AP – Crop Circle hoaxer Matthew Williams was found guilty of damage to property in Magistrates Court in the town of Devises in England today. He was fined 100 pounds and 40 pounds costs.

His defense was that Crop Circle researcher Michael Glickman had challenged him on Whitley Strieber’s Dreamland radio program to make a seven-starred circle. BBC World Service said that he had been goaded to action by an American radio program, whose host refused to believe that the best crop circles were hoaxed, and that the radio program turned him in to police.
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Gregory Robert Smith is frank about his brilliance. “I am proud of who I am” says the 11 year old Robert Macon College Sophomore. Gregory started college when he was ten. Child prodigies like Greg are rare enough, but he is truly one of a kind.

It’s because of his mission. It is brilliant, beautiful and terribly, terribly important. Greg believes that violence is the world’s core problem, and that violence toward children is a crisis that needs immediate attention. He challenges us: “what are you going to do right now?” He has assumed for himself a leadership position, and he seems well able to lead us forward on behalf of children everywhere.
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Yesterday was a typical Saturday. After breakfast, Whitley and I got in the car with a list of chores to do, but our final destination was a nearby theater, because we love the movies.

We were headed for a Hollywood tearjerker that opened this weekend, an uplifting fable in which blacks and whites were all good buddies and those in power recognized the value of the small people living in their midst. In other words, a typical Hollywood fantasy.
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Editorial commentary: As it has become harder and harder to dismiss crop circles, the debunker community has brought out its big guns. A former crop circle researcher has spread a story much welcomed by a media in a total state of denial, that the more complex crop circles are manmade, the exact opposite of what is probably true. The arrest of a self-professed crop circle hoaxer has been used to further this assertion in British media.

Now, suddenly, a NASA engineer weighs in on the opposite side of the debate with a frank and intelligent commentary on what he has seen personally.
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