Lights, Camera, Crop Circles!
Published by: Enygma , On: May-27-2003
Dutch videographers Bert Janssen and Janet Ossebaard have documented
strangely intelligent balls of light hovering above crop circles. Are they
the source of the mysterious formations? Reprinted with kind permission from
UFO Magazine
An exquisite mystery, complex and beautiful. That's how I would describe the
crop circles, those haunting, geometrical shapes and pictograms appearing in
crops all over the world. Some say the phenomenon began in the late 1970s in
southern England, in the counties of Somerset, Wiltshire, Hampshire, and
East and West Sussex. Other evidence, given in Terry Wilson's The Secret
History of Crop Circles (1998), would indicate the phenomenon is much older
and more widespread.
Prehistoric cave paintings in the Prince Regent River Valley in Western
Australia seem to depict crop circles and UFOs, overseen by aboriginals. An
account of crops flattened by "magical storms" was also described by
Agobard, Bishop of Lyons in 815 AD, a famous UFO case that allegedly
involved extraterrestrials. A woodcut called "The Mowing Devil" marked a
formation that appeared during the night of August 22, 1678 AD, within a
farmer's oat field in Hartfordshire. And hundreds of 20th-century reports
have come down to us before the late 1970s, giving the lie to their recent
creation.
Today, crop formations appear with baffling regularity in late spring,
summer, and fall in southern England, but also in France, Holland, Germany,
Spain, Bulgaria, Israel, Russia, Japan, South Africa, Australia, New
Zealand, the U.S., and Canada, to name just some of the countries that have
played host to the formations within their borders. Moreover,
basketball-sized balls of light (BOLs) are sometimes seen flying above crop
circles, often lingering inside the circles until researchers arrive on the
scene, at which point they fly away. What's going on? And what does it all
mean?
Dutch crop circle videographers Bert Janssen and Janet Ossebaard have been
asking such questions for years. Since 1994, when Bert saw his first crop
circle in Holland, and 1995, when both Bert and Janet went to England to
research the phenomenon at first hand, they've been driven to investigate
the who, what, how, and why of the circles and to describe their findings in
several documentary videos.
Their first effort, ³Crop Circles: What on Earth is Going On?² (1996),
presented a stimulating introduction to the circles and included careful
ground shots, aerials and extensive interviews with researchers. Then they
upped the ante with ³Crop Circles: The Research² (1999), producing one of
the best video analyses of the physical, mathematical and anomalous research
to date, including such fascinating physical details in crop circles as
blown nodes, meteoritic deposits and dead flies, whose tongues had been
fused to the stalks. And in ³Contact,² (2001), they chronicle the strange
BOLs seen and photographed flying in and above the circles and ask two
important questions: Are the BOLs the creators of the true crop circles­the
ones that are clearly not manmade? And are the BOLs expressive of an unknown
intelligence? ³Contact² won an EBE Award this year at the 11th Annual
International UFO Congress & Film Festival, for the Best Documentary on a
UFO-Related Subject.
³¹Contact¹ includes a great deal of video footage by witnesses who have seen
BOLs floating in and above crop circles, but rarely elsewhere, and so we had
to ask: what's the connection between BOLs and crop circles?" said Janssen.
"Building upon the work of the BLT Research Team in the U.S., we report on
the research of physicist Dr. Eltjo Hasselhoff who describes how a BOL is
scientifically the best guess for the creator of the crop circles. An effect
seen in the stalks­the elongation of the growth nodes­seems to be the result
of radiation and heat, perhaps from electromagnetism or microwaves. When you
systematically take stalk samples from a simple circle, you discover that
this node-lengthening effect decreases in a linear curve from the center to
the periphery, much like light falling off in intensity as you move away
from a light bulb. That's 100 percent consistent with gradually decreasing
radiation from an electromagnetic point source."
²Contact² also describes the odd movement of the BOLs over the fields and
the reasons why Bert and Janet believe they show some kind of intelligence,
or are intelligently guided. "In one of the video sequences, for example,
you see a BOL coming down into a crop circle, whereupon it changes
direction, follows the outside contour of the circle, and then flies up and
away. This isn't random motion, but one that suggests observation of the
crop circle shape by the BOL. And when you have observation, you have
intelligence," says Ossebaard. "Moreover, the BOLs seem to know when they're
being watched. Most videos of BOLs are taken within the first few minutes of
arriving on the scene. They're photographed or videoed quickly, whereupon
they depart, accelerating as they go. That's astonishing. They seem to be
responding to the presence of human beings."
What's even more astonishing is the tale told by a fellow Dutchman, Robbert
van der Broeke. As told to Ossebaard and Hanssen in ³Contact,² van der
Broeke claims that one night, while he was out in his back yard, a BOL came
floating over the nearby fields, stopped in the field near his house,
flattened into a pancake, and then discharged light and energy into the
plants. When he ran out to the field, van der Broeke heard a crackling sound
all around him (a sound Ossebaard and Janssen have heard before, back in
1995, during a nightwatch the first summer they went to England). When van
der Broeke reached down to touch the stalks, he found they were hot.
This is surpassingly strange. Are these lights natural "earth
lights"­piezoelectric energies generated by tectonic plates­or are they
nature spirits, as some believe? Or do they represent a UFO-type
extraterrestrial agency, almost like probes or quasi-physical devices? As it
turns out, van der Broeke has had strange dreams of UFOs taking him up into
the sky and showing him how they make the crop circles. He also seems to
know ahead of time when a crop circle is going to appear, as if he's in
psychic contact with the intelligent source of the circles. The UFO
connection isn't that offbeat, when you come to think of it. Janssen and
Ossebaard have also seen and photographed large hovering lights in the
nighttime sky in southern England. And so, are the crop circles a form of
contact, whereby some alien intelligence is gradually revealing itself to
humanity? ³Contact² implies such a theory, even if the ultimate nature and
purpose of the BOLs and crop circles is still open to question.
Today, Janssen and Ossebaard are wondering what the nature of their future
research might be. "I think the intelligence wants us to take the next step,
to interact with it more on our own initiative. The contact won't deepen if
we just wait around for it to make the next move," says Ossebaard. "I'm
talking here about a psychic interaction, not going out and physically
making circles, like the hoaxers do."
Such human-initiated subtle interaction has happened before, where groups of
people meditating together seem to have psychically produced crop circles
with the help of the unseen circlemakers. There's the experiment described
by Steven Greer in ³Zen and the Art of Close Encounters² (The New Being
Project, 1995). On the nights of July 22, 23 and 24, 1992, his CSETI team
meditated atop Woodborough Hill in Alton Barnes, envisioning an equilateral
triangle with three circles at the apexes. That very shape, he claims,
appeared on July 25 or 26, at Roundway, near Devizes. There's also the June
28, 1995 experiment recounted by Andy Thomas and Paul Bura in their book
Quest for Contact (S.B. Publications, 1997), where members of the Sussex
branch of the Centre for Crop Circle Studies did a ritual meditation atop
Wolstonbury Hill, focusing on a six-part image intuited beforehand by Barry
Reynolds. A six-part shape appeared that night as a crop circle in a field
at Felbridge. And there are many other such cases reported by croppies.
"I also think certain people have a mysterious connection to the real crop
circlemakers, just like Robbert does," said Janssen. "My theory is that it's
some connection to specific people that makes crop circles appear so much in
certain areas."
It's an interesting theory, which might be expanded upon. Perhaps it's a
matter of many people setting their intention subconsciously to interact
with the intelligence that brings so many complex circles to southern
England. And maybe what's needed are different ways to ramp up this
human-initiated interaction. How about singing songs to the unseen
circlemakers? Or somehow replicating the circle geometries with copper
tubing, to test the theory that such shapes create low-level energy fields?
Or how about visiting the fields in an out-of-body state, to peek behind the
veil of matter, as it were, just in case it's subtle "astral" intelligences
who are making the circles?
I suggested the latter to Janssen. "That's a good idea!" he replied,
laughing. "I think I know just the guy to do it! He used to do OBEs for the
local phone company, to help them locate faulty lines. Perhaps he can be
enlisted to help us with the next phase of crop circle research, because one
thing is clear: cerealogy needs new people and new ideas to move forward."
Michael Miley is a freelance writer living in Sonoma, California. He is also
a contributing editor to UFO Magazine and can be reached at
mmiley@....
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