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40 Crop Circles: Best Evidence Crop Circles: Best Evidence 40 CROP CIRCLES: humans. Here is some of their "best centimeters above that field." This emanating from crop circles for just a CROP CIRCLES: BEST EVIDENCE evidence": finding, he says, supports the few days after they are formed. "This BEST EVIDENCE contention that the formations were corresponds to reports of eyewitnesses Number and Complexity, and created by the "balls of light" (see who often claim to hear a 'trilling' Although science regards Placement below) that witnesses have claimed to sound coming from the direction of the complexity. see at crop circles. and Number them as no more than clever Some researchers contend that crop Bent unbendable plants. formations," says "Peculiarities of Crop Circles". manmade designs, many formations are too numerous and too Some plants just should not be able to Radioactive isotopes. In researchers say there is complex to all have been made by be bent, say some researchers. "Crop 1991, two American nuclear compelling proof that the humans. This may be the weakest circle formations often appear in physicists, Michael Chorost and origins of these mysterious argument against them being manmade canola (oil seed rape) fields," says Marshall Dudley, applied their as it naively underestimates the Joseph Mason. "This plant has a expertise to crop circle research. "After formations is unexplained abilities and ingenuity of some people. consistency like celery. If the stalk is subjecting a number of seed and soil Placement. While most crop bent more than about 45-degrees, it samples to rigorous lab analysis," They began as simple circles circles can be found in readily snaps apart. Yet, in a 'genuine' crop according to Freddy Silva's article, laid down in fields of wheat, corn and accessible fields, some are not. Some circle formation, the stalks are often "Analysis of Crop-Circle Affected other crops. Then the formations have been found within restricted bent flat at 90-degrees. No botanist or Crops and Soil," "their main discovery became more complex, some taking areas, according to "Peculiarities of other scientist has been able to explain was that the soil in genuine formations the form of pictograms that seemed to Crop Circles" - "numerous accounts of this, nor has it ever been duplicated by contained no less than four, short-lived be ciphers for messages of unknown crop circles appearing inside military a human being." radioactive isotopes - vanadium, meaning. The phenomenon has installations that are fenced off (quite Altered seeds. Tests by some europium, tellurium and ytterbium. continued over the years, and each securely!) from the surrounding area. researchers have shown that seeds Tests conducted on soil from the summer season we are treated to ever- Most notably in Wiltshire along the planted from crops that were part of Beckhampton July 31 formation more complex and often beautiful crop Salisbury Plain." This article also crop circles grow abnormally. yielded alpha emissions 198% above circle designs points out that several crop circles "Biophysical Effects found in Crop control samples, beta emissions 48% The ongoing debate among have been formed away from the Formation Plants" by BLT Research above, both of which seemed many crop circle investigators and farmer's tram lines, which makes it says that the seed-heads (barley) from 'strikingly elevated,' since they were skeptics has been: Are they manmade very difficult for the circle makers to the 1992 formation at Barbury Castle two to three times as radioactive as soil or not? While many designs are clearly hide evidence of their presence. are "stunted and seedless." Some crop from outside the formation." Analyzed and admittedly made by people (even circle plants also produce seeds that DNA samples from plants in another veteran crop circle researcher Colin Changes to Plants are noticeably smaller than normal circle were found to be considerably Andrew estimates that up to 80 percent Weaving. Researchers have plants. more degraded than that of of them are probably manmade), some long contended that the plants in Crop yield. At the other end of surrounding plants. researchers insist that many formations genuine circles are weaved together in the spectrum, "Peculiarities of Crop are not - in fact, cannot be - made by a particular way when they are Circles" says that some farmers have Continued on Page 41 humans. flattened. Hoaxers have supposedly experienced increased crop yield in Skeptical explanations for not been able to duplicate this pattern. fields in which formations have crop formations have ranged from the "The plants are masterfully appeared: "In 1997, Tim Carson who ludicrous (one early theory was that overlapping each other, and gently farms East Field (where the 'DNA' they were created by hedgehogs spiking into the standing crop in a formation appeared in 1996) reported running in circles) to the probable spoke effect creating the circle," says to researchers that his yield was up 30- (clever college students). The Urn Greene at "Crop Circles: 40%." believers' explanations have been Fingerprints of the Gods?". "This is an Cellular changes. There are equally as diverse, ranging from the effect that is not achieved by simply microscopic changes as well, Joseph work of extraterrestrials to the idea stomping on the plants with a board Mason says, and provides photos that that the formations are created by the and or a garden roller, two tools show the differences. It isn't explained Earth itself as some kind of warning to commonly used by hoaxers do create what the differences mean, however. mankind. fakes." BLT Research also shows photos that On their side, skeptics have Elongated nodes. Joseph E. depict an unexplained cell wall cold rationale and the confessions of Mason at "Arguments Against the enlargement in a crop circle wheat such crop circle creators as Doug and Hoax Theory of Crop Circles" says plant. Dave in the UK. In 1992, Doug Bower that there is a distinct difference and Dave Chorley, two somewhat between crops that are bent in genuine Electromagnetic and Radioactive elderly retirees, came forward and circles and those bent by hoaxers. With Effects claimed that they had created hundreds photos to support his claim, Mason Effects on equipment. of crop circles over the preceding 15 says: "The bent node of the plant from Researchers claim that their electronic years using a plank of wood, rope and inside a [genuine] crop formation is equipment is often affected when they a baseball cap fitted with a loop of wire elongated yet undamaged. Plant stems are examining crop circles. "There to help them walk in a straight line. bent by people via mechanical means have been numerous reports of While their claim is called into serious appear damaged and do not have the electronic equipment failing in crop question by some researchers, it is elongated nodes." circles and compasses spinning out of Crop Circle Facts unquestioned that many crop Blown nodes. Many plants control in and over the crop circles formations have been "hoaxed" by inside genuine circles also have (when flying over in aircraft)," people using little more than a well- "blown nodes," according to Mason. according to "Peculiarities of Crop - About 10,000 crop circles have planned design and, yes, planks of Dried ground. The soil Circles". "This range of equipment been reported worldwide since the wood and rope. Such hoaxers have beneath crop circles often appears includes watches, mobile phones, 1970s. proved before witnesses and television inexplicably dehydrated, even after batteries, cameras. No explanations for - The first crop circle in the US cameras that they can create large, heavy rain. these occurrences, other than the was reported in 1964. elaborate designs at night in just a few Increased size. Dr. Eltjo H. indication of a strong EM field - Most of the complex formations hours. Haselhoff, Ph.D., a former employee distortions." occur in the United Kingdom. But what of the assertion that of Los Alamos National Laboratories, EM measurements. crop formations are created by some noted these alterations in crop circle Longtime crop circle investigator - Most formations appear in wheat supernatural, extraterrestrial or plants in his research: "It was Colin Andrews says he has recorded and corn, but have also occurred in paranormal force? What is the discovered that the plant stems inside electromagnetic (EM) measurements barley, oats, rape (canola) and evidence that compels some these formations had increased in of 40-50 nano Teslas at the centers of grass. researchers to conclude that they diameter, as an effect of intensive some formations, which he says is 10 - There are only two countries almost certainly are not manmade? heating, with an astonishing circular times the radiation level of a normal where crop circles have never been There are peculiarities to "genuine" symmetry. Moreover, this effect field. reported: China and South Africa. crop circles, these researchers say, that perfectly matched the radiation pattern Strange sounds. Researchers - The earliest known formation was cannot be created or hoaxed by of an electromagnetic point source at a say they have sometimes detected an in 1647 in England. height of four meters and ten unexplained sound at 5KHz frequency