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Crop Circles

A Cautionary Tale about Disclosure

This is a bit risky as a post because you may think it’s off the deep end. It’s that middle zone, where most people believe there is other intelligent life, but when it comes to evidence of that or claims about that, eyes roll up. Being a crop circle aficionado, I get my share — especially from what I’d characterize as intellectuals, who frequently get angry at me when I bring my topic up. That must be because I’m an intellectual and my fellow brainy folk must think I’ve abandoned them. (I was a Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude graduate of NYU, which I display prominently in my promotion materials so I’m not taken as a nut case.)

So, with a wing a prayer, here’s one of the most interesting reports I’ve ever read. It’s about the nature of the visitors that I’d not known. And I give this report credence because it comes from Whitley Strieber, who is aces. He’d been a successful novelist before his abduction experiences, and then, with Communion: A True Story
, his first book about those experiences, he had himself a major best-setter.

I picked up these blurbs from the Amazon website:

“…COMMUNION is surely the most thought-provoking book on UFOs and alien visitation published so far.” — Rocky Mountain News

“A fascinating story…And it certainly could be true.” — Detroit News

“Powerful…Strieber’s storytelling ability makes his own terror and confusion feel real to the reader…Compelling reading.” — Seattle Times

“Powerfully written and involving!” — New York Times

“Should give second thoughts to even the most hardened skeptic!” — Dow Jones News

“Strieber comes through as both sensible and sincere…His book deserves to be taken seriously.” — Boston Herald

I’m legitimizing Whitley so you will click on to read a piece he’s just written, The Danger of Disclosure. I guarantee you’ve never thought about aliens the way Whitley presents them to us.

“One person who is never mentioned among those who might be involved in the disclosure process is me. Instead of allowing one of the very few people on earth, or indeed in its history, to have had much open contact to participate in the process in any way, I’m not simply marginalized, but carefully ignored on the theory that what I have to say would be too bizarre for people to accept.

“Personally, I don’t much care, but I do know that without even the virginal understanding I possess to add perspective, contact, should it follow disclosure, is apt to be a disaster for the human race…

“So, why would disclosure be dangerous? If it somehow leads to immediate and direct contact, it is going to devastate the human mind.”

Whitley-Striebe-What-On-Earth

Whitley Strieber introduced What On Earth? at a Los Angeles screening

Exploding Your Head

Anybody who follows my thoughts knows how in love I am with Brian Swimme. If you give me one contemporary thinker to be on that deserted island with, it’s hands down Brian. Every time I listen to him, I am transported.

This is a fitting post to follow the one about the Hubble telescope. Brian is talking cosmos — where it came from, what we are doing in it, all the basics of being human. It was part of Evolutionary Worldview, an online daylong presentation that you’ll hear talk about at the beginning of this 22-minute recording.

Get on my wavelength! OK, I’m begging. Please listen to this.

Interviewer: My head just exploded again.

Brian: May it grow back quickly.

Suzanne Taylor-Brian Swimme

Can Satellites Make Crop Circles?

It sometimes is suggested that crop circles could be made by our advanced technology. Lasers and masers and satellites all sound sexy, but could they deliver? A few years ago I got this report. It may be that we’ve improved upon the technology since then (hello you techies out there), but since we’ve been getting circles for decades in the modern era and at least hundreds of years before that (see my movie), these things could not account for the historical phenomenon.

On satellite imaging:

The main problem with using satellite imaging for catching circlemakers in the act is the resolution of the cameras. Here is a photo taken by the Advanced Land Imager (ALI), flying aboard NASA’s EO-1 satellite. The photo is of the path of a tornado in May 2002.

tornado path

The path of the tornado (going left to right in the middle of the photo) is much wider than the typical crop circle, yet look how small it looks.

The other problem is that these satellites must travel at several thousand miles per hour to stay in orbit. They take pictures of the ground in wide but thin chunks as they fly by. They don’t take pictures like your camera does. The time that would be spent by one of these satellites looking at any particular field in the middle of the night would be around 1/30th of a second. Weather satellites don’t move around so fast and do take pictures in something approximating the way your camera does, but they are further out in space and can’t take close-ups of the ground.

This is part one. I’ll do another post later to deal with other aspects of how our technology can’t account for the circles.