Crop Circles

An elaborate pattern in flattened crops in a Wiltshire field has sparked fresh debate over one of rural Britain's most perplexing mysteries - crop circles. The formation, thought to be as long as a football pitch, appeared in a field near Silbury Hill over two nights at the beginning of August. Some say the pattern is made by mysterious forces and features symbols from the ancient Mayan civilisation which mark the beginning of a new world order. Others believe it is made by commercially-minded 'landscape artists'. The only 'new order', these sceptics say, will be from publishers wanting photographs ofthe design.

So who is right? Is it possible that someone or thing is trying to communicate with us using imagery from a culture more than 1,000 years old. 'A new era' Or is this just the latest example of landscape art that will be displayed on the pages of books and glossy magazines? Francine Blake, a crop circle expert from Wiltshire, believes the crop formation indicates the world is going to change dramatically. "The Moon has a cycle around the Earth, the Earth has a cycle around the Sun, the Solar System has a cycle in the Milky Way," Ms Blake says. "That [the galaxy cycle] takes 26,000 years, and this particular calendar is coming to the end of that cycle. "That long cycle ends in2012 - it's the end of a cycle, the end of a time. A new era is starting for the solar system." Ms Blake likens the changes ahead to that of the fall of some of the great empires. "Just like the era for the Romans stopped and something else started, we are going from era to era and this is the end of one of them," she said. Crop circles have become a common sight in Britain since the 1970s, when they began to appear in significant numbers in fields, mainly in the south of England. There is widespread debate over when the first crop circle appeared. Some experts say the first sighting was in Lyon in 815AD. Others refer to a 17th Century legend called the 'Mowing of the Devil', when a devilishentity. ...

There was an unusual sight on the northeast side of Charles City this week. A field of sudan grass located at about 18th Street and Grand Avenue was dotted with areas where the grass was laying on its side, reminiscent of the famous crop circles that appear throughout England. Although the formations of bent grass didn't form geometric patterns like the crop circles do, their appearance was certainly out of the ordinary, if less than 'extraterrestrial.' According to the resident who notified the Press, this is the second time the formations have appeared. The mostrecent appeared sometime between Sunday and Wednesday.

The formations ranged from small - a couple of feet wide - to one area about 20-30 feet wide. All of the grass is bent in the same direction and none of the grass has been killed. George Cummins, Floyd County ISU Extension crop specialist, looked at the grass Thursday and theorizes the formations were caused by wind. "It looks like straightline winds," he said. "A lot of it is that you have a tremendous amount of leaf at the top, it acts like a sail. It bends and bends and breaks over." Cummins said sudan grass, also called sorghum-sudan grass, is related to sorghum and corn and looks like smallcorn stalks without cobs. It's used as cover to replenish the soil with organic matter. It's also very top heavy."Sometimes we get corn with big ears at the top and with wind, it acts like a lever and the roots will break," Cummins said.However, the formations appear in different areas throughout the field, some large and some small. For that, Cummins could not offer an explanation."Why that happened, I don't know," he said.

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Mike and Brenda Trevis’ dogs started barking after midnight on July 3, making quite a commotion for about 20 minutes. It wouldn’t be until the Trevises gazed upon about a dozen crop circles flattening their oat field, which sits about a hundred yards from their farmhouse near Eagle Grove, that they would understand what may have stirred their dogs. I don’t know what to make of it, Mike Trevis told KCCI-TV. We talked to neighbors to see if there was anything different in their crops. This is the only one, Brenda Trevis said. We’re kind of scared because we want to know what caused it. No tracks human or animal led into thefield.

No weather phenomenon existed to explain the crop circles, although it rained the night before. Beverly Trout heard about the crop circles through the TV news report. Days later, she was in North Central Iowa investigating them. When crop circles appear in Iowa fields or people spot mysterious triangular shapes hovering in the skies, it’s Trout’s job as director of the Iowa chapter of Mutual UFO Network Inc. to investigate them. She’s been investigating since 1991, when she joined MUFON, a worldwide nonprofit organization dedicated through its volunteers to resolving the scientific enigma known collectively as unidentified flying objects (UFOs). The Trevises, whom Trout calls intelligent people who are not easilyfooled, didn’t have a problem with Trout exploring their field. They’re extremely concerned and puzzled, and this leads them to think outside the box, Trout says. When it happens in your own back yard, [you begin to] … look at this pretty seriously. Trout counts the crop circles, or crop traces as she calls them, near Eagle Grove as the first reported in Iowa this year. But they are far from the first in the state. In 1995, a crop circle approximately 11 feet in diameter was found in a cornfield near Arlington.A year later, Brett Anderson discovered circles about 30 feet in diameter in his soybean fields southwest of Nevada in consecutive weeks. The swirls were counterclockwise and the stems of the plants weren’tbroken.. ...

I was interested to see the photo of the crop circle at Swangley's Farm, it is very crude and in my opinion a fake. Genuine crop circles are breathtaking in their beauty and often in their sheer size as can be seen from this photograph. Unfortunately the faking of a few of these designs has led to a general loss of interest in a most extraordinary phenomenon and the very questions they pose are not being seriously considered. The number, intricacy and size of crop circles must preclude fakery in 90 per cent of cases. The vast formation at Milk Hill, Wiltshire in 2001, was 900ft across and consisted of 409 circles varying insize from four feet to 70 feet.

Summer nights in Britain are short and could never provide sufficient cover for the army of people, planning and equipment that would be needed to produce a design of this magnitude. Examination of the crops and soil at genuine sites have revealed changes in chemical constitution that could only have been caused by application of energy, though how this is done without burning the crops to a cinder is unknown. So the question remains. Aliens? Why do we say 'aliens'? They are our brothers! Many people are coming to the understanding of 'one world', 'one humanity' and the realisation that we simply cannot allow millions of our brothers and sisters to starve, to liveand die in dire poverty when the Earth has adequate resources to provide a good life for all. We also now realise that the Earth's ecological system has been damaged by our thoughtless actions and our very existence endangered by the creation of terrible weapons. So far so good, but our horizons must be widened further. Our planet is part of a greater system and humanity has a part in a plan beyond our human comprehension. There are beings living on other planets in our system who watch over us as older brothers.Their bodies and vehicles are made of etheric matter and cannot normally be seen by humans unless they lower the rate of vibration.Is this sounding a bit far fetched?If the governments of the world were openwith. ...