New Crop Circles Appear In Britain, UFO Craft Sighting And Anomalies

Investigative reporter Linda Moulton Howe and various witnesses and researchers, shared news about recent crop formations and associated anomalies in the Wiltshire, England area. She spoke with Paul Jones and Andrew Pyrka, two crop circle enthusiasts who’d caught an unidentified aerial object on videotape when they visited the ‘Aztec Bird’ formation near Barbury Castle on June 14, 2009. A silver disc-shaped object hovered without moving for a time, vanished, and then reappeared again. According to Charles Mallett, Director of the Silent Circle Research Center, other witnesses reported seeing UFOs in this area. Photos and further details here.

On July 14, 2009, Yorkshire engineer Winston Keech set up infrared cameras on a pole overlooking East Field and was able to capture unexplained flashes of light, followed by two large dark spots that moved around in the wheat. At the time these images were recorded there was no sign of a crop circle formation, yet after the sun rose, an unusual ‘basket weave’ pattern with two arcs extending from it was spotted in the field. For more, including video footage, see Linda’s full report.

Another witness, Ryan O’Hara, part of a documentary production team, said they were camped out on top of Silbury Hill on the night of July 4th, 2009, and they heard no disturbances. Yet in the morning, a spectacular “Quetzalcoatl Headdress” formation was present only a quarter mile away. Longtime crop circle investigator/documentarian Lucy Pringle joined Linda to talk about unusual effects people feel when visiting the formations. In some 700 reports she has gathered, visitors report a variety of symptoms from healing episodes to severe headaches, and these reactions may be related to changed frequencies within the formations, Pringle believes.

Weather

Some cereologists have suggested that crop circles are the result of extraordinary meteorological phenomena ranging from freak tornadoes to ball lightning, but there is no evidence of any crop circle being created by any of these causes.

In 1880, an amateur scientist, John Rand Capron, wrote a letter to the editor of journal Nature about some circles in crops, and blamed them on a recent storm, saying their shape was “suggestive of some cyclonic wind action”.

In 1980, Terence Meaden, a metereologist and physicist, proposed that the circles were caused by whirlwinds whose course was affected by southern England hills. As circles became more complex, Terence had to create increasingly complex theories, blaming electromagneto-hydrodynamic “plasma vortexes”. The meteorological theory became popular and it was even endorsed in 1991 by physicist Stephen Hawking who said that, “Corn circles are either hoaxes or formed by vortex movement of air”. By the end of 1991 Meaden conceded that those circles that had complex designs were made by hoaxers.

Paranormal

Since becoming the focus of widespread media attention in the 1980s, crop circles have become the subject of speculation by various paranormal, ufological, and anomalistic investigators ranging from proposals that they were created by bizarre meteorological phenomena to messages from extraterrestrial beings. Many crop circles have been found near ancient sites such as Stonehenge, a prehistoric monument located in the English county of Wiltshire. They have also been found near mounds of earth and stones raised over a grave or graves, also known as tumuli barrows, or barrows and chalk horses, or trenches dug and filled with rubble made from brighter material than the natural bedrock, often chalk. There has also been speculation that crop circles have a relation to ley lines. Many New Age groups incorporate crop circles into their belief systems.

Some[who?] have related crop circles to spiritual reformations of the Gaia hypothesis, claiming that “Gaia”, the earth, is actually alive and that crop circles are messages or responses to stimuli such as global warming and human pollution. It asserts that the earth may be modeled as if a single super-organism, in that earthly components (e.g. biota, climate, temperature, sunlight, etc.) influence each other and are organized to function and develop as a whole. Responding to local beliefs that “extraterrestrial beings” in UFOs were responsible for crop circles appearing, the Indonesian National Institute of Aeronautics and Space (LAPAN) described crop circles as “man-made”. Thomas Djamaluddin, research professor of astronomy and astrophysics at LAPAN stated: “We have come to agree that this ‘thing’ cannot be scientifically proven. Among others, paranormal enthusiasts, ufologists, and anomalistic investigators have offered hypothetical explanations that have been criticized as pseudoscientific by skeptical groups and scientists, including the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry.