Jun 27 2008
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Crop Circle Science
When the subject of crop circles comes up, there seem to be just two ways to go: they’re hoaxes or they’re made by aliens. Certainly many intricate designs have been made by people armed with planks and surveying equipment in the dead of night, but some of the strangest things have happened before, during, and after the circles form (or are formed) as well.
My English buddy Mark PIlkington insists that all crop circles are made by hoaxers (or artists) like himself and his friends. Even so, he and others have told me about instances when the circle makers have been stopped in their tracks by strange lights, sounds, and sensations. For a couple of years now, I have been content to take Mark’s word for it.
Nevertheless, there seems to be a significant percentage of crop circles which exhibit anomalies that can’t be easily blamed on people like Doug Bower and Dave Chorley or their skulking nocturnal offspring. Many of these anomalous aspects have been investigated by a woman named Nancy Talbott and her organization, BLT Research Team Inc.
For nearly a decade, BLT has been looking at crop circles from an analytical perspective, using a team of volunteers and scientists who gather samples from the circles and subject them to biological and chemical analysis. They seem to have found evidence that something very weird is going on in at least some cases. Observations include soil changes, microscopic and macroscopic plant structure changes, and effects in seed yields from affected crops (both increase and decrease.) Most of the anomalies can be explained as the effects of heat, identical to those produced by (among other things) microwave radiation. One researcher has actually patented a device to improve crop yields using a device that subjects seeds to “organized plasmas.”
From their website:
The BLT Research Team Inc.’s primary focus is crop circle research - the discovery, scientific documentation and evaluation of physical changes induced in plants, soils and other materials at crop circle sites by the energy (or energy system) responsible for creating them and to determine, if possible, from these data the specific nature and source of these energies. Secondly, our intent is to publish these research results in peer-reviewed scientific journals and to disseminate this information to the general public through lectures, mainstream articles and the internet.
In light of their research, it becomes increasingly difficult for me to accept that all crop anomalies are produced by stomping on plants with boards. Some as yet unknown force-natutral, manmade, or other-may be at work. You may not agree with everything presented at the BLT site, but their efforts are almost singular in the field of crop circle study. It’s certainly better than another analysis of sacred geometry or hypothesizing about alien messages. I plan to ask Talbott to appear on Radio Misterioso in the near future.
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June 27th, 2008 at 1:29 pm
That last crop circle that symbolizes the number PI up to ten decimal points was made by some very clever entities—either Earth-bound or from elsewhere.
June 27th, 2008 at 7:57 pm
Greg,
do hoaxers have the problem of contacting lime disease? I can imagine all that tall grass has lots of ticks! Here in NH we stay out of the tall grass. Are there many crop circles in NH?
My mom bought me your book while we were at Disneyland with the kids. I read through quite a bit before a light switched on in my little brain telling me that your name was all over it!
Good to see things are going well! I was so happy that you were published in hardcover, no less!!! I think when I last saw you you had a newspaper you were putting out.
I’m not typically a blogger… but i do use myspace.
ps… I hope I remember my password so I can get back on this site!
June 28th, 2008 at 3:38 pm
Well since I’m a bit hungry I got curious about what BLT stood for (besides activating my salivary glands). John Burke, businessman of NY, funder of BLT. So I google “John Burke” new york. Get Brooklyn and this comment:
John Burke is the worst broker in Brooklyn. He is not for Brooklyn. He is just a money hunter. Do not work with him unless you want nothing for a lot of cash. He needs the money to pay for his habits.
Posted by: Brooklynite at October 4, 2006 1:57 PM
Now I’m not saying it’s the same funder of the crop circle research and even if it was I don’t consider the above to necessarily taint my efforts in getting some food.
July 1st, 2008 at 1:30 pm
So I’m sitting in full-lotus in this mall bench across from this swanky bar-restaurant. This old hippy I recognize comes out of the bar, peers at me, wanders back in. Comes out a bit later and approaches me.
He claims to have patented the yin-yang symbol as the secret of free energy and adds this tidbit — it can be made from the Star of David. I exclaim that I had revealed that secret to a mutual friends of ours a couple years ago.
Now he feels obligated to invite me in to see his latest research. I follow while explaining I’m broke — so he buys me a $2 beer (normally I don’t drink but I need some anti-septic against all the garlic and sugar I’ve been eating).
Anyway then he shows me the yin-yang crop circles in the U.K. and then shows me diagrams of his patent — proving the two are exactly the same. Then he claims he had sent these diagrams to a friend in the U.K. — one who makes crop circles and knows others who make crop circles. The implication being that this dude — this artist in Minnesota obsessed with the yin-yang symbol — is the source for at least two crop circles.
July 3rd, 2008 at 11:33 pm
RPJ,
Yeah, Talbott and I talked about that the other day. I think it’s not out of the realm of human ingenuity.
July 3rd, 2008 at 11:36 pm
Dorothea,
Hey! Looks like you’re doing great, and thanks for the compliment on the book.
Yes, when we were at TAO, I was publishing a small-press magazine. Looks like I’m still doing the same kind of stuff, subject-wise anyway.
I’ll send you an email through your registration info.
July 3rd, 2008 at 11:39 pm
Drew,
That’s the same Burke? Are you sure? Is the ranter a competitor? Does he or she say this anonymously? Lots of questions.
This yin-yang/ star of david guy sounds like a real raisin-cake.