Crop Circles Exploring the Designs & Mysteries

by Anderhub, Werner; Roth, Hans Peter

• ISBN13: 9781579902971
• ISBN10: 1579902979
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-10-01
• Publisher: Lark Books

Summary

Throughout the world, mysterious patterns have almost magically started appearing in fields--baffling the farmers who own the land and the scientists who examine them. What are these fantastic geometric figures? Who (or what) is creating them? Two journalists specializing in crop circle research provide revealing answers in this bestselling and visually stunning study. A spectacular 30-page pictorial, which presents an eye-catching survey of the contin-uing phenomenon, will fascinate believers and non-believers alike with its surprising beauty, variety, and complexity.

Table of Contents

Preface	7	(2)
It Happened Overnight...	9	(12)
The Discovery	9	(10)
Lights above the Field	19	(2)
History Goes 'Round in Circles	21	(78)
First Circles in the Fields	21	(3)
1985-1989: Figures Grow out of Circles	24	(2)
1990: Quantum Leap	26	(1)
1991: The Entire World Watches Southern England	27	(3)
1992-1993: Years of Disappointment	30	(1)
1994: Crop Circles Are Back	31	(3)
1995: ``Planets'' and ``Asteroids''	34	(3)
1996: Year of the Fractals	37	(3)
1997: Stars in the Field	40	(7)
1998: First Seven-sided Figures	47	(7)
1999: The Culmination of the Decade	54	(7)
2000 and 2001: The New Millennium	61	(1)
A Look beyond England	61	(1)
The Netherlands and Germany	62	(4)
And Switzerland?	66	(1)
Similar Phenomena Cause Sensations	66	(33)
The Search for Causes and Creators	99	(24)
Which Is ``Fake'' and Which Is ``Authentic?''	99	(2)
Task: ``Faking'' Circles	101	(3)
The Circles of the Aged	104	(3)
The Efforts of Scientists...	107	(1)
...And Their Evidence	107	(5)
Signals from Outer Space?	112	(2)
Extremes Collide	114	(1)
``The Return of the Gods''	115	(1)
Is It Actually Human Technology?	116	(2)
A Bed in the Field for Mating Hedgehogs?	118	(1)
The Power of Thoughts	119	(2)
Gaia-Mother Earth as a Living Being	121	(1)
Signs from the Inner World?	121	(2)
The Universal Language	123	(17)
Geometry-Symbols of Creation	123	(3)
The Connection to Holy Geometry	126	(4)
Emma Kunz-Artwork for the 21st Century	130	(5)
Another View of Reality	135	(5)
Appendix	140