Comments on: SKEPTICS ABOUT CROP CIRCLES, PLEASE READ THIS https://theconversation.org/skeptics-about-crop-circles-please-read-this/ Sat, 05 Jan 2013 02:18:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.7.12 By: admin https://theconversation.org/skeptics-about-crop-circles-please-read-this/comment-page-1/#comment-11399 Fri, 13 Apr 2012 17:47:15 +0000 http://theconversation.org/?p=2918#comment-11399 In reply to Maurice Vandeput.

What a great story. Wow, would I like to talk to those people!

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By: admin https://theconversation.org/skeptics-about-crop-circles-please-read-this/comment-page-1/#comment-11397 Fri, 13 Apr 2012 17:31:54 +0000 http://theconversation.org/?p=2918#comment-11397 In reply to David A.

Just one thing to mention is that no craft ever has been observed, so if it is craft that’s beaming anything down, it would have to be able to cloak itself in invisibility — and there is speculation they can do that. Will pass your question to Nancy.

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By: Maurice Vandeput https://theconversation.org/skeptics-about-crop-circles-please-read-this/comment-page-1/#comment-11388 Thu, 05 Apr 2012 11:41:48 +0000 http://theconversation.org/?p=2918#comment-11388 Me and Anne we attended an excellent exposé of Nancy Talbott in Leuven (Belgium) on April 18th 2004. I also remember a strange story told by a man who was like us visiting the “S” crop circle formation at Heers (http://be.dcca.nl/2004/heers/heers-uk.htm). Some time ago he and his girlfriend were visiting the famous crop circle hot zone of Wiltshire in the U.K. One day they were out in the fields together with a group of 20 people. Suddenly they saw a complex crop circle being formed in a time span of about 20 seconds and in broad daylight. It happened in a complete silence and the corn lay itself down in successive waves. The group of people was utterly shocked and stood in awe looking at the freshly formed design. Some of them already started taking pictures of it. Then, 15 minutes later a convoy of military jeeps arrived with soldiers dressed in their complete battle outfit. They jumped out of them jeeps and started summoning the people to asap leave the area while confiscating some cameras. Until this day the young couple have no understanding of what actually happened that afternoon in those Wiltshire fields. And how come the military arrived so quickly on the spot? The man assured us that this really happened, and, his being a cellular bologist, we tend to believe him. The latest Belgian crop circle formations were formed in 2006-2007 near the town of Waterloo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lV-ry-RM9pQ) on the old battlefield where the Duke of Wellington finally beated the French Emperor Napoleon on June 18th 1815. At this moment it is calm on the Belgian crop circle front.

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By: David A https://theconversation.org/skeptics-about-crop-circles-please-read-this/comment-page-1/#comment-11387 Thu, 05 Apr 2012 00:40:24 +0000 http://theconversation.org/?p=2918#comment-11387 Excellent work! I can’t help but notice that their method is reminiscent of the way we learn to color in a drawing, in kindergarten. First you color very carefully right along the edge of the region you want to fill. Then fill in the open space, some care still required, with even lines to generate good texture for the solid part of the figure. Lastly, go over it all (any fast method) to catch any missed areas. These are exactly their three “levels” that Ms. Talbott has demonstrated above. No insult is intended here, I’m just saying “aha, it makes perfect sense”. Even a child can now relate to this kind of art! It is so obvious that they have some kind of awesome machine to make these circles very quickly via projection from above, once they anchor their craft in position and achieve the desired registration over the field. And obviously, they can program a sequence of circles to be made with specified centers and radii, which they design and input in advance and then press ‘go’.
While this CC consists of pure circles, there are other CCs where the design has parts of a circle, overlapping circles, and so on. It’s harder to make just part of a circle, i.e., to get the machine to stop the microwave beam at just the right point. I have wondered whether the hydromagnesite (of which residue is often found), which we use as a flame retardant, might be something they lay down in advance (I think of it like paint tape) to shadow out corners or small areas they don’t want to flatten due to accidental beam imprecision. Nancy, is this explanation consistent with your observations?

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By: Terry Ison https://theconversation.org/skeptics-about-crop-circles-please-read-this/comment-page-1/#comment-11380 Fri, 23 Mar 2012 21:20:36 +0000 http://theconversation.org/?p=2918#comment-11380 I’ve been interested in this phenomenon since I attended a talk in Santa Monica a looooong time ago and got the chance to both see and examine some crop formation material. After holding and examining the plants and seeing the expanded and bent nodes I was impressed enough to confidently join the side of the argument in favor of “unknown cause” at that time. I have many books,video tapes and dvd on the crop circle subject and I still get excited when new formations are discovered and published. Poor Doug and Dave…….they must have exhausted themselves pulling off such an elaborate prank over such a long time and covering so much territory. Lol!
Great work team. Especially Nancy Talbott,whom I was fortunate enough to meet and hear at a presentation she gave at Mufon Orange County.

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