All,
Seeing some of this topic floating around on several threads, I decided to share what I discovered on Jacques’ website: https://www.jacquesvallee.net/research/#literature.
I can’t link the PDF directly without making it auto-download so just be aware of that, but the article is called: About “Crop Circles” and Alien Glyphs (or are they microwave blasters?).
Having watched the WhyFiles episode on crop circles, I initially found them compelling, as many do. However, after reading Jacques’ take (and historical context having lived through it unfold and investigate it), I found myself realizing that there was more to the picture than anything else I had read or seen thus far that Jacques compiles neatly.
For those on mobile or don’t want to read the article, here’s a summary, followed by major quotes from the article:
—– Summary
– Jacques originally wrote in 1991 in a New Age magazine speculating that the crop circles were the result of weapons military testing using an aerial device using focused microwave beams (masers), controlled by a technical team in a lab that utilized the crops as pixels for calibration
– This was met with silence
– In 2009, New Scientist released an article describing “Microwaves could defuse bombs from afar“).
– This weaponry could shock people, disable vehicles, and could extend up to ranges of a kilometer.
– Jacques connects the dots between weapons testing development and the time gap to when such developments are made public (being a span of 30 years).
—– Analysis
When this hubub started, a French researched put for the following for analysis:
(1) does the phenomenon change over time and if so, in what way?
(2) what exactly happens to the plants when they are flattened?
(3) is there something special about the sites?
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(1) the phenomenon began with single circles that English and U.S. weather scientists first tried to explain as atmospheric vortices. Soon there were multiple circles in various geometric combinations, and in following years the designs became increasingly complex, leading to the idea that we were witnessing a classic, step-by-step program of technology development–not an atmospheric anomaly but not some sort of paranormal effect either.
(2) Given that SOME of the patterns were obviously man-made hoaxes, it was possible to compare the effect on the plants in genuine versus bogus patterns. Under the microscope the results were clear: if you push a board across a wheat field to flatten it, you will break the stalks between nodes because the nodes are thicker and stronger.
But in the unexplained, complex patterns the nodes themselves were exploded, often keeping the fibers intact. Conclusion: something was coupling energy into the plants in the form of heat (as one of the respondents to my first post actually stated). Therefore the idea of a beam weapon is indeed one of the scenarios to consider
(3) The crop circles are close to ancient megalithic sites, which excites the curiosity of New Age tourists from America, but they are even closer to the most highly classified military electronics labs in Britain. In fact the roads to some of the fields run between two high fences behind which defense companies are doing research, and Army helicopters routinely patrol the area.
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Everyone knows well of the the two gentlemen claimed to have done the whole thing and satisfied the curiosity of most people and enabled ridicule for those that didn’t think it added up.
In fact, he confronted some of them:
I met several of these artists at a conference in Switzerland, where they were presenting their techniques and the resulting data.
When I asked them, “How dare you fool people this way?” they answered that art in general was always about fooling people to create a sense of awe, beauty or simply a brief, healthy disconnect with ordinary reality. One of them pointed out that “When you look at the Mona Lisa you think you look at a woman, but you have been fooled: there is no woman there; someone just applied some paint to a rectangular piece of canvas.
Well, we do the same thing, except that our canvas happens to be a cornfield.”
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When he submitted his own thoughts about the phenomenon:
My own feeling about the New Age interpretations is frankly negative. Why assume that Aliens are at work here, when the designs show universally human symbols? Even the Mandelbrot set, one of the most perfect displays, is a representation of a human concept. There is nothing new or scientifically profound in any of this. We are not being taught anything.
Similarly, the Gaia hypothesis doesn’t work for me. When the Earth teaches us something it is usually brutal and very explicit, like the volcano in Iceland, which leaves little to the imagination.
He instead turns his attention to those involved in government projects:
Indeed, during the eighties and nineties there were discreet exchanges of expertise among government agencies concerned with the UFO phenomenon in the U.S., France and Great Britain (and perhaps others). One of the French experts detached to work on this topic with American Intelligence is said to be visible on one of the crop circle videos, mingling among New Age enthusiasts and civilian researchers.
Interestingly, much of the classified research conducted in these three countries (while any official interest in UFOs was denied in public statements) was done by microwave experts, including medical researchers specializing in the effect of radiation on living tissue.
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Jacques goes on to lament that everyone’s focus is on how the circles are constructed, and not on the social engineering that had taken effect from the phenomenon.
Their “revelation” had an immediate, irreversible effect of locking the concept of crop circles as a hoax in the mind of a very large public, most notably the academic and ‘intellectual’ community.
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He concludes considering the rapidity by which information is dispersed on computer networks and its usage for disinformation inhibits real science:
This intentional distortion has certainly become a fact of life among ufologists. It seems that every month or so some website claims to have received data from a hidden source, often a “highly-placed” defense or intelligence person, about UFO crashes, live Aliens, secret missions to Mars or contact with hush-hush cosmic locations such as Ummo, Serpo and other wonderful places. The curious thing is that, in cases when it has been possible to reverse-engineer these links, they were often found to originate within the intelligence community or people close to it.
The process is reminiscent of flypaper: you deploy a device that will make would-be researchers stick to your concept and spend a lot of time discussing and amplifying it instead of going after real data.
The main result is to disturb, drown or negate genuine research into paranormal phenomena, but the intent may well go beyond this effect. Web social patterns have become a strategic global tool. Like the crop circles themselves, they can now be used to alter the public’s perception of the present and the future.
Mastering such a tool is well worth a few bent stalks of corn.
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