Where are the Circles?
The current issue of Fate magazine contains an interesting article from Chet Snow titled Crop Circles 2006, which reveals the dramatic drop in Crop Circles in Britain in 2006. Indeed, there were less than 50 formations in the entire country last year - which was the lowest figure since 1987. And in 2005 there were only 77 such reports.
I well remember the heady years of the 1990s when I would regularly head down to the county of Wiltshire (home of Stonehenge and the Avebury Circle) where I would spend weeks at a time traveling around Crop Circle country and checking out the many and varied formations, and hanging out at the Barge pub, where the Crop Circle faithful gather to discussing all-things circular and crop-ish.
But to an extent those days have now gone. Why? Well, check out the link above to Chet Snow’s article and you’ll get an idea of his - and others - theories on why this might be so.
It will be interesting to see what - if anything! - occurs in the fields of Britain this coming summer.
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Feb 28 2007 
February 28th, 2007 at 9:19 am
Nick:
I expect the skeptics will jump on this decline as proof that crop circle are nothing but hoaxes. The hoaxers have aged and lost interest or the physical stamina to spend most of a night creating these elaborate designs. Of course this does not address some of the unanswered questions to this mystery, but when has that ever stopped a skeptic.
I find it interesting that as one paranormal phenomenon winds down another one seems to pick up. At the moment we seem to be in the midst of a ufo flap. Do you know if anyone has done or is doing a study on the waxing and waning of the different aspects of ufology (crop circles, sightings, abductions, cattle mutilations, etc.) It would be interesting to see if a pattern could be detected by such a study.
February 28th, 2007 at 9:21 am
I do find it confusing that it seems we are in a ufo flap, but the crop circle numbers have fallen. Maybe they’re just too busy flying around? Or maybe they just got bored? I mean, if I kept on trying to send messages that no one was understanding, I’d probably give up too
February 28th, 2007 at 8:43 pm
Seeinisbeeleevin,
What is a crop circle hoax?
March 1st, 2007 at 4:51 am
Raven:
Maybe I should have stated it a little different - crop circles which have obviously been created by people, that is broken stems and tracks leading in and out of the circles.
March 1st, 2007 at 5:37 am
You know; Annie has a good point. That said, the logic that some of the fakers have grown tired of doing it makes sense too — to me, but are probably right and are factors. THAT ALL SAID,I doubt very much that the Mayan Calendar has a thing to do with it.
March 1st, 2007 at 9:08 am
Seein:
That’s a good point re the waxing and waning issues. I’ll ask around if anyone has done a good study on this.
Raven/Seein:
The interesting thing about human-made circles is that many human circle makers have had weird experiences in their own formations - leading some of them to think that their actions are influenced or directed by some other intelligence.
March 1st, 2007 at 12:09 pm
Nick, that’s interesting stuff about human circle makers having the sense their actions are influenced or directed by other ‘intelligences’.
Me, my brother Adrian, my sister Julie and a variety of close friends’ve all had experiences when we felt our will wasn’t our own.
A particularly prolonged one occurred during a period in the early ’90s when the three of us and the future mother of my children, Sarah, were ’steered/tricked’ into becoming involved with an Ouspensky/Gurdjieff school of ‘Esoteric Psychology’ located in the backwoods of ‘hidden’ Sweden which changed the lives of me and Adrian, at least, in a major and irrevocable way.
My deep abiding suspicious is this ‘possession influence’ - both conscious and unconscious - lies behind a lot of episodes of the type you refer to as ‘high strangeness’.
Poltergeist episodes, for instance, often have a deep ambiguity about them as to who or what’s actually responsible for, say, objects being moved or hurled; to skeptopaths it’s perfectly obviously some or all of the people involved are responsible because, of course, poltergeists “don’t exist” - but skeptopaths never credit the possibility some external force might be using any ‘guilty’ parties, wittingly or otherwise.
I’ve had life long experience of such forces in action, particularly in observing them making others do and say strange things but having no memory of doing so.
When such individuals are confronted with the evidence of their actions they can become terribly confused and distressed.
I can’t say for certain what these forces actually are: the ones that’ve apparently been ’sent’ to aid me and mine are usually formless, though I’ve known them to take on all kinds of seemingly physical - apparently symbolic - forms, particularly the ones that represent themselves to me as ‘gods’; (you don’t ever want to meet the ‘god’ of the serial killers: it somehow manages to be both utterly horrific and heart-rending, all at the same time, leaving me, at least, with the abiding impression that while serial killers are indeed utter monsters, they’re also actually the victims of all the rest of us ’sane’, supposedly ‘non-murderous’ people).
The thing is, there’s always an ambiguity about the motivation of these critters, even the more visual, ‘dark god’/hostile ‘alien’ type entities who’ve long ‘attacked’ me on a regular basis.
After awhile many of them - particularly the high level, hardcore ones - start seeming less and less like forces of ‘evil’ and more and more like Clouseau’s sidekick, Kato, i.e., the extremely punitive physical ‘punishments’ they constantly dish out, actually start seeming as if they’re meant to keep you on your toes and toughen you up for the more merely irritating - and seemingly personal and vindictive - collective gangbanger type assaults of the more puny small fry one, teaching you not only the sheer pointlessness of fear when dealing with such things, but alerting you to capacities you couldn’t otherwise’ve conceived you’d developed.
March 1st, 2007 at 3:44 pm
Seeinisbeeleevin,
I’m just pulling your chain a bit. I know what you meant. Nick and I chased this one around on another thread in December.
I’m fully convinced that some, probably most, and perhaps even all crop circles are manmade. If that’s the case then the only true “hoaxed” circle would be the ones those tricky British rutting field rabbits make.
The lone argument (at least the only one that seems substantial to me,) against the idea that they’re all products of humankind is the fact that they go back in time so much further than most people realize. The question then becomes, in times before we had immediate world-wide news, how did so many people in so many geographically diverse places stumble on the same idea to make circles in crops at the same time?
Nick’s answer is that they may have been motivated by a common source rather than being overtly in collusion. I think it may be that there was a non-human (perhaps another form of intelligence or perhaps an as yet undiscovered natural phenomenon) that made the original circles, which humans have begun copying or attempting to copy at various periods throughout history.
March 3rd, 2007 at 1:36 pm
I am interested in how these rises and falls in sightings of UFOs, crop circles, etc… parallel shifts in human consciousness, on a collective level. I am going to be doing some research for a new book that will include material how trends and paradigms are shaped and molded and what the next several years seem to be leading to…so any ideas on how this might relate to the paranormal, UFOs, crop circles, etc would interest me greatly!!! How much does the collective consciousness of humanity have to do with these waves and cycles…that kind of stuff.
Marie
March 4th, 2007 at 2:50 pm
I agree we’re in a UFO flap. I don’t think the crop circles are UFO, ET, or paranormal events. I think they are intentional creations, made by military/government/industrial agencies. That would explain why it’s winding down; they’ve done their study and testing, and are moving on to other things.