Dear Friends
As you may know I have been fascinated with the study of crop circles for decades. What they are, who made them and why. In 2011 I flew to England and took a tour.
As I write this we are in the middle of the ‘crop circle season.’ In a typical season over 150 crop circles form around the world, but 90% of them form within ten miles of Stone Henge.
A few years ago I was teaching adult education crop circle classes at Yavapai College in Sedona, Az. I would tell them that while the world is full of spectral illusions…such as ghosts, and UFOs…there is only one that is a totally concrete undeniable reality. It is crop circles. You can fly to England and walk among them, still steaming from the heat that made them, in the barley fields near Stonehenge.
Now, most significantly, we are just a few days away from the anniversary of the formation of the Arecibo Response crop circle. It formed in 2001. I would present this photo in my class and tell everybody this: If you want absolute proof of the presence of an unknown superior intelligence…here it is.
This is what Wikipedia says about it.
The Arecibo Answer, Reply or Response
The Arecibo reply was the name given to a crop circle that was made in the farmland next to the Chilbolton radio telescope, home to the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute (SETI), in Hampshire, UK, on 19 August 2001. It was 75 feet wide and 120 feet long. It is a near replica of the Arecibo message which Carl Sagan transmitted into space in 1974. It arrived 26 years after the original transmission.
Most of the chemical data remains the same, with the exception that in the section detailing important chemical elements, silicon has been added, and the diagram of DNA has been rewritten. At the bottom, the pictogram of a human is replaced with a figure with a large, bulbous head. A solar system with 9 planets is also depicted, with emphasis placed on the 3rd, 4th, and 5th planets of the system.
The SETI Institute said it was a hoax. They rebutted the idea that it was a genuine extraterrestrial response with the comment "This is highly improbable. There is no evidence to suggest an other-than-earthly origin for these graphics."
Nobody knows where this message came from or how long it took to get here. But apparently the makers wanted to ‘date’ the transmission so we would know it was recent. That is why, in the bottom area of the reply, the Arecibo telescope is replaced by a replica of a crop circle that appeared in the same field one year before. It was also within spitting distance of the Chilbolton Observatory.
The only question we should be asking is who made it and why bother doing all this with crops?
Robert E. Redding
trucknrob@hotmail.com
As you may know I have been fascinated with the study of crop circles for decades. What they are, who made them and why. In 2011 I flew to England and took a tour.
As I write this we are in the middle of the ‘crop circle season.’ In a typical season over 150 crop circles form around the world, but 90% of them form within ten miles of Stone Henge.
A few years ago I was teaching adult education crop circle classes at Yavapai College in Sedona, Az. I would tell them that while the world is full of spectral illusions…such as ghosts, and UFOs…there is only one that is a totally concrete undeniable reality. It is crop circles. You can fly to England and walk among them, still steaming from the heat that made them, in the barley fields near Stonehenge.
Now, most significantly, we are just a few days away from the anniversary of the formation of the Arecibo Response crop circle. It formed in 2001. I would present this photo in my class and tell everybody this: If you want absolute proof of the presence of an unknown superior intelligence…here it is.
This is what Wikipedia says about it.
The Arecibo Answer, Reply or Response
The Arecibo reply was the name given to a crop circle that was made in the farmland next to the Chilbolton radio telescope, home to the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute (SETI), in Hampshire, UK, on 19 August 2001. It was 75 feet wide and 120 feet long. It is a near replica of the Arecibo message which Carl Sagan transmitted into space in 1974. It arrived 26 years after the original transmission.
Most of the chemical data remains the same, with the exception that in the section detailing important chemical elements, silicon has been added, and the diagram of DNA has been rewritten. At the bottom, the pictogram of a human is replaced with a figure with a large, bulbous head. A solar system with 9 planets is also depicted, with emphasis placed on the 3rd, 4th, and 5th planets of the system.
The SETI Institute said it was a hoax. They rebutted the idea that it was a genuine extraterrestrial response with the comment "This is highly improbable. There is no evidence to suggest an other-than-earthly origin for these graphics."
Nobody knows where this message came from or how long it took to get here. But apparently the makers wanted to ‘date’ the transmission so we would know it was recent. That is why, in the bottom area of the reply, the Arecibo telescope is replaced by a replica of a crop circle that appeared in the same field one year before. It was also within spitting distance of the Chilbolton Observatory.
The only question we should be asking is who made it and why bother doing all this with crops?
Robert E. Redding
trucknrob@hotmail.com