Ep 207: Crop Circles Part 2

 

 

“It is perfectly natural to ask if crop circles are hoaxes, but very difficult to explain why they cannot be hoaxed satisfactorily.” 

– Pat Delgado, Nasa Engineer, Crop Circle Researcher

 

Description:

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.

 
 
 

Location:

Stonehenge, the prehistoric monument on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England, two miles (3 km) west of Amesbury, where the intricate “Julia Set” Crop Circle appeared in July of 1996 across the road from it, during a 45 minute period, in full daylight and on a very busy major highway, the A303 London to Exeter Road. It may be that faint traces of it can still be seen in this Google Maps aerial photo.

 

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Credits:

Episode 207: Crop Circles Part 2. Produced by Scott Philbrook & Forrest Burgess; Audio Editing by Sarah Vorhees Wendel. Sound Design by Ryan McCullough; Tess Pfeifle, Producer, and Lead Researcher; Research Support from the astonishing League of Astonishing Researchers, a.k.a. The Astonishing Research Corps, or "A.R.C." for short. Copyright 2021 Astonishing Legends Productions, LLC. All Rights Reserved.

UFOs & Aliens, Unexplainable Phenomena, Landmarks Objects & StructuresForrest BurgessCrop Circles, Corn Circles, Colin Andrews, Stephen Spignesi, Terence Meaden, Pat Delgado, Stonehenge, Wiltshire, Busty Taylor, Doug Bower, Dave Chorley, Hampshire, Avebury, Silbury, hoax, hoaxer, Circular Evidence, Signs of Contact, Signs, Surry, Levengood, Sacred Geometry, Golden Mean, fractal, Nancy Talbott, England, Britain, British, Julia Set, Salisbury Plain, Amesbury, London, Exeter, 2077 Comments