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August 19th 2002
An interesting characteristic of crop circle formations is that each year the 'best' formation seems to be 'better' than the 'best' formation of the previous year. Obviously, 'better' and 'best' are subjective concepts, also depending on personal taste. Nevertheless, the recent Crabwood Farm House formation in the UK has blasted everyone away, even after the appearance of such impressive formations as last year's Milk Hill formation and 'The Face' of Chilbolton. A first reaction by the Dutch Centre for Crop Circle Studies.
Awesome! That is an adjective that certainly applies to the "Alien Face" formation that appeared at Crabwood Farm House in Witshire, England. A very crisp piece of work, at least seen from the air. Those who claim that crop circles are made by alien civilisations in order to attempt to communicate with us, seem to have a stronger case each year. The "Arecibo Replay" of 2001, which appeared at Chilbolton together with a pixelised portrait of a human(oid) already was a clear hint in that direction, this one is even better.
Compared with the Alien Face at Crabwood Farm House, the Chilbolton formations have degraded considerably in quality. Have a look at the Chilbolton Face (e.g., here) and compare it to this new masterpiece (which can be seen here). The first thing you notice, is that the new portrait has a much higher effective resolution (crispness). Moreover, the simple pictographic communication by means of a matrix with dots (composed of two prime numbers), has been replaced by a much more modern medium: a stylized Compact Disc,with a binary code.
It was obvious that this Compact Disc contained a message. I planned to try and decode it myself, but even before I started, an email from David Kingston notified me that the translation could already be found on the Internet:
(Check out Linda Moulton Howe's website to read all about the analysis.) The dots inside the circular imprint can be read along a spiral that runs from the inside towards the outer edge of the disc (exactly the way a compact disc works), and is deciphered in a straightforward manner by simply applying the 8 bit binary codes that describe the international ASCII character set as used in computers. This may seem like abracadabra to some of you, but representing characters from a computer keyboard by zeroes and ones (or standing and flattened crop) is less than Kindergarten stuff for any computer analyst (or almost any 13-year old kid with a PC).
It may be clear to you: I have a few serious concerns about this formation, and I am convinced it's a man-made hoax. The reasons are multifold:
1. Clearly, this formation is a continuation of last year's Chilbolton events. We actually expected this one. However, one thing is curious. The Chilbolton "Face" was composed of dots of varying sizes, made in a similar way as black and white news paper photographs are printed. The dots were arranged on a regular, rectangular grid (oriented at 45 degrees), and apparent gray scales were created by varying the sizes of the dots. The Crabwood formation is different. It is made out of horizontal lines, the width of which is modulated in order to create apparent gray scales. The image is similar to what you see on a TV screen, rather than on a black and white photograph in a news paper. The fundamental principle of photographic encoding is completely different! And that is very strange. Why didn't the alleged 'aliens' employ this more sophisticated method last year? Has their technology improved so much in such a short time?
2. Secondly, there is something very peculiar about the binary message. I have no problems with the fact that the aliens can speak and write English. Why not? They may have been the ones who actually taught us to speak their language (a long time ago). But why on earth (or better: why off earth) would they employ a binary encoding to spell out a message? If they can produce such high-quality graphical images in the fields, why didn't they simple write the message in the field? If they know the ASCII character set, they also know the characters! So why do they have to stylize the shape of a CD to give us a (most obvious) clue that the dots inside the circle are actually a binary code? It simply does not make sense at all.
3. I am very much aware of the fact that any speculation about alien life forms and their possible interactions with humans cannot be judged by human logic. Whatever is obvious or logical to us, humans, may be anything but logical or even completely incomprehensible to an intelligence that developed a million light years from here. For that reason, a plea such as "why don't the aliens create a crop circle in front of the White House" is not valid. Have you ever tried to explain to a mosquito that he should not sting you? There may be an extremely obvious thing to do (i.e., obvious for a mosquito) to explain such a thing to the little insect, but despite our much higher intelligence, mosquito logic cannot be understood by humans. However, this argument cannot be applied to my statements written above. The problem is exactly the opposite: the Crabwood formation is full of human logic! And that is exactly the reason why I believe it's an elaborate hoax. The classical 'Gray', straight out of Star Trek, the silly way of creating a 152 byte CD (containing about 0,2 millionth of the data on a real CD), an anonymous decoding engineer who comes up with the translation shortly afterwards... The formation says it all: We OPpose DECEPTION.
The most fascinating things about this crop formation, I think, are 1. the curious message, which is completely empty (of course you should beware of false gifts, deception etc., nothing new here) and 2. the strange way of combining capital and lowercase characters, particularly in the word "OPpose". And what does "EELRIJUE" mean? It may all be just a smart trick to deviate our attention from the obvious clues that someone is trying to pull our legs. The question remains: Why? Would anyone create such a time-consuming an elaborate hoax just to fool others? Was this formation made by Mel Gibson and friends, afraid that Signs will flop? There must be a reason, and probably a pretty good one too. I wonder if time will tell.
However, whoever made this formation, they did a great job, and that is another fact. My compliments!
Eltjo H. Haselhoff.
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Well, did anyone investigate as to how the plants were laid over? Were they mashed over at the soil surface with damaged stems characteristic of being pushed down from above by a board, or were they bent over at some distance above the ground, have elongated nodes, energy expulsion holes at the nodes, overlapping lay-down patterns, etc? These kinds of details are critical in differentiating between real and fake crop circles. Furthermore, how would two or more hoaxers be able to complete something as detailed as that image in the dead of night without good lighting and not requiring a substantial length of time, probably more than one night to complete it? I don't understand why questions like this are not immediately asked and investigated.
Lou
Just a response or two in regard to Mr. Haselhoff's article:
Re: #2:-
Take the premise that this is an attempt at communication between ourselves and an alien species. The simple idea of communication is that a sender (the alien species) wants the receiver (humanity) to understand the message. This dictates that the way the message is encoded favours the receiver to minimise the potential for misunderstanding.
The alien species has been researching us, and is aware of our language, our communication techniques and the state of our technological development (most of which is readily accessible from the internet). The disc may not represent a CD, but the disk from a hard disk drive, on which the data is recorded in binary. The ASCII system has been one of the foremost encoding systems in relation to English-/Roman-based computer systems. This would make it logical that an attempt to communicate with us, in a way that was familiar to us would take this format.
Re: #3:-
Evolution works primarily by 'trial and error', 'path of minimal effort' and 'advantageous mutation'. Intelligence develops as a weapon against environment &/or predators where no other natural weapon has given the species a survival advantage.
Given our present understanding, we can expect that evolution will develop similar solutions to similar problems. That being said, we should then expect that there is likely to be more similarities between alien species than differences. There will obviously be differences in culture, but this does not necessarily translate into alien or human motivations being non-understandable by the other species.
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We have as much reason to suspect that their experiences of life are just like ours: birth, life, reproduction, death and continuation of the species, and that their basic emotional reactions will be recognisable. As one of my psychology lecturers put it: mad, glad, sad and fear (or anger, contentment, discontentment, and fear). I am making the assumption that alien species will have emotionality, but, again, similar solutions to similar problems. These emotions keep us alive by telling us what is good or bad for us. We can see how advantageous these basic emotions are to our survival; there is no reason to think that the usefulness of these emotions will not be exploited in alien biospheres.
Ultimately, my points are:-
- Evolution will find similar solutions to similar problems
- These solutions result in the development of recognisable similarities between species
- Recognisable similarities will give rise to recognisable motivations
- Alien species have as much likelihood of being comprehensible by humans, as they have of being completely alien
I am NOT saying that all alien species will be readily comprehensible by humans, but I AM saying that we can expect our own example of an intelligent species to be representative of a significant percentage of alien species.
We should not make the mistake of immediately assuming that alien species looking upon humans will be the same as humans looking upon insects. Just because an alien race has a couple of thousand years of scientific knowledge and development does not mean that they're significantly smarter than us. (We have all met people that have huge amounts of knowledge but are not the most powerful of intellects.)
To Point 2.
Why they didnt contact in another way. How ? - You get mail from Alien ? Every will say this cant be seriously.
Why them didnt contact the goverment in clear transmission (text) ? - Maybe they did. I dont trust the goverments. Maybe the words "bearers of FALSE gifts & their BROKEN PROMISES " mean the goverments or mayas or or or ? Maybe its all nonsens.
Aliens wich cruse the space are to stupid to right correct sentences sounds not realistic. On the one side technics wich we can dream from, on the other side bad binary code.
Maybe in the mistakes are a secreted code. Maybe it isnt binary. Maybe its music . Whatever i like this stuff.
BTW. Sorry for my bad englisch
Very interesting are the Mayas wich have calculated the solar system thausend jears ago. Today we know they are right. How they can know this ?
Whre they get this knowladge ?
So many films and book authors use this mythology to make great things.
Also religions like synthology.
This organization is the deception.
Every one should learn from the article about the suspect that their experiences of life are in Crabwood Farm House in England. So that you can know the information of the farmhouse to rent before planed to agreement.
The answer does not lie with mankind, but with the enlightened masters. Travel to east to know the answer you are looking for. 1. Drop your logic to think. 2. Drop your mind and be 'out of your mind'. You shall find the answer. For then you will no longer find that this binary code is needed at all! "Peaceful Warrior" is where you can start. Dan Millman.
I see them every year in the Wessex Triangle. When I saw this one I thought it was a hoax - but now I think differently. Anyway it is impossible for Doug and Dave to have done this.
in my opinion i thinkk its real because i mean how many crop circles are out there, people dont understand what they are trying to say, so what the 'aliens' did was that they put a simple message so we could understand because maybe they got tired of making crop circles and us not understanding them, so maybe they just made it simpler for us to understand
Mr. Haselhoff, I find it troubling after reading your excellent book, "The Deepening Complexity of Crop Circles", that you would appear to jump to the conclusion that this is a man-made hoax, rather than studying the actual circle itself, scientifically as you have done with the many crop circles detailed in your book. I understand that this is a "first impressions" article, however, in your own words, articles that do not employ the scientific method and jump to conclusions based almost solely on gut feeling and subjective opinions about the logic of the circle maker are dangerous and only cause to weaken the argument that many of these crop circles are not formed mechanically, by humans, which you, as a respected researcher have conclusively proven. I feel you should have waited for the scientific data to come in before publishing this article which, to be honest, most who are on the fence will read and walk away thinking precisely what you have labored so hard to convince them of otherwise: that crop circles are made by people stomping on wheat, big deal.
I have the same opinion of the message like "Some Guy"
" [...] maybe they just made it simpler for us to understand"
I think if there is really something that happens in 2012 then we dont have much time left. And as we know,there were alot of corn circles out there that we didnt understand alot. So its imaginable that they try to make it as easy as possible to understand, to avoid the "PAIN" that comes in time.
One of "them" hands us a message in a shape we know ( a CD for exemple ).
furthermore i would say that they coded the message in binary because of the voyagemsg ( http://www.cassiopaea.org/images/voyagermsg.jpg ) we send into space in 1974. We got an answer with the same structure so its plausible that they expect that we definitly understand this code.
and for the ones who believe that this is a fake ... how would u explain the process of creating such a large and accurate symbol in just a few hours, without light and much noise ?! i cant imagine, sorry :P
Yes, I too, believe that Eltjo H. Haselhoff is part of the "OPpos[ed]DECEPTION"
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