I enjoyed immensely reading the latest exquisite pronouncement from Francine Blake and her Crop Circle Study Group companions who, with commendable scientific objectivity, have rejected implausible theories of the circles being man-made hoaxes and are investigating some mysterious energy force sending messages across the cosmos during the crop season.

I'm reminded of the equally somatological scrutineering of a Sunday newspaper science correspondent who, on the basis of Stonehenge being used to predict astronomical events (and having read somewhere that meteoric activity occurred more frequently in primeval times) concluded that the long barrow at West Kennet and similar burial chambers were constructed to shelter inhabitants from meteorite showers.

I propose a grand seminar, with the Crop Circle Study Group joining up the UFO researchers. While the revelations of such a gathering may well lack scientific objectivity, I'll guarantee they'll be entertaining.

The world would be a much duller place without the delightfully dotty Crop Circle Researchers. Their steadfast refusal to accept reality along with their basic insecurity for which they compensate with fantasies of scientific power, has sustained the mischievous activities of a certain group within the agricultural community for the last few years.

JOHN P HUNTER

Kerry Close

Shaw