The Complete Idiot's Guide to 2012 - Dr. Synthia Andrews Nd [112]
I started researching in 1983 after seeing a crop design from my car as I drove over the crest of a hill, looking down into a field of wheat. The formation was composed of five circles with one in the center and four “satellites” surrounding the central circle. I was hooked on first sight. How were they made? What force could do this? Were people involved? At this point I have personally visited, measured, photographed, and experimented with approximately 2,500 crop-circle formations.
Knowing what I know now, on seeing my first five circles I might have immediately thought of the Tree of Life with a central pole and four corner posts; or of a medicine wheel with the four directions. It also has the central elements of the Sunstone Calendar; the fifth age is in the center surrounded by the four previous ages (look back to the illustration of the sunstone calendar in Chapter 8 to compare the images). Coming from my own background, I saw the elements of a Celtic cross. In actuality, the evolution of the designs shows all the astronomical elements of the Maya celestial vision, which we’ll examine more closely in a few moments.
Ancient Evidence
There are many reports in local folklore of circles arriving in the crops. The oldest documented crop circle-type report was of a circle that occurred on August 8, 1590, and can still be read about in the 1686 book The Natural History of Stafford-shire by Robert Plott. (This book is out of print but can sometimes be found in rare bookstores. Amazon.com has one copy available at $3,567! Any takers?) The crop was swirled to the ground in the shape of a circle. Another such circle was drawn and reported in the local paper in 1678 and was known as the Hertfordshire Mowing Devil.
Codex Cues
You can see a picture of the Hertfordshire Mowing Devil in Colin’s third book, Crop Circles: Signs of Contact, written with Steve Spignesi (see Resources appendix). The book also explores the crop-circle mystery in great detail.
During the course of my investigations, I have talked to many farmers about the designs in their fields. They report that the formations have appeared for years and are always in the same fields. The earliest eyewitness account I received was from a farmer who saw circles in the field as a child in the 1920s. Circles still arrive in his and surrounding fields today; many of the formations link the crop circles to the prophecies of 2012 by displaying intricate Mayan designs.
Circular Anomalies
While researching crop circles, I experienced a number of anomalies when inside the formations. Magnetic compasses would rotate wildly, electronic equipment would stop working, and strange objects that I hadn’t seen at the time would show up later in the photographs. These types of anomalies happen to many people visiting the formations.
The most startling anomaly was an electrostatic chirping sound that I and others have heard on at least three occasions. On two occasions I was able to record the sound, which has undergone extensive analysis. Its source is still unidentified. Who or what is making these noises, and why?
The Artist’s Hand
How and why crop circles are made remains a mystery. Some are human-made, and I’ll talk about those in the next section. Others are unknown. Many theories exist but none have been proven. We have looked to find natural magnetic fluxes, have explored the idea of extraterrestrials, and have looked at military technology. We have not found the artist’s hand.
We know that the formations occur quickly, in some cases within a few seconds. Eyewitnesses report the plants suddenly oscillate, moving back and forth wildly, then simply collapse to the earth. Dowsing, a technique used to detect earth energy, demonstrates the formations are linked to ley lines, or lines of k’ul, as the Maya would say. Ley lines is the term used