By Colin Andrews and Pat DelgadoOur Price: $16.95 Our Item Code: circular Postage Code: book1
192 Pages, Trade Paperback Features: Color Photos, Maps, Diagrams, Larger Format
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The premiere crop circle book, chronicling dozens of cases in the English countryside. Private pilot Pat Delgado took the aerial photos, and Colin Andrews provides most of the text. Of course, there is a bit of debate about whether the circles are unearthly or merely the work of hoaxsters. This book provides the believer's viewpoint. (For a more skeptical view, see Schnabel's Round in Circles.) This book provides a definitive record of about 34 "appearances", with photos and descriptive text about each. Other chapters develop a science of "cereology", in which formations are catagorized by their features and analysed for clues to their origin. The price is reasonable given the large number of color photos. One thing is certain: a lot of perfectly good crops have been ruined, and this book records the damage. -- Glenn Campbell
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Something strange is happening in England. For the past 11 summers and possibly much longer mysterious circles have appeared in the grain fields of Great Britain. Pat Delgado and Colin Andrews engineers by profession take the reader on a photographic tour of these remarkable formations. As you visit these sites with the authors you will see why the crop circles cannot be a hoax - and why they are still totally unexplained.
IN the summer of 1981 Pat Delgado brought to the attention of the British press the existence of some mysterious circular impressions in the fields at Cheesefoot Head, Hampshire. Since then, the appearance of similar circles in southern England and elsewhere in the world -- many of them striking in their symmetry and beauty -- have transformed initial curiosity into a full-blown investigation. One look at the photographs will suggest why the circles raised so many questions -- such as, how on earth did they get there?
The authors, Pat Delgado and Colin Andrews, began to compile case studies, interviewing farmers and other witnesses and photographing the formations from hillsides, from the air, and from close-up. With every viewing and visit, every measurement and close observation, more curious details seemed to emerge -- details of site groupings and of the swirled and flattened circle floor formations, and the fact that scarcely any of the plants involved were damaged. Reports of further anomalous coincidences possibly connected with the circles and related observations from other countries are included.
While theories have naturally abounded since the circles came to light--theories that the authors have considered and tested -- the book does not set out to prove anything beyond the existence of a persistent and compelling enigma in our midst.
The case for the existence of this phenomena stands well on the unembellished photographic evidence as well as the painstaking attempts at analysis. -- Times Literary Supplement
Circular Evidence is a beautiful looking book. Its fine coloured photographs of rings and circles etched upon the summer cornfields give good reason for the authors delight in their subject. . . . Their approach is none the less impeccably scientific. -- The Spectator
Fascinating pictures and artifacts. . . this is a book that will leave you intrigued, and asking question after question about these strange manifestations. -- Manchester Evening News
Pat Delgado is a retired electromechanical design engineer. Colin Andrews is chief electrical engineer with the Test Valley Borough Council in England.
Table of ContentsChapter Two: Circle Formation Chapter Three: Circle Details Chapter Four: Photographic and Measurement Techniques Chapter Five: Theories Chapter Six: Further Observations
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