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Kornkreise - Was steckt dahinter?
Kornkreise: “Die Suche nach der Wahrheit” ist eine fesselnde und provozierende Dokumentation, reich an abendfüllendem, noch nie gezeigtem Filmmaterial und Interviews mit führenden Kornkreisforschern und Wissenschaftlern, von denen manche sich zum ersten Mal bereit erklärt hatten, vor die Kamera zu treten. Der Film ist eine eingehende Untersuchung der vorherrschenden Theorien über die Entstehung und Beschaffenheit der Kornkreise, sowie mögliche Implikationen für uns und die Zukunft der Erde.
Es gibt seit jeher heftige Auseinandersetzungen über die Entstehung der Kornkreise. Manche glauben, es handele sich um Mitteilungen von Außerirdischen und sie verweisen dabei auf die vielen Sichtungen und Videos von Luftphänomenen, die über den Kreisen während ihrer Entstehung zu sehen sind. Andere meinen, daß die Erscheinung von Lichtern, die man mit den Kornkreisen assoziiert, vielleicht von unbekannten natürlichen Energien erzeugt werden, die komplexe Muster hervorbringen. Experimente mit “mentaler Kraft” haben ergeben, daß es möglich ist, auf die Entstehung gewisser Formen Einfluß zu nehmen, was manche glauben läßt, daß übersinnliche Kräfte am Werk sind. Darüber hinaus drehen sich die meisten anderen gängigen Erklärungen über die Kornkreise um menschliche Einwirkung, entweder durch Satellitentechnologie oder einfach Aktionen von Witzbolden und Landschaftsarchitekten.
Wenn die Leute dann den Beweis führen sollen, bemühen sie sich vergebens, Formgebungen nachzumachen, die an die komplexen geometrischen Muster auf den Feldern heranreichen. Manche Formationen erscheinen innerhalb einer Nacht; die Kürze der Zeit, die geometrischen Berechnungen und die Art und Weise, wie die Pflanzen gebogen und “gewebt” werden, liegt außerhalb der menschlichen Fähigkeiten. Laboruntersuchungen von Pflanzen, die aus Kreisen stammen, haben ergeben, das diese Zellveränderungen aufweisen. Mutmaßungen über die Ursachen beinhalten Mikrowellenenergie, Schallwellen oder elektromagnetische Kräfte. Andere physikalische Tests ergaben Besonderheiten, die man nicht im Experiment wiederholen konnte. Diese Fakten, zusammen mit den Lichteffekten, Augenzeugenberichten, Meldungen von Störungen bei elektronischen Geräten und positive Auswirkungen auf die Gesundheit von Menschen, die die Kreise besuchen, sind Anzeichen dafür, daß es sich bei diesen Erscheinungen um unerklärliche Kräfte handelt. Ob Kornkreise nun Navigationspunkte sind, verschlüsselte uralte oder zukünftige Technologien, Warnungen, oder einfach Grußbotschaften, ihre überwältigende Schönheit und mysteriösen Erscheinungsformen sorgen weiterhin für weltweite Kontroversen.
Millionen von Worten sind über das Kornkreisphänomen geschrieben worden, mehrere Bücher sind über die geheimnisvollen Kreise erschienen, sowie unzählige Artikel in Zeitschriften und Zeitungen. Zahlreiche Internet Websites befassen sich mit dem Thema. Viele Theorien existieren, die das Erscheinen entweder Außerirdischen, Erdenergien, Wirbelwinden oder Fälschern zuschreiben. Dieser weltweit exklusive Artikel wird sich nur einem Aspekt dieses Rätsels widmen, nämlich der Beteiligung offizieller Einrichtungen an diesem Phänomen. Mehrfach hieß es, das es Interesse von Seiten des Verteidigungsministeriums und des Militärs gäbe, aber entsprechen denn derartige Behauptungen der Wahrheit? Ist die Regierung involviert? Gibt es offizielles Interesse?
Gewinner von 2 EBE Auszeichnungen! “Peoples Choice” Preis, und “Best Film / UFO Related Theme” - International UFO Congress Film Festival. Produziert von dem italienischen UFO Forscher Georgio Bongiovanni. Zum ersten Mal wird in diesem Film die Entdeckung einer verborgenen symbolischen Sprache oder Sinngebung der Kornkreise präsentiert, ein “kosmischer Code”. Die mysteriösen Kornkreise, die in den frühen 80er Jahren in atemberaubender Schnelligkeit auftraten, erscheinen bis zum heutigen Tage immer wieder und verblüffen mit ihrer geometrischen Komplexität, Großartigkeit und Schönheit. Dieser Film zeigt, warum das Kornkreisphänomen nicht das Werk anonymer Künstler sein kann: dagegen sprechen ihre Größe, das komplexe Design der Formen und ihre Vielzahl. Was sich uns letztlich auftut, kann nur als Wunder bezeichnet werden. Obwohl die Wissenschaft in ihnen nichts als clevere von Menschenhand gefertigte Entwürfe sieht, behaupten viele Forscher, es gäbe zwingende Beweise dafür, daß der Ursprung dieser rätselhaften Formationen nicht erklärt werden kann.
Es fing an mit einfachen Kreisen in Feldern mit Weizen, Gerste und anderem Getreide. Später wurden die Formationen komplexer; einige stellten sich in Form eines Piktogramms dar, deren Code wie eine Mitteilung unbekannten Inhalts schien. Das Phänomen gibt es seit vielen Jahren, und jeden Sommer werden wir mit immer komplexeren und oft wunderschönen Mustern erfreut. Die anhaltende Debatte unter vielen Kornkreisforschern und Skeptikern lautet: Sind sie von Menschenhand geschaffen oder nicht? Während viele Entwürfe ganz offensichtlich von Menschen stammen (sogar der langjährige Kornkreisforscher Colin Andrews schätzt, daß bis zu 80% von Hand gemacht sind), behaupten manche Forscher, daß viele dieser Formationen nicht von Menschen geschaffen wurden, ja, daß es sogar unmöglich ist. Erklärungen der Skeptiker schwanken zwischen Lächerlichem (eine frühere Theorie war, daß sie von im Kreise laufenden Igeln gemacht wurden) bis zum Glaubwürdigen (kluge Studenten). Die Erklärungen der Anhänger unterschieden sich ebenfalls beträchtlich; sie seien das Werk von Außerirdischen bis hin zu der Idee, daß die Erde selbst sie geschaffen habe, als eine Art Warnung für die Menschheit.
Auf ihrer Seite haben Skeptiker kühle vernunftmäßige Erklärungen und die Eingeständnisse von Kornkreisschöpfern wie Doug und Dave in England. 1992 traten Doug Bower und Dave Chorley, zwei ältere Herren im Ruhestand, an die Öffentlichkeit und beichteten, daß sie in den letzen 15 Jahren, und zwar mit Hilfe eines hölzernen Brettes, Stricken und einer Baseballmütze mit einer Schlaufe aus Draht, die ihnen half, geradeaus zu laufen, hunderte von Kornkreisen geschaffen hätten. Während diese Behauptung von vielen angezweifelt wird, ist es Tatsache, daß viele Kornkreise von Leuten “gefälscht” werden, die einen wohldurchdachten Entwurf und ein paar Bretter und einen Strick benutzen. Solche Fälscher haben vor Zeugen und laufender Fernsehkamera bewiesen, daß sie große, ausgeklügelte Muster innerhalb ein paar Stunden in der Nacht anfertigen können. Aber was ist mit den Behauptungen, daß Kornkreise durch übernatürliche, außerirdische oder abnormale Kräfte geschaffen werden? Wieso bestehen manche Forscher darauf, daß die Kreise mit großer Sicherheit nicht von Menschenhand gemacht wurden? Diese Forscher weisen darauf hin, daß die “authentischen” Kornkreise besondere Eigenarten aufweisen, die beweisen, daß sie nicht von Menschen gemacht sein können. Hier sind ein paar ihrer “besten Beweise”:
Zahl, Komplexität und Plazierung
Manche Forscher behaupten, daß es zu viele Kornkreise gibt, und daß sie zu kompliziert sind, als daß sie alle von Menschenhand gemacht sein können. Dieses ist vielleicht das schwächste Argument gegenüber der Behauptung, daß sie von Menschen stammen, da dabei die Fähigkeit und Geschicklichkeit der Menschen unterschätzt wird. Plazierung. Während die meisten Kornkreise in relativ zugänglichen Gebieten auftauchen, finden wir viele davon laut “Peculiarities of Crop Circle” in Sperrgebieten,. “Viele Kreise erschienen innerhalb Militärzonen, die mit Sicherheitszäunen umgeben sind, die bemerkenswertesten davon sind in Wiltshire auf dem Salisbury Plain.” Dieser Artikel betont auch, das sich etliche Kornkreise nicht in der Nähe von Fahrtlinien befinden, sodaß es für die Künstler schwierig ist, Beschädigung der Pflanzen zu vertuschen.
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Forscher haben schon länger behauptet, daß Pflanzen in den echten Kornkreisen auf besondere Art verwoben sind, wenn sie abgeflacht werden. Fälscher haben es angeblich nicht fertig gebracht, diese Muster wiederzugeben. “Die Pflanzen sind musterhaft übereinandergelegt und ihre Spitzen fügen sich sanft in das stehende Korn wie Speichen bei einem Rad und bilden damit einen Kreis” sagt Urn Greene in “Crop Circles: Fingerprints of the Gods?”. Dies ist ein Effekt, der nicht mit einem Brett oder Rasenroller erzielt werden kann, zwei Dinge, die die Fälscher normalerweise gebrauchen um “falsche” Kreise herzustellen. Verlängerte Knoten. Joseph D. Mason in “Arguments Against the Hoax Theory of Crop Circles” stellt fest, daß es einen deutlichen Unterschied gibt zwischen Getreide, das in “echten” Kreisen abgeflacht ist und dem der Fälscher. An Hand von Fotos, die seine Behauptung untermauern, behauptet Mason: “Der gekrümmte Knoten der Pflanzen innerhalb einer echten Kornformation ist gedehnt aber unverletzt. Pflanzenhalme, die durch mechanische Einwirkung von Menschen gebogen wurden, scheinen verletzt und haben keine gestreckten Knoten. Geplatzte Knoten. Laut Mason haben viele Pflanzen innerhalb eines echten Kornkreises “gesprengte Knoten”.
Ausgetrocknete Erde
Die Erde unter Kornkreisen erscheint aus unerklärlichen Gründen oft ausgetrocknet, auch nach schweren Regenfällen. Zunehmende Größe. Dr. Eltjo H. Haselhoff, Ph.D, ein früherer Angestellter der Los Alamos National Laboratories, beschrieb die folgenden Veränderungen der Pflanzen in seinen Untersuchungen: “Es wurde festgestellt, daß der Durchmesser der Pflanzenhalme innerhalb dieser Kreise an Umfang zunahm in einer erstaunlichen kreisförmigen Symmetrie; das Resultat starker Erhitzung. Darüber hinaus entsprach dieser Effekt dem Strahlungsmuster einer elektromagnetischen Punktquelle in einer Höhe von 4,10 m über diesem Feld”. Dieses Ergebnis, meint er, stützt die Behauptung, daß die Formationen von “Lichtkugeln” (siehe unten) erschaffen werden, die laut Zeugen über den Kornkreisen zu sehen sind. Gekrümmte Pflanzen, die sich nicht biegen lassen. Manche Pflanzen lassen sich einfach nicht biegen, sagen einige Forscher. “Kornkreisformationen treten oft in Rapsfeldern auf”, sagt Joseph Mason. “Diese Pflanze hat eine Konsistenz wie Sellerie. Wenn der Stengel mehr als um ungefähr 45 Grad gebogen wird, bricht er. Jedoch in “echten” Kornkreisformationen liegen die Stengel oft flach bis zu 90 Grad gebogen. Kein Botaniker oder Wissenschaftler hat dies je erklären können, und kein Mensch hat es je nachmachen können”. Veränderte Samen.
Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen haben ergeben, das Pflanzen von Samen, die Teil eines Kornkreises waren, abnormal wachsen. “Biophysical Effects found in Crop Formation Plants” von BLT Research besagt, daß der Fruchtstand (Gerste) der Formation bei Barbury Castle (1992) “verkrüppelt und samenlos” ist. Manche Pflanzen aus Kornkreisen bilden auffallend kleinere Samenkörner als normale Pflanzen.
Elektromagnetische und radioaktive Auswirkungen
Auswirkungen auf Geräte. Forscher behaupten, daß ihre elektronischen Geräte oft beeinträchtigt werden, wenn sie Kornkreise untersuchen. Laut “Peculiarities of Crop Circles”“ gibt es viele Meldungen, daß elektronische Geräte ausfallen und Kompasse in und über den Kornkreisen (beim Überfliegen) außer Kontrolle geraten”. Hierzu gehören Uhren, Mobiltelefone, Batterien und Kameras. Für diese Vorkommnisse gibt es keine anderen Erklärungen außer, daß es sich hier um eine starke EM-Feld Verzerrung handelt.
EM-Messungen
Der langjährige Kornkreisforscher Colin Andrews sagt, daß er im Zentrum von manchen Formationen elektromagnetische (EM) Messungen von 40-50 nano Teslas aufgezeichnet hat, die, wie er sagt, zehnmal höher sind als der Strahlungsgrad von einem normalen Feld.
Eigenartige Geräusche
Forscher berichten, daß sie manchmal ein unerklärliches Geräusch in einer 5KHz Frequenz festgestellt haben, das von Kornkreisen ausstrahlt und nach seinem ersten Auftreten mehrere Tage anhält.” In “Peculiarities of Crop Circles” wird berichtet, daß diese Beobachtung mit Berichten von Augenzeugen übereinstimmt, die oft von einem “Trillern” aus Richtung der Formation erzählen”.
Radioaktive Isotopen
1991 haben zwei amerikanische Nuklearphysiker, Michael Chorost und Marshall Dudley, ihr Wissen der Kornkreisforschung zur Verfügung gestellt. In einem Artikel von Freddy Silva “Analysis of Crop-Circle Affected Crops and Soil”, steht: “Nachdem sie mehrere Samen und Erdproben eingehenden Laboranalysen unterzogen hatten, war ihre wichtigste Entdeckung, daß die Erdproben aus echten Kornkreisen mindestens vier kurzlebige radioaktive Isotopen enthielten, Vanadium, Europium, Tellurium und Ytterbium. Bodenuntersuchungen der Beckhampton Formation vom 31. Juli ergaben Alpha Emissionen, die 198% höher lagen als die der Kontrollproben sowie Beta Emissionen, die 48% höher lagen. Beides erscheint “auffallend erhöht”, da sie zwei- bis dreimal so radioaktiv waren wie die Erde außerhalb der Formation. DNA-Untersuchungen von Pflanzen aus einem anderen Kornkreis ergaben, daß diese Pflanzen wesentlich schwächer waren als Pflanzen außerhalb der Kreise.
Körperliche Nebenwirkungen
Es wird von extremen Reaktionen bei Menschen berichtet, die in Kornkreise hineingehen. Während manche freudig erregt sind, haben andere negative Auswirkungen wie “Übelkeit, Kopfschmerzen, Schwindel, Kribbelgefühle und Schmerzen”. Manche behaupten, daß Ihre Menstruation beeinflußt wurde, während andere wieder berichten, daß es sie förmlich “umwarf”. Nicht nur Menschen sind betroffen. Laut “Crop Circles: A Deeper Look” von der Foundation for Paranormal Research, “ hat ein Forscher seinen Hund in einen frisch entstandenen Kreis mitgenommen. Der Hund mußte sich heftig übergeben und dieser Zustand dauerte eine Stunde lang. Schafe, die in der Nähe sind, spielen verrückt.” Ein anderer Augenzeuge sagte aus: “Während eines dritten Besuches in der Chiseldon-Formation im Jahre 1996 traf ich ein Paar, das nicht verstand, warum seine sonst so gelassene Katze total verstört war, sowie sie in den Kreis hineinging. Sie protestierte laut und suchte verzweifelt einen Weg nach draußen. Einmal draußen, war sie wieder ganz normal.
Höchst komplizierte mathematische Muster - Euklidische Geometrie
Manche Forscher behaupten, daß bestimmte Kornkreise eine raffinierte Geometrie aufweisen, die ein gewöhnlicher Fälscher noch nicht einmal verstehen würde. Gerald S. Hawkins, ehemaliger Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender der astronomischen Abteilung der Boston Universität, sagt, daß er eine Beziehung zwischen den Kornkreisen und der Euklidischen Geometrie festgestellt habe. Laut einem Artikel in “The Crop Circular” konnte “Hawkins feststellen, daß er die Prinzipien der Euklidischen Geometrie anwenden
konnte, um vier Lehrsätze nachzuweisen, die in den Verhältnissen der Kornkreisflächen zueinander zu erkennen sind. Er entdeckte noch einen fünften, einen allgemeingültigeren, von dem sich die anderen vier ableiten ließen. ‘Dieses Theorem betrifft konzentrische Ringe, die die Seiten eines Dreiecks berühren, und indem sich das Dreieck verändert, bildet dies die ganz besondere Kornkreisgeometrie’, sagt er. Hawkins fand weder eine Erwähnung eines solchen Theorems in den Werken des Euklides, noch in irgendeinem anderen Buch, das er zu Rate zog. Doch im Juli 1995 ‘bewiesen die Kornkreisschöpfer, daß sie das fünfte Theorem sehr wohl kannten’.”
Diatonische Verhältnisse
Mindestens ein Artikel spricht davon, daß die Kreisschöpfer, wer oder was immer sie sind, in ihren Kornkreisen diatonische Verhältnisse verschlüsseln - genauso wie Musiknoten im Verhältnis zueinander stehen. “Musiker verwenden Noten der ersten Oktave, um verschlüsselte Botschaften in ihre Musik einzufügen”. Der Artikel sagt weiterhin: “ Zum Beispiel, wiederholt Bach in seiner letzte Fuge immer wieder die Noten B-A-C-H. Seit 1988 verschlüsseln die Kreisschöpfer Botschaften durch Einbeziehung diatonischer Verhältnisse, also Notensätze. Wenn Geometrien abgeglichen werden mit Listen von Initialen, scheint dieser Code nur zu einer einzigen Liste zu passen: zur Liste der ersten 25 Präsidenten der Society for Psychical Research of London”. Ein Grund, warum die Kreisschöpfer gerade diese Leute hervorgehoben haben, wird in dem Artikel nicht genannt. Ein Artikel “Music and Harmonics” in “Crop Circle Research.com” bietet zusätzliche Information und einige Tonmuster.
Heilige Geometrie
Im Artikel “Sacred Geometry of Crop Circles” heißt es, daß die sogenannte heilige Geometrie in Kornkreisen zu erkennen ist und somit das Universum reflektiert; seine reinen Formen und sein dynamisches Gleichgewicht haben Anteil an einer höheren Bestimmung: das Erlangen von spiritueller Ganzheit durch Selbstbetrachtung, um auf diese Weise Erkenntnis des Inneren Ichs zu erlangen. Wenn man Kornkreisformationen durch genaue und gleichbleibende Anwendung heiliger Geometrie analysiert, kommt man nicht umhin, anzuerkennen, daß man es hier mit einem wissenschaftlich hochgebildeten Verstand zu tun hat. Daß diese Symbolik hauptsächlich in Weizen vorkommt, d e m Symbol der Mutter Erde, ist an sich schon bedeutungsvoll. Vielleicht dienen die Kreise dazu, uns durch diese Interaktion mit dem Sinnbild des Lebens als Rasse zusammenzubringen?
Augenzeugen und Lichtkugeln
Mehrere Augenzeugen berichten, daß sie eigenartige Lichtkugeln oder Lichtwolken in und um die Kornkreise gesehen haben, sowohl während ihrer Entstehung, als auch einige Zeit danach. In einem Artikel von Linda Moulton Howe zitiert sie eine Zeugin, die ein helles Licht sah, das augenscheinlich aus dem Kreis aufstieg, als sie und eine Freundin 1994 in eine große Formation, bekannt als Galaxy hineingingen: “ Es war sehr hell, es erhellte die Hügel im Hintergrund. Es war blauweiß und ungefähr so groß wie die Formation - 50 bis 60 Meter breit. Dieses Licht bildete eine Art Wolke, die ständig ihre Form veränderte, während sie über dem Kreis schwebte. Nach ein paar Sekunden stieg es langsam hoch und verschwand in der Dunkelheit. Meine Freundin und ich waren total verblüfft!” Eines der meist umstrittenen Kornkreisvideos, bekannt als das Oliver’s Castle Crop Video, zeigt anscheinend mehrere wirbelnde Lichtkugeln, die tatsächlich dabei sind, eine Formation in einem Kornfeld zu kreieren.
Das Video erschien einige Male in Fernsehberichten. Obwohl es immer noch etliche Unbelehrbare gibt, sind die meisten Experten, die es analysiert haben, zu dem Schluß gekommen, daß es sich um eine Fälschung handelt - eine raffinierte Computer erstellte Fälschung. Ein anderes Video von 1999 scheint eine Lichtkugel in der Nähe des Kornkreises “dolphins” beim Barbury Castle zu zeigen. Urm Greene behauptet, daß er Videomaterial auf einer CD-ROM anbieten kann, das “einen britischen Militärhubschrauber zeigt, der ein kleines, leuchtendes, pulsierendes UFO innerhalb eines Kornkreisfeldes verfolgt und schließlich einholt.
Weithergeholte Meinungen
Es gibt manche Leute, die glauben, daß die Beweise für den übernatürlichen Ursprung der Kornkreise auf psychischer Ebene liegen. Träume und übersinnliche Verbindungen. Joseph Mason schreibt in seinem Artikel “The Pleiades and the Seventh Ray on the Seventh Day”, daß “Träume und Fügungen oft mit Kornkreisformationen zusammenhängen.” Er bringt den bekannten dreieckigen Kornkreis aus dem Jahre 1991 in der Nähe von Barbury Castle mit einem Traum, den er hatte in Verbindung - die Sieben Schöpfungstage, die Heilige Dreieinigkeit und das Sternbild der Pleyaden. Und Dee Finney behauptet, daß der Whitehorse Kornkreis von 1999 in einem Feld entstand, während sie davon träumte. In “Philosopher’s Stone” berichtete Kris Weber Sherwood, daß im Jahre 1997 eine schneeflockenförmige Kreisformation, bekannt als das Koch Fraktal am Fuße des Silbury Hills, “mit weitreichenden und miteinander verbundenen Inhalten höchster Bedeutung vielschichtig angeordnet war, absolut stimmig in der Zeitwahl, der Plazierung, dem Entwurf und ihren äußerlichen Bestandteilen. Das wahre Kornkreisphänomen ist erwiesenermaßen fähig, psycho-interaktiv mit Leuten, die sich ganz speziell mit Kornkreisen befassen, zu kommunizieren”. Man sagt, daß Medien ganz besonders fein abgestimmt sind auf Kornkreise. “Manche Medien begannen Botschaften von Intelligenzen, die mit den Kornkreisen zu tun haben, aufzufangen” heißt es in “Crop Circles: A Deeper Look”, sie sagten die nächste Kornkreisformation voraus, ihr Design und den Ort. Und tatsächlich, ihre Voraussagen trafen zu. Dies führt uns zu anderen faszinierenden Vorfällen im Zusammenhang mit diesem Phänomen.”
Also, wie entstehen sie?
Der Theorien über die Schaffung von Kornkreisen, wenn sie denn nicht von Menschenhand stammen, sind viele und bieten Stoff für einen weiteren Artikel. Manche der gängigsten Theorien schließen Wirbelwindstrudel, Plasmastrudel (die Lichtkugeln?), Erdenergien, Außerirdische, Untergrundarchäologie, Klangvibrationen, himmlische oder satanische Kräfte sowie Militärexperimente mit Mikrowellen ein. Falls die obengenannten Besonderheiten tatsächlich existieren, ist eine gründliche, rigorose, wissenschaftliche Untersuchung der Kornkreise und ihrer Auswirkungen erforderlich, um dieses Rätsel zu lösen.
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History Channel
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Barbara E. and Frauke O. Peru
Montag, 14. Juli 2008
Freitag, 4. Juli 2008
Sono ritornati i cerchi nel grano Che sia opera degli extraterrestri?
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Il misterioso disegno ha fatto la sua apparizione nella notte tra sabato e domenica. Per i curiosi lo spettacolo è ben visibile da via Varano
Ancona, 30 giugno 2008 - Il grano è pronto per la mietitura ma prima che questo avvenga puntuali tornano i 'cerchi'. Ieri mattina hanno fatto la loro apparizione nella zona di Varano.
Sicuramente sono stati realizzati nella notte, visto che nella sera di sabato non c’era traccia. Per i curiosi lo spettacolo è ben visibile da via Varano. Extraterrestri? Ognuno può pensare quel che vuole.
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Il Resto del Carlino
Avvistato un cerchio nel grano a Villanova d'Asti
VILLANOVA D'ASTI 04/07/2008 - Un sole alieno.
Un cerchio, dodici raggi e dodici piccole sfere. E' il crop circle filmato da aled70, un utente di YouTube che dice di averlo immortalato durante un volo a bordo di un aereo a Villanova d'Asti.
I cerchi nel grano (in inglese crop circles) sono aree di campi di cereali o coltivazioni simili in cui le piante appaiono appiattite in modo uniforme, formando così varie figure geometriche (talvolta indicati come "pittogrammi") ben visibili dall'alto.
A seguito del numero crescente di apparizioni di queste figure (soprattutto in Inghilterra) a partire della fine degli anni settanta del XX secolo, il fenomeno dei crop circles è diventato un soggetto d'indagine tra i più controversi. Il suo forte impatto emotivo, dovuto anche al rinvenimento anno dopo anno di sempre nuove e complesse strutture grafiche, va sicuramente oltre le analisi degli studiosi e non smette di suscitare l'interesse di migliaia di persone in tutto il mondo.
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CronacaQui Milano

Decifrato un cerchio nell’orzo vicino a Stonehenge
VITTORIO SABADIN
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19/6/2008 (7:15) - IL CASO
Un pi greco gigante
sulle colline di Merlino
Se i «cerchi» nel grano che compaiono ogni estate nei campi inglesi li fanno davvero gli alieni, ora sappiamo che conoscono il «pi greco», quel 3,14 che rappresenta il numero più misterioso della matematica e definisce il rapporto tra la circonferenza e il diametro di un cerchio. Il disegno ritrovato all’inizio di giugno in una coltivazione di orzo a Barbury Castle sembrava uno dei tanti che in questa stagione affollano i campi inglesi e, come al solito, era stato subito fotografato dall’alto da Lucy Pringle, l’instancabile ricercatrice che da più di dieci anni sorvola la campagna alla ricerca di «crop circles». L’immagine della formazione, larga più di 45 metri e ritrovata in una collina dello Wiltshire, è rimasta online nel sito di Lucy (www.lucypringle.co.uk) insieme alle altre apparse in questo mese, e non sembrava nemmeno una delle più belle: una linea a spirale convergente verso il centro, interrotta ogni tanto da inspiegabili scanalature, anch’esse convergenti al centro.
C'è voluto un astrofisico in pensione, Mike Reed, per notare che quel disegno all’apparenza banale nascondeva qualcosa di molto più complesso. Bastava completarlo, tracciando i raggi del cerchio in corrispondenza delle scanalature, per evidenziare il messaggio nascosto: il numero 3,141592654, vale a dire esattamente le prime nove cifre del «pi greco», seguite da un 4 invece che da un 3. Il professor Reed ha intuito che il piccolissimo cerchio, che compariva nelle foto a destra del centro della formazione, rappresentava la virgola del «pi greco» ed il resto - per uno studioso a proprio agio con la matematica - è stato abbastanza facile. Tutti ricordiamo che a scuola il «pi greco» ci consentiva di calcolare l'area di un cerchio, ma di tutti i numeri sembra davvero quello venuto da un altro mondo.
E' considerato irrazionale, non può essere scritto come quoziente di due interi; è trascendente e non algebrico e quindi è impossibile esprimerlo usando un numero finito di interi. E' un po' complicato da spiegare, ma il «pi greco» ci dice in sostanza perché non è possibile quadrare il cerchio, realizzare cioè con riga e compasso un quadrato della stessa area di un determinato cerchio. Lo Wiltshire è una regione della Gran Bretagna ossessionata dai cerchi fin dall’epoca del suo monumento più famoso e rappresentativo, Stonehenge. Qui, nel 1991, comparve in un altro campo di grano il disegno del frattale di Mandelbrot, nel 1996 il «Julia Set» e nel 1997 i cerchi di Koch, tutte figure molto note ai fisici e ai matematici per la loro estasiante, ripetitiva complessità.
Poco lontano, a Milk Hill, venne trovata nel 2001 la madre di tutti i «crop circles», una formazione a spirale con 400 cerchi di varie dimensioni che si estendeva per 90 mila metri quadrati e che è rimasta imbattuta per l’armonia e la bellezza che esprimeva. Tutte queste figure sono state catalogate con pazienza da Lucy Pringle, che negli ultimi anni ha messo insieme (e a disposizione di tutti) il più straordinario e per certi versi inquietante database di un fenomeno che gli scienziati fanno sempre più fatica ad attribuire - per tranquillizzarci - a quattro burloni che di notte tagliano il grano con una falciatrice. Certamente i burloni esistono, e lo hanno anche confessato. Ma le indagini effettuate da numerosi ricercatori sono arrivate alla conclusione che non sono loro gli autori dei disegni più complessi.
E molte cose restano inspiegabili quando si osservano le formazioni sul terreno, da vicino. Il grano o l’orzo non sono tagliati, ma piegati a spirale, come se fossero stati abbattuti da un vortice. Gli steli presentano strane malformazioni, l’aria sul campo è spesso ionizzata e a terra si ritrovano microsfere di ferro. Intorno ai «cerchi» non c’è traccia del calpestio di qualcuno che si sia avvicinato per realizzarli e in ogni caso sarebbe davvero impossibile disegnare da terra forme così complicate, al buio e in una sola notte. Le formazioni più belle compaiono ogni estate, a giugno e a luglio, nei luoghi più misteriosi dell’Inghilterra: Avebury, Silbury Hill, Stonehenge, quelli delle civiltà preistoriche che hanno lasciato grandi cavalli disegnati sulle alture, innalzato colline per i loro morti e trasportato - non si sa come - megaliti per centinaia di chilometri per realizzare circoli di pietra di cui ancora oggi non capiamo lo scopo. Il mistero continua, e la nuova stagione dei «cerchi» nel grano è appena all'inizio.
Source:
La Stampa
Il misterioso disegno ha fatto la sua apparizione nella notte tra sabato e domenica. Per i curiosi lo spettacolo è ben visibile da via Varano
Ancona, 30 giugno 2008 - Il grano è pronto per la mietitura ma prima che questo avvenga puntuali tornano i 'cerchi'. Ieri mattina hanno fatto la loro apparizione nella zona di Varano.
Sicuramente sono stati realizzati nella notte, visto che nella sera di sabato non c’era traccia. Per i curiosi lo spettacolo è ben visibile da via Varano. Extraterrestri? Ognuno può pensare quel che vuole.
Source:
Il Resto del Carlino
Avvistato un cerchio nel grano a Villanova d'Asti
VILLANOVA D'ASTI 04/07/2008 - Un sole alieno.
Un cerchio, dodici raggi e dodici piccole sfere. E' il crop circle filmato da aled70, un utente di YouTube che dice di averlo immortalato durante un volo a bordo di un aereo a Villanova d'Asti.
I cerchi nel grano (in inglese crop circles) sono aree di campi di cereali o coltivazioni simili in cui le piante appaiono appiattite in modo uniforme, formando così varie figure geometriche (talvolta indicati come "pittogrammi") ben visibili dall'alto.
A seguito del numero crescente di apparizioni di queste figure (soprattutto in Inghilterra) a partire della fine degli anni settanta del XX secolo, il fenomeno dei crop circles è diventato un soggetto d'indagine tra i più controversi. Il suo forte impatto emotivo, dovuto anche al rinvenimento anno dopo anno di sempre nuove e complesse strutture grafiche, va sicuramente oltre le analisi degli studiosi e non smette di suscitare l'interesse di migliaia di persone in tutto il mondo.
Source:
CronacaQui Milano

Decifrato un cerchio nell’orzo vicino a Stonehenge
VITTORIO SABADIN
LONDRA
19/6/2008 (7:15) - IL CASO
Un pi greco gigante
sulle colline di Merlino
Se i «cerchi» nel grano che compaiono ogni estate nei campi inglesi li fanno davvero gli alieni, ora sappiamo che conoscono il «pi greco», quel 3,14 che rappresenta il numero più misterioso della matematica e definisce il rapporto tra la circonferenza e il diametro di un cerchio. Il disegno ritrovato all’inizio di giugno in una coltivazione di orzo a Barbury Castle sembrava uno dei tanti che in questa stagione affollano i campi inglesi e, come al solito, era stato subito fotografato dall’alto da Lucy Pringle, l’instancabile ricercatrice che da più di dieci anni sorvola la campagna alla ricerca di «crop circles». L’immagine della formazione, larga più di 45 metri e ritrovata in una collina dello Wiltshire, è rimasta online nel sito di Lucy (www.lucypringle.co.uk) insieme alle altre apparse in questo mese, e non sembrava nemmeno una delle più belle: una linea a spirale convergente verso il centro, interrotta ogni tanto da inspiegabili scanalature, anch’esse convergenti al centro.
C'è voluto un astrofisico in pensione, Mike Reed, per notare che quel disegno all’apparenza banale nascondeva qualcosa di molto più complesso. Bastava completarlo, tracciando i raggi del cerchio in corrispondenza delle scanalature, per evidenziare il messaggio nascosto: il numero 3,141592654, vale a dire esattamente le prime nove cifre del «pi greco», seguite da un 4 invece che da un 3. Il professor Reed ha intuito che il piccolissimo cerchio, che compariva nelle foto a destra del centro della formazione, rappresentava la virgola del «pi greco» ed il resto - per uno studioso a proprio agio con la matematica - è stato abbastanza facile. Tutti ricordiamo che a scuola il «pi greco» ci consentiva di calcolare l'area di un cerchio, ma di tutti i numeri sembra davvero quello venuto da un altro mondo.
E' considerato irrazionale, non può essere scritto come quoziente di due interi; è trascendente e non algebrico e quindi è impossibile esprimerlo usando un numero finito di interi. E' un po' complicato da spiegare, ma il «pi greco» ci dice in sostanza perché non è possibile quadrare il cerchio, realizzare cioè con riga e compasso un quadrato della stessa area di un determinato cerchio. Lo Wiltshire è una regione della Gran Bretagna ossessionata dai cerchi fin dall’epoca del suo monumento più famoso e rappresentativo, Stonehenge. Qui, nel 1991, comparve in un altro campo di grano il disegno del frattale di Mandelbrot, nel 1996 il «Julia Set» e nel 1997 i cerchi di Koch, tutte figure molto note ai fisici e ai matematici per la loro estasiante, ripetitiva complessità.
Poco lontano, a Milk Hill, venne trovata nel 2001 la madre di tutti i «crop circles», una formazione a spirale con 400 cerchi di varie dimensioni che si estendeva per 90 mila metri quadrati e che è rimasta imbattuta per l’armonia e la bellezza che esprimeva. Tutte queste figure sono state catalogate con pazienza da Lucy Pringle, che negli ultimi anni ha messo insieme (e a disposizione di tutti) il più straordinario e per certi versi inquietante database di un fenomeno che gli scienziati fanno sempre più fatica ad attribuire - per tranquillizzarci - a quattro burloni che di notte tagliano il grano con una falciatrice. Certamente i burloni esistono, e lo hanno anche confessato. Ma le indagini effettuate da numerosi ricercatori sono arrivate alla conclusione che non sono loro gli autori dei disegni più complessi.
E molte cose restano inspiegabili quando si osservano le formazioni sul terreno, da vicino. Il grano o l’orzo non sono tagliati, ma piegati a spirale, come se fossero stati abbattuti da un vortice. Gli steli presentano strane malformazioni, l’aria sul campo è spesso ionizzata e a terra si ritrovano microsfere di ferro. Intorno ai «cerchi» non c’è traccia del calpestio di qualcuno che si sia avvicinato per realizzarli e in ogni caso sarebbe davvero impossibile disegnare da terra forme così complicate, al buio e in una sola notte. Le formazioni più belle compaiono ogni estate, a giugno e a luglio, nei luoghi più misteriosi dell’Inghilterra: Avebury, Silbury Hill, Stonehenge, quelli delle civiltà preistoriche che hanno lasciato grandi cavalli disegnati sulle alture, innalzato colline per i loro morti e trasportato - non si sa come - megaliti per centinaia di chilometri per realizzare circoli di pietra di cui ancora oggi non capiamo lo scopo. Il mistero continua, e la nuova stagione dei «cerchi» nel grano è appena all'inizio.
Source:
La Stampa
Dienstag, 17. Juni 2008
Crop Circles - Who is really responsible?
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Crop Circles: Quest for Truth is a compelling and provocative feature-length documentary full of never-before-seen footage and interviews with leading Crop Circles researchers and scientists, some of whom agreed to be on camera for the first time. The film is an in-depth examination of prevailing theories about the origin and nature of Crop Circles and the possible implications for us and for the future of Planet Earth.
There has been intense debate over the origins of Crop Circles. Some believe they are communications from extra-terrestrials, pointing to the many sightings and videos of aerial phenomena seen in connection with formations. Others feel the appearance of lights associated with Crop Circles may be generated by unknown natural energies which produce complex ground patterns. Experiments with the power of the mind have suggested it is possible to influence the creation of certain shapes, leading some to believe psychic forces are involved. Beyond this, most other popular explanations for Crop Circles have revolved around human action, either involving satellite technology or the simple actions of pranksters and landscape artists. However, in demonstrations, human teams have struggled, without success, to reproduce designs as geometrically complex as those seen in fields. Certain formations have appeared within one night; the short amounts of time, the geometric calculations, and the methods of bending and weaving the plants are clearly beyond human capabilities. Work by laboratories on circle-affected crops has shown biological changes taking place at a cellular level, and speculation about the causes includes microwave energy, sound waves, and electromagnetic forces. Other physical tests have shown anomalies that aren't replicated in man-made experiments. These, together with the lights, eyewitness accounts, reports of malfunctioning electronic equipment, and positive health effects on people visiting circles, suggest that the phenomenon involves unexplained forces. Whether crop formations are navigational points, encoded ancient or future technologies, warnings or simply messages of greeting, their stunning beauty and mysterious manifestation continues to spark worldwide controversy.
Millions of words have been written about the crop circle phenomenon. Several books have been written on the mystery, together with countless newspaper and magazine features. Numerous Internet sites are devoted to the subject. Various theories about crop circles exist, attributing them to such causes as extraterrestrials, Earth energies, wind vortices or hoaxers. This world exclusive article will deal with only one aspect of the mystery, namely official involvement in the phenomenon. Several allegations have been made concerning interest on the part of the Ministry of Defence and the military, but is there any truth to such claims? Have the Government been involved? Is there any official interest?
Crop Circles - The Truth
Winner of 2 EBEAwards! Peoples Choice Award & Best Film / UFO Related Theme - International UFO Congress Film Festival. Produced by Italian UFO investigator Georgio Bongiovanni. Presented for the first time in this investigative film is the discovery of a hidden symbolic language or meaning, a "cosmic code" in the crop circle formations which began to appear in a whirlwind of mystery in the early 1980s and continues to this day with stunning geometric complexity, grandeur and beauty. This film demonstrates how the Crop Circle phenomenon can no longer be explained away simply as the creation of anonymous artisans because of the size and complex design of these formations and the frequency with which they appear. In the end what we may discover can only be called a miracle. Although science regards them as no more than clever manmade designs, many researchers say there is compelling proof that the origins of these mysterious formations is unexplained.
They began as simple circles laid down in fields of wheat, corn and other crops. Then the formations became more complex, some taking the form of pictograms that seemed to be ciphers for messages of unknown meaning. The phenomenon has continued over the years, and each summer season we are treated to ever-more complex and often beautiful crop circle designs. The ongoing debate among many crop circle investigators and skeptics has been: Are they manmade or not? While many designs are clearly and admittedly made by people (even veteran crop circle researcher Colin Andrew estimates that up to 80 percent of them are probably manmade), some researchers insist that many formations are not - in fact, cannot be - made by humans. Skeptical explanations for crop formations have ranged from the ludicrous (one early theory was that they were created by hedgehogs running in circles) to the probable (clever college students). The believers' explanations have been equally as diverse, ranging from the work of extraterrestrials to the idea that the formations are created by the Earth itself as some kind of warning to mankind.
On their side, skeptics have cold rationale and the confessions of such crop circle creators as Doug and Dave in the UK. In 1992, Doug Bower and Dave Chorley, two somewhat elderly retirees, came forward and claimed that they had created hundreds of crop circles over the preceding 15 years using a plank of wood, rope and a baseball cap fitted with a loop of wire to help them walk in a straight line. While their claim is called into serious question by some researchers, it is unquestioned that many crop formations have been "hoaxed" by people using little more than a well-planned design and, yes, planks of wood and rope. Such hoaxers have proved before witnesses and television cameras that they can create large, elaborate designs at night in just a few hours. But what of the assertion that crop formations are created by some supernatural, extraterrestrial or paranormal force? What is the evidence that compels some researchers to conclude that they almost certainly are not manmade? There are peculiarities to "genuine" crop circles, these researchers say, that cannot be created or hoaxed by humans. Here is some of their "best evidence":
Number and Complexity, and Placement
Some researchers contend that crop formations are too numerous and too complex to all have been made by humans. This may be the weakest argument against them being manmade as it naively underestimates the abilities and ingenuity of some people. Placement. While most crop circles can be found in readily accessible fields, some are not. Some have been found within restricted areas, according to "Peculiarities of Crop Circles" - "numerous accounts of crop circles appearing inside military installations that are fenced off (quite securely!) from the surrounding area. Most notably in Wiltshire along the Salisbury Plain." This article also points out that several crop circles have been formed away from the farmer's tram lines, which makes it very difficult for the circle makers to hide evidence of their Changes to Plants.
Weaving
Researchers have long contended that the plants in genuine circles are weaved together in a particular way when they are flattened. Hoaxers have supposedly not been able to duplicate this pattern. "The plants are masterfully overlapping each other, and gently spiking into the standing crop in a spoke effect creating the circle," says Urn Greene at "Crop Circles: Fingerprints of the Gods?". "This is an effect that is not achieved by simply stomping on the plants with a board and or a garden roller, two tools commonly used by hoaxers to create fakes." Elongated nodes. Joseph E. Mason at "Arguments Against the Hoax Theory of Crop Circles" says that there is a distinct difference between crops that are bent in genuine circles and those bent by hoaxers. With photos to support his claim, Mason says: "The bent node of the plant from inside a [genuine] crop formation is elongated yet undamaged. Plant stems bent by people via mechanical means appear damaged and do not have the elongated nodes." Blown nodes. Many plants inside genuine circles also have "blown nodes," according to Mason.
Dried ground.
The soil beneath crop circles often appears inexplicably dehydrated, even after heavy rain. Increased size. Dr. Eltjo H. Haselhoff, Ph.D., a former employee of Los Alamos National Laboratories, noted these alterations in crop circle plants in his research: "It was discovered that the plant stems inside these formations had increased in diameter, as an effect of intensive heating, with an astonishing circular symmetry. Moreover, this effect perfectly matched the radiation pattern of an electromagnetic point source at a height of four meters and ten centimeters above that field." This finding, he says, supports the contention that the formations were created by the "balls of light" (see below) that witnesses have claimed to see at crop circles. Bent unbendable plants. Some plants just should not be able to be bent, say some researchers. "Crop circle formations often appear in canola (oil seed rape) fields," says Joseph Mason. "This plant has a consistency like celery. If the stalk is bent more than about 45-degrees, it snaps apart. Yet, in a 'genuine' crop circle formation, the stalks are often bent flat at 90-degrees. No botanist or other scientist has been able to explain this, nor has it ever been duplicated by a human being." Altered seeds. Tests by some researchers have shown that seeds planted from crops that were part of crop circles grow abnormally. "Biophysical Effects found in Crop Formation Plants" by BLT Research says that the seed-heads (barley) from the 1992 formation at Barbury Castle are "stunted and seedless." Some crop circle plants also produce seeds that are noticeably smaller than normal plants.
Electromagnetic and Radioactive Effects
Effects on equipment.
Researchers claim that their electronic equipment is often affected when they are examining crop circles. "There have been numerous reports of electronic equipment failing in crop circles and compasses spinning out of control in and over the crop circles (when flying over in aircraft)," according to "Peculiarities of Crop Circles". "This range of equipment includes watches, mobile phones, batteries, cameras. No explanations for these occurrences, other than the indication of a strong EM field distortions."
EM measurements.
Longtime crop circle investigator Colin Andrews says he has recorded electromagnetic (EM) measurements of 40-50 nano Teslas at the centers of some formations, which he says is 10 times the radiation level of a normal field.
Strange sounds.
Researchers say they have sometimes detected an unexplained sound at 5KHz frequency emanating from crop circles for just a few days after they are formed. "This corresponds to reports of eyewitnesses who often claim to hear a 'trilling' sound coming from the direction of the formations," says "Peculiarities of Crop Circles".
Radioactive isotopes.
In 1991, two American nuclear physicists, Michael Chorost and Marshall Dudley, applied their expertise to crop circle research. "After subjecting a number of seed and soil samples to rigorous lab analysis," according to Freddy Silva's article, "Analysis of Crop-Circle Affected Crops and Soil," "their main discovery was that the soil in genuine formations contained no less than four, short-lived radioactive isotopes - vanadium, europium, tellurium and ytterbium. Tests conducted on soil from the Beckhampton July 31 formation yielded alpha emissions 198% above control samples, beta emissions 48% above, both of which seemed 'strikingly elevated,' since they were two to three times as radioactive as soil from outside the formation." Analyzed DNA samples from plants in another circle were found to be considerably more degraded than that of surrounding plants.
Physical Side Effects
Extremes of physical effects on people who enter crop circles have been reported. While some feel elation, others feel ill effects, including "nausea, headaches, dizziness, tingling sensations, pains and giddiness." Some claim their menstrual cycles have been affected while others say they have literally been knocked off their feet. People aren't the only ones affected. According to "Crop Circles: A Deeper Look" from the Foundation for Paranormal Research, "one researcher allowed his dog to enter a newly formed circle. The dog became violently ill and vomited for about an hour afterward. Sheep in the area go into a frenzy." Another witness testified: "During a third visit into the main Chiseldon formation in 1996 I encountered a couple who couldn't understand why their normally placid cat suddenly became agitated the moment he crossed the threshold of the formation. He protested and looked around frantically for a way out. Once outside he was back to his normal self."
Highly Intricate Mathematical Design.
Euclidean geometry.
Some researchers contend that certain crop circle formations contain sophisticated geometry that an ordinary hoaxer most likely would not even understand. Gerald S. Hawkins, former Chairman of the astronomy department at Boston University, says that he detected relationships between crop circles and Euclidean geometry. According to an article at "The Crop Circular", "Hawkins found that he could use the principles of Euclidean geometry to prove four theorems derived from the relationships among the areas depicted in crop circles. He also discovered a fifth, more general theorem, from which he could derive the other four. 'This theorem involves concentric circles which touch the sides of a triangle, and as the [triangle] changes shape, it generates the special crop-circle geometries,' he says. Hawkins could find no reference to such a theorem in the works of Euclid or in any other book that he consulted. In July 1995, however, 'the crop-circle makers... showed knowledge of this fifth theorem.'"
Diatonic ratios.
At least one article claims that the circle makers, whoever or whatever they are, have been encoding within crop circles diatonic ratios - how notes in music are related to each other. "Musicians have used the musical notes of the first octave to encode messages in their music," the article says. "For example, the last fugue of Bach keeps repeating notes B-A-C-H. The Circlemakers, since 1988, have also been encoding messages by including diatonic ratios, and hence sets of notes. When geometries are tested against lists of initials, the code appears to fit one and only one list: the first 25 presidents of the Society for Psychical Research of London." A reason why the circle makers might identify these people is not offered in the article. "Music and Harmonics" at Crop Circle Research.com offers additional information and some sound samples.
Sacred geometry.
"The Sacred Geometry of Crop Circles" says that so-called sacred geometry is evident in crop formations and reflect "the universe, its pure forms and dynamic equilibriums shared a higher purpose: the attainment of spiritual wholeness through self-reflection, thereby giving structural insight into the workings of the inner self. When analyzing crop circle forms through the precise and unalterable practice of sacred geometry one cannot help but appreciate that a mind of scholarly intelligence is involved. That these symbols are occurring primarily in wheat, the very symbol of the Earth Mother, is significant in itself. Perhaps they are here to draw us as a race together by this interaction with our symbol of life?"
Eyewitnesses and Balls of Light.
Several eyewitnesses to crop circles testify that they have seen strange balls or clouds of light in and around crop circles as they were being formed, and even some time after they were formed. In an article by Linda Moulton Howe, she quotes a witness who saw a bright light that seemed to come up out of the ground after he and a friend entered a large crop formation known as the Galaxy in 1994: "It was so bright, it lit up the hills in the background. It was bluish-white in color and about as big as the formation, fifty to sixty meters wide. The bright light formed some sort of cloud and it changed shape continuously as it hovered over the formation. After a couple of seconds, it rose at slow speed and disappeared into the darkness. My friend and I were totally flabbergasted!" One of the most controversial crop circle videos, known as the Oliver's Castle Crop Circle Video, appears to show several swirling balls of light actually creating a formation in a field of grain. The video has been shown on TV documentaries several times. Although there are still some diehard believers, most experts who have analyzed the video concluded that it was a hoax - a clever computer-generated effect. Another video shot in August, 1999, seems to show a ball of light at the Barbury Castle "dolphins" crop circle. Urm Greene says that he had video evidence on a CD-ROM he is offering that shows "a British Army helicopter chasing and finally catching up to an small, glowing, pulsating UFO within a crop circle field."
Farther Out Ideas
There are some who say the evidence for the supernatural origin of crop circles lies in psychic connections. Dreams and Psychic Connections. Joseph Mason, in his article "The Pleiades and the Seventh Ray on the Seventh Day," says that "Dreams and coincidences often seem to be related to crop circle formations." He then relates a well-known triangular crop circle near Barbury Castle in 1991 to a dream he had, the seven days of creation, the Holy Trinity, and the Pleiades star cluster. And Dee Finney claims that the 1999 Whitehorse crop circle appeared in a field while she was dreaming about it. At "The Philosopher's Stone," Kris Weber Sherwood says that a snowflake-shaped crop formation, known as the Koch Fractal, at the foot of Silbury Hill in 1997, "was supremely layered with vast and interconnected meanings of profound significance; implicit in the timing, placement, design, and physical components. The genuine crop circle phenomenon has demonstrated its ability to be psycho-interactive with those giving their attention to it." Psychics, they say, are particularly tuned in to crop circles. "Some area psychics began to pick up messages from some intelligence associated with the circles," says "Crop Circles: A Deeper Look", "predicting the very next formation; it's design and location. Sure enough, their predictions came true. This leads us to some other fascinating occurrences surrounding this phenomenon."
So What Creates Them?
The theories on what creates crop circles, if they are not manmade, are many and could make for another article. But some of the most common theories include whirlwind vortexes, plasma vortexes (the balls of light?), Earth energies, extraterrestrials, underground archaeology, sound vibrations, heavenly or demonic forces, and military experiments including microwaves. If the anomalies listed above are real, a thorough, rigorously scientific examination of crop circles and their effects is called for to help unravel this mystery.
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History Channel
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Crop Circles: Quest for Truth is a compelling and provocative feature-length documentary full of never-before-seen footage and interviews with leading Crop Circles researchers and scientists, some of whom agreed to be on camera for the first time. The film is an in-depth examination of prevailing theories about the origin and nature of Crop Circles and the possible implications for us and for the future of Planet Earth.
There has been intense debate over the origins of Crop Circles. Some believe they are communications from extra-terrestrials, pointing to the many sightings and videos of aerial phenomena seen in connection with formations. Others feel the appearance of lights associated with Crop Circles may be generated by unknown natural energies which produce complex ground patterns. Experiments with the power of the mind have suggested it is possible to influence the creation of certain shapes, leading some to believe psychic forces are involved. Beyond this, most other popular explanations for Crop Circles have revolved around human action, either involving satellite technology or the simple actions of pranksters and landscape artists. However, in demonstrations, human teams have struggled, without success, to reproduce designs as geometrically complex as those seen in fields. Certain formations have appeared within one night; the short amounts of time, the geometric calculations, and the methods of bending and weaving the plants are clearly beyond human capabilities. Work by laboratories on circle-affected crops has shown biological changes taking place at a cellular level, and speculation about the causes includes microwave energy, sound waves, and electromagnetic forces. Other physical tests have shown anomalies that aren't replicated in man-made experiments. These, together with the lights, eyewitness accounts, reports of malfunctioning electronic equipment, and positive health effects on people visiting circles, suggest that the phenomenon involves unexplained forces. Whether crop formations are navigational points, encoded ancient or future technologies, warnings or simply messages of greeting, their stunning beauty and mysterious manifestation continues to spark worldwide controversy.
Millions of words have been written about the crop circle phenomenon. Several books have been written on the mystery, together with countless newspaper and magazine features. Numerous Internet sites are devoted to the subject. Various theories about crop circles exist, attributing them to such causes as extraterrestrials, Earth energies, wind vortices or hoaxers. This world exclusive article will deal with only one aspect of the mystery, namely official involvement in the phenomenon. Several allegations have been made concerning interest on the part of the Ministry of Defence and the military, but is there any truth to such claims? Have the Government been involved? Is there any official interest?
Crop Circles - The Truth
Winner of 2 EBEAwards! Peoples Choice Award & Best Film / UFO Related Theme - International UFO Congress Film Festival. Produced by Italian UFO investigator Georgio Bongiovanni. Presented for the first time in this investigative film is the discovery of a hidden symbolic language or meaning, a "cosmic code" in the crop circle formations which began to appear in a whirlwind of mystery in the early 1980s and continues to this day with stunning geometric complexity, grandeur and beauty. This film demonstrates how the Crop Circle phenomenon can no longer be explained away simply as the creation of anonymous artisans because of the size and complex design of these formations and the frequency with which they appear. In the end what we may discover can only be called a miracle. Although science regards them as no more than clever manmade designs, many researchers say there is compelling proof that the origins of these mysterious formations is unexplained.
They began as simple circles laid down in fields of wheat, corn and other crops. Then the formations became more complex, some taking the form of pictograms that seemed to be ciphers for messages of unknown meaning. The phenomenon has continued over the years, and each summer season we are treated to ever-more complex and often beautiful crop circle designs. The ongoing debate among many crop circle investigators and skeptics has been: Are they manmade or not? While many designs are clearly and admittedly made by people (even veteran crop circle researcher Colin Andrew estimates that up to 80 percent of them are probably manmade), some researchers insist that many formations are not - in fact, cannot be - made by humans. Skeptical explanations for crop formations have ranged from the ludicrous (one early theory was that they were created by hedgehogs running in circles) to the probable (clever college students). The believers' explanations have been equally as diverse, ranging from the work of extraterrestrials to the idea that the formations are created by the Earth itself as some kind of warning to mankind.
On their side, skeptics have cold rationale and the confessions of such crop circle creators as Doug and Dave in the UK. In 1992, Doug Bower and Dave Chorley, two somewhat elderly retirees, came forward and claimed that they had created hundreds of crop circles over the preceding 15 years using a plank of wood, rope and a baseball cap fitted with a loop of wire to help them walk in a straight line. While their claim is called into serious question by some researchers, it is unquestioned that many crop formations have been "hoaxed" by people using little more than a well-planned design and, yes, planks of wood and rope. Such hoaxers have proved before witnesses and television cameras that they can create large, elaborate designs at night in just a few hours. But what of the assertion that crop formations are created by some supernatural, extraterrestrial or paranormal force? What is the evidence that compels some researchers to conclude that they almost certainly are not manmade? There are peculiarities to "genuine" crop circles, these researchers say, that cannot be created or hoaxed by humans. Here is some of their "best evidence":
Number and Complexity, and Placement
Some researchers contend that crop formations are too numerous and too complex to all have been made by humans. This may be the weakest argument against them being manmade as it naively underestimates the abilities and ingenuity of some people. Placement. While most crop circles can be found in readily accessible fields, some are not. Some have been found within restricted areas, according to "Peculiarities of Crop Circles" - "numerous accounts of crop circles appearing inside military installations that are fenced off (quite securely!) from the surrounding area. Most notably in Wiltshire along the Salisbury Plain." This article also points out that several crop circles have been formed away from the farmer's tram lines, which makes it very difficult for the circle makers to hide evidence of their Changes to Plants.
Weaving
Researchers have long contended that the plants in genuine circles are weaved together in a particular way when they are flattened. Hoaxers have supposedly not been able to duplicate this pattern. "The plants are masterfully overlapping each other, and gently spiking into the standing crop in a spoke effect creating the circle," says Urn Greene at "Crop Circles: Fingerprints of the Gods?". "This is an effect that is not achieved by simply stomping on the plants with a board and or a garden roller, two tools commonly used by hoaxers to create fakes." Elongated nodes. Joseph E. Mason at "Arguments Against the Hoax Theory of Crop Circles" says that there is a distinct difference between crops that are bent in genuine circles and those bent by hoaxers. With photos to support his claim, Mason says: "The bent node of the plant from inside a [genuine] crop formation is elongated yet undamaged. Plant stems bent by people via mechanical means appear damaged and do not have the elongated nodes." Blown nodes. Many plants inside genuine circles also have "blown nodes," according to Mason.
Dried ground.
The soil beneath crop circles often appears inexplicably dehydrated, even after heavy rain. Increased size. Dr. Eltjo H. Haselhoff, Ph.D., a former employee of Los Alamos National Laboratories, noted these alterations in crop circle plants in his research: "It was discovered that the plant stems inside these formations had increased in diameter, as an effect of intensive heating, with an astonishing circular symmetry. Moreover, this effect perfectly matched the radiation pattern of an electromagnetic point source at a height of four meters and ten centimeters above that field." This finding, he says, supports the contention that the formations were created by the "balls of light" (see below) that witnesses have claimed to see at crop circles. Bent unbendable plants. Some plants just should not be able to be bent, say some researchers. "Crop circle formations often appear in canola (oil seed rape) fields," says Joseph Mason. "This plant has a consistency like celery. If the stalk is bent more than about 45-degrees, it snaps apart. Yet, in a 'genuine' crop circle formation, the stalks are often bent flat at 90-degrees. No botanist or other scientist has been able to explain this, nor has it ever been duplicated by a human being." Altered seeds. Tests by some researchers have shown that seeds planted from crops that were part of crop circles grow abnormally. "Biophysical Effects found in Crop Formation Plants" by BLT Research says that the seed-heads (barley) from the 1992 formation at Barbury Castle are "stunted and seedless." Some crop circle plants also produce seeds that are noticeably smaller than normal plants.
Electromagnetic and Radioactive Effects
Effects on equipment.
Researchers claim that their electronic equipment is often affected when they are examining crop circles. "There have been numerous reports of electronic equipment failing in crop circles and compasses spinning out of control in and over the crop circles (when flying over in aircraft)," according to "Peculiarities of Crop Circles". "This range of equipment includes watches, mobile phones, batteries, cameras. No explanations for these occurrences, other than the indication of a strong EM field distortions."
EM measurements.
Longtime crop circle investigator Colin Andrews says he has recorded electromagnetic (EM) measurements of 40-50 nano Teslas at the centers of some formations, which he says is 10 times the radiation level of a normal field.
Strange sounds.
Researchers say they have sometimes detected an unexplained sound at 5KHz frequency emanating from crop circles for just a few days after they are formed. "This corresponds to reports of eyewitnesses who often claim to hear a 'trilling' sound coming from the direction of the formations," says "Peculiarities of Crop Circles".
Radioactive isotopes.
In 1991, two American nuclear physicists, Michael Chorost and Marshall Dudley, applied their expertise to crop circle research. "After subjecting a number of seed and soil samples to rigorous lab analysis," according to Freddy Silva's article, "Analysis of Crop-Circle Affected Crops and Soil," "their main discovery was that the soil in genuine formations contained no less than four, short-lived radioactive isotopes - vanadium, europium, tellurium and ytterbium. Tests conducted on soil from the Beckhampton July 31 formation yielded alpha emissions 198% above control samples, beta emissions 48% above, both of which seemed 'strikingly elevated,' since they were two to three times as radioactive as soil from outside the formation." Analyzed DNA samples from plants in another circle were found to be considerably more degraded than that of surrounding plants.
Physical Side Effects
Extremes of physical effects on people who enter crop circles have been reported. While some feel elation, others feel ill effects, including "nausea, headaches, dizziness, tingling sensations, pains and giddiness." Some claim their menstrual cycles have been affected while others say they have literally been knocked off their feet. People aren't the only ones affected. According to "Crop Circles: A Deeper Look" from the Foundation for Paranormal Research, "one researcher allowed his dog to enter a newly formed circle. The dog became violently ill and vomited for about an hour afterward. Sheep in the area go into a frenzy." Another witness testified: "During a third visit into the main Chiseldon formation in 1996 I encountered a couple who couldn't understand why their normally placid cat suddenly became agitated the moment he crossed the threshold of the formation. He protested and looked around frantically for a way out. Once outside he was back to his normal self."
Highly Intricate Mathematical Design.
Euclidean geometry.
Some researchers contend that certain crop circle formations contain sophisticated geometry that an ordinary hoaxer most likely would not even understand. Gerald S. Hawkins, former Chairman of the astronomy department at Boston University, says that he detected relationships between crop circles and Euclidean geometry. According to an article at "The Crop Circular", "Hawkins found that he could use the principles of Euclidean geometry to prove four theorems derived from the relationships among the areas depicted in crop circles. He also discovered a fifth, more general theorem, from which he could derive the other four. 'This theorem involves concentric circles which touch the sides of a triangle, and as the [triangle] changes shape, it generates the special crop-circle geometries,' he says. Hawkins could find no reference to such a theorem in the works of Euclid or in any other book that he consulted. In July 1995, however, 'the crop-circle makers... showed knowledge of this fifth theorem.'"
Diatonic ratios.
At least one article claims that the circle makers, whoever or whatever they are, have been encoding within crop circles diatonic ratios - how notes in music are related to each other. "Musicians have used the musical notes of the first octave to encode messages in their music," the article says. "For example, the last fugue of Bach keeps repeating notes B-A-C-H. The Circlemakers, since 1988, have also been encoding messages by including diatonic ratios, and hence sets of notes. When geometries are tested against lists of initials, the code appears to fit one and only one list: the first 25 presidents of the Society for Psychical Research of London." A reason why the circle makers might identify these people is not offered in the article. "Music and Harmonics" at Crop Circle Research.com offers additional information and some sound samples.
Sacred geometry.
"The Sacred Geometry of Crop Circles" says that so-called sacred geometry is evident in crop formations and reflect "the universe, its pure forms and dynamic equilibriums shared a higher purpose: the attainment of spiritual wholeness through self-reflection, thereby giving structural insight into the workings of the inner self. When analyzing crop circle forms through the precise and unalterable practice of sacred geometry one cannot help but appreciate that a mind of scholarly intelligence is involved. That these symbols are occurring primarily in wheat, the very symbol of the Earth Mother, is significant in itself. Perhaps they are here to draw us as a race together by this interaction with our symbol of life?"
Eyewitnesses and Balls of Light.
Several eyewitnesses to crop circles testify that they have seen strange balls or clouds of light in and around crop circles as they were being formed, and even some time after they were formed. In an article by Linda Moulton Howe, she quotes a witness who saw a bright light that seemed to come up out of the ground after he and a friend entered a large crop formation known as the Galaxy in 1994: "It was so bright, it lit up the hills in the background. It was bluish-white in color and about as big as the formation, fifty to sixty meters wide. The bright light formed some sort of cloud and it changed shape continuously as it hovered over the formation. After a couple of seconds, it rose at slow speed and disappeared into the darkness. My friend and I were totally flabbergasted!" One of the most controversial crop circle videos, known as the Oliver's Castle Crop Circle Video, appears to show several swirling balls of light actually creating a formation in a field of grain. The video has been shown on TV documentaries several times. Although there are still some diehard believers, most experts who have analyzed the video concluded that it was a hoax - a clever computer-generated effect. Another video shot in August, 1999, seems to show a ball of light at the Barbury Castle "dolphins" crop circle. Urm Greene says that he had video evidence on a CD-ROM he is offering that shows "a British Army helicopter chasing and finally catching up to an small, glowing, pulsating UFO within a crop circle field."
Farther Out Ideas
There are some who say the evidence for the supernatural origin of crop circles lies in psychic connections. Dreams and Psychic Connections. Joseph Mason, in his article "The Pleiades and the Seventh Ray on the Seventh Day," says that "Dreams and coincidences often seem to be related to crop circle formations." He then relates a well-known triangular crop circle near Barbury Castle in 1991 to a dream he had, the seven days of creation, the Holy Trinity, and the Pleiades star cluster. And Dee Finney claims that the 1999 Whitehorse crop circle appeared in a field while she was dreaming about it. At "The Philosopher's Stone," Kris Weber Sherwood says that a snowflake-shaped crop formation, known as the Koch Fractal, at the foot of Silbury Hill in 1997, "was supremely layered with vast and interconnected meanings of profound significance; implicit in the timing, placement, design, and physical components. The genuine crop circle phenomenon has demonstrated its ability to be psycho-interactive with those giving their attention to it." Psychics, they say, are particularly tuned in to crop circles. "Some area psychics began to pick up messages from some intelligence associated with the circles," says "Crop Circles: A Deeper Look", "predicting the very next formation; it's design and location. Sure enough, their predictions came true. This leads us to some other fascinating occurrences surrounding this phenomenon."
So What Creates Them?
The theories on what creates crop circles, if they are not manmade, are many and could make for another article. But some of the most common theories include whirlwind vortexes, plasma vortexes (the balls of light?), Earth energies, extraterrestrials, underground archaeology, sound vibrations, heavenly or demonic forces, and military experiments including microwaves. If the anomalies listed above are real, a thorough, rigorously scientific examination of crop circles and their effects is called for to help unravel this mystery.
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