Crop Circles
Other worldly
messages, natural phenomenon or fakes?
by Harley Berger, Vice-President
Crops circles are geometric patterns, some very
intricate, appearing usually in wheat fields. Most, if not all, of them
are probably due to pranksters, such as Doug Bower and David Chorley who,
in 1991, admitted to hoaxing approximately 250 circles. There is also a
segment of the population that believes at least some of the circles are
messages from extraterrestrial lifeforms, using ancient Sumerian symbols
or symbolic representations of alien DNA.
When scientists have entered the debate, most have avoided the thesis that
aliens have been carving out messages in the semolina. But they have often
stretched their imaginations to come up with theories of vortexes, ball
lightning, plasma and other non-occult, natural forces, such as wind,
heat, or animals.
Join us on Saturday, October 16 for some possible answers to the crop
circle puzzle. But if you think this will be an evening only of tales of
little green men or the supernatural, think again. Our guest speaker, Dr
William C. Levengood, is the head of Pinelandia Biophysics Laboratory and
a former a faculty member at the University of Michigan's Institute of
Science and Technology. His papers on a variety of subjects have been
published in dozens of scientific journals, including the prestigious
"Science and Nature." Dr. Levengood will share with us the results of his
in-depth scientific examinations of literally hundreds of crop circles,
focusing on those selected for their "super anomalous" aspects. Dr
Levengood has developed theories to explain crop circle formations, and
the resulting physical and biochemical alterations to the plants involved,
that attribute them to natural mechanisms, most notably "ion plasma
vortices." |
