Crop Circles
by Wendy AronIs there extraterrestrial life and if so, is it trying to communicate with us? Some theorize that the crop circle phenomenon is evidence of this. The history of these patterns began in 1976, at about the time when we first realized the significance of the Ozone problem and the deterioration in the world’s environmental situation. At that time, these strange designs were first observed near ancient burial grounds in Wiltshire County in Southern England. Crop circle research indicates that these patterns unexpectedly appeared overnight in fields of wheat, rape, barley and oat, where the crops were flattened and their stalks were bent but not broken. As the alien crop circles phenomenon continued and gained supporters, formations were also found in the United States, Australia, South Africa, China and many other countries. The phenomenon was also present in Russia, Sweden and Canada, where there were ice lakes with enormous rings cut into the ice. The water in these rings didn’t freeze over again, it simply stayed with a crop circle in the middle of the lake.
The idea that these strange patterns were made by aliens was initially thought of as a hoax, but research indicated otherwise. Many researchers pointed to the fact that these patterns exhibited abnormal radioactivity as evidence that something locks onto the cornfields at night. Further crop circle research indicated that these strange designs continued to escalate in complexity, size and distribution. Beginning in 1989, there was evidence that many of the alien crop circles were hoaxed. In 1991, two British citizens came forward and claimed responsibility for creating these paterns over the past 20 years or so, and the battle between artists and extra-terrestrial believers was joined. One of the British men formed a group, known as the Circlemakers, who considered their practice as an art.
The believers in the alien patterns, however, would not be discouraged. The phenomenon spawned a science known as cereology. Some believers are just curious. They are open to the existence of paranormal activity and are willing to consider the possibility that at least some of the designs were created by extraterrestrial forces. Others, nicknamed “croppies,” are far more adamant that there is an alien crop circle phenomenon that must be researched and investigated. The history of these strange patterns in the United States indicates that Native Americans, particularly the Hoopie Indian, understood the alien messages in some of the crop sites. They have explained that the crop circle is a sign of the creator returning and that when we see this sign we must be ready for him.
In terms of the geometry of crop circles, they are identical to those patterns drawn by
the Hoopie Indians, the Dogan people, the Aborigines, and all other indigenous people. Researchers in experimental laboratory conditions have attempted to look carefully at the human mind in a state of meditation and relate it to the messages in these strange patterns. In one test, subjects placed a direct screen in front of their eyes and tried to think zero state. Doing this, the first thing that occurred to them was that simple patterns begin to cross their vision. These are known as the phosphenes, the innermost workings of the human mind. These are all the same patterns and they share a similarity to crop circles. This isn’t a direct inference that extra terrestrials have direct involvement in our minds, but it is a spiritual nudge to widen our vision. Meanwhile, British artists note that there are three or four dedicated crop circle art groups operating in Great Britain today, and numerous other small groups that make one or two circles a year more or less for fun.
Acknowledged circle makers and cereologists can attack each other viciously. Ironically, however, the two groups need one another. The believers in the alien crop circle propel and sustain interest in the work, telling everyone who will listen about the 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. The artists look on bemused.
Will there ever be a resolution of the art versus paranormal explanation for the crop circle phenomenon? The answer seems no, but that will not stop investigators from asserting that this is a very important time for the survival of humanity and that a resolution of phenomenon of this kind could be potentially profound.
