Are UFOs Afraid of Foot and Mouth Disease?
There was a brief item on the BBC web site at the end of August which deserves mention before I forget about it. As some of you may be aware, for the last year Great Britain has been reeling from a widespread foot and mouth disease epidemic. Apparently alien visitors to the United Kingdom are also afraid of the epidemic.
Foot and mouth disease, of course, creates a flu-like condition in cattle and other animals. It does not kill them and is not a threat to human beings, but it causes afflicted animals to lose a lot of weight and have other problems, thereby costing millions and millions of dollars. The disease is easily spread by even casual contact, so in order to contain the disease Great Britain instituted severe restrictions on travel in rural areas.
Apparently aliens decided to observe the ban on travel as well — the number crop circles declined drastically after the travel restrictions. In one area which had been a common place for such circles, only one crop circle had been seen during the months when the travel restrictions were in place.
Of course this odd coincidence won’t dissuade the true believers, who tell the BBC with a straight face that although as many as 80 percent of the crop circles are produced by hoaxers, the rest are “genuine.”
Source:
Disease brings poor crop of circles. The BBC, August 17, 2001.
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