COSMIC ARTWORKS ON THE FIELDS

Debate over genuine and hoaxed formations

I visited 11 formations in England (plus turned around in one more). These included the Mitsubishi car which seemed very well done seen from above, but at a close look rather messy, apart from a few details. Pole holes in the middle of the wheels were quite visible. It must be stated that it took more than 12 hours from three men to construct the car shape, in full daylight. And they had the funding and police protection for their endeavour.

There are many kind of people visiting the Wiltshire Crop Circles. Some are sceptical, analytical researchers, looking for traces left behind by hoaxers; footprints, pole holes, broken stalks, messy floor patterns etc. Others are religious "new ages hippies" or "croppies" as they are called, convinced of the divine origin of each and every formation. In every case, most of the discussions between researchers end up (or begin with) disagreements over the amount of hoaxes and genuine Circles. This is a thing that was also revealed in my Internet online questionnaire; estimations of non-human created Crop Circles varied from none to hundred percent.

Crop Circles are claimed as hoaxes or "landscape art" almost without exception based on mistakes in the geometry or imperfection of the floor pattern, not actual evidence of human involvement. On the other hand they are claimed genuine based on the absence of human traces or lack of eyewitnesses that have seen people on the field. Or if it's not understood how a formation could have been created by people, it is considered genuine (not man-made) without doubt. Even the use of dowsing rods is not much of a proof. I was delighted when I learned myself to recognise when the rods were affected by wind and when it was some mysterious energy. The rods reacted in the perimeter and centers of the circles, which was interesting and amusing at least. They also reacted between the stones in Stonehenge. In any case, scientifically acceptable evidence of genuinity can not usually be presented. In the case of the Tawsmead formation I was totally convinced, but it was based on a subjective experience.

This, however, is the case only when single formations are studied. When the phenomenon is seen as a whole, considering its magnitude and complexity just in the area of Wiltshire (especially within a rectangle defined by Swindon, Newbury, Salisbury and Devizes) we have a different situation. Within three months about hundred Crop Circles appear in such a small area and apart from a couple of commercial demonstrations nobody is caught making them, also just another couple can even be suspected of being unfinished (which actually proves nothing). So it is unlikely that even some of them are hoaxes, leave alone all! As a matter of fact, if we still want to speculate with the possibility of the entire phenomenon being a result of human activity alone, we must look for groups of people using highly advanced technology such as radiation and remote controlled atmospheric energies.

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