Crop Circles Part 2

Astonishing Legends

Scott Philbrook

History, Society & Culture

4.6 • 9.8K Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2021

⏱️ 149 minutes

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Summary

As we dive deeper into exploring the phenomenon of Crop Circles, it seems that the story of its research takes on the shape of other histories of paranormal investigation. Misinformation and misdirection from government and military agencies, hoaxes complicating genuinely anomalous evidence, and the phenomena itself presenting an ever-moving target for those that seek the truth are akin to the serious study of UFOs, for example. And curiously, for being thought of by many as just prankish art installations in grain stalks, Crop Circles come with a Grab Bag of High Strangeness too. For tonight's Part Two in our series, we first cover inexplicable occurrences associated with some circle formations. We'll focus on one surveillance experiment in a crop circle dubbed "Operation White Crow" with bizarre and unsettling effects for Colin Andrews, Pat Delgado, Busty Taylor, Dr. Terence Meaden, and others. Then we look at what appeared to be an attempt by the British military to discredit Andrews and other "cereologists" called "Operation Blackbird" that ironically may have generated its own enigmatic results and the question of why would they bother? And lastly, we'll begin to examine the mindset and role of the hoaxer and the symbiosis they may participate in with earnest researchers, one that hoaxers may not realize they share as they do their part to keep the mystery alive.

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0:00.0	In New York you can gaze up at the towering skyscrapers or...
0:05.0	You can sunbathe on top of one.
0:08.0	In LA you can catch a neon lit rollercoaster ride on Santa Monica Pier.
0:14.0	Before catching a California catfish off Santa Monica Pier.
0:19.0	Oop!
0:20.0	Virgin Atlantic fly to the world's most iconic destinations
0:24.0	but how you see them is up to you.
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0:31.0	Two weeks ago we brought you part one of our series on crop circles.
0:36.0	Around for decades they are now largely overlooked by all but the most stalwart curiosity seekers.
0:43.0	There's reason to believe there are forces at play that have orchestrated that disinterest.
0:49.0	And the question is why?
0:52.0	However, before we can get to that, we need to look further at the differences between what researchers call genuine crop circles and what they call hoaxed or artificial.
1:04.0	We've already established that historical accounts are dating back to the year 815 that could be attributed to them,
1:10.0	as well as early satellite data showing them in the late 1940s and 50s.
1:15.0	Well before anyone was talking about them.
1:19.0	The farther we look into this, the more bottomless the pool's deep end seems to get.
1:24.0	Is there something grander at play here?
1:28.0	Tonight we'll share some of the more spectacular details associated with some specific formations that you don't generally find when you start researching this phenomenon online.
1:38.0	There are anomalous events related to numerous formations that defy a rational explanation.
1:45.0	On top of that, they often seem to defy the laws of physics, which rule out psychosomatic reactions.
1:52.0	Even the greatest hoaxer in the world can't change how gravity works or cause flies to be melted into the stocks of crops within formations.
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