Hello and welcome to the program UFO Warning.
In this episode we're talking about Canadian crop circles.
That's correct, Canadian crop circles.
I found what I thought was a pretty good article here on
unsolved.com. It says Canadian crop circles,
mysterious crop circles appear in Canada and it has an imager
from Canada, from Edmonton crop circle, and then also a lab
report that talks about crop circles have become a well known
phenomena all across the globe. Of the 10,000 documented cases,
80% have been proven to be hoaxes.
But what about the other 20%? Well, seems like an awful big
number there if that's actually true, that 80% of these things
are hoaxes. But I guess it doesn't matter as
long as you have the other 20% that they can't explain.
Just kind of like with UFO sightings, a lot of stuff can be
explained, but there's always that, you know, batch, whether
it's 20% or whatever, that can't be explained.
It says 2 farmers from outside Edmonton, AB, Canada, Rusty
Emanuel and Thalia Whitman woke up one day to find a crop circle
formation on their land. 7 precise circles pressed into a
field of Thistle and barley. Philly was stunned.
The grain was all flattened down.
It almost looked like a pattern, like petals, the way that grain
came out. And when the heads turned back
in toward the center again, it was just amazing.
The Canadian Crop Circle Research Network, a volunteer
organization that documents such cases, wasted no time getting to
the site. Judy Arndt is one of the group's
field researchers. It looked like the place had
been electrocuted. It was just amazing.
Looked like there had been a huge force of some sort.
So they're not seeing footprints of people trampling around.
They're just seeing these masses of crops being folded over.
Skeptics dismissed the Edmonton crop circle as a hoax.
As shown in a documentary, pranksters can make a crop
circle using pieces of wood and some rope.
They call their creations human land art.
Paul Anderson, director of the CCCRN, has studied many of the
circles in Western Canada. Anybody can go out with the
board and flatten down wheat. And yet something you have to
take into account is it's not just a formation itself, but
it's the complexity of how it's actually constructed, like
multiple layers going in different directions, 1 on top
of the other and so on. And this is very true if you
look at these images, just like anything in nature.
Nature might seem simple at the surface layer, but there are
layers and layers of complexity under what we see.
The three major changes in plants and the Real McCoy, as
opposed to man made crop circles are node elongation, expulsion
cavities at the nodes, and germination abnormalities.
Each of these conditions was present in the Edmonton samples.
That means that the characteristics of the crops
were profoundly altered in ways that could not be induced by
humans using ropes and boards. Colin Andrews is a researcher
and author. The geometry is precise.
There are no tracks in or out. The plants are not damaged.
They are bent over, they're not knuckled down or broken.
The plants are changed and their internal structure at the
cellular level, you don't find that in a hoax, but just think
about that for a second. So on the real ones, the real
crop circles, you're not seeing tracks to people walking in and
out. They're not.
The plants aren't just simply pushed over with the board.
They're actually changed at a cellular level.
So the complexity here we're talking about is, is infinitely
more in the in this crop circles that are not man made.
It's easy to it's easy to find a fake.
Just like if you're looking at in the sky at night looking for
UFOs, it's easy to tell if you're looking at a planet, it's
easy to tell if something is a weather balloon or something is
a drone. And constantly the debunkers
will try to confuse what people see.
They'll try to obfuscate the facts.
You see the same thing happening here.
But if you look, if you look very hard at all, you can see
the level of complexity in the real thing, whether it's with
UFOs or whether it's with crop circles.
The soil samples from Edmonton were sent to Doctor Sampath
Iyenger and California. Dr. Ienger specializes in
materials and analysis. We went ahead and looked at the
at the mineralogy of the clays using a technique called X-ray
powder diffraction. Their results showed a dramatic
difference between soil samples taken from inside the crop
circle compared to those taken from outside the circle.
This has been seen by geologists before, but this is a, but this
is in a geologic time over time, several millions of years, and
this has to be some kind of fantastic energy that's causing
this change. And I don't have any idea what
it is. Did you get that?
They're just they're telling you that the changes in mineralogy
between where the crop circle's AT and the soil that's outside
the crop circle, what should take millions of years, is taken
overnight. They have a new explanation for
it. The theories on what's creating
the circles range from geothermal and magnetic forces
to some kind of cosmic energy. Colin Andrews has explored many
of the theories. We looked at meteorology, we
looked at Earth energies, we looked at chemical application
of the farmers, and all of them led to a blank.
It just did not fit. What we now know is we have a
solid mystery. This cannot be explained in the
terms of people making them. We have many hundreds that are
absolutely certainly not man made and that is a solid fact.
Joni Arndt has one final theory that connects crop circles to
UFOs. Says I was.
I was contacted by a young couple who had been driving
along in late evening. He looked out the window and saw
some lights and rolled down the window to make sure it wasn't
just a reflection of his passenger side window and the
lights were still there and he got quite excited about it and
asked his wife to pull over. There were two small lights,
brilliant bluish. Then they said these two lights
were playing tag with each other.
The sighting occurred about a week before the crop circle
formation was found. Around the same time, Edmonton
farmers Rusty Emmanuel and Thalia Whitman had a similar
experience. First you thought it was a
helicopter because it moved like a helicopter, but still there
was no other lights on it. It was just bright and would
just hover over the field and sort of move off and then come
back again and it just seemed like it passed over the back end
of the pickup and it just disappeared.
It just was so fast, said Teeley.
I tried to picture it as being an aircraft, but it was much too
big for an aircraft, said Rusty. Was there a connection between
the strange lights and the sudden appearance of the
Edmonton crop circles? Seth Shostak, senior astronomer
for Study Institute in Mountain View, CA, had this to say.
I believe that the aliens are out there, but I don't think
they're visiting here. The fact that they're, the fact
that so many people feel that there may be something unusual
going on here, I think bespeaks A psychological need that we all
have to believe that there's some powers that we don't
understand. And after all, it's much more
interesting to think that this pattern in the wheat here was
graffiti from beings from another world than to think that
it was students from a local university.
That's not a terribly interesting story.
Now, what he's done there is he's very cleverly set up a
fallacy straw man argument. A straw man argument being,
well, it's just kids from a local university.
Yeah, because they're so bored that they're leaving college to
go out and, and spend hours and hours in the middle of the night
doing a crop circle. But he completely ignores the
evidence that these plants that had been, you know, bent over in
this crop circle, they've been changed at a cellular level.
He completely ignores the evidence that the soil that's
contained, you know, on the ground or the soil within the
crop circle has been changed in ways that should have taken
millions of years when you compare it to the soil outside
the crop circle. That's from the mineralogist.
They send them two Samps. They send them two samples, 1
sample soil from inside the crop circle, and then one sample soil
from outside the crop circle. Just you may be a few feet away,
he says. Hey, something's going on here,
man. Something's going on with the
minerals in the soil. Something that should have taken
a million years to occur has happened overnight.
This thing's been beamed with some sort of intensely powerful
energy, and we can tell that from a lot of these places have
radiation signatures left after after the crop circles goes on
and says Colin, Andrew says, I don't think we need necessarily
to be talking or trying to prove that it is or isn't
extraterrestrial. I don't know that either.
What I know is what I'm looking at that has arrived in our
fields. Something knows what it's doing
there. There is intelligence of some
sort. I know they're not made by
people. Over the past decade, more than
10,000 crop circles have been reported from around the world.
Assuming that 8000 were made by pranksters, that still leaves
2000 that are unexplained and may remain unsolved mysteries.
Just think about it. 2002 thousand crop circles totally
unexplained. Clearly they're trying to tell
us something with these designs. They're leaving, it seems.
It it seems ridiculous that these would just be graffiti,
like the one guy from SETI tried to just pass off.
Always making a little joke out of things, I'm afraid.
While Seti's sitting there staring blankly into space,
these guys will be introducing themselves on the White House
lawn. Now, let's take a look at this
next article. I'll finish up here with a
couple articles I found about crop circles in Canada going
clear back to 2003. This is from elgincounty.ca.
It says Thursday August 14th, 2003 the London Free Press and
has a picture of this whole fellow standing out here in the
middle of his crop circle. The title says circles crop up
for third time in area. Written by Marissa Nelson, Free
Press reporter. A Dateline Iona crop circles
have become some sort of a fad in southwestern Ontario as a
third set appeared this week in Elgin County.
And while the farmer who owns the field West of Iona thinks it
is beautiful, he can't explain it.
It's a beautiful pattern, 81 year old Lawrence Holland said
in the farmhouse where he and his wife Grace have lived for 55
years. It's as neat as a pen.
Earlier this month, a crop circle appeared in Hensel.
A week later, a second appeared on a farm near Brussels.
Holland had a neighbor head out on his field behind his home on
Wiley Rd. on a combine on Monday.
The neighbor came back to report the circles.
The field has two circles 120.7 meters in diameter and the other
12.9 meters in diameter joined by a pathway.
The wheat is flattened in an anti clockwise direction in both
circles. Each circle is perfect.
The formation has become an attraction for neighbors.
Yesterday afternoon, the Blaney family, who lived nearby, came
to have a look. It's a little close to home,
Patty Blaney said as her four sons roam the field.
You know he's normal, she added, motioning to holla.
I don't think it's the weather and I know it's not Lawrence.
It couldn't have come to a more honest guy, said husband Don
Blaney. It's really strange.
Joanna Emery, a volunteer who investigates crop circles for
the Canadian Crop Circle Research Network, was heading to
Holland's farm late yesterday. She's seen what she calls real
and fake crop circles. My initial reaction was maybe
it's a hoax because they've got so much coverage recently, she
said. But they often have hotspot
areas. Holland figures it's some freak
of nature, like the whirlwinds he's seen on fields.
Neither Lawrence nor Grace saw anything unusual in the field,
and they say they would have seen people working in the field
from their back window. There are no footprints, and we
would have seen someone. Lawrence said it would also take
a lot of effort to bend the wheat hard enough to make sure
it didn't spring back up. It's still a mystery.
Holland isn't concerned about the damage.
He'll harvest the remainder of the field in a few days, once
everyone has had a look. Emmett Barris, a psychology
professor at the University of Western University who studies
anomalous phenomena, said until academics study crop circles, no
one can discount them, can discount them as hoaxes.
I have no idea what they are, he said.
No one has proven it. It's a hoax.
I think at this point it is really a mystery, which is nice.
Academics aren't likely to study formations, Breast said, because
they would be shunned by the scientific community.
And that's a shame, he said, because phenomena like crop
circles interest the public. Well, sure, they don't want to
lose their funding, and you can't maintain your funding once
you've been Deperson as an academic.
Now the next article here is from August 21st, 2003.
It says crop circle the real deal, says researcher of event.
This is by Scott Hilgendorf. There are crop circles that are
hoaxes and legitimate crop circles that defy explanation
and remain a mystery as to their formations.
There are crop circles that are hoaxes and legitimate crop
circles that defy explanation and remain a mystery as to their
formation. Their formation appearing at
Lawrence Holland's wheat field last week is the real thing,
said a specialist who came to the field August 13th to
investigate. The wheat was bent over bearing
ring shaped markings suggesting a heat source, a common
attribute of legitimate crop circles, said Joanna Emery of
the Canadian Crop Circle Research Network.
So these things were bent over by some kind of heat source
because we see that all the time in these crop circles, at least
the ones that are real. The organization she works for
investigates and documents crop circles, determining which are
hoaxes deliberately made by someone and those which are real
and remain unexplained as to their formation.
While the source of crop circles remains a mystery, little
scientific research has done. Thousands of the formations have
appeared around the world in the past month.
There have been circles appearing in Hensel and Brussels
area and in Huron County, and now one in Hollands Field in
Erin Lane and Wally Rd. Holland has farmed there for 55
years and has never seen anything like it.
It was discovered last Tuesday while the wheat was being
harvested, and Holland left the area around the circles
untouched to give the investigators and spectators a
chance to check it out. One circle in the field is 21
meters around. So what about 65 feet connected
by an arrow? 18 an 18 meter path that leads
into a second, smaller circle that measures 13 meters.
Some theories say crop circles have are formed by UFOs, but
Holland doesn't believe that. He said it's difficult to break
wheat stocks with anything but machinery and can't explain how
they could have been laid down and matted in a perfect circle.
Whatever laid the wheat down did a beautiful job.
It's just like a mat, a perfect mat, he said.
He speculates A whirlwind, a naturally occurring wind pattern
farmers are familiar with, could cause such a phenomena.
It's not the case of spirits for kids, said Holland.
The circles attracted a steady flow of spectators last week,
wearing a path into the field to be able to stand in the circles
and check them out. Calls also came to the Hall
household, including one from a man in eastern Elgin County who
attested to seeing UFOs in Elgin County and was certain their
formation was caused by one. Most calls were from media or
family and friends. People visiting had different
theories, but also leaned toward not really understanding what
could cause information. Whatever causes them, Emery said
the walls town circles were not a hoax.
Yeah, he's right. I mean, these things, they just
weren't locked over by foot. It had to be some kind of
machinery. There's some pictures here,
these original photographs. It looks like he was taken at
the Lawrence Holland wheat fields and you can very much
just see how these things are just laid over flat there.
Then there's some other articles on here that are unrelated, but
it just goes to show that these these crop circles have been
around for a while. You know, these things go core
back into the Middle Ages. At that time, a lot of folks
thought that it was a devil that was putting them down.
Hard to say. I'll finish up with this site
here from crop circle to quest. And it looks like what someone's
done here is they've listed a bunch of these crop circle
reports kind of in the same way you would a UFO report.
Just kind of short, sweet, to the point, but they're still
interesting. The first one they have here, it
says crop circle formation, Strathcona County, Alberta,
Canada, August 2012 report by Judy.
Aren't crop circle wide? Shot in Stracona County, east of
Edmonton, AB. The farmer had recently moved
his horses to a different pasture.
On August 9th, 2012, on a routine check to his new
pasture, the odd circle was discovered.
It was a large ring of dry brown plants, all flattened in a
clockwise circle. There had been many summer
storms passed through the area in recent weeks.
Was this a phenomena caused by a tornado, whirlwind, hailstorm,
or something different? The ring measured about 92 feet
on the long axis and 80 feet on the short axis.
The width of the ring varied from 5 to 8 feet.
The long NS axis of the ellipse aligned with the magnetic north
on my compass, which is about 18° E of polar N.
The plants were flattened at a clockwise direction.
The ring encircled a wet area and some small pools as there
had been frequent rings in the area.
The ground was soft and damp. The center pool and reeds
appeared undisturbed. There were no animal hoof prints
or or human footprints in the ring.
There were no fresh ATV tracks in the pasture.
The circle was almost a half a mile from the nearest public Rd.
as is hidden in public view by thick popular forest.
A wet and red trail on private land is not accessible by
passenger vehicle. The owners use an ATV to check
on the animals. Adjoining properties do not
offer close Rd. access. My husband and I visited the
circle on August 18th, 9 days after it had been discovered.
The pasture vegetation was thick fescuse grass and Clover with a
few weeds. Plant recovery showed evidence
of three or four separate but overlapping narrower tracks with
the largest ring. Leaves had been flattened where
and we're still dead, but new leaves had started to shoot out
from the roots along the edge of the rings.
The plants at the at the midlines of the inner rings were
browner, as if they had been more severely affected by
whatever Asia had flattened the plants, both grasses and broad
leaf plants at the edge of the rings or sending out new leaves.
There was no evidence of plant deformity as they might be
expected if a herbicide had been used.
On our August 18th visit we noticed a partial loop of bent
but not fully flattened grass in the middle of the ring,
indicated by the light green line of the diagram.
It started in the wet center and looped to the West edge of the
ring. Again, there was no evidence it
had been flattened by animals or humans.
The landowner had not seen the loop upon first discovery.
At the request of the land owner, I will not be disclosing
the location of this crop formation.
They're just all over the place. It's just it's it's just and why
would someone would someone want to go out here in the middle of
nowhere like that and and do this.
We'll do a couple more here. Here's one here.
It says red deer crop circle formation Red deer AB Canada
discovered September 16th 2001 reported by Joni aren't.
Seven circles in mature red wheat found by the farmer on
Sunday, September September 16th while he was harvesting.
The formation was not in the field September 1st when the
field was sprayed with the with the the second with the
desiccant. There is a report that the
formation was spotted from the air on Sunday, September 2nd.
If that is so, then the formation was made during the
night of Saturday, September 1st to Sunday, September 2nd.
Total width deformation is 422 feet.
I visited on Tuesday, September 18th.
The crop was fully ripe and plants were very dry and
brittle. Many people had already walked
through the formation. So this thing is getting a lot
of attention, but they're still out here in the middle of
nowhere. We'll do two more here and we'll
wrap up. This is from it says Drayton
Valley Crop Circle formation, August 18th, 2001.
A Juni art. It says this two circle
formation in green oats was discovered by farmer by the
farmer on Saturday, August 18th while swathing.
The location is near the junction of Hwy. 39 and 759.
This is about 65 miles southwest of Edmonton, AB, Alberta.
The larger circle is slightly elliptical with diameters of 41
1/2 to 45 feet. The total length of formation is
88 feet. There is a counterclockwise
spiral lay in both circles. Both spiral central worlds are
not on the geometric centers. When first found, the lay crop
was very flat and neat and uniformly spiral.
We visited the formation on August 26th, 8 days after its
discovery, between the standing and laid crops.
The edges between the standing and inlaid crops are crisp.
Plants are either bent over hard at the soil level or completely
upright. All plants are bent over very
firmly at ground level. However, the stems were not
crimped or broken and the plants continue growing.
There is an appearance of bundling which is commonly seen
in crop circles with spiral lay. Wow.
It says the stem nodes in formation plants were swollen.
They didn't notice. We didn't notice any blown out
or stretched stem nodes on the field.
However, upon examination, the samples we brought home, we
found marked differences between the crop formation and the
standing plants. It says what is not normal plant
response is that only a small percentage of the plants have
begun growing upwards and a normal phototropic response as a
show. In this photo, the majority of
plants one week after the event was discovered were still green
and growing, but remained horizontal.
Wow. This is the center of these, of
A roll of some small of a small circle.
There was a bare spot about four inches in diameter in the circle
of each circle, but no evidence of the soil had been disturbed.
The bare spot is surprising considering the dense growth
everywhere else. So you have this thick growth of
oats, whatever, and when this thing, whatever it is, creates
this crop circle, it's drilling a little hole right in the
middle of the circles. It's not something I would
expect to happen if these things were fate.
It says the oak crop was seeded on rich loom soil with an air
cedar and with a nurse crop of Clover hay.
It is very evenly and densely grown at the ground level.
The field was not sprayed, so there are no tractor tracks.
No vehicles had entered the field after a seeding to the
time of swatting. It's impossible for any person
to walk through this crop without crushing plants and
leaving an obvious trail. The farmers checked very
carefully to find tracks in the field or between the circles,
but there were none. One of the farmers was up very
late the evening before the formation was discovered,
tending A fussy baby. She spent some time outdoors on
her deck. It was a warm, calm, dry night.
She says if there had been trespassers in the field, which
is visible from the house, she would have heard or noticed
them. Noticed something.
None of the horses, dogs, donkeys or llamas in the
immediate vicinity showed any signs of upset during the night.
Because of a very dry spring and long stretches of rainless
weather, grasshoppers have become a problem in many areas
of border this year. I didn't get a photo of one of
the thousands of live hopping ones, but this shell left by a
multi grasshopper is a reminder of the weather and the insect
infestation. No evidence there whatsoever.
That was man made just out in the middle of nowhere.
And we'll do this last one here, it says Neilberg, Saskatchewan,
Canada. The Neilberg formation was
discovered September 3rd, 1999 in a wheat field when the field
was being swathed. It wasn't there on August 23rd
when the field was sprayed on a A central circle 45 feet in
diameter is flanked by three arcing arms of smaller circles.
There are 11 circles in all. The total size of the formation
is about 185 feet north to South.
I've now revised diagrams based on our measurements and an
aerial photo and it has a pictures of them here.
It talks a little bit about how this thing is made, goes on it
says. My husband Mike Arndt and I
drove out to Neil Berg from Edmonton, AB on on Sunday,
September 5th. The farmer Connelly met us at
the formation and allowed us to take pictures and measurements
of the circle diameters. The stocks were bent over right
at the ground regardless of the roughness of the soil.
A few stocks and some of the circles had apparently been left
standing and had been cut by the swather.
Because the stocks were still quite flexible, the swather rode
over the circles, leaving the stocks beautifully laid and
undisturbed. We can't judge the authenticity
of this formation, but we can say this.
It was consistently neat. There were no signs of breakage
of the stems. Now, how do you, how do you fold
these stems over like that with a board or something without
breaking a single one? I think, I think that kind of
shows a, a pattern that's happening here.
If people were really seeking attention with these things, it
seems like they would do them closer to a population base
where people could really see them at.
But what we're seeing is we're seeing these very intricate
patterns being laid down where the the plants themselves aren't
damaged, they're just bent over, where it seems to be heat
applied, where there's differences in the soil before
and after, and where there's difference in say, and
background radiation. All kinds of evidence pointing
that these things, while some are done by some strange
phenomena or entity that we don't understand.
Until next time. This is UFO warning over now.