'Professional' crop circle researchers abseiled down the Silbury hole

Submitted by Andy B on Tuesday, 25 September 2001 Page Views: 2782

OK, we need to make a public embarrassment of these people. They have photos appearing to show them having broken into and abseiled down the Silbury hole, and what's worse they appear to be selling a video of their illegal exploits!!! Tell them what you think of them...

Perhaps English Heritage should talk to the Dutch police about Janet Ossebaard & Bert Janssen... (and also perhaps the 'theory police' for being crop circle nutters) They claim to be professional crop circle researchers and obviously fancy themselves as home grown Graham Hancock type characters.

Dutch crop circle site on which they are active.

Their e-mail address: [email protected]

With no apologies for infringing their copyright by quoting!!!
Thanks to Pete G (again!)

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However, on 1 December, Bert and I paid Wiltshire a brief visit. We drove straight to Silbury Hill and were surprised to see that the metal lid was still on top, after all those months! The guards were no longer there however, so we decided to take a closer look. We climbed the hill and were amazed to discover that the hole had become about twice as big! One side of the hole (south side, closest to the A4) actually reached the side of the metal lid. The entire construction was actually slightly subsiding, as if it was about to be swallowed by the hole. I realised my van could easily be lowered into the hole where it would simply disappear in the belly of Silbury. The fence around the metal lid had been reinforced by heavy metal wire, with only one hole in it through which we could still crawl. After having taken some pictures we decided to leave and visit a friend who had gone down the shaft in springtime, the same one who had made the video footage. He was excited to hear the news and joined us straight away for a second climb. As we laid on our bellies close to the hole, our friend decided to call his friend who had gone down the shaft with him. However, to our great astonishment the display of his cell phone seemed to be burned. About half an hour earlier, I had seen him use the same cell phone which at that time was perfectly all right. I actually saw the display at that time, so that I can confirm that the burn mark must have occurred afterwards, probably while being on top of the hill.

Late that night - after having picked up the second friend - we returned to the top of the hill, using torches in the dark and rainy night. Our friends abseiled down once again, carefully examining the walls and floor. As they were down there, the erosion continued. Pieces of chalk got loose from the upper walls and tumbled down. The lateral tunnel had disappeared completely, probably filled up with chalk falling down into it as the diameter of the hole became larger and larger.

The measurements now were as follows: the height of the hole now was 22 ft on one side and 16.5 ft. on the other side. The floor was no longer round but egg shaped, measuring 9 x 15.5 ft.

I took many photos while hanging over the edge of the hole, enjoying a unique and spectacular view. Once again our friends said they felt comfortable and protected.

The very next day we went to Michael Glickman to tell him our excited story. Before we could tell him the new measurements, he predicted the height to be 22 ft., having studied the importance of the Master Sequence in recent (crop circle) developments. The original height, after the first collapse, was 33 ft. Following the Master Sequence the new height after the second collapse therefore had to be 22 ft. he figured. And dead on he was!

After having returned to the Netherlands we had our pictures developed. One can imagine our excitement when we saw that eight of them showed small luminosities! On one photo, about 20 lights (different colours) can clearly be seen, seemingly above and around our two friends who indeed were not aware of the presence of the lights. Needless to say that rain drops could not have caused these light anomalies, since the metal lid completely shut the hole off from all weather conditions.

Their Address:
Ossebaard & Janssen
P.O. Box 10
9460 AA Gieten
THE NETHERLANDS

Mug shot of the dastadly duo:
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