. And
you can't see how you would, especially in the dark, to go from one
to the next and not make a mistake or go off to get that full effect
from the air is actually quite incredible.
NOW, LET'S TALK ABOUT THE BOTTOM SEGMENT OF BOTH TRANSMISSIONS. IN
1974, ARECIBO SENT OUT AN ARC OVER A BINARY CODE INDICATING THE
DIAMETER OF THE ARECIBO DISH THAT WAS SENDING THE TRANSMISSION. ON
THE TRANSMISSION CODE IN THE CHILBOLTON WHEAT FIELD THAT SAME LINE
ITEM IS IDENTICAL TO THE FORMATION LAST AUGUST OF 2000 ALSO AT
AND NOW, WE REALIZE THAT THERE APPEARS TO BE A
CONNECTION BETWEEN THE LAST FORMATION THERE IN 2000 AT CHILBOLTON
AND THESE TWO IN AUGUST OF 2001. IN THE SAME PLACE OF THE CODE THAT
INDICATED THE SIZE OF THE ARECIBO RADIO TELESCOPE IN THE 1974
TRANSMISSION, IS THE EXACT GLYPH THAT WAS FOUND LAST YEAR IN AUGUST
2000 NEXT TO CHIILBOLTON.
The key to understanding the code is that underneath the
representation of Arecibo is the size of the dish which ultimately
affects the transmission frequency that it goes out from. That was
another discrepancy in this new 2001 code in the field because the
actual size indication is different. It's a different code and I
need to find out how the original wavelength was encoded in the
original (Arecibo) transmission and then apply to the new pattern
and see what that yields.
Because I have a suspicion that might give
a key implying that the previous crop circle (August 2000) was some
form of communication of origination or has relevance to decoding it
all. When you transmit the signal from the Arecibo one, if aliens
had picked it up on the other side of the universe, then obviously
they got as far as decoding it and they get down into the box there
about where it originates, you would find the frequency that they
picked it up on.
There is one other discrepancy and it's encoded in the atomic
numbers. At first when I saw it on the aerial photo, I thought it
was an error or a smudge on the photo that you couldn't make out.
which is one of the main reasons I drove up there today to have a
But it's not an error because it's a very precise error and
it's encoded in the sequence.
AND THIS IS IN THE SEQUENCE OF THE ELEMENTS? THE RADIO-NUCLIDES?
No, right at the top, you've got the bit that's the sequence of the
numbers 1 to 10. But immediately beneath those, you've got the
atomic numbers for basically the main elements on Earth, the
building blocks that support life.
AND THAT'S WHAT THAT P.O.N.C.H. MEANS?
It's actually Phosphorus, Oxygen, Nitrogen,
Carbon and Hydrogen. Now
you can decode that. The one that corresponds to the "P" is a
complete line. Like it's all there, which in binary would be 15. It
would be 1111. The following one, if you read it vertically, would
be 0001. So that corresponds to 8. If you right down 0001 in binary,
you get 8. And of course, the 8 corresponds to the oxygen.
next one would be 1110, which is 7, which corresponds to nitrogen.
The next one is 011, which is 6 in binary, which is carbon. And then
the very last one is the single 1 which corresponds to 1 which is
AND YOU'RE SAYING THAT IN THE CHILBOLTON FIELD, IT'S CHANGED?
In the Arecibo transmission, you've got the five columns going
across, hydrogen, carbon nitrogen, oxygen and phosphorous. But on
the ground which you can't see unless you analyze it in detail - and
I did confirm it today - there are actually 6 columns. So whoever
did this code formation inserted an extra element.
Now they have inserted it between the oxygen and the phosphorous. so
instead of going 1, 6, 7, 8, 15, they've actually coded it as 0111,
which is 14. So, it then goes 1, 6, 7, 8, 14, 15 in the code.
Then, if you look up the atomic number for 14, you get silicon. That
is very interesting because lots of people have speculated that if
there are alien life forms, which are not carbon-based life forms as
everything is on Earth, then about the only other element in the
entire periodic table that could possibly support life is
silicon-based life forms. So you could theoretically have a planet
that could have silicon as its dominant element which I think is
If it's genuine binary code communication, I think
the insertion of silicon in there is possibly a significant find."