A
Life of Ley Hunting
1963
Alignments on French
map
I was very interested to see, on the front cover of the May-June 1963 issue
of Flying Saucer Review, a map of a small part of France showing Aime Michel's
"BAVIC" orthoteny (Bayonne-Vichy) passing through the village of Vauriat,
where a "ballet-dance" of weird objects was seen. The article which
accompanied the map was to illustrate the fact that the sighting fell on the
previously-discovered BAVIC, but I decided to use the map to see if there was
any evidence in France that leys and orthoteny might be connected.
I did not find anything really conclusive; with the small area the map covered I could hardly hope to. But I did find some interesting three-point alignments that seem to indicate that more points would have been found if I had more map area.
The first alignment was was with a peak near Villelongne, a point in Vauriat, and another summit near Puy de Coquille. The next goes through another peak, this time near Pulverieres, through the same point in Vauriat where the first alignment crosses BAVIC, and on to align with a piece of straight track. Thus three lines cross at Vauriat, which may well answer the question posed on the front cover of that issue of the Review: "Why is Vauriat so important?"
The two other lines I found on this map, which do not go through Vauriat, are as follows: Villelongne peak and Pulverieres peak align through a church, and Pulverieres also aligns with a summit slightly to the east of north of Vauriat, and one near La Cratere, making it another centre of three alignments.
Of course, none of these leys constitutes a ley; there are far too few points, but I thought it interesting enough to warrant writing to Waveney Girvan (who was then editor of the Review) to tell him about it. He was very interested, and printed my letter in the following issue.
Crater alignment
From Mr. Peter Haythornthwaite, a UFO researcher in Burnley, Lancashire.
I have a small piece of information which may be of interest to you; though
I myself regard it as coincidence. Three of the craters in the great crater
epidemic of summer 1963 are pretty accurately aligned. These are the Charlton
Crater, the Dufton Fell Crater and the crater near Middle Monynut Farm in the
Lammermuir Hills. The error is about a half a kilometre in a line of length
500 kilometres. The distance along the line is almost exactly 50 of the base
units which Vallee very tentatively derived from sightings along BAVIC in September
1954.