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From: Tim Matthews <TMMatthews99@aol.com>
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 14:31:15 -0400 (EDT)
Fwd Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 19:39:23 -0400
Subject: UpDate: Crop Formations - Some Informed Opinions


There's been a great deal of comment along the usual lines this
week resulting from the announcement by Colin Andrews that
complex formations are the work of human circlemakers.

This comes as little surprise to me because he is on record as
having said that if the Julia Set formation was man-made then
he'd call it a day! The Julia Set was man-made but still Colin
persists in his investigations - and why not given a juicy grant
by the Rockefellers, of all people...

I have received many phone calls this week from people convinced
that Andrews has been "got at". I'm really not sure although
three years ago he was quoted by John King in the now defunct
UFO Reality magazine as having been approached by the
intelligence services with a view to dropping out of crop
formations research. So maybe the Rockefeller money is a bribe
or, even better, the best way to finance and debunk any possible
alternative theory on crop formation's formation from hitting
the mainstream media. (I'm not sure I believe this but
anyway...)

Pat Delgado, erstwhile colleague of Andrews, appears to believe
that the former Test Valley engineer has been targetted, or so
it was reported to me by a colleague who'd spoken with Pat
yesterday...

CROP FORMATIONS AND HIGH STRANGENESS?

Too many people, especially those claiming to have knowledge
based upon their limited investigations of earlier formations of
the early 1980s, are talking about things they have little
experience of. For instance, I know that paranormal phenomena
are to be experienced within and around crop formations: my wife
Lynda and I have experienced this in West Lancashire at
locations near the River Douglas where these things tend to
appear. I know of another couple who experienced pretty much the
same thing. I know of many circlemakers who privately tell of
their concerns that they've experienced "missing time" and other
unusual phenomena whilst laying down their formations but who
fear to go public for fear of encouraging more wild theories
about the "real circlemakers".

BALLS OF LIGHT IN THE FIELDS

Similarly, and Andy Buckley showed us the footage at the BUFOSC
Conference at Warrington earlier this year, there is NO doubt,
none whatsoever, that daytime footage and photographs of small
silvery orbs seen and known to operate in the fields of
Southwestern England exists - for real.

This footage is bona-fide, the witnesses have seen this and
there is a real phenomenon there.

There is some tentative evidence that military helicopters from
the nearby  (for the SW formations at least) Middle Wallop
facility (a major AAC helicopter base, some of the aircraft are
even black, oooeer) have seen these strange silvery orbs, call
'em UFOs if you like, and hovered over or very near them.

Again, for the skeptics, this footage is available to see and
I'm sure that others can produce similar if not better evidence
for the above.

HOW TO MAKE A FORMATION

It IS possible to make highly complex formations using simple
tools. I've made simple, large-ish circles, up to 120ft, with
assistance from one other person in a couple of hours using a
simple 4ft board arrangement. A plastic roller can also be used.
So can various sticks. (One thing is for sure; your formation
always looks better from a distance...)

In order to confuse the researcher one can either dowse or
employ an electronic meter or measuring device to try and put
your formation down in an area of electromagnetic disturbance.

Nick Nicholson, Editor of the ever-excellent Circular Review,
knows a great deal more about these devices than I do. (Nick is
the most honest and down-to-earth croppie that I know..)

The very complex formations HAVE been shown to be made under the
cover of darkness by a small team with minimal pre-planning but
for the approximately 150 formations that appear in the UK - and
which are documented by people like the Crop Circle Connector -
there must be at least - at a guess - 12/15 teams working, if
not more.

I'm afraid I don't buy the alien theory in this case though
(they're out there alright), nor the "earth energies create crop
formations" theory nor Freddy Silva's "low hertz
resonance/cymatics" theory either.

But something unusual is going on and it's really not just to do
with belief systems - although people believe all kinds where
crop formations are concerned and that's OK - or wishful
thinking. Ask a farmer. He'll tell you about the silvery and
golden orbs that fly above fields bearing crop formations. These
are seen during the day and night and, as I said before, have
been filmed. As a point of detail, many formations never see the
local, regional nor national media attention. Are they
"practice" formations or something much more profound? Some
fascinating cases were investigated by a colleague of mine in
Norfolk in 1990. All kinds of strange phenomena came to be
associated with three formations that were never reported in any
media...

So maybe these formations are being under-reported?

THE CIRCLEMAKERS - HUMAN TYPE.

They believe that theirs is a Sacred Art - they probably hope
that their efforts will be seen - just like Damien Hurst and co.
No severed cows in formaldehyde here though: Each year they
outdo themselves - and each other - and a few teams,
Lundberg/Russell/Dickinson included, get "commissions" from
advertisers (we've all seem examples), TV programmers (like
Channel 4 and Sky. Ch. 4 just commissioned Russell and Lundberg
to put down a 218 ft design in a field near Farm World outside
Wrexham, North Wales that my friends Steve and Dave of MAPIT
have investigated.) AND ALSO FARMERS - the main culprits seeking
to make as much money per crop formation acre as possible. In
the recent past, many thousands of pounds have been made for
farmers by circlemakers - who have also taken their percentage.

So the researcher's claim that ALL farmers are "angry" and/or
"mystified" is not supportable. Sure, there are many farmers
who'd dearly love to get their hands on the circlemakers and
never do. Having said that, their crops CAN still be
harvested...

FORMATIONS NOT HOAXES

There appears to be some controversial and
still-to-be-fully-reviewed scientific research, Levengood etc.,
that suggests "genetic changes" - and so on - to the various
crops, particularly wheat. I understand that this research is
far from perfect and that there is still some confusion. Given
that this is perhaps the most important area of debate, perhaps
NIDS should stump up some money for a research programme whereby
samples are taken from fields over a period of time and then
rigorously analyzed.

In any case, whomever - or whatever, depending upon your
experiences - is producing these formations are/is not hoaxing.
They are real, intended and the human circlemakers I have
conversed with claim to be "artists", or enthusiasts, but not
hoaxers in the sense that they are trying to encourage a belief
in aliens. Some that I have spoken to both on four summers worth
of trips down South (Eric Morris has been visiting Wiltshire for
22 years, his first experience of crop circles being an offer
from the Sunday Express to stand in an early circular formation
and tell the readers that "alien spacecraft" had landed there.
He was offered £1,000 and turned it down point blank. So much
for chequebook Ufology...) and numerous conversations with
circlemakers.

One thing is for sure; initial and limited interest in
circlemaking can lead to addiction!

So, as ever, the elusive Paranormal phenomena that fascinate us
and which we know to real in every sense are now part of the
crop formations debate.

Something very unusual is going on and there is sufficient
interest to get to the bottom of this in time.

In the meantime, I'll continue to listen to both sides, play my
small part and know that there is rather more to this than
"hoaxing" and bits of board and rope...

Tim Matthews - British UFO Studies Centre
Tel; (07944) 047195

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