Alien Sign - The Message

Designs in crops and grass lands popularly known as Crop Circles have been reported and documented around the world since the birth of Christ. World authority on Crop Circles Colin Andrews investigates and endeavors to find answers to the crop circle phenomenon, examining cases and photographic evidence worldwide with the assistance of experts in science and the paranormal. Crop circles have been a mystery to many modern Earthlings since they first started appearing in England in 1978. They're often called a hoax, but that's a misnomer. Crop circles are real (they're in the dictionary, after all). But their origins are much less exotic than many people originally thought. And it's easy to understand why. They looked so perfect, seemingly too perfect for a person to make. They appeared swiftly and mysteriously, emerging overnight in fields of corn, barley, and other crops. What humans could do this without getting caught? Thus, crop circles were a mystery. Some wondered if a vortex of wind or plasma could have caused it. Others wondered if they were the result of something called a "mind-energy field." Or perhaps military experiments, chemicals, or buried ruins. The possible causes bandied about are many, most exciting among them the idea that they were extraterrestrial in origin. The people who still think aliens are responsible for crop circles clearly were hiding in their pantries when the inventors of the modern crop circle, two British chaps named Doug Bower and Dave Chorley, first started making them with implements no more mysterious than some rope and a 5-ft iron bar for bending the corn. (They later enhanced their equipment, and ultimately confessed to their hijinx in the early 1990s.) That's all it takes, people. I've seen it demonstrated on TV. Even the claims of ancient crop circles (such as the Devil's Circle in Scotland) could be made the same way. This is pretty primitive stuff, even if it is elegant to look at. Even so, there are some people who cling steadfastly to the hope that at least some of the crop circles are not made by people. Some of them claim the crop circles made by humans are hoaxes. But how could they be? They're crop circles--they're not fake just because we know how they're made. The people hoping for an exotic explanation would probably be better off holding out for a sequel to Signs; maybe then, the people of Earth will have the good sense to mow down the crop circles before Mars Attacks.

Crop circles are patterns created by the flattening of crops such as wheat, barley, rapeseed (also called "canola"), rye, corn, linseed and soy. The term was first used by researcher Colin Andrews to describe simple circles he was researching. Although since 1990 the circles have evolved into complex geometries, the term "circle" has stuck. Various hypotheses have been offered to explain their formation, ranging from the naturalistic to the paranormal. Naturalistic explanations include man-made hoaxes or geological anomalies, while paranormal explanations include formation by UFOs. Many circles are known to be man-made, such as those created by Doug Bower, Dave Chorley, and John Lundberg, and a 2000 study into circle hoaxing concluded that 80 percent of UK circles were totally man-made. Bower and Chorley were awarded an Ig Nobel Prize in 1992 for their crop circle hoaxing. The earliest recorded image resembling a crop circle is depicted in a 17th century English woodcut called the Mowing-Devil. The image depicts the Devil with a scythe mowing (cutting) a circular design in a field of oats. The pamphlet containing the image states that the farmer, disgusted at the wage his mower was demanding for his work, insisted that he would rather have "the devil himself" perform the task.

Comments (0)

Title
Comment	smaller | bigger
Name
Email
Website
	Subscribe via email (registered users only)
	I have read and agree to the Terms of Usage.
Write the displayed characters
	Add Comment Preview