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Crop circles dating back to 1945 are proof the phenomenon is no modern
hoax, a Tasmanian historian claims.
The mystery of the increasingly intricate patterns was supposedly solved
after several high-profile cases were revealed to be the work of artists
and mischief-makers armed with barrels, planks of wood and plenty of
spare time.
Credit for the hoaxes has been laid largely at the feet of pranksters
Dave Chorley and Doug Bower, who in 1991 announced they had been pulling
the wool over people¡¯s eyes since 1978.
<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/7955868/Crop-circle-conundrum.html>
[halesowen]
A crop circle in Halesowen. Greg Jefferys estimates this one to be about
ten meters in diameter. He points out the shadow on its south east
perimeter corresponds precisely with the shadows cast by the trees and
hedges and that the quality of the image is high enough to show there
are no tracks through the grain crop leading to or from the crop circle
(FYI, crop circles have also been blamed on unusual weather patterns,
top secret military experiments and, er, stoned wallabies
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8118257.stm> .)
But research by Greg Jefferys <http://cropcircleresearch.homestead.com/>
has revealed evidence of the strange circles in the English countryside
at least 33 years before Chorley and Bower took credit for the phenomena
¨C which until then had been attributed to UFOs and alien activity.
Jefferys, who has a degree in archaeology, was prompted to research the
matter after reading a report on crop circles in an 1880 edition of the
science journal Nature <http://www.nature.com/nature/index.html> .
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Jefferys is about to embark on a PhD in crop circles at the University
of Tasmania
The 59-year-old¡¯s research focuses on images from Google Earth
<http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en_uk/earth/index.html> ¡¯s new 1945
overlay, which Jefferys studied for more than 300 hours.
The overlay is a series of photos taken towards the end of World War II
by the RAAF and comprises around 35% of the 1945 overlay of England
presently available online.
Jefferys points out the material available does not include acknowledged
crop circle ¡°hotspots¡± around Wiltshire.
<http://www.wccsg.com/>
In a research paper emailed to Huffington Post UK Jefferys writes:
¡°Using aerial photographs primarily from the Google Earth 1945
overlay, that the number of crop circles appearing each summer has been
relatively constant for at least the last 70 years and that these crop
circles cannot be explained by the ¡®hoax theory¡¯. This removal
of the validity of the hoaxer¡¯s claims means that crop circles
remain an unexplained natural phenomenon deserving of serious
investigation by academic institutions and other research
organisations.¡±
Jefferys, who has previously used aerial photography to successfully
locate shipwrecks, points out there have been reports of crop circles in
the English countryside as far back as 300 years before the period the
hoaxers began their work.
In his research Jefferys acknowledges the existence of flaws on the film
caused by chemical or mechanical damage to the film on which the 1945
aerial snaps were taken and has taken these into account.
In summary, he says careful examination of the presently available
images has yielded 64 shapes that were possible crop circles.
Using a process of elimination to recognise flaws in the negatives,
Jefferys selected 13 which conformed strictly to his criteria. (Scroll
down to view some of his evidence.)
He concludes:
"The number of circular features that can be reasonably confirmed as
crop circles that have been so far found in the survey of the currently
available 1945 Google Earth overlay numbers about one dozen. As this
survey did not include more than 35% of England and excluded the known
crop circle 'hot spots' around Wiltshire the findings are consistent
with an annual occurrence of around 100 crop circles across the English
countryside in 1945. This, combined with a significant body of historic
records describing crop circles, gives the lie to the claims made by
various to be the originators and creators of all crop circles. This in
turn begs the question 'If not them, then who or what is responsible for
the creation of crop circles?'"
He told HuffPo UK: "There is a mounting body of evidence that suggests
that a rare form of electromagnetic energy called an ionised plasma
vortex <http://www.bltresearch.com/published/dispersion.php> (generally
known as ball lightning) is involved.
"Plasma balls do weird things like passing through solid objects (such
as stone walls and glass windows) and floating through the air against
the wind. Exactly where this energy comes from and what causes it is not
yet understood by science.
"Based on my studies I suspect that the forces involved in the creation
of crop circles represent a potentially extraordinary new field of
science, a new frontier that could lead to profound discoveries and
entirely new technologies.
"Further I believe that if the mainstream scientific community were not
so timid and so conservative in their view of the Universe that they
would not be sitting on their hands pretending this thing is not
happening but would be seriously investigating this unexplained
phenomenon."
We're expecting to hear more from Jefferys, who, by the way, is about to
embark on a PhD on crop circles, having found a supervisor at the
University of Tasmania <http://www.utas.edu.au/> .
What do you think?
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* NW Woodmancote
A crop circle in a half harvested field of grain showing the tone
difference between the flattened grain in the circle, the harvested
grain and the non-harvested grain. In this image the camera is almost
directly above the field and it is close to mid-day so even the hedge is
not casting an obvious shadow.
* Halesowen
this classic crop circle is about ten meters in diameter. The shadow on
its south east perimeter corresponds precisely with the shadows cast by
the trees and hedges. The quality of this image is high enough to show
there are no tracks through the grain crop leading to or from the crop
circle.
* SE Whiston Cross
Although the resolution on this image is poor the crop circle is quite
clear as is the relationship between the circle¡¯s internal shadow
and those shadows cast by objects in the landscape.
* Milton Malsor
* Rainow
* West of South Hinksey
* S W Chesham
* Shustoke
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