Deciphering Crop Circles

By: GREG TAYLOR

Published on February 4, 2004 By Wahkonta Anathema In Misc

Crop circles are a very strange phenomenon. I know of no precedent that gave rise to it. I have seen a video of a light in a field filmed by a person in England which hovered over the crops and was moving down the field. Then, as if it saw him filming, it just floated back at increasing speed and disappeared over the opposite hill. I asked myself what I just saw. Was it filmed on purpose to show the thingy that is used to make them? Was it a real chance filming of a crop circle maker?
Years later I was hiking along a golf course and came upon what had all the markings of a crop circle to the eye. I studied it a time and then went and got a camera and took a couple photographs of it. I knew what it was though, and planned to send it to Art Bell as a joke. You see, it was located off the tee of a hole about 100 yards and in a secluded location. In fact, it was a place that golfers took a break from the game to go do a number one. They would drive the cart to the remote location exit to do their stuff, then get back in the cart and turn it around in a perfect circle, thus creating what might pass on film as a crop circle.
Still, there are some very strange ones out there. The fractals and other CBS logos I've seen are sometimes very complex and can fool those un-versed in the equations or who think aliens want to do ads for a tv network. Other ones though seem to have some properties that defy easy explanation.
I haven't seen the movie with Mel Gibson yet, where he addresses the subject and its affect on one's faith, and am told it is good. Gibson is a very cool person in his filmmaking choices and his interest in these crop circles is mine as well. I wondered since I have this forum, has any one out there ever seen a crop circle?
I'd like to know what you know about them. What did you see? How do you explain them? I have heard they may be a time-date stamp or marker which is temporary in nature, for time travelers, and that, as crazy as it sounds, is about as close to a logical or functional explanation as I've read to date.
Here is an article concerning crop circles and while it offers no explanation of finality to me, it does point out the anomaly of the cell structure of the plants being affected and other such matters that some neglect to take into account in dismissing them wholly. Please feel free to comment and let me know of your experience or thoughts on this strange topic.
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Circle News
Deciphering Crop Circles
Investigator says that not all circles are manmade

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Dateline: Monday, February 2, 2004

By: GREG TAYLOR
By: Phenomena News Editor
Source: Times of India

UK crop circle researcher Francine Blake says definitively that some formations are not manmade. According to Blake, some circles appear overnight, if not in a matter of seconds. How does she know? Because she has watched:

"Sometimes, we keep vigil over a misty farm. There is poor visibility. Suddenly the mist clears and a crop circle appears over the farm from absolutely nowhere. We are convinced that these have been created by a force and energy that that we do not understand."

Blake says that crop circles have been documented around the world, including in the US, Canada, Germany and India. Their number has been growing since the late '80s, and some of late have been of massive size - upward of 250 feet in diameter.

She says that another intriguing facet of crop circles is that it has been scientifically proved that the circles affect the cellular structure of plants and the chemical composition of the soil, and contribute to increased productivity in the crop.

"We have made several laboratory tests and have arrived at the conclusion that the productivity of the plants where a crop circle has been sighted, has improved significantly," says Blake. She made the comments while on a lecture tour of India.

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Comments

JEPEL

on Feb 04, 2004

I thought that the original crop circle, the first to be recorded in England, several docen year before, had be claimed by 2 guys living in the neighbourghood. Who is francine Black ? Does it need to be misty to have crop circle?

crimson

on Feb 04, 2004

I have read stories where farmers see strange bright balls of light flash across their fields. These balls of fire, documented numerous times throughout history (even Laura Ingalls Wilder wrote about seeing one in a volume of her Little House on The Prairie stories). Others detail strong winds the evening prior discovering crop circles in nearby fields. The last hypothesis that I recall seeing is that it is related to unexplainable electro-magnetic patterns. (high readings around those crop circles investigated were found).
I've seen tv shows on the Discovery channel focusing on this phenomenon, and read other books and articles that were referenced to during the release of Mel Gibson's movie.
It's an interesting movie and of course, I won't give anything away, but I'd be interested in reading about your thoughts on the film.
Aliens, belief, fear of the unknown ... it's interesting to me but I have yet to hear of anything conclusive, and I doubt that I will, unfortunately.

Wahkonta Anathema

on Feb 04, 2004

It would be an explanation for all that followed. I read people who are making real good money by telling people that reptoid aliens sleep with them and then, while having a smoke afterwards, reveal prophecy of mankinds future. It is sad the things people fall for. These crop circles are getting incredibly complex though, some covering acres of land. There has to be a device used more efficient than the boards used by the men such as you mention though. The light orb I saw was behaving as if remote controlled, like a small helicopter that was whited out and replaced by a light on the film.
It doesn't make sense to me why someone would invest so much time and effort at inventing a device to make such massive patterns, and for what end? Kids at Cal Tech have been known to dis-assemble cars and re-assemble them of roof-tops overnight. I know people can do some amazing tricks, but why so much time and effort, never claiming responsibility, as the gents who were first to pull the charade did? I have trouble believing the government is sending out a troop of guys to sit and make these things with some remote-controlled device just to mess with peoples heads. They've got better things to do than mess with agents Scully and Moulder(from a tv show called 'x-files' in America). To my knowledge, no one has ever even come forward alleging any gov't involvement in it.
So then who would have an interest in vandalising people's crops and spending the time to draw intricate patterns? I know some have to be college kids as they make fractal patterns found in college math texts one could hold up and show exactly replicate the picture shown in the book. But what is the device they use I wonder.
Years ago, there was a college group who invented a flying camera so they could remotely fly over the football game(American football) and actually have it seem as if you were right behind the football as it flew down the field. It was impressive to view. The camera disappeared after the game though, never to be seen again. I heard it was bought off by government for defense purposes, now being incorporated in drone technology we have to spy on Sadam types. Maybe each year kids in tech colleges are given such a project to build such a drone that is capable of laying down an energy field that they accidentally found could make a pattern in grass without actually killing the field, and it has become a yearly tradition to make more and more complex patterns, topping each other's class achievement.
What is the kicker to it is the observation of low amounts of radiation and the alteration in growth rates in the crops after the formation. Irradiating plants or there medium of growth can do this, and we read about 100 pound cabbages and such being grown near sites where atomic bombs were once tested. I really don't know and so asked.
I thank you for your reply. It does remind me of the two gents in a pub who came up with the idea years ago as a prank. Maybe it really has taken on a life of its own since, by others who have gradually taken it to an extreme level of sophistication in carrying on the prank. I do believe that aliens would know enough to learn a dialect and just write their message on a peice of paper, rather than play with fields in hidden code. Unless they are just playing with this stupid and superstitious species, in some type of alien humor ploy.
Mel Gibson will know. Anyone got his number?

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