Chapter 36

CROP CIRCLES

How, then, does the debunking media explain that this has happened literally all over the planet? India alone recently announced the appearance and cataloging of some 10,000 crop formations since the 1970s, and circles have appeared in almost every major country on the globe — whether in rice paddies, grain crops, mud, dry lake beds, or even ice.

The astounding complexity of the most recent batch of formations (from the summers of 1997, 1998, and 1999) defies even the most hardened scientific minds trying to explain them away. The old-fashioned explanations of “localized plasma vortices,” or “an army of hedgehogs running round and round,” simply do not hold weight. In most true crop circles, the stems are usually bent at the growth nodes, not broken, and they exhibit measurable radiation and signs of having been heated. This has led most serious crop-circle researchers to conclude that they were formed by some sort of microwave radiation that cooked the joints. This cooking turns the water in the crop into steam, which causes the growth nodes to become pliable and bend (Hessemann, 1996, and others). Indeed, seeds and plant fragments are often found that look as though they have been burned in a microwave oven. But how could you possibly use heat on something like dry grass and expect it not to catch fire? Interestingly enough, large amounts of nearby underground water have been known to spontaneously disappear after a circle is formed — a fact confirmed through infrared photography by crop-circle researchers. It certainly appears that the water was being drawn out of the land to keep the fragile crops from burning. No known microwave technology exists that could be beamed and executed with such precision, forming beautiful patterns while simultaneously drawing upon underground water as a coolant.

Crabwood Farm House, near Winchester, Hampshire, August 15. www.cropcircleconnector.com