An Introduction to Crop Circles

Many now believe that the crop circle phenomenon has all been explained as an elaborate hoax, but there is a long history of crop circle science that demonstrates that the strange formations could not have been laid by human hands.


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Sources:

Monographs:
Pat Delgado and Colin Andrews. Circular Evidence: a Detailed Investigation of the Flattened Swirled Crops Phenomenon. London: Bloomsbury Publishing Ltd., 1989.

Lucy Pringle. Crop Circles: The Greatest Mystery of Modern Times. London: Thorsons, 1999.

Freddy Silva. Secrets in the Fields: The Science and Mysticism of Crop Circles. Portland, ME: Invisible Temple Publishing, 2013.

Terry Wilson. "1932 - Bow Hill, Chichester, West Sussex, England," in The Secret History of Crop Circles: Recording the Phenomenon In Days of Old. Paignton, UK: Terry Wilson, 2015.

BLT's Research:
John Burke. "The Physics of Crop Formations." MUFON Journal (October, 1998): 3-7. Accessible at: http://www.bltresearch.com/published/physics.html

BLT's summary of plant abnormalities: http://www.bltresearch.com/plantab.php

William C. Levengood and Nancy P. Talbott. "Dispersion of Energies in Worldwide Crop Formations." Physiologia Plantarum 105 (1999). Accessible at: http://www.bltresearch.com/published/dispersion.php

Nancy Talbott. "Two Largest Snow Formations Yet Reported." BLT Research.com.
Accessed November 2, 2018: http://www.bltresearch.com/robbert/snow09.php.

Jacques Vallée's thoughts on Crop Circles:
"In Search of Alien Glyphs (or are they microwave blasters?)." Boingboing (March 23, 2010): https://boingboing.net/2010/03/23/in-search-of-alien-g.html

"Crop Circles, Part Deux: Alien Glyphs, Human Myths, Blogging Bliss." Boingboing. April 8, 2010: https://boingboing.net/2010/04/08/crop-circles-part-de.html

Other Text sources:
John Rand Capron, letter to the editor, Nature 22 (May - October, 1880): 290 - 291.

"The Men Who Conned the World." The original story on Bower and Chorley in Today, London, September 9, 1991. Reproduced in full at:
https://menwhoconnedtheworld.weebly.com/new-11-today-september-9-1991.html

Michael Chorost and Colin Andrews. "The Summer 1990 Crop Circles." Beyond Weird. Accessed November 2, 2018: https://www.beyondweird.com/occult/circle90.html

Crop Circles: The Human Experience. Interview with Colin Andrews, by Diane M. Cooper:
http://www.spiritofmaat.com/archive/dec2/andrews.htm

"Fraud by Deception: The Truth about Colin Andrews, the Walter Mitty of the Crop Circles."Questions about Colin Andrews' accreditation by Candi Sworlen: https://digitalseance.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/colin-andrews-crop-circle-charlatan.pdf

"Is the Conduit Closing On The Wiltshire Phenomenon?" Crop Circle News and Archives.
Accessed November 2, 2018: http://cropcirclewisdom.com/crop-circle-diaries/is-the
conduit-closing-on-the-wiltshire-phenomenon

Video Sources:
Interview with Doug Bower in Circlemakers, a documentary by Matthew Williams:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfKArCWpKWE

Story on Bower and Chorley's claims on Coast to Coast, a TVS news program, September 9, 1991: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETprYIAqQ5E

Special report on Circle-making on Countryfile, a BBC news program, 1998: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VShMwpqTzaY