Chautauqua – Another season of crop circles to pique our curiosity as we view yet another set of images in an on-going and mysterious one sided conversation.
Are we listening yet?
As with previous seasons; presented here are what I consider to be the best, and most significant crop formations of the season, with rudimentary formations and suspected fakes omitted. As in previous seasons again we see some interesting variations on a theme. With perhaps one or two exceptions I shall resist the temptation to speculate as to the meaning of these messages; as I believe half the fun is figuring out for ourselves, what we think they mean, and the comments section is open for that!
SF Source Augureye Express August 2015
Wikipedia – The first crop circle was described in the 1678 news pamphlet “Strange News Out of Hartfordshire”, now more commonly known as “The Mowing Devil”. The next description of a crop circle was in the 1880 edition of Nature by John Rand Capron, a well respected and frequently published scientist.[13] He described crop circles in extreme detail and also supplied a drawing. Capron ascribed the unusual circular formations as possibly being the result of storm activity.
In 1686, British naturalist Robert Plot reported on rings or arcs of mushrooms (see fairy rings) in The Natural History of Stafford-Shire and proposed air flows from the sky as a cause.[14][15] In 1991 meteorologist Terence Meaden linked this report with modern crop circles, a claim that has been compared with those made by Erich von Däniken.[n 1]
An 1880 letter to the editor of Nature by amateur scientist John Rand Capron describes how a recent storm had created several circles of flattened crops in a field.[n 2]
Modern times and the crop circle
The next known publication describing a crop circle was in 1937, in Sussex Notes and Queries, by archaeologist E C Curwen, describing observations made at Stoughton Down near Chichester in 1932.[18] Importantly this work also contains a photograph and a diagram. The next published description of a crop circle appeared in 1963 when well known astronomer Sir Patrick Moore described several in a field in Wiltshire.[19] The term “crop circle” had not yet been coined, so these circular formations in crops were not unified by a common name or “brand”.
In the 1960s, in Tully, Queensland, Australia, and in Canada, there were many reports of UFO sightings and circular formations in swamp reeds and sugar cane fields.[20] For example, on 8 August 1967, three circles were found in a field in Duhamel, Alberta, Canada, and the Department of National Defence sent two investigators, who concluded that it was artificially made but couldn’t make definite conclusions on who made them or how.[21] The most famous case is the 1966 Tully “saucer nest”, when a farmer said he witnessed a saucer-shaped craft rise 30 or 40 feet (12 m) up from a swamp and then fly away. When he went to investigate the location where he thought the saucer had landed, he found a nearly circular area 32 feet long by 25 feet wide where the grass was flattened in clockwise curves to water level within the circle, and the reeds had been uprooted from the mud.[20] The local police officer, the Royal Australian Air Force, and the University of Queensland concluded that it was most probably caused by natural causes, like a down draught, a willy-willy (dust devil), or a waterspout. In 1973, G.J. Odgers, Director of Public Relations, Department of Defence (Air Office), wrote to a journalist that the “saucer” was probably debris lifted by the causing willy-willy. Hoaxers Bower and Chorley said they were inspired by this case to start making the modern crop circles that appear today.[22] This contradicts the commonly held belief that concept of crop circles began with the original late-1970s hoaxes by Doug Bower and Dave Chorley. (see Bower and Chorley, below).[23][20][24][25][26] They said that they were inspired by the Tully “saucer nest” case in Australia, where a farmer found a flattened circle of swamp reeds after observing a UFO.[20] Continue reading . . .
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Does anybody really believe that this crop circle is alien made? Anybody?
With solid evidence that there is a Human crop circle creation team in England, and another one in Canada, self-confessed Human “artists”; one should take care when asserting these things as genuine.
This particular crop-circle is an obvious fake. Who says aliens have birds on their planet? Especially stylized NAZI birds, at that.
for the best pictures of crop circles in the UK, goto( lucypringle.co.uk/photos)
She has over 10 year worth of pictures that will leave one overwhelmed knowing that no person could fake these, or want to.