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Crop CirclesCrop Circlesby Angus Sutherland Copyright © 2000 - 2007 UFO Area Throughout history humans witnessed circles and other geometric figures made in the soil by mysterious craft. Crop circles are a phenomenon that have been happening as long as crop fields have existed. They appear in various crops of growing grain like wheat, barley and oilseed rape (canola)that are the most common in England. But they have also been reported in oats, flax, rye, peas, potatoes, sweetcorn maize and even in rice paddy fields in Japan. Crop circles´formations have also been detected in places covered with wild grass and undergrowth. Crop circles are the most well known from England, particularly from the the region of Wiltshire, in Southern England, but have been seen in many countries around the world. Many formations are created in the vicinity of ley lines, ancient sacred sites and places known to have special energy. Patterns are advanced and many of them contain elements of sacred geometry. 
Mostly they appear during the three main summer months. Around 250 crop designs around the world appear each year on average and several thousand have been documented since records began. At the beginning of the 1980s, the circles were very simple. Later the designs of them have become increasingly much more complex each year. It seems that the progress of time has also played an important role in the development of shapes of these master pieces Many of them which recently appeared are very complex. 
In 1990, appeared for the first time "pictograms", containing long symbolic chains of rings, circles and rectangles. It´s important to mention that the crops that are weaved down into the ground in order to create the patterns are never broken. Humans have always tried to mimic unknown creators of the formations. Therefore many of the crop circles were made by humans in their attempts to recreate crop circles. However they have failed in every attempt. Cereologists are researchers who investigate the cause of crop circles and work in the fields covered with them. Their scientific activity is called cereology. 
Designs of many crop circles are so advanced that they can only be created by humans on computers.Many say that the crop circles are created by extraterrestrials. Naturally, there are many theories trying to explain crop circles' existence. Among those theories are: earth energies alien origin plasma vortex and whirlwind vortex, some kind of military experiments and many other possible explanations. 
Who or what is a creator of the crop circles? People say that unknown force which appear to be energy balls or some kind of light come from the sky and circle the spot where the crop circle is to be created. Then after the crop circle is formed, the light balls fly away and are never seen again. All kinds of discs, spheres and unexplained lights were observed over the crop regions. What do we know about the phenomenon? It seems that the origin of the energy involved in creating is unknown on our planet. Some of the crop formations radiates a sound at approximately 5.7hz in the electromagnetic spectrum and the same frequency has been picked up many times in close proximity to UFO sightings. 
In some cases, even after several ploughings after the crop has been harvested the shape of the formation has remained in the soil for at least six months afterwards in some cases. This can not be obtained by man-made crop circles´ technique It´s also known that in some of the formations, compasses rotate indicating a presence of magnetic anomaly. Crop outside of the formation has different characteristics than the crop found inside. There is an evidence that if no human beings goes into a formation the crop will continue to grow and the farmer will not lose any crop. But for the most important answer: WHO OR WHAT IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THESE SYMBOLIC MESSAGES FOR US?.... we have to wait.... 
Winchester, Hampshire, Aug 2002 (Steve Alexander) One of the greatest modern mysteries They are a very special form of communication, where mathematics and many kinds of symbols are used creating a language which express messages about events that will come.... 
Avebury Trusloe, Wiltshire 2000, (Steve Alexander) 
Alton Priors, Wiltshire, July 2002 (Steve Alexander) Crop Circles: Artworks or Alien Signs? Hillary Mayell for National Geographic News August 2, 2002 Mel Gibson's new film, Signs, is reviving public interest in the phenomenon of crop circles. It would be unfair to reveal what it is that's scaring Mel so badly in the world of movies. In the real world, the battle to explain the formations is a torrid wrestling match between artists and people who believe in other-worldly influences. Are the circles an emerging art form: agrarian graffiti, large-scale land art that will be written about in future art history texts as the most remarkable artistic innovation to emerge from the 20th century? Or are they the result of UFO landings or mysterious messages from extraterrestrials? The most curious aspect of the sometimes vitriolic debate is the fact that each group needs the other. Depending on what you believe, crop circle artists make most, if not all, the formations. But without the mystery and the other-worldly possibilities, would anyone be paying attention? Roots in England Crop circles first appeared in the fields of southern England in the mid-1970s. Early circles were quite simple, and simply appeared, overnight, in fields of wheat, rape, oat, and barley. The crops are flattened, the stalks bent but not broken. Wiltshire County is the acknowledged center of the phenomenon. The county is home to some of the most sacred Neolithic sites in Europe, built as far back as 4,600 years ago, including Stonehenge, Avebury, Silbury Hill, and burial grounds such as West Kennet Long Barrow. As the crop circle phenomenon gained momentum, formations have also been reported in Australia, South Africa, China, Russia, and many other countries, frequently in close proximity to ancient sacred sites. Still, each year more than 100 formations appear in the fields of southern England. In 1991, Doug Bower and Dave Chorley came forward and claimed responsibility for the crop circles over the past 20 years or so, and the battle between artists and other-world believers was engaged. "I think Doug Bower is the greatest artist of the 20th century," said John Lundberg, a graphic design artist, Web site creator, and acknowledged circle maker. Bower's work has the earmarks of all new art forms, "pushing boundaries, opening new doors, working outside of the established mediums," Lundberg continued. His group, known as the Circlemakers, considers their practice an art. Lundberg estimates that there are three or four dedicated crop circle art groups operating in the United Kingdom today, and numerous other small groups that make one or two circles a year more or less as a lark. Circlemakers now does quite a bit of commercial work; in early July, the group created a giant crop formation 140 feet (46 meters) in diameter for the History Channel. But they also still do covert work in the dead of night. Evolving Art Formulating a design and a plan, from original concept to finished product, can take up to a week. "It has to be more than a pretty picture. You have to have construction diagrams providing the measurements, marking the center, and so on," said Lundberg. Creating the art is the work of a night. Lundberg said that for an an artist, being a crop formation artist is an interesting place to be. "You think about art in terms of authorship and signature," he said. But circle makers never claim credit for specific formations they created. "To do so would drain the mystery of crop circles," he explained. "The art form isn't just about the pattern making. The myths and folklore and energy [that] people give them are part of the art." Over the last 25 years, the formations have evolved from simple, relatively small circles to huge designs with multiple circles, elaborate pictograms, and shapes that invoke complex non-linear mathematical principles. A formation that appeared in August 2001 at Milk Hill in Wiltshire contained 409 circles, covered about five hectares, and was more than 800 feet (243 meters) across. Two phenomena appear to be pushing the evolving art. To combat a widely promulgated theory that the circles were the result of wind vortices—essentially mini-whirlwinds—crop artists felt compelled to produce ever more elaborate designs, some with straight lines to show that the circles were not a natural phenomenon, said Lundberg. The other impetus is true of all art forms: Artists influence one another, and designs evolve in response to what has been done before. Opposing View Adamantly opposing the crop-circle-as-art-form position are the "croppies"—researchers of the paranormal and scientists seeking to explain the formations as work that could not possibly be the result of human efforts. The phenomenon has spawned its own science: cereology. Some believers are merely curious, open to the existence of paranormal activity and willing to consider the possibility that at least some of the circles were created by extraterrestrial forces. At the extreme end are what Lundberg calls the "Hezbollah" of believers. Exchanges between acknowledged circle makers and cereologists can be vitriolic in the extreme. But in a curious way, the two groups need one another. The believers propel and sustain interest in the work, beating the drums of extraterrestrial activity on Earth and keeping crop formations in the news. They can also be quite vocal in their denunciations of the admitted artists, charging that they are con men, liars, and agents in government disinformation campaigns. Lundberg's group has been vilified as Team Satan; its members have received stacks of hate mail, and over the years there have been attacks on their cars and property. Skeptics in the media (including this author) are also considered dupes, either too ignorant or narrow-minded to understand an other-worldly phenomenon or active participants in a government conspiracy to keep the masses uninformed. Still, the vast majority of croppies are just people with alternative belief systems. "I think it's a little more played out over here [in the United Kingdom]," said Lundberg. "People are more familiar with the whole phenomenon." Wiltshire's New Economy: Tourism While the relationship between crop artists and cereologists is uneasy, the relationship between artists and farmers is mutually beneficial. Farmers provide the canvas, the artists bring in the tourists. The crop circle season extends from roughly April to harvesting in September, although the best time to make a circle is in mid to late June. When still immature, wheat rises back toward the sun, making a circle look brushed rather than flattened, said Lundberg. How do the local farmers feel waking up to find an entire field of wheat flattened? Crop circles pump millions of pounds into the Wiltshire economy, said Lundberg. The circles are a major tourist attraction, spawning bus tours, daily helicopter tours, T-shirts, books, and other trinkets. The circles draw people who believe the formations have a unique energy. They visit the formations as a sort of spiritual Mecca, to meditate, pray, dance, and commune with worldly spirits. Farmers frequently charge a small fee or have a donation box for people who want to enter the circles. "In 1996 a circle appeared near Stonehenge and the farmer set up a booth and charged a fee," said Lundberg. "He collected 30,000 pounds (U.S. $47,000) in four weeks. The value of the crop had it been harvested was probably about 150 pounds ($235). So, yeah, they're happy." On the question of whether all such circles are human made, Lundberg is perched firmly on the fence. "I don't care," he said. "I have an open mind. It would be great if people could view circles as an art form. But really, to me, as long as they're well made and well crafted, anyone can believe whatever they want to believe." ============================================ 
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An eye-catching crop circle in Uffington, Oxfordshire 
Onlookers look on amazed as they contemplate who this circle - made up of intricate geometric designs - came to be in this field in Woolstone Hill, Uffington. ©Lucy Pringle Crop circles continue to fascinate 
(known as a "single Julia set") appeared in a field of wheat near Stonehenge on the afternoon of July 7, 1996 Theories on the formation of crop circles 
"One opinion which seems to keep rising to the surface is that there has to be a "ground component" to this whole phenomena. A number of facts support this idea. The stalks are bent at 90 degrees at a consistent distance with respect to the topsoil (1 inch is typical). The CC sites are located on ley-lines and points connecting other geographic features (ie, roads, sacred sites, farmer's plough marks, etc). One researcher has reported that there is a 90% correlation with water from the ground....and the beginning of the plant stem is arguably the locale for the highest density of flowing H2O throughout the plant..." Original and beautiful crop circle from Torino, Italy Circular Sightings Tough to Explain What Do Crop Circles Tell Us About Ourselves? Britain's mysterious crop circles Crop formation in Straduny Area, Poland Ever decreasing crop circles Crop circles phenomenon in Poland Poland: New crop formations appeared Poland: Crop Circle in Chludowo World's first 3-D crop circle found in English field Poland - Wejherowo [7/8th July 2006] Aliens in my barley? What utter baloney Poland: Blue light and animal reaction accompany appearance... Flashes of light & Encounter with strange energy in Wylatowo Crop Circles in Croatia - June 2006 Crop Circles in Cervantes Crop Circles in 2004 Crop Circles Crop Circles Are Real A complex series of.... Solano County, California, USA Crop Circle Energy Dynamics Strange Flying Object Photographed Over Crop Circle Crop Circles Allegedly Found In Ohio Field Expert: Livingston Crop Circles Not A Hoax Second And Third Crop Circle 2003 Discovered First Crop Circle 2003 Discovered First Crop Circle 2003 Discovered Documentary Proves Crop circles Are Not Hoaxes The 2002 'Alien Face' Formation Canadian Crop Circles and Mysterious Lights in Saskatchewan Crabwood Formation Offers Clear Evidence of Contact Event More On Winchester Code Analysis The Alien at Crabwood Farm House Alien Bit Stream The 2002 Alien Face Crop Glyph SHORT MOVIES Quest for Truth Crop circle movie More about crop circles Most important links to thema "Crop Circles" http://www.electricwarrior.com/expose/ewExpose0007.htm http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/anasazi/connect.html http://home.clara.net/lovely/homepg.html http://www.circlemakers.org/ http://www.circlemakers.org/totc2002.html http://www.paradigmshift.com/ http://www.lovely.clara.net/ BOOKS ABOUT CROP CIRCLES SOURCE |
| Radiate_Truth |
If Crop Circles are some elaberate hoax or just beautiful art work...MAN MADE. Then some people have more money and time on there hands then they know what to do with. Consider the cost, time and energy that went into just one of these??? |
| obmar |
some aliens busy at work?
such intrinsuc work and no one claiming their artwork/ strange |
| Radiate_Truth |
As human beings, I have always felt their are other beings, spirits, angels, aliens, etc. That we as human beings are just not ready to handle what technology they could offer us right now, due to we are still way to much of a destructive society. I have no doubt there are such beings and with there technolgy they know this. If we had their technolgy, I doubt many of us would use it for the good of mankind. History speaks values of our barbaric savage nature. We or some of us are evolving to better ourselves, unfortunate it costs so much of life and that it takes so much time... |
| The Inquisitor |
Radiate Truth,
It is well known that: If for every billion stars in the universe, one had a planet And if for every billion stars with planets, one had a planet at the proper distance from that star to allow life to generate And for every billion stars with planets that could have life, one actually did have life There'd be billions of planets out there with life on them. Our Sun is a second or third generation star, made up from remmants of other dead stars. Our civilization is very new to the universe, being no more than a million years old at best. Other civilizations on other planets have had billions of years of a head start on us. Nevertheless, as obmar says, such pretty work and no one claiming authorship is rather strange. Of all the trillions and trillions of planets out there, why would an alien force visit our planet to create their strange art? |
| Radiate_Truth |
Give us time to evolve. Our society hasn't always used technology for constructive means. With there advanced technology to even let us know they exist. They are probably so adviced they know of our destructive nature, history of our uncivilized barbaric nature. Why would any adviced beings what to get that personal or close to us knowing our history? We can't even get along with each other, living as neighbors, sometimes right next door. I could imagine what we would do to alien beings from another planet. Even in our own make believe movies there is proof of that. Look how we act and behave toward each other on some of these forums. |