Chilbolton 2001 Crop Formations: Paul Vigay’s Analysis of the Arecibo Echoes and Their Discrepancies
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In August 2001 near the Chilbolton radio telescope two crop formations appeared—one copying the Arecibo message and the other resembling a human face—led by Paul Vigay, who compared them to the original and found nine major differences (extra silicon, an extra DNA strand, altered nucleotide counts, a more alien-looking humanoid, a revised transmitter diagram, and changes to population, height about 3 ft 4 in, and solar-system data), while noting a left-right decoding issue, considering silicon-based life, ET biology, or a hoax as explanations, and highlighting that the episode spurred broader public interest in binary communication and SETI.
