Is there a God? What is the meaning of life? Where do we go when we die? These are the types of questions that have enamored and perplexed humans across generations and locales. But perhaps no query holds a place of prominence on this list quite like the age-old question – are we alone in the universe? For many people, it seems impossible that earth would be the only place in the universe with intelligent life. Just think about it, there may be more Earth-like planets out there than grains of sand on our entire planet.
But if there is other intelligent life out there, if aliens do exist, how could they contact us? And if they did, how could we be expected to understand each other across what would presumably be vastly different languages or modes of communication?
There is, of course, at least one universal language in the universe – the language of mathematics. Perhaps aliens could use math in an attempt to communicate with human beings on earth. Perhaps, they already have.
Early Crop Circle Apperences
On the morning of January 19th, 1966, an Australian banana farmer named George Pedley was driving his tractor, as he did every morning, through the Horseshoe Lagoon region of Tully, Australia. Suddenly, a loud hissing noise pierced the air, nearly knocking Pedley from his seat. Frightened, he watched as a strange grey object, some 25 feet long, rose from the lagoon, and sped off into the sky.
Examining the area from which the object had appeared, Pedley found a circle of flattened reeds he described as a “nest.” Oddly, the reeds were not simply bent over, but physically uprooted from the lagoon, somehow floating on the surface of the water in a swirling mat.
The next day, Pedley brought the police to the site to show them what he’d found. In no time, the local press had taken note of the story. Sightseers and curious onlookers flocked to the area, discovering as they did, a number of similar “nests” scattered throughout the lagoon.
The mystery would go unexplained, though even the Royal Australian Air Force noted that during inquiries, local residents stated that the ‘nests’ are fairly common during the onset of the wet season.
Incredibly, this story was not even the most bizarre of its kind in Australia that year.
Months later, over 200 staff and students at a high school in Melbourne witnessed a large disk about the twice the size of a car, not entirely dissimilar to that described by Pedley, flying through the sky outside their school in the middle of the day. Before flying off and disappearing into the horizon, the disk landed on the ground in the distance. When students ran to the spot, they found a large circle of flattened and twisted grass, which Pedley may have described as a ‘nest.’
More bizarre, though, was what happened in the days and weeks that followed the incident. According to witnesses, the area where the disk had landed was immediately cordoned off by the military. Many students were visited by men in black suits who warned them against speaking about the incident. In fact, the school’s headmaster was apparently so “scared” and “disturbed” that he told students they would be severely punished, and staff that they would be fired if they talked about the incident at all. A teacher who had taken photos of the disk had her camera and film taken from her, while one of the first students to reach the flattened circle, who had been taken away in an ambulance on that day, was never seen or heard from again. Even the local media’s footage covering the story has mysteriously disappeared from their archives.
If there was a coverup, it worked. The story faded from memory, and the world went on, pleasantly unaware of Australia’s mysterious ‘nests.’
That is, until the late-1970s, when a series of strange circular patterns started to appear in farmer’s fields across the countryside in England, eerily similar to those in Australia a decade before.
These mysterious ‘crop circles,’ as they came to be known, appeared overnight, oftentimes spanning many hundreds of feet in diameter.
Shocking and inexplicable as they were, neither this, nor Australia in the 1960s, was the first time this type of thing had been seen on earth. As far back as the 1600s, art depicted circles being cut in fields of oat, representing a legend known as “devil’s mowing,” the ominous title suggesting an unexplained, otherworldly origin. By the late-1800s, crop circles were being discussed in detail in the highly respected Nature journal.
But from the late-1970s on, the appearance of these crop circles only became more prevalent across the UK and across the world. Even to this day, crop circles continue to appear with regularity.
But what are they, these great masterpieces of mystery and intrigue, where do they come from, and what could they mean? Could they really be from mysterious flying objects? From extraterrestrial visitors?
Are Crop Circles Real or a Hoax?
At first, scientists tried to explain the formation of crop circles as a result of unusual wind patterns. Several scientists even suggested they were a result of the particularly vigorous sexual activity of hedgehogs. Then, in 1991, an answer presented itself – it was all a hoax.
Two men, Doug Bower and his co-conspirator Dave Chorley – colloquially known as ‘Doug and Dave’ – came forward and revealed that, in what started as a drunken prank, they had been the ones creating crop circles across the UK. They explained that they did so, but using a ‘stalk stomper,’ quite simply, a rope tied at both ends to a board, used by holding the rope, putting a foot on the board, and physically stomping the crops down in a circular pattern.
Immediately, it was declared that the mystery had been solved, the magicians having revealed their magic trick. Unfortunately for those inherently dismissive of so-called conspiracy theories like crop circles, it was not quite so simple. Shortly after Doug and Dave introduced the stalk stomper to the world, one scientist ventured to actually study the stalks which had purportedly been stomped. His name was William Levengood, a well-respected biophysicist and the author of over fifty peer-reviewed papers and six patents. Curiously, in plants taken from crop circle areas, Levengood found a series of significant anomalies – strangely elongated plant nodes, seed cavities totally devoid of seeds, expulsion cavities blown open at the nodes.
Obviously, these types of things do not happen to plants when someone steps on them with a board. In Levengood’s own words:
“The affected plants have components which suggest the involvement of rapid air movement, ionization, electric fields, and transient high temperatures combined with an oxidizing atmosphere.”
Levengood’s discoveries led some to speculate that crop circles could have been made by individuals using some sort of microwave emitter, which would superheat the stem of the plant and cause it to fall over.
But then, another layer was added to the intrigue, thanks to a study on the soil where crop circles had appeared. Astoundingly, the study found that the clay minerals contained within the soil had somehow crystallized, a phenomenon previously only seen in sedimentary rock which had been exposed to massive geologic pressure over the course of thousands of years. It made no scientific sense that this crystallization would be found under a crop circle. Even if the requisite geologic pressure had somehow existed, and even if it had somehow acted to form a crop circle, the pressure would have obliterated the crops, while if pressure was replaced by the kind of heat required to encourage crystallization – 600-800 degrees Celsius for a period of many hours – the crops would surely have been incinerated. Perhaps it had been something else, something related to “electric fields and transient high temperatures,” as Levengood surmised.
It is important to note that these characteristics studied by Levengood are not found at every crop circle site. That is to say, some crop circles are literally tramped down by a person with a rope and a board, or perhaps a microwave emitter. But that’s just the point – some, not all. Even the most skeptical of scientists would likely admit that there are a number of crop circle sites exhibiting characteristics that defy modern scientific understanding. In other words, while crop circles were ‘proven’ to be a hoax in the early 90s, since then, the scientific community has said ‘not so fast.’
And it goes far beyond the structure of the crops or the composition of the soil.
Messages in Crop Circles
In 1974, famed American scientist Carl Sagan oversaw the broadcast of the so-called Arecibo message into space. The goal? To contact extraterrestrial life with the most powerful radio waves ever produced by humans. The broadcast included information about the earth’s location, the appearance, and DNA of human beings, as well as core principles of our mathematics and science. It was an ambitious if outlandish project. After all, what chance was there really of receiving a response?
What chance, indeed.
Twenty-seven years later, a crop circle appeared in Chilbolton, England, next to the UK’s largest telescope and observatory, which appeared to be a depiction of the infamous ‘Face on Mars’ photograph from 1976. This was interesting enough on its own, but, days later, something even more mind-blowing appeared. There, in the same field, appeared a crop circle described as a “dead ringer” for Sagan’s 1974 message.
It was formatted in the same way and seemed to respond to the information originally broadcast into space, detailing a different solar system, the appearance of the sender, and information on non-human DNA. Some described it, quite simply, as “the ultimate response we could have hoped for.”
But wait. If Sagan’s message had received a response, who, or what could have done such a thing? Could it really have been some sort of alien race?
Some have suggested the answer to this question was revealed through the appearance of another crop circle in Italy in 2011. There, in the small town of Poirino, a crop circle emerged, which depicted a seven-pointed star. Contained in the design was a binary code that seemed to identify its creator as somebody named ‘Enki.’
This is not a random or inconsequential name. Enki is the name of an ancient Sumerian god, a precursor to Aquarius. More importantly, Enki was, according to some, of the leader of an ancient group of aliens called the Anunnaki who visited earth long ago. Thinkers like Zecharia Sitchin and Erich von Däniken have asserted that these Anunnaki colonized earth some 500,000 years ago, genetically engineering human beings as a slave race.
Perhaps it is the Anunnaki who are now contacting humans, announcing through crop circles the impending return of Enki. As Sitchin has stated,
“The zodiacal cycle returns to exactly the same spot every 25,920 years. So, we are now leaving the Age of Pisces. Enki was the prototype god of Aquarius. Whether this means that it is all going to happen again, that Enki is coming back, I don’t know. There are a lot of signaling and signs that all point in that direction.”
This is, in some ways, concerning. If human beings were enslaved by the Anunnaki before, then why not again?
There is another side to the story, however, another angle to the Anunnaki legend. Many believe that this alien race has, in the past, provided humans with advanced technology and knowledge, that this, in fact, explains seemingly impossible structures like the Pyramids or Stonehenge.
With this in mind, look again at the seven-pointed star crop circle which appeared in Italy. As researcher Michael Lee Hill pointed out, in the world of geometry and frequency, a seven-pointed star is crucially related to 432Hz. Consider a cymatic image of a frequency exactly four octaves below 432Hz appears as a seven-pointed star identical to that found in Italy.
Significantly, 432Hz is known as the “magic number,” the “natural frequency of the universe.” Because of this, it has been suggested that the appearance of a seven-pointed star crop circle is a coded message.
But what sort of coded message?
A prominent Native American elder named Bearcloud has cryptically suggested,
“When Scientists learn that the seven-pointed star has a forward progression and recreates itself infinitely as a whole unit, there will be huge leaps in the progress of man.”
Meanwhile, Hill’s research into the Italian crop circle produced a more concise message –
“Somebody is trying to tell us something. If I had to guess, it’s to show that 432 Hz = energy!”
Italy was not the first, nor the last, time it appeared ‘somebody was trying to tell us something’ through crop circles. In fact, some would say that over the years, crop circles have revealed many secrets.
Complex Geometry and Mathematics in Crop Circles
In the mid-afternoon on July 7, 1996, a commercial pilot was flying his normal route over the Stonehenge monument in Wiltshire, England. This was not an unusual occurrence; many companies offer aerial tours of Stonehenge to tourists. The pilot reached his destination and turned around, passing the same spot about 45 minutes later.
What he saw stunned him.
There, in the field directly across the highway from Stonehenge, was a huge centipede-like geometric pattern, dozens or perhaps hundreds of individual circles which had not been there when he had flown over less than an hour prior. How was this possible, he wondered? Stonehenge security was on duty 24/7, and tourists were everywhere; anyone walking into the field with an armful of equipment in broad daylight would surely have been spotted and stopped.
Even more incredibly, a closer examination by experts revealed that the centipede-like pattern was not just any random design. In fact, it represented a mathematical pattern called the ‘Julia Set.’ This went far beyond the actions and abilities of hoaxers looking for a laugh. Whoever, or whatever, had created these crop circles possessed a deep understanding of complex mathematics.
But the Julia Set would only be the start, only the tip of the proverbial iceberg. In the years that followed, crop circles appeared in rapid succession, which provided examples of advanced mathematics or complex physics.
In 2010, a 300-foot design appeared in a field in England which, once decoded, revealed a mathematical formula called Euler’s Identity, known as the most beautiful and profound mathematical equation in the world.
Two years before that, a coded image had appeared in the same area, which represented the first ten digits of Pi – 3.141592654.
In fact, between 1997-2009, no less than five crop circle appearances showed complex diagrams of twisted vortexes representing the side and top views of a magnetic field, while others displayed mechanical routers or the field lines of an electric charge. Then, in both 2011 and 2012, crop circles appeared, which revealed detailed blueprints for magnetic motors.
What could this possibly mean, this continued appearance of complex mathematics and electromagnetic diagrams in crop circles around the world?
For centuries, human scientists have suggested reaching out to intelligent life in the universe through mathematics. As far back as the 1800s, famed German mathematician Karl Gauss suggested that tress should be planted in the Siberian forest in a way which displayed the Pythagorean Theorem, while at the same time Austrian astronomer Joseph von Littrow suggested kerosene-filled trenches in the Sahara Desert displaying geometric shapes. If humans have come to this conclusion, then it would probably be safe to assume other forms of intelligent life have done so as well. Perhaps they have already tried just such a method. Could it be that crop circles are, in fact, a form of this extraterrestrial messaging, similar to a forest displaying the Pythagorean Theorem?
Crop Circles – Blueprints for Free Energy
As early as 1991, in a book written by Alick Bartholomew entitled Crop Circles: Harbingers of World Change, the idea that crop circles could be messages from non-human intelligence was being discussed. Bartholomew asked, if crop circles were messages, what were they trying to convey? In the book, British historian and noted psychic Isabelle Kingston professed that
“Crop circles might contain a blueprint for a new form of energy that would one day be unraveled by scientists.”
It may have seemed far-fetched at the time, but after decades of increasingly complex mathematical patterns and electromagnetic diagrams appearing in crop circles, there are many who now believe Bartholomew and Kingston may have been onto something. Some assert that crop circles are extraterrestrial messages to humanity, blueprints for new, futuristic technology designed to help humans move to the next level of their existence, that hidden within the diagrams of magnetic fields and motors are the secrets to a new form of unlimited energy.
A particularly poignant example of this may have come in 2011, when a crop circle revealed the designs for a magnetic flywheel invented by self-taught American engineer Ed Leedskalnin way back before World War II. Leedskalnin and his flywheel would have been a totally unremarkable reference, but for the fact that he was the creator of the infamous ‘Coral Castle,’ a monument in Florida made of over 1000 tons of coral. Little is known about how Leedskalnin constructed this monument. Apparently, he did it by himself and in the dead of night. When asked for an explanation, he said:
“I understand the laws of weight and leverage, and know the secrets of people who built the pyramids at Giza in Egypt long ago.”
With this cryptic answer, the speculation became that Leedskalnin had used some sort of magnetic levitating device to move the stone. Speculation expanded further when, after Leedskalnin’s death, strange remnants of what appeared to be an electromagnetic device were found in a chamber beneath Coral Castle – wires wrapped around bottles, piles of magnets and chains.
Could it be that Leedskalnin had discovered the secrets of electromagnetic energy, known previously by those who constructed the pyramids, as he suggested, and used it to create Coral Castle? And if so, is it possible a diagram for his magnetic wheel appeared as a crop circle to draw attention to this fact?
Similar questions can be asked of the many other examples over the past few decades of crop circles revealing magnetic motors and diagrams. In fact, they are being asked.
Since at least 2008, Italian inventor Umberto Baudo has been using crop circles as inspiration and blueprint for an invention he believes will provide unlimited free energy. Baudo asserts that
“Crop circles are the maximum expression of a message because through an image you can communicate much more than with words without any doubt … especially if the message is addressed to someone that does not speak our language.”
And what is the message which is being communicated in these crop circles? Quite simply, according to Baudo,
“Since 2008 I realized that it is absolutely possible to generate free energy to all of the planet.”
Baudo’s work has led him to experiment with magnetic motors and systems of centrifugal force, entering uncharted territory and working against conventional wisdom and a powerful status quo, not to mention the laws of thermodynamics. In 2012, at a small meeting in Modena, Italy, Baudo said:
“Crop circles: the media and science treat this phenomenon subtly, but it is of great importance for humanity. Only those who study it seriously can understand that it is not a joke. After a long and exhausting study, I can demonstrate that many of these crop patterns are not man-made. Since the beginning of my research, I noticed they were technical drawings that show us new ways to produce free energy. I have been trying to reproduce those patterns for a long time, using permanent magnets with no result. Then I realized a new way to develop those mechanisms, and I will show you how they work with the help of a simulator.”
What he would show were complex systems based on diagrams obtained from crop circles that used centrifugal force. Baudo tested these systems using computer simulations, which allowed him to rotate shapes at high speed and examine what happened to energy generation both with and without the variables of gravity, magnets, springs, and chains. He asserts he has created a model that continues to build momentum even after the engine is turned off – unlimited energy. In his own words,
“The main key to understand it is fundamentally one: The centrifugal force. Just like that!”
As we move into the third decade of the 21st century, it is far from just Umberto Baudo, who is working on this something like this. Across the world, scientists and inventors are working with the complex diagrams seen in crop circles in pursuit of free energy, futuristic transportation, and more.
Of course, many questions still remain.
Why, with such seemingly incredible potential, are the messages contained in crop circles mostly ignored, the circles themselves portrayed in mainstream popular culture as elaborate ‘hoaxes?’ One answer to this question can perhaps be found by examining who stands to lose the most with the discovery of a source of unlimited free energy – oil and gas companies, the industrial juggernauts which control the global economy. But, economics aside, it must be asked: If science agrees that some crop circles can’t be explained by any earthly phenomenon, then where did they come from? If they are some sort of extraterrestrial messages, then what are they trying to say, and who is trying to say it? Most importantly, just what might these messages allow us to achieve?