by John Burke
In 1989 the appearance of two books on crop circles, combined with some media coverage, alerted most Americans for the first time to the appearance of a previously unrecognized phenomena which had no precedent: large, geometric-shaped areas of crop which had been flattened overnight.
Writing a letter to author Pat Delgado to ask for details on the biological studies, career biophysicist W.C. Levengood was shocked to find that no biological studies were being conducted. He asked for and received plant samples taken in line with his instructions, in what was to become a steady stream of plants across the Atlantic. As formations were reported in the U.S. and other countries, samples were obtained from them as well–always with control samples taken from unaffected parts of the same field for comparison. Today, after meticulously analyzing tissue samples from five countries and more than 300 formations involving many types of crops, some clear patterns have emerged.
Whatever the force which makes crop formations, it physically alters the tissue of the flattened (and sometimes the internal, upright) plants in a number of ways. Over time an hypothesis has emerged suggesting plasma as the active force. None of the following effects has occurred when formations have been made (by us and others) using all the techniques claimed by those who have “confessed” to hoaxing the crop formations:
- Stalks which are very often bent up to ninety degrees without being broken, particularly at the nodes (which are like the joints of wheat stems). Something softened the plant tissue at the moment of flattening. This is particularly dramatic in canola (rapeseed), which otherwise is as stiff as celery at this stage of development.
- Stalks which are usually enlarged, stretched from the inside out by something which seems to heat the nodes from the inside. Sometimes this effect is so powerful, the node literally explodes from the inside out, blowing holes in the node walls and spewing sap outside the stalk. This has been measured in thousands of samples to a degree of 95% to 99% probability (“significant” to “highly significant” in the language of science). Levengood has duplicated this effect using microwaves.
- Stalks which are left with surface electric charge. We have measured this in two formations which were only a few hours old. The degree to which the stalks were bent over was proportional to the degree of electric charge on the stalk, strongly suggesting the force which pushed it over was electrical.
- The thin bract tissue surrounding wheat seed which has had its electrical conductivity increased, consistent with exposure to an electrical charge.
Sample plants with apical node elongation and extreme bending,
in wheat from a Maryland, USA crop formation.
Apical nodes in control plants from the same field, taken a distance away from the crop formation.
Natural Causes
As scientists we (the BLT Team) had to next ask if there is anything in nature which shares these characteristics. The answer is yes–plasma. Plasma, here, is simply electrified air. It carries electric charge, and when it travels through a magnetic field (like the geomagnetic field which exists everywhere on the planet) it does two things:
- It moves in a spiral, the most common pattern in which crop is flattened (in crop circles).
- When it spirals thus it emits microwaves. (This is the same principle used in your microwave oven, where electrons are spun around a magnet in the roof and emit the microwaves which penetrate the tissue, heating from the inside by interacting with the water in the food. The plant stem nodes, the most affected part of crop formation plant samples, are the site with most of the plant’s water.)
Plasma was first hypothesized as the cause of crop formations by English meteorologist Terence Meaden. He suggested the plasma was in the form of a vortex produced meteorologically. Unfortunately crop formations did not seem overly dependent on any set of weather conditions, and this model did not explain non-circular formations.
We asked ourselves, was there any other possible source for plasma? Lightning is an example of a very powerful, very high-energy plasma. It is caused by plasma (electrically charged air) far above ground in thunderheads up to eight miles high being attracted to opposite charges in the ground. But lightning is a much higher energy plasma than that which makes crop circles (where usually no charring occurs).
Low-Energy Plasma
The ionosphere, on the other hand, is a region of low-energy plasma 40-80 miles up in our atmosphere, where most of the air is electrified by solar wind and cosmic rays. The only time that some of this plasma gets energetic enough to glow is when we see the Northern Lights. It was long believed that the ionosphere and the earth’s surface were completely separate, and that never the twain would meet. In recent years, however, decades of airline pilot sightings were confirmed with scientists’ photos of electrical flashes in the air between thunderheads (8 miles high) and the ionosphere (up to 100 miles high). The several types of these have been dubbed “sprites,” and they are apparently very common events. So there are frequent exchanges of electric cargo between the ionosphere and a storm 90% of the way to the earth’s surface.
We believe that sometimes the exchange may cover the other 10% of the distance as well, and actually reach the ground. Something similar is known to happen every night everywhere when plasma penetrates part-way down (causing perturbations in the geomagnetic field). Normally these attempted penetrations are bounced back the way they came by the reflective layers of the ionosphere–the same reflective layers which AM radio waves bounce off to communicate over the horizon. At night these layers weaken and rise (which is why you can get AM radio reception over much greater distances late at night).
They are weakest in the predawn hours, when most crop formations occur. The ability of plasma to penetrate these reflective layers is directly proportional to its “vorticity” (i.e. the tighter and more rapidly spinning the plasma cloud, the further it can penetrate toward the ground). The “magnetic pinch” effect insures that as such a plasmoid descends toward the earth’s surface, it shrinks in size and spins faster (much like spinning figure-skaters accelerate by pulling in their arms).
An Increase in “Ammunition”
The amount of “ammunition” in the ionosphere, in the form of free electrons, increases up to 100 times between sunspot maximum and sunspot minimum. Crop formation frequency, at least in England, has roughly paralleled sunspot numbers. The huge outbreak of crop circles in 1988-1989 coincided with the most powerful sunspot maximum in their 170 years of recorded history–since 1988-89 crop circle numbers have declined accordingly. This roughly 11-year-cycle should peak again near the millennium.
The Meteoritic Connection
The strongest evidence for the ionosphere as the origin of crop formation plasma comes from microscopic particles of meteoritic dust found in two-thirds of the 32 formations where we have been able to obtain soil samples. The heaviest concentration ever was found in 1993 in an English formation which appeared on the night of the largest meteor shower to hit Europe in 30 years. This example became the basis of our second (1995) paper on crop circles, published in the peer-reviewed literature (“Semi-Molten Meteoric Iron Associated with a Crop Formation,” J. Sci. Exploration 9:191-199).
Sub-millimeter-sized bubbles of pure iron oxide (magnetite) coated both the ground and the crop in that formation. To summarize a detailed and technical investigation, the material was identical to the debris which erodes from meteors as they burn up in the atmosphere, and which takes 7-10 days to settle to the ground. It can be picked up with a magnet (as could some of the wheat in which it had become imbedded). It has since appeared in the majority of formations from 13 U.S. states and 5 foreign countries where soil samples were obtained. Inside formations, it appears in 20-100 times the normal concentration for soil.
As plasma spirals around geomagnetic field-lines it creates its own magnetic field. This would tend to attract and carry along any magnetite dust particles encountered as it descended from the ionosphere. The ubiquitous presence of this material has essentially ruled out a low-altitude source for the plasma.
Established Scientific Facts
These are extremely well-established and long-established scientific facts. Nothing said so far is remotely controversial, except for the idea of plasma reaching the ground from the ionosphere. Plasma loves to organize itself into spirals: most aurora are actually arrays of tight tubes of plasma vortices, seen from the side as they spin around the geomagnetic field lines. One-third of all aurora organize themselves into gross spirals, as well. One candidate–the small curl–seems a likely candidate for crop circle formation. It is often as small as 400 meters across where it starts in the ionosphere, but shrinks as it descends.
Plasma might, we reasoned, be reaching the wheat fields of England from the ionosphere, but why did so many occur in one small area of England–and how did they form some of those incredible patterns? These are two very distinct issues. In a search for why any plasma might be particularly attracted to one tiny area 30 miles or so across, we eventually looked at hydro-geological maps of England and found something remarkable.
Crop formations in England overwhelmingly appear over shallowly-buried parts of a giant chalk aquifer. England has the world’s deepest chalk aquifer (the white cliffs of Dover are a view of one side of it). They also have some of the world’s greatest seasonal fluctuations of water levels–up to 100 feet. Was there anything about this which might attract plasma? As it turned out, there was. Water percolating through porous rock–any kind of porous rock–creates electric charge. This occurs by a process called “adsorption,” in which electrons are stripped off water droplets as they move through rock pores, leaving a net negative electric charge behind on the rock and a net positive charge on the water which drains through.
Chemical Reinforcement
With calcium carbonate (the mineral which makes up chalk) there is a chemical process when the water dissolves some of the mineral, which further reinforces this same charge separation. Wherever charge separation occurs in a body which can conduct electricity, electric current flows and generates its own magnetic fields. We measured these ground currents and their changing magnetic fields in 1993 at Silbury Hill, long the center of the most intense crop formation activity in the world.
Relationship with Aquifer
Crop formations in southern England overwhelmingly occur where this electrically-charged rock is closest to the surface. The largest formations and most frequent formation happen late in the summer, when the aquifer is most run-down, and the most water has, therefore, run through the most rock. The beginning of the modern phenomenon of large, spectacular formations began in the late 1970s and early 1980s, a time when over-pumping for public water supplies began to lower the water-table noticeably in the Wiltshire area. Elsewhere it has been noted that droughts have coincided with banner years for crop formations.
In one particular field in England which has nearly annual crop formations, our team measured the kind of magnetic fields one would expect to accompany such electric ground currents; four days after taking these measurements a major formation occurred there. Follow-up fluxgate magnetometer measurements, taken four days after this sixty-foot dumbbell appeared, showed that the magnetic readings and the currents which produced them had vanished. This is not unlike the discharge with that more powerful plasma–lightning. In the case of lightning, ground current attracts the airborne plasma, and when the plasma (the lightning bolt) hits the surface it neutralizes the ground current.
Limestone is the chemical twin of chalk: it too is calcium carbonate, but it is much less porous than chalk. It also has the ability to generate ground currents from interaction with water, but not nearly so much as chalk. This it is fascinating to note that limestone aquifers are the major exception to crop formations occurring over chalk substrata. Formations in England do happen a minority of the time on the large limestone aquifers there.
In the U.S. we have no substantial chalk deposits, but huge stretches of limestone aquifers do exist in Florida, on the Eastern Coastal Plain, throughout much of the Midwest, and virtually all of the Great Plains, extending into Canada. Finally, a thin stretch runs down the West Coast. These locations are where crop formations occur in the U.S. As in England, the most active sites seem to frequently be where an edge of the aquifer occurs or where a river valley has cut through the aquifer to produce an edge. Proximity to water is also typical (no surprise, considering the current generated between water and the rock it runs through).
Shapes Most Difficult to Explain
This leaves us with the question of shape, the crop circle designs–the most difficult aspect to explain with a natural model of crop formation causation. The most common patterns in the crops are the most common patterns seen in plasma in the laboratory. It is important to remember that plasma is scale-invariant—anything which happens on a scale of inches can and will happen on a scale of miles, etc. So it is worth noting that plasma in the lab most commonly organizes itself into a spiral–the most common pattern found in flattened crop circles. The next-most common pattern observed in plasma is the swirled disc, surrounded by concentric rings (the crop circle “bulls-eye” or “target” pattern), and this is also the next most commonly observed design in the fields. Furthermore, in both mediums the concentric rings tend to alternately swirl clockwise and counter-clockwise as you move out from the center (or in from the edge).
Other Patterns
Other patterns seen in plasma and in crop-fields include floral patterns, nested crescents, dumbbells, and others. The designs hardest to understand using the plasma model are those that incorporate straight lines and right-angle shapes–it is counter-intuitive to think that air can form such patterns. However, as electrified air, plasma behaves more like an electromagnetic fluid (and, so, the physics of plasma motion is called “magnetohydrodynamics”); and, while it is also contrary to common sense that liquids form such shapes, in fact they do–when excited.
American physicists exciting liquids with sound waves have produced surface ripple patterns that include squares, triangles, hexagons, and others. We must remember that a crop formation is the two-dimensional record of the passing of a likely three-dimensional shape–the ground (2-dimensional) is likely to record only a 2-dimensional slice of a 3-dimensional plasmoid. So even 2-dimensional patterns in the plasma could get recorded on the ground.
Deterministic Chaos
Deterministic chaos is a new branch of science which has repeatedly shown that systems which are excited or turbulent can assume surprisingly geometric patterns. Ilya Prigogine received the Nobel Prize for showing that 2-dimensional geometric patterns often form of their own accord in 3-dimensional pools of liquid chemical reagents.
A ball of plasma being drawn ground-ward by an electromagnetic hot-spot is likely to be a turbulent system; as such, we can expect that patterns will spontaneously arise within the plasma, however briefly. If at such a moment the plasma impacts the ground, whatever pattern had formed is the pattern we can expect to appear in the crop. Also, with plasma there is a positive feedback loop which might tend to refine certain patterns until they are of the picture-perfect sort we so often encounter.
Certain shapes called “waveguides” will attract plasma like bees to honey. A rectangle is one such shape and this is a primary reason why ball lightning (a high-energy plasma) loves to enter houses through the chimney–chimneys are rectangular tunnels.
Another commonly used waveguide in industry is the dumbbell shape (which occurs frequently in the fields), and still another is the “key” or “F” shape (called the Millman Waveguide) which we often see attached to circles.
Plasmas create their own magnetic field-lines. If, by random chance, the magnetic field in a turbulent plasma takes on a waveguide shape, it could create a positive feedback loop. More plasma will be attracted to that part of the plasma ball, vortex, or cloud which has assumed that shape. The plasma will spiral along those magnetic field-lines as it moves; when plasma spirals around a magnetic field-line it strengthens that field-line, which in turn attracts more plasma, etc. Thus this shape might tend to get “locked in” and even refined until close to its ideal shape. At the moment this is a highly speculative, but stimulating, hypothesis. It still strains the imagination to think how some of the more elaborate patterns might arise from sheer plasma physics.
Not Always Perfect
One aspect of all this that has long bothered us is that, if this is a natural phenomenon, then it should frequently result in designs which are not “geometric” at all. Nature does not always get everything perfect. As it turns out, we now believe that most plasma impacts result in non-geometric flattening of the crop. Of course, crops around the world are constantly being flattened by non-plasma events such as wind. However, sometimes close inspection of such raggedly-downed areas has revealed the same bent and elongated nodes as are found in crop circles. Sometimes a large field in which the crop has been flattened in a non-descript pattern will have within it small areas of spiraled lay and other lay patterns (with 180 degree opposition) which are impossible, if wind were the cause.
Sampling and lab analysis of many such sites has shown a great number to have the same tissue changes as in formations. In fact, the most dramatic node changes ever recorded have been in such randomly-downed areas–including plant stem nodes which were blown apart from the internal pressure. This is in keeping with plasma physics: plasma will spontaneously organize itself into a vortex shape–if the energy level of the plasma does not get too high. When the energy level exceeds a certain threshold, the plasma’s ability to maintain the vortex pattern breaks down. Examination of photographs of crop formations very often reveals such ragged areas of downed crop all around a formation. Our pattern-seeking minds, however, tend to ignore this, and we go straight to the geometric formation, considering this to be the only “genuine” event in the field.
We believe that plasma, in whatever shape, is probably impacting the ground far more often than we realize. We have analyzed rings in grass which have undergone physical changes consistent with plasma contact. If plasma were to hit streets or buildings it would leave no visible record. A series of concentric rings found in sand on a U.S. west-coast beach showed very high levels of ionization; a ring in dirt in a Colorado field had some of the highest concentrations of meteoritic dust we have ever seen (and this only in the top three inches of ground and only in the ring).
Like Sprites?
We believe that the plasma we are studying may turn out to be like sprites. Their existence, reported for decades by airline pilots, was ignored by science until a professional scientist took photographs of them. Now that scientists are looking, they are discovering sprites to be incredibly common, wherever there are thunderstorms. We have one daytime photograph from a crop circle in New York state which looks like a small plasma vortex, and the rare eyewitness accounts of circle formation are essentially consistent with our model. Likely one day everyone will know of such events. In the meantime we have those amazing patterns to admire and puzzle over.
Copyright 1998 by John Burke
originally printed in the MUFON Journal, October, 1998, pp. 3-7
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BLT RESEARCH TEAM – OVERVIEW
The BLT Research Team (http://www.bltresearch.com/index.php ), a non-profit tax-exempt U.S. corporation, is best-known for its scientific documentation of multiple, recurring abnormalities found in crop circle plants and soils around the world—physical alterations which rule out the possibility of mechanical flattening of the crop circle plants as a reasonable explanation for the phenomenon. BLT Team members have published their findings in 3 peer-reviewed scientific papers (http://www.bltresearch.com/published.php ) which outline these abnormalities and offer the hypothesis that highly energetic, thermodynamically-unstable atmospheric plasma systems, originating in the ionosphere, can account for the plant and soil changes observed and, therefore, are likely to be involved in crop circle creation. A follow-up study which documented changes in the crystalline structure of specific clay minerals (illite/smectites) in a Canadian crop circle’s soils (http://www.bltresearch.com/xrd.php ) point to the involvement in that circle’s creation of an energy “currently unknown to science.”
Simultaneously, and based on multiple eyewitness accounts and one long-term study of a Dutch “medium” (http://www.bltresearch.com/robbert.php ) who is the only person known and thoroughly documented to have accurately predicted both the locations and dates of occurrences of new circles in his country for nearly 20 years, the BLT Research Team has also been examining the possible involvement of consciousness in crop circle creation. A considerable body of scientific, photographic, videographic and anecdotal evidence now exists which provides support for this contention.
BLT’s two-pronged investigation into the causative agency/agencies behind the circle phenomenon (the scientific documentation of multiple anomalous physical abnormalities in the circle plants and soils, and the extensive documentation of a “medium’s” ability to reliably predict new circle appearances) provides the most comprehensive evidence to-date that “pranks with planks” cannot explain the continuing, world-wide appearance of genuine crop circles.
Additional Links:
- BLT Scientific Consultants: http://www.bltresearch.com/proffcons.php
- Crop Circle Plant Abnormalities: http://www.bltresearch.com/plantab.php
- Magnetic Material in Crop Circle Soils: http://www.bltresearch.com/magnetic.php
- Other Relevant Crop Circle Facts: http://www.bltresearch.com/otherfacts.php
- BLT Laboratory Reports: http://www.bltresearch.com/labreports.php
- BLT Field Reports: http://www.bltresearch.com/fieldreports.php
- Eyewitness Reports: http://www.bltresearch.com/eyewitness.php
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To me all things have code. People write and do art and all we do is ENCODED so, when i see something, i see something entirely different than others see. Even a simple kids drawing has codes in it as ALL IS A MIRROR TO OURSELVES=as within so without.
The crop circles are like this to me, a mirror of things to come or things that are or have been. Even if some are faked it is irrelevant as they contain codes and we always have fools gold and then real gold. It is just the way it is but a wise man knows even fools gold may have a secret use if only he can figure it out and snake poison can be used to heal . IT ALL COMES WITH WISDOM.
These are fabulous designs the same picture has symbols of names fluxed Into the crop shapes plenty knowledge could get coded and used for sculptures and music even healing therapy and recognize the deeper patterns of creative intelligence karma now evolves at even frequency.
The crop circle enigma is not always a hoax. I am not able to see how someone could do a massive design overnight in the cases where the plants have their stems broken from within. Yes, that is the case in what I consider the real crop circles. The wheat or other plants have the stalk exploded from within and the stalks can be bent at a distance up the stalk which would not happen if the use of weighty rollers was applied to them. Thus we are able to speculate many things but I see no reason for it to be aliens or at least not a visit in physical form by extra-terrestrials.
There are many segments of this book that cover the science of energy and its lattice designs that I think relate to this phenomena. The designs are sometimes advanced mathematical theorems and there are many Keltic designs. The Kelts or their Druids and shamans were in tune with the Earth Energy Grid and that Grid is part of the larger Cosmic Thought Field that Affinity connects across universe. Thus if it is a message from some intelligence inside the Earth’s ‘event horizon’ or local area network of dimensions we would expect to see Keltic designs if the Druids were in fact making representations of their attunements.
Why this simple factual and historically based observation is not made by other authors is beyond me. But I am constantly amazed by people’s ability to deny the simple and obvious that is around them all the time. I can see why the media and paid hacks in academic circles do not wish to integrate history and ancient advanced sciences like Harmonics into their writings. The governments do not want the truth of the ancient Brotherhood to become common knowledge. They benefit greatly by the common perception that man is advancing and improving and man once was stupid and superstitious or a barbarian and hunched-back cave dweller. Academics don’t want to credit the builders of the Great Pyramid with sonic tools such as Christopher Dunn states. What about the ability to alter the structural make up of matter through spiritual or mental attunement. Is it possible to involve. Intelligence or consciousness which Futurescape shows us is being done with machines? Could the ancients cause energy to coagulate and form banks of energy similar to each other. I first wrote about this some four decades ago as a teenager trying to explain the phenomena of ghosts and elementals.
When a muon shielded from cosmic rays like gamma rays was split in the deep mines formerly used by INCO at Sudbury in Canada something occurred that I think relates to this. They energized one muon and the other one that had been connected with it responded. Do we therefore have the right to say all energy is connected by what might be called ESP? Is this Intelligent Design or Affinity at work?
What level of connectiveness is man capable of if mere sub-atomic muons have such a medium for communicating? Is this important enough to consider and learn as was once done? String Theory tells us that all matter is comprised of or built from ‘one-dimensional harmonic forces’. Is this the LOGOS written about in the Bible (BBL in vowelless script that all languages once were)? Is the tower of Babel (BBL like the Bible and Byblos) that my Phoenician Kelts put into myths as the Father of Biblical Archaeology says is the case; when he says “The Bible is a Phoenician literary legacy”?
Correspondents of mine have rocks they go so far as to call a Philosopher’s Stone. One of them is a genetic researcher and the ancients attuned to the interior designs of the animals they bred which I have spoken or written about for those same four decades. Genetic knowledge transfers from person to person when the genes are passed in sex and procreation. This is written about by the esoteric schools of thought as fact for millennia. The Hobbit or Bonobos and so many other things are part of this – possibly? What do you think?
Gerald Hawkins
Posted on October 10, 2010 by ModelAirplane
There is something about the Hawkins clan that I like. My most adept and austere teacher was a Hawkins related to Black Jack the Privateer and I wonder if this man who died recently while happily flying his model airplanes is one of them. I think it is very possible that genetic information transfer is real. Mathematics and astronomy was his forte but he also had a gift for Public Relations when he ran the contest to pay a large sum to anyone who could do the math in Crop Circles.
“Perhaps the most obvious scientific investigation that can be performed, when one is confronted with the intriguing shapes that crop circles can take, is a geometric analysis of the symbols. This was the approach followed by Dr. Gerald S. Hawkins, former chairman of the astronomy department at Boston University. Hawkins was probably the first person who unambiguously demonstrated that crop circles are much more than just some arbitrarily sized and randomly positioned patterns in the fields. After reading the bestseller Circular Evidence, in which an extensive overview was given of all British crop circles for the period 1978-1988, Hawkins analyzed all formations presented in this book. (2) In those early years the pictograms still had simple shapes: single circles, multiple circles in a pattern, and circles with concentric rings around them. All diagrams were put through a straightforward mathematical analysis, during which the proportions of the circle diameters and the areas inside the rings were determined. A total of twenty-five pictograms were taken into account.
Hawkins discovered that the resulting ratios revealed a strong correspondence to the white keys on a piano keyboard… In simple terms it boils down to the fact that the white keys on a piano keyboard can be logically related to the ordinal numbers 0, 2, 4 5, 7, 9 11, and 12. {Pythagoras developed the modern octave in music and all the crop circles have something to do with the ‘Singing of the Spheres’ he developed as part of what is in the Great Pyramid he learned it from. Harmonics and the inter-relating lattices of earth and cosmic energy are involved and not aliens as I see it.} When Hawkins determined the geometrical ratios from the individual pictograms, he discovered that all of these corresponded to integer numbers.” (1)
Curious this comes out now as I’ve recently been kicking myself (doh) for having lost the link to a vid which showed one actually forming. The significant aspect was that there were several spheres (not quite orbs but almost metallic) spinning right over it at that instant. Not spinning on their axis but in arcs… and it was the Way they were flying about. Seemed to be sentient.
I would agree with Brenda that the more ornate crop circles cannot possible be created without intelligent direction. There have been a number of reports of UFO activity in conjunction with CC formation. The plasma research is interesting, but the only reasonable explanation is the use of torsion fields or scalar beams (cf. Hoagland, Bearden, or Farrell). This would involve computer control. The big question–the elephant in the room–is what are “they” trying to communicate? And who are “they”? Crop circles are one of the top enigmas, along with spontaneous human combustion and the ruins on Luna and Mars.
Hi, Brenda,
John Burke (the “B” in “The BLT Research Team”) has presented, in his article “The Physics of Crop Formations,” a layman’s guide to understanding the significance of the PHYSICAL evidence documented by BLT in crop circle plants & soils and how this evidence pertains to the hypothesis that a plasma discharge of some kind (not mechanical flattening of the plants) has produced these physical abnormalities. He does not deal with anything other than the physical evidence that was available when he wrote the piece many years ago.
He does point out the fact that the plant & soil evidence clearly shows that “non-geometric” areas of flattened crop–plants flattened in what appears to be a totally random manner and which do NOT have precisely-defined edges or potential symbolic “meaning”–sometimes show the SAME abnormalities regularly found in more “geometric” crop events….particularly when such randomly-flattened areas are found in the same fields as events generally interpreted as crop circles.. But it is true that the randomly-downed areas in which the plants show the same basic changes documented in non-mechanically-flattened “geometric” crop formations also occur on their own.
And John also points out correctly that plasma physics CAN explain many of the shapes or “designs” which regularly appear in the more “geometric” crop circles.
John’s article is as accurate now as it was when he wrote it. But it was written before we had become involved in an in-depth study of a highly unusual Dutch “medium” (Robbert van den Broeke) who, for nearly 20 years now, has been able to accurately predict not only the location and date, but also often the design, of new circles in his area — a study which now has produced an enormous amount of data which provides support for the possible involvement of a consciousness of some kind in the circle phenomenon.
Since 1997 I have been documenting, in considerable detail, the van den Broeke case and its indication that consciousness does play a role in the circle phenomenon. If you have not seen this material I suspect you will be intrigued to read not only the scientific work supporting the authenticity of the circles which occur around Robbert, but also the multiple eyewitness accounts supporting Robbert’s “psychic” abilities and the photographic and videographic documentation we’ve gathered, as well as Robbert’s personal understanding of the “energies” he experiences as being involved–not only with the creation of new crop circles, but in association with the enormous range of other, utterly bizarre and ongoing, anomalous events.
Many detailed reports about Robbert’s case are listed individually beneath my introduction to his case on the BLT Research Team’s website (www.bltresearch.com), — click on the “van den Broeke Case” in our menu and scroll down past the introduction to read individual reports.
You’ll find rather stunning support for your idea that there may be more than “plasma” going on, I suspect.
Nancy Talbott
BLT Research Team Inc.
http://www.bltresearch.com
Hi BLT Team. As you state, John Burke studies the physical evidence involved in crop circles and signs – which I am fine with and have no doubt about, but physical science so often misses what’s really going on. Whether much of science likes to admit it or not, there is a spiritual side to just about everything physical that God created, and to cut that off is asking to be deceived or ignorant. I think science and the spiritual aspects of life need to work together to really get the full picture of what’s going on, so yes, while I see why you suggested Robert van den Broeke’s (sp?) work in the psychic side of these anomalies, from what you’ve said about him just in your response to me, only serves to solidify what I was thinking when I wrote my first comment.
If I could see an up-to-date picture of van den Broeke I would be able to pin-point exactly what’s going on, but psychics, like anyone else, are tuned in to one of two ‘forces’, God or Satan. I’m aware ‘we don’t use 3/4 of our brain’ but our bodies are not the power source, our spirits are: and they originate in God. Just because a light bulb lights up doesn’t make it the power source, and neither does the fact that we have largely unused portions of our brains (or better said, large portions of our brain we don’t understand) doesn’t mean they’re the source of psychic powers. That Robert can predict where these things will take place, and what their form will be, tells me that he is in tune with the spiritual forces that are behind them, not that he is in touch with the ‘energy’ that makes anomalies or designs snow flakes.
Science has called the spiritual forces behind much of what it calls ‘phenomena’, for about as far back as I can remember, and scoffs at those who identify it as God or Satan, but that’s the truth in a nutshell. I’m not talking out of the ignorance that much of the church has moved from in decades past, but from what God has begun showing His people who care to listen in this day. This is why I’ve said if I could see a picture – an up-to-date and clear picture of Robert, I would be able to pin-point what’s going on with him. But any way you look at it, it is not that that Robert is manipulating energy on his own, or simply predicting where its about to ‘birth’ an anomaly, it’s that spiritual forces are working through him and its those forces I’m talking about when I say there is intelligence behind them.
While I’ve said for some time here that I have no qualms about there being life on other planets, or that they’ve travelled here in the past, I know that what is showing up now in the form of ‘ufos’ is not ‘life from other planets’. And what Daniel stated about ufo activity being very present or near where these things are taking place is most noteworthy in this regard. It’s not ‘energy’ – depersonalized and plasma-like, it’s intelligent, and it’s called demonic, or Godly.
Hi, Brenda,
Didn’t see your Nov. 10th remarks until today. If you will read through my introduction to Robbert’s case (www.bltresearch.com/robbert.php) and then take the time to go through at least some of the detailed reports about the events which constantly occur around him (posted below my intro), you’ll find that he holds a similar opinion to your own…and there are lots of photos (and some videos) of him in the reports. If you want to see a November, 2014 photo use the “Contact” form to reach me & tell me you’d like to see it.
The facts provided by our scientific work have never indicated to any of us involved in the BLT Team the idea that the physical evidence, or the tentative hypothesis based on those facts (required by the scientific establishment in order to publish), necessarily provide the complete story–or that the physical evidence rules-out factors science is not yet able to debate intelligently.
Nancy Talbott
BLT Research Team Inc.
Yes, okay, science dives in and studies all the visible physical evidence and tells us what’s going on with it, and throws in how the invisible plasma works on our physical existence, but how can it actually stand there and look at the obvious clean lines and symbolic language of crop circles and say no intelligent life form is behind them? I’m no scientist, but there’s no way electrically charged particles consistently draw clean symbols at certain times of the year in specific areas. Very informative but I think the key is more than plasma.
Hello Brenda
This author is well inform, but not quite enough to know what exactly what is the “real” cause” of “drawings” in those crops fields, and may I say that you are absolutely right concerning the implication of electricity in those drawings.
There are 2 “elements” that are responsible, and I’m certain about what I’m saying, for those perfect geometric designs, the first is:
Microwave. This element is important, why? Because it extract the humidity of the plant so it could be absorb by the external envelop so it could bent easily, naturally, this process is very fast, but the humidity is that plant is force by the microwave.
The second element is not quit known, but it have been perfected the U.S. in the 70, and I speak of the “Maser”, or in is real form: “M.A.S.E.R.”, now for the identification: “Mass Amplified Stimulated by Emissions of Radiations”
The Maser cause the “pressure” on the plant, now for the plant who as been entangle in a certain fashion, example, twisted in spiral, they just have, if the “ray” is 10 inches wide, to reduce the intensity of this portion of the ray. This tell me that they have a “dimer” that reduce the flow of the Maser.
This Maser have another function, you can change the “synchronisation” of the matter, example: Take a ball of steel on a table of steel, if you induce the matter of the ball of steal so that the matter will be “out of phase”, this ball will instantly pass through this table of steel without causing no deformation and induce no heat what so ever.
Those this technology come from E.T’s, no way. It as been only by U.S. Scientific’s, they have attain enough experience in science to have develop this technology. Where there is technology, that doesn’t mean that every time the E.T.’s are responsible for it, humans on Earth are enough talented to do so, this is just a question of logic. But I know that you know that too, but this is for the others that could read what I’m saying.
Bye Brenda
I suppose if nature can fashion such cool snowflakes it might be able to do this without other contrivances. Still, it may be that all the above, including microwaves and masers, that’s plasma and EM, are mediums for some form of “trickle down” higher order Conscious contrivance.
There’s the et like face along with the message that looks like what we sent out on one of the early probes. I’m guessing the ptb have some toys that can do some of this. Or perhaps they are excellent at sowing enough disinfo to keep us looking in the wrong direction.
I’m glad to have read the comment about the medium however!! David Wilcock claims to have done something similar on one occasion.
In any case, what are the fruits of all this other than questions?