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Astonishing Legends

Crop Circles Part 1

Astonishing Legends

Scott Philbrook

History, Society & Culture

4.69.8K Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2021

⏱️ 152 minutes

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Summary

On a July afternoon in 1983, Colin Andrews, an electrical engineer and officer employed by the British regional government, was driving between his offices near Winchester and Hampshire when something caught his eye. Seeing something unusual in a farmer's field next to the road, he felt strongly compelled to pull over and check it out. A strange physical and mental sensation came over him as he approached and realized it was a set of five large circles forming a traditional "Celtic Cross." Unbeknownst to Andrews, within days, he would partner with meteorologist Dr. Terence Meaden, NASA scientist Pat Delgado, and the three of them, along with pilot Busty Taylor, would become the only people in the world at the time researching the global Crop Circle phenomenon. In 1989, the first book on the subject, Circular Evidence, written by Delgado and Andrews, would become known as the "Crop Circle Bible." Not only did the book cause scientists and researchers to then take the matter seriously, but it also unleashed a deluge of Crop Circle hoaxes, complicating earnest study. When two older British gentlemen, Doug Bower and Dave Chorley, came forward in 1990 claiming to have made all the crop circles in England, the media and the public seemed to take their word as reason enough to lay the mystery to rest. Yet, the examples they and other hoaxers have provided as evidence don't match the precision and completion times found in circles considered authentic. While the hoaxers' techniques have become more sophisticated and impressive over the years, the genuine formations display characteristics that seem beyond the reasonable capability for the short time in which real ones are created. Authentic Crop Circles have many stalks bent in 90º angles near the ground, with the stalks interwoven in a complex fashion, anomalies found in the soil, precise lines in massive formations, and no evidence of people walking to or around them. Strange physiological effects like dizziness, nausea, euphoria, time disturbance, and bizarre sounds, to name a few, have also been reported by many who step inside one. However, most Crop Circles, both real and faked, share in common one significant trait – artistically, they employ design elements found in "Sacred Geometry," with ratios composed with the "Golden Mean." They are also often located near areas with ancient archaeological sacred sites, and reports of their existence appear to go back hundreds, if not thousands of years. So if the creators, both earthly and beyond, remain a mystery, perhaps the meaning behind the circles can be more easily fathomed. Whether the lesson is a sociological or spiritual and metaphysical one, wondrous Crop Circles do continue to exist and have a purpose. They carry a message, which could be as simple as – pay attention because you could learn something that will affect your existence.

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0:00.0

In 1891, an explorer named Joseph Bradshaw found some cave paintings in Australia's

0:06.1

far northwestern Kimberly region near the Prince Regent River.

0:10.1

The Bradshaw rock paintings or Bradshaw figures are stunning artwork to be hold, and there

0:15.6

are thousands of what are now known as Bradshaw galleries.

0:19.0

Still, there is one particular painting that authored Terry Wilson points to in his fascinating

0:24.2

book, The Secret History of Crop Circles, featuring what is known as Giongion figures.

0:29.9

This particular image shows the figures superimposed over a kangaroo and snake.

0:35.7

Wilson noted that the kangaroo and snake seem to be fleeing, and the figure left most in

0:40.2

the image might be wearing a helmet of some kind.

0:43.2

To the left of that figure is a strange crescent shape with rays coming out of it that looks

0:47.2

like it's hovering above the ground.

0:49.7

This crescent shape has been reproduced and discussed so many times that you may recognize

0:53.9

it on site.

0:55.5

This entire Giongion image is leaned on quite heavily by the proponents of the ancient

1:00.2

aliens hypothesis, which is not something we have addressed at astonishing legends, and

1:04.8

we're not going there tonight either.

1:07.3

It was not the purported space-helmeted figure that convulsions eyes so much as the floating

1:11.2

object and then more pointedly what is beneath it, and that is a strange pattern of concentric

1:16.1

circles seemingly on the ground, with some smaller circles connected to them.

1:20.9

These bear a striking resemblance to what we refer to today as a crop circle, a term coined

1:26.0

by electrical engineer, author, and researcher Colin Andrews in the late 1980s.

1:31.7

The Bradshaw rock paintings are anywhere from 17 to 26,000, or some researchers say even

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