Crop Circles
Crop Circles are geometric patterns that appear mysteriously in crop fields. The crop is not cut, but is usually laid flat and most often swirled into an attractive floor pattern. Most patterns appear in cereal crops such as wheat and barley, but circles have been known to occur (in lesser numbers) in oilseed rape, maize, linseed, grass and even borage โ to name a few.
There are many theories about who or what makes the crop circles. Whirl-winds, earth energies, extraterrestrials and human hoaxers to name but a few. What makes the crop circle subject so fascinating is that anyone and everyone can take part in the search for answers. There has been some very interesting scientific work carried out on the crop and soils from the circles which should be investigated by all those with an interest in the phenomenon. Much the same goes for the ultimate meaning behind the designs, there has been some fascinating research into the geometry and mathematics of the crop circle designs and shapes, which suggest that the designs are not arbitrary or meaningless, but quite the opposite. People have connected the circles to subjects as diverse as star constellations and quantum physics to alchemy and spirituality. Some of the most fascinating research is concerned with shape and vibration (Cymatics) and the collective unconscious.
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I am currently reading Freddy Silva's fantastic book "Secrets In The Fields", and I need to make an edit to the post above to say that the 1996 Oliver Castle video is in fact a fake. Silva explains in his book that John Wayleigh (the person who supposedly originally filmed the Oliver Castle video) approached him at the Barge Inn and showed him the video WITHOUT the crop circle being made, it only showed the balls of light. So there are two versions of the video! Silva then goes on to say that he visited the formation that was shown being "made" in the fake video and the construction on the ground was a mess and he thinks it was clearly a hoaxed formation. Silva also says that an investigation into Wayleigh revealed that he worked at a video editing/animation company.
Since I'm just talking to myself in this community anyway, this raises questions for me as to why the "authorities" would first want to discredit and ridicule the phenomenon to make it seems like they're all manmade (like they did with the Operation Blackbird hoax where they left astrology game boards and crosses in the hoaxed formation, and then broadcast it out on TV), and then do an about-face and fake this Oliver Castle video to make it seem like aliens/balls of light are making them? Just trying to muddy the waters from both directions I guess.