A Brief Education Of Crop Circles ~by Freddy Silva

Crop circles are not a modern phenomenon.

They are mentioned in academic texts of the late 17th

Century, and almost 200 cases- some with eyewitness

accounts- have been reported prior to 1970. Since then some

eighty eyewitnesses from as far away as British Columbia

have reported crop circles forming in under twenty seconds;

cases are often accompanied by sightings of incandescent or

brightly-coloured balls of light, shafts of light or structured

flying craft.

Serious attention was given to the simple circles in 1980 in

southern England. The designs appeared primarily as simple

circles, circle with rings, and variations on the Celtic cross up

into the mid-1980s. Then they developed straight lines and

created pictograms, not unlike petroglyphs. After 1990 the

designs developed exponentially in complexity, and today it is

not unusual to come across designs mimicking computer

fractals and elements that relate to fourth dimensional

quantum physics. Their sizes have also increased, some

occupying areas as large as 200,000 sq feet.

To date there have been over 10,000 reported and

documented crop circles throughout the world, with some

90% emerging from southern England. While many still go

unreported each year, the emegence of the phenomenon in

the world media and the internet has allowed more

information to be lodged.

If you happen to buy the story that all crop circles were

originated by two sexagenarians with planks of wood, string

and a weegie board, you are not in the minority. Once in a

while, governments like to control public interest in

unexplained phenomena by generating a disinformation

method called 'debunking', a technique invented during the

Cold War for the sad purpose of controlling mass opinion in

the face of unexplainable phenomena (this was the prime

motive of the 1953 Robertson Panel, details of which are

obtained under the US Freedom of Information Act).

The method is very effective because the media provides

little or no scientific or factual data with which the public can

form an educated opinion on the subject. This absence of

evidence is then replaced by ridiculing the subject through

association with other 'fringe' topics; so-called experts are

brought-in to explain away all the events as freak weather

conditions or the work, general pranksters, even sexually

excited animals!

According to TV documentaries, all crop circles up to 1992

were made by two simple, elderly men called Doug and Dave.

It has since been discovered by researchers such as George

Wingfield and Armen Victorian that the D&D story was tied to

the British Ministry of Defense- in collusion with the CIA,

among others.

Evidence supplied by a high-ranking informant in the British

Ministry of Defence suggested that the government had

every intent to discredit the phenomenon by putting forward

two hoaxers in an effort to quell growing public interest in

crop circles (for a fuller story see Crop Circles History 1991).

When confronted to provide evidence on certain claimed

formations, Doug and Dave changed their story, even

reversing previous claims; or they simply remained silent

when asked to explain the list of features found in the

genuine phenomenon. When they claimed making all the

formations around the English county of Hampshire, for

example, it was pointed out that half the known formations

had actually occured in another county- "Er, no, we didn't do

those either," they replied.

In the end, not even Doug and Dave knew which ones they

had made. And although they claim to have made hoaxes

since 1978- at the time the published date of the first

design- evidence witheld confirmed crop circles dating back

into the 1930s. The public has never heard these retractions,

nor been given the opportunity to compare the mess created

by D&D with the mathematical symmetry of the real

phenomenon.

In 1998, however, the surviving member of the deceptive

duo did make an incredible admission to British newspapers

that he'd been guided by an unknown force.

Since Doug and Dave's inauguration, many copycat hoaxers

have appeared on the scene. Some do it to disprove or derail

researchers, some for profit, some because they are

sociopaths, some because they genuinely believe they can

communicate back to the phenomenon (with very interesting

results, I may add). Prior to 1989 the hoaxing problem was

virtually unheard of. After 1990 designs of man-made origin

vary by year- in 1992 and 1998 it was as high as 90%, in

1996 as low as 20%.

That people with a good amount of training can go into a

field and eventually create a coherent pattern has never been

the issue- recently, a group of known hoaxers called TEam

Satan/the circlemakers was paid to go to conveniently out-

of-the-way New Zealand to make an elaborate formation for

The Discovery Channel.

The issue is that no man-made crop circle has satisfactorily

replicated the features associated with the real phenomenon,

and this has baffled scientists and researchers. Crop circles

are created by a force seemingly at odds with modern

science. Central to the hoax argument is that a physical

object is required to flatten the crop to the ground, resulting

in the breaking of the plant stems. In genuine formations the

stems are not broken but bent (left), normally about an inch

off the ground at the plant's first node. The plants appear to

be subjected to a short and intense burst of heat which

softens the stems to drop just above the ground at 90ª,

where they reharden into their new and very permanent

position without damaging the plants. Plant biologists are

baffled by this phenomenon and farmers, who know how the

land ticks, are baffled by this. It is the singlemost method of

identifying the real phenomenon.

Research and laboratory tests suggest that microwave or

ultrasound may be the only method capable of producing

Crop circles are sometimes accompanied by trilling sounds,

since captured on tape and analysed by NASA as artificial in

origin, with a harmonic component in the infrasonic range.

The detection of electromagnetism also differentiates

genuine formations from fakes. This naturally-occuring energy

is known to exist at ancient sites such as stone circles, long

barrows, tumuli, dolmens and menhirs, and in churches and

cathedrals which were built upon these sites. Crop circles,

sacred sites and other places of worship are also found upon

intersecting points along the Earth's invisible energy grid, and

the size and shape of a crop circle is typically determined by

the area of these 'node' points on the Earth's surface. The

frequencies of this energy are associated with changes in

brainwave patterns and affect the body's biophysical rhythm,

so it is not unusual to find reports of people experiencing

heightened states of awareness and healings in crop circles-

a situation also common to sacred sites. People may also

experience dizziness, disorientation and nausea- effects

caused by prolonged exposure to infrasound or microwave

frequencies.

Biophysical evidence includes plants' expanded epidermal

walls, and drastically extended node bends in fresh formations

(normalright, crop circle far right); also observed are

distortions of seed embryos, and the creation of expulsion

cavities in the plants as if they have been heated from the

inside. In genuine formations there is a disruption of the

plant's crystalline structure, as these microscope photos

demonstrate [ see The Crop Circular ]

Yet in all cases, the plants are not damaged and will continue

to grow and ripen if left untouched. This would not be

possible had they been trampled by force.

Genuine crop circles are areas of gently laid and swirled plants

which create a floor in mathematical proportions similar to

the Golden Mean, the vortex nature uses to create precision

organisms such as shells, sunflowers, the spatial relationship

of the bones in the human hand and galaxies. The floor of

crop circles can have up to five layers of weaving, all in

counterflow to each other, with every seed head intact and

placed beside each other as if arranged in a museum case;

the centres can contain nested, woven, crested, or wreathed

swatches of plants- sometimes the center will consist of a

single standing plant.

They are not perfectly round but slightly elliptical (a hoax,

requiring a fixed central rope, cannot achieve this

adequately). Their edges are crisply defined from the

flattened crop as if drawn with a compass and incised with

surgical precision. Hoaxes, by comparison, bear a stylistic

resemblance to tuffs of greasy, uncombed hair- and, of

course, all their plants have been trampled, bruised and

crushed.

Other anomalies indicate an increase infra red output within

and around a new formation, indicating that both the heat

content of the plants and the watershed have been affected.

Evidence even exists of four non-naturally occuring, short-life

radioactive isotopes in the soil inside genuine crop circles

(these dissipate after three or four hours); the soil in around

them appears to have been baked.

Mathematically, genuine crop circles encode obscure

theorems based on Euclidian geometry as well as the

unalterable principles of sacred geometry. They have the

capacity to alter the local electromagnetic field so that

compasses cannot locate north; cameras, cellular phones and

batteries fail to operate, and aircraft equipment fails whilst

flying over them. Then there are levels of background

radiation up to 300% above normal, radio frequencies falling

dramatically or rising sharply within their perimeters, animals

in local farms avoiding that particular area or simply acting

agitated hours before one materializes, and car batteries in

entire villages failling to operate the morning after one is

found nearby. In some of the major events, entire towns are

left without power.

Since genuine formations materialize at crossing points along

the Earth's magnetic energy currents, they are influencing

the energy pattern of local phehistoric sites. They reference

local Neolithic sites in size/shape/direction, and are dowsable

upon entry, with as many as 150 concentric rings of energy

outside their physical perimeter. In fact, a year after they

have been harvested and the field ploughed and re-sown, the

energy imprint of the formations will still be dowsed, long

after their physical traces have vanished.

This area of research has allowed for the possibility of crop

circles as a healing force, and they are already being

successfully employed in radionics, flower essences and

resonance therapy around the world, both for people and

environments in distress.

Crop circles are generally formed at night between the hours

of 2-4 AM, traditionally during the shortest evenings of the

English year when darkness lasts but four hours, in fields

eagerly watched by farmers, military, laser alarms, scientists

or hundreds of enthusiasts in their sleeping bags hoping to be

the lucky ones to witness a crop circle forming.

Some of those lucky few have witnessed large balls of

brilliant colour project a beam of golden light into a field

which next morning displays a new crop circle.Yet despite

many stakeouts and fields rigged with top surveylance

equipment, crop circles have appeared out of the mist right

under the noses of those looking for them. On one occasion,

the Circlemakers even materialized in full view of the British

Prime Minister's heavily-guarded country residence.

At Stonehenge in 1996, a pilot reported seeing nothing while

flying above the monument, yet 15 minutes later this huge

900 ft formation resembling the Julia Set computer fractal,

and comprising 149 meticulously layed circles, lay beside the

heavily guarded monument. It took a team of 11- including

myself- no less than five hours just to survey the formation.

Still not convinced ?This website [ The Crop Circular ]contains

a sampling of the on-going research dedicated to

enlightening the public. More will be added as time goes by.

Look at the pictures, study the research or better still, visit a

genuine crop circle. You'll get the message pretty quickly