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Crop Circles
By Freddy Silva
FATE :: February 2005
During the twilight days of 1998, small articles tucked away in the nether regions of the British press quietly announced “Unknown Force Was Behind Corn Circles, Claims Hoaxer.” This dramatic U-turn by the surviving member of the infamous Doug and Dave duo—the English sexagenarians who since 1991 have misled the world with tales of their crop-flattening prowess with planks of wood—illustrates that the hand of man materialized in crop circle lore long after the real phenomenon manifested.
Although hoaxers claim to have orchestrated the phenomenon in 1978, unpublished evidence at the time showed approximately 200 sporadic reports of crop circles around the world throughout the 1900s, with dozens of eyewitnesses reporting crop circles forming in a matter of seconds as far back as 1890. Several highly descriptive accounts were even documented in 1678 by Robert Plot, then curator of the Ashmolean Library in Oxford, England. If hoaxers are responsible for crop circles, then they appear to have mastered the art of time travel, in which case it is they who ought to be under scientific scrutiny.
To date some 10,000 crop circles have been cataloged in 29 countries worldwide, and their anomalous features continue to defy replication: plants bent an inch above soil, their cellular structure altered; stems lightly burned around the base; alterations to the crystalline structure of the affected soil; evaporation of ground water; alteration of the local electromagnetic field; and dowsable, long-lasting energy patterns, not to mention hundreds of measured effects on the human biological field.
So much for two guys and a piece of wood. But thanks to a virtual embargo on the coverage of research throughout the media, a popular myth has developed that all crop circles have been nothing more than a prank with a plank. By definition, a hoax is a forgery, and a forger requires an original from which to copy. So what is this “unknown force” that creates genuine crop circles? One answer may lie with sound ...
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