Posted Dec.06.05
Colin Andrews Response To Article(s)
Subject Of Legal Action In UK
Please read - this article should be immediately corrected.
The article below and just sent to me is based upon one that
last week was subject of legal action against a British
newspaper... The newspaper withdrew the inaccuracies and lies
written about me, and also the alleged quotes when in fact they
did _not_ talk to me at all. The offending newspaper The Western
Daily Press removed the original article from their web site
within hours of my challenge and replaced it with a new article
about the new feature movie to be made about my life by Renegade
Pictures:
http://www.renegadepictures.us/main.php?s=103
The article below and sent to me now is written by Stuart Miller
of UFO UpDates, and appearing to be a re-write of part of the
offensive and untrue UK original.
I am not broke as is stated. I own two properties and so this
is clearly a lie. The research organization I founded and have
run for over twenty years on my own buck, IS broke. There is a
difference and an important one when coupled with other
inaccurate statements that the original article make, seemingly
to form a derogatory picture of my character and status. Many
now know that the newspaper received numerous calls supporting
my work and their web site was peppered with critical comments
by offended and supportive readers that is, before the paper
blocked the site from further comment.
All this said, I do take my hat off to the editor and the
journalist who wrote the piece, for taking corrective steps. See:
www.CropCircleInfo.com
Colin Andrews - Foundations of Life, Inc.
111, Great Hill Road
North Guilford, CT. 06437
USA.
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(Original headline: For Sale: The Crop Circle Files )
He is the self-proclaimed world expert on crop circles who, in his time, advised everyone from Margaret Thatcher to Lawrence Rockefeller and Mel Gibson on the Wiltshire mystery
But now an apparently penniless Colin Andrews, for a decade the authoritative face of the crop circle phenomena, has this week embarked on an unseemly auction of crop circle research - enough to fill a large room - for a cool $250,000 (£144,000).
The collection is being marketed on auction website eBay as a unique database of primary scientific evidence, including 35,000 original photographs, 650 video tapes, 3,000 books, 23 years of notes, recordings and graphics, and the original hard copies and negatives of everything Mr Andrews has ever done on the subject.
Oh, and as if that was not enough, the lucky buyer walks away with the global copyright to everything in the collection.
The collection is enough, Mr Andrews said, to fill a 20x20 storage room - although with an astonishing lack of Mr Andrews's customary detail - he does not say whether it is 20 feet or 20 metres.
Despite the $250,000 starting bid, Mr Andrews, who lived near Salisbury before moving to the US, had optimistically slapped a $500,000 price tag on his own website. But whatever price he wanted, it appeared early bidding had not been too brisk.
As of yesterday, in fact, no bids had been forthcoming.
It is the end of a 22-year odyssey for an unlikely hero of the mystical West. The former local government engineer shot to fame in 1990 as crop circle-mania took over the world.
But since then, Mr Andrews has slowly withdrawn from the still-raging crop circle debate, and found himself ostracised from other, younger, crop circle theorists - particularly after his announcement in 2000 that only 20 per cent of recorded crop circles were genuine - the rest being manmade.
The researcher said he hoped the collection - which must be bought in its entirety - would go down in history. The sales pitch said: "This extraordinary record is the work of one man whose name is synonymous with crop circles."
Mr Andrews said he is being forced to sell his life's work due to financial reasons. He said: "The reason the database archives and libraries are being sold is that after all my personal funds have been spent on the research and private funds and donations have dried up, there are no means left to continue."
<LI>See also: World Crop Circle Expert's Slide To Obscurity
