Aliens & Espionage: Crop Circles and the CIA Coverup | They Don't Want You to Know

In 1974, a group of scientists beamed a. message into space. The message, meant. to be received by an intelligent alien. species, described life on Earth. Written in simple binary code and using. the most powerful radio telescope on the. planet, the message was broadcast to a. dense cluster of stars in the. constellation of Hercules. This exercise. was just ceremonial, a way to. demonstrate new technology in radio. astronomy. Nobody was really expected to. receive it, and even if they did, it. wouldn't be anytime soon. The nearest.

star in the direction of the broadcast. is 25,000 light years away. So, the. telescope was tuned to 2380 MHz, aimed. at Hercules, and fired up. The. scientists congratulated each other, shook hands, and went on with their. lives. But, 27 years later, something. very unexpected happened with that. message beamed into deep [music] space. Someone wrote back. One morning in 1966, George Pedley was. working his farm in Tully, Queensland,

Australia, when he heard a strange. buzzing sound. He climbed down from his. tractor and started walking in the. direction of the sound. Then, he saw a. circular craft slowly rise above a. section of swampland, not 50 ft from. where he was standing. The craft hovered. for a few seconds, shot straight up into. the sky, and disappeared. When George went to investigate, he. found a large circle of reeds had been. pulled from the swamp and flattened into. a disk. The circle was 30 ft across, 2.

ft thick, and arranged in a clockwise. swirl. Because of the swirl and the. thickness of the reeds, locals called. the formation a UFO nest. But, what this. actually was was a crop circle. Since the 1960s, thousands of crop. circles or crop formations have been. found. They've been seen on every. continent in almost every country on. Earth. But, the epicenter for crop. formations is Wiltshire in the southwest. of England. Crop formations range from the very. simple.

to the very complex. Formations can be circles, stars, and. other geometric shapes, but some are. pictograms, though nobody knows for sure. what they mean. Though every formation is different, they have a few things in common. Recognizable patterns that are created. very quickly, usually at night. The creation of these patterns is always. associated with some kind of light, either a beam of light or an orb of. light.

Whatever that is, that's moving on the. side. Oh my god. Though crop formations seem like a new. phenomenon, there's evidence they've. been appearing for a long time. In the. 9th century, Agobard, the Bishop of Lyon. in France, wrote about parishioners who. were possibly engaged in devil worship. or paganism. They were collecting seeds. out of flattened circles in the fields. and using them for fertility rituals. In.

1686, Robert Plot, a professor at. Oxford, wrote about crop circles. He. even drew pictures of a couple that. appeared near his home. He said they. were formed by a flash of light. And. once they were formed, animals wouldn't. go near them. Around the same time, a. pamphlet was released called The Mowing. Devil. It describes how a farmer woke to. see a bright light in his field that he. thought was fire. When he went to. investigate, he found a crop circle. It's called The Mowing Devil because the. farmer said the circle was so neatly.

mowed that it could not have been done. by a mortal man. John Leland served as. librarian to Henry VIII. He wrote about. patterns appearing in grass overnight. In 1937, a British science journal. reported circles found in a field of. barley and even included one of the. first photos taken of a crop circle. In. 1945, this photo was taken by a. balloonist working for the RAF Parachute. Training School. In 1952, the US Air Force investigated. circles found in Kansas.

In 1963, Sir Patrick Moore, an. astronomer writing for the New Scientist. Journal, investigated a formation in. Charlton. In the wheat fields were features taking. the form of circular or elliptical areas. in which the wheat had been flattened. One very well defined was an oval, 15 yd. long by 4 and 1/2 broad. There was evidence of spiral flattening. And in one case, there was a circular. area in the center in which the wheat. had not been flattened. One of the texts discovered in the Dead. Sea Scrolls is the Book of Enoch. Enoch.

talks about lightning leaving marks on. the Earth. So, these formations have. been seen since the beginning of. recorded history. And even though. thousands of circles have been found, and many people claim to witness them. forming, no one had ever caught it on. camera. Until 1996. John Wylie was camping out on a hill in. Wiltshire called Oliver's Castle, named. for a fort that was built there many. years ago. Around 3:00 a.m., something caught his. eye. He grabbed his video camera and.

captured footage of several glowing orbs. hovering over a field. Then, like magic, Whoa. Here's the formation from the air. Nobody can agree on what crop circles. mean, though most people believe they're. messages. Now, this is frustrating to. many researchers. They say, "Whoever's. making these, why don't they just speak. English?".

Well, in 2001, they did. Intelligently. Ah, this one. This one. [music]. You see the object came down. It stopped. for a long.

I think right in the back. There's no. maneuver in providing wind. I can't. think what that is.

The difference. here. is a verb. [music]. [music]. In 1974, the Arecibo message was sent.

from Earth to a cluster of stars in the. Hercules constellation. It's called the. Arecibo message because that was the. name of the giant radio telescope used. to transmit it. The team that created. the message was led by Dr. Frank Drake. with assistance from Carl Sagan. The. message was 1679. binary digits that could be converted to. an image designed to convey information. about civilization on Earth. It starts. [music] with a representation of the. numbers 1 through 10. This provides a. key to the rest of the message. [music].

Next, atomic numbers of hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and. phosphorus, which are used to make up. DNA. Carbon is at the top because it's. the most dominant in forms of life. The. message shows more information about. DNA, including the double helix. structure. For the bottom, a figure of a. human, its average height, and the. population of the Earth, which was a. little over 4 billion at the time. Next, our solar system, starting with. the Sun and moving out to Pluto. The. Earth is shifted up to identify the.

planet sending the signal. At the bottom, a graphic representing. the Arecibo radio telescope. Now, the. nearest star that could possibly receive. the message is 25,000 light years away. So, we couldn't really expect a reply. for another 50,000 years. But, on the. morning of August 14th, 2001, a. formation was discovered right next to. the Chilbolton radio telescope. That. even if you don't know the full design, when you're on the ground, you can tell. you're in a crop circle. There's. structure and uniformity to it. But,

this new formation was different. It was. a mess. It wasn't symmetrical. Nobody. could make sense of it until it was. viewed from the air. Holy. A face. And 3 days later, this appeared. This became known as the Arecibo answer. Hi, Chihuahua. The formation uses the same 23 by 73. grid. [music]. The top line shows the numbers 1 through. 10, just like the original, but the.

reply shows silicon as [music] the main. element for life, not carbon. Their DNA is shown as having a third. string. [music]. In the center is a humanoid figure about. 4 ft tall with a large head, and their. population is about 21 billion. Below the figure is their solar system. They appear to occupy three objects. [music] in the system, the third and. fourth planets, and then there's another. shape that could mean a planet or some. other object or structure. On the human Arecibo message, is a.

picture of the radio telescope, which. was used to send the message. Whoever. sent the reply seems to understand this. So, what is this design meant to. represent? Well, just a year earlier, this. formation appeared in the same place. Is this the same object? Is this crop. formation a representation of a machine. used to communicate through space? Again, frustrated researchers and. skeptics agree on something. Why don't. they just speak English? Well, almost. exactly 1 year later, this formation.

appeared. My brain My brain just exploded. Once again, we see a face. But, that's not a human face. And just like the Arecibo message was. broadcast in binary code, the disk. formation also contains binary code. And. for the first time, we get an actual. literal message. The code was translated. to letters using ASCII, the encoding. standard for electronic communication.

Beware the bearers of false gifts and. their broken promises. Much pain, but still time. Believe. There is good. out there. We oppose deception. Conduit closing. Whoever it is that wants to communicate. with us is using many different means. In 2004, Robert Ridge was deer hunting a. few miles outside of Roswell, New. Mexico. Half-buried in the dirt, he. found a strange rock. On the rock is a. geometric carving. Robert grabbed it and.

didn't think it was anything more than a. cool rock someone lost at some point. But, he didn't keep it a secret. He. showed it to friends and anyone who was. curious about it. It didn't take long. before strange discoveries were made. about the rock. For one, it's magnetized. loadstone, which is not a kind of rock. found in that area. And under a. microscope, the Roswell rock is. extremely smooth. There's no carving. marks or indication of sandblasting. But, the most fascinating discovery is. that in 1996, 8 years before the Roswell rock was.

found, this crop formation appeared. The designs match up. Some people think this design is a. message. Others think it's a map. Still. others think the Roswell Rock, the. Arecibo answer, and all crop circles are. nothing but a hoax. But who would create. such elaborate hoaxes and why? Well, in. 1991, we would get the answer when a. British newspaper ran a front page story. with the headline, "The Men Who Conned. the World.". Oh, no.

On September 9th, 1991, two retirees in. their 60s confessed to starting the crop. circle phenomenon in 1978. Doug Bower. said the idea came to him one night in a. pub. He was living in Queensland in 1966. when the Tully UFO left behind that. circle of reeds. Doug thought it would. be fun to trick people into thinking. UFOs were landing in wheat fields in. southern England. He enlisted the help. of his friend Dave Chorley. All they. needed to make a crop circle was a wood.

plank, a bit of rope, and a twisted. piece of wire. At first, their designs. were simple and crude, but over time. they became more and more complex. And you could center this through this. ring, walk straight towards it, and lo. and behold, you've got the lovely. straight line that you could wish for. International media picked up the story. and the mystery was solved. Crop circles. were nothing more than a couple of. amiable old fellows playing a prank, and. that was that. Well, that's it? And the story is kind.

of disappointing. Oh, we're just getting started. Oh, go on. Doug and Dave might have created a few. crop circles, but their story has a lot. of holes. They demonstrated their circle. making technique and the results were. janky. Most crop formations, even back. then, were much more precise. Doug and. Dave's formations were out of alignment. every time. The more complicated the. design, the worse the formations were. During one demonstration for a news. crew, Doug attempted to reproduce one of. his circles and accidentally made it. twice as big as it should have been.

Then he just gave up on making it. And. their story changed over time. They said they started making circles in. 1976. Then it was 1975. Then it was. 1978. In fact, they never could agree on. the year they actually started. Now, they claim to have created certain. circles and then later said they didn't, but they helped people who did. And Doug. and Dave said they created this famous. crop circle in 1983 called the. Cheesefoot Head circle. Doug showed a. diagram of it, but his diagram had. footpaths in it. The circle had no.

paths. It had no disturbances of any. kind. When asked how they created the. circle without making tracks in the. crop, Doug said they pole vaulted into. the field. Whoa, whoa, whoa, did you just say pole. vaulted? Yep. He said in an interview that you. should have seen us running through the. fields with our sticks sailing over the. corn. Yeah, I would like to see that actually. Oh, me too, pal. Apparently, these men. in [music] their 60s pole vaulted into. fields carrying their wood boards. They. laid down a perfect crop formation and.

pole vaulted out again. Now, Doug looks. pretty fit for an older guy, but he's. getting winded walking in a circle. Pole. vaulting seems a little outside of his. athletic range. They also added details. to their story as other crop circles. were found. One day, a couple of people. investigating a circle told Doug they. were looking for a jelly-like substance. that was found in a formation. Doug told. them it was probably waste ejected from. a plane. Later, Doug had a story about. making a crop circle, and while he was. doing it, he got hit in the head with a.

piece of frozen waste ejected from a. plane's toilet. And he called those Boeing bombs. Right. Yeah, big old frozen chunk of poopy. He stumbled back to his car dazed with. blood trickling down his face. The problem is planes don't dump waste. over that area. It would be illegal, dangerous, and disgusting. Another story. came out about people finding bits of. metal thought to be meteorites at rock. formations. Soon after that, Doug and. Dave's crop circles had little bits of. iron scattered all around. So, a few.

things. Did Doug Bower and Dave Chorley. create some crop circles? Yes. When Doug. and Dave came forward, about 1,500 crop. circles had been seen in at least 23. countries. Oh, well, he can't pole vault to. Belgium. Right, even Doug couldn't do that. But, they inspired a lot of copycats. Soon, most crop formations were man-made. So, is there a scientific way to tell if a. crop circle is not a hoax, but genuine? There is.

Most crop formations are man-made. The. vast majority are. And there are. telltale signs of this. Sometimes. spotting a man-made crop circle is a. simple as finding a footpath through the. field leading up to the design. But, often crop formations intersect the. lines made by tractors called tramlines, which can hide tracks. To spot a hoax, we look at the plants themselves. Man-made crop circles done by flattening. plants with boards are destructive to. the plants. You'll see cracks and. bruises on the stalks. On the ground,

the crushed plants look messy. The. leaves and flowers will be mashed to the. ground. Marks will be visible on only. one side of the plant where it was. stopped by a plank of wood. Many of. those marks are creases where you can. actually bend the stalk. Genuine crop. circles don't look like this at all. First, the lay of the pattern will flow. like water. There's a gentleness to it, [music] an elegance. And many times the. stalks are layered and even braided. In. genuine crop circles, most plants aren't. damaged. They'll continue to grow.

horizontally, and then after a few days, return to their vertical position. In. this formation found in May 2005, the. flowers weren't damaged at all. They. were somehow laid down gently. A group of clumsy men with wooden boards. couldn't do this. We know this because. it was tried. A group of crop circle. makers attempted to reproduce this. formation. From the air, it looks pretty. good, but on the ground, the man-made. version is a mess. The plants are. trashed. A formation in 2003 was.

especially puzzling. In parts of the. design, the plants weren't completely. flattened. They were bent a few inches. from the top. It's been described as. like the grooves of a record. How do you. make this with planks and rope? You don't. You don't. Another sign of a genuine. circle can be seen, especially in wheat. In late summer, when wheat turns gold, the kernels become heavy and bend over. from the weight. They also become stiff. and are impossible to straighten. But.

the wheat within a crop circle, the. kernels have straightened out and can't. be bent. [music] So, what would do this? Radiation. Wheat stalks are separated by structures. called apical nodes. These are like the. knuckles on your fingers. In the 1990s, biophysicist William Levengood started. analyzing plants taken from crop. circles. His team found the nodes in. crop circle wheat were elongated, and in. many cases, they were ruptured. Oh, a rupture on an elongated node? I.

think they make a cream for that. This rupture is called an expulsion. cavity. The only way this could be. replicated is with bursts of microwave. radiation. The way your microwave oven. works is [music] it heats up water, fats, and sugar in food. Microwave. energy is heating up the water in the. wheat stalk [music] nodes. The water. turns to steam and then they burst, just. like popcorn. Now, you can't fake this. [music] It happens to the plant. internally. There's there's no way you could hoax. that. People who claim to have witnessed crop. circles being made, and there's quite a.

few witnesses, report seeing a mist over. the pattern immediately after it's. formed. This mist is actually steam. coming from the plants that were flash. heated by microwave radiation. While. experimenting with radiation, Levengood. found crop circle seed had a huge. increase in growth compared to non-crop. circle seed. By exposing seeds to short, controlled bursts of radiation, they. grow bigger and faster than seeds not. exposed to radiation. Another experiment.

showed that wheat harvested from within. a crop circle has a much higher amount. of protein than wheat outside the. circle. So, there's evidence that. whatever energy is used to create crop. formations is leaving residual traces of. this energy in the area. Some crop. formations are covered in a dusting of. microscopic spheres of magnetized iron, specifically meteorite iron. Researchers. call this a magnetic glaze. These. spheres are usually found around the. perimeter of a formation, and they're. distributed linearly, not randomly.

[music]. Because the iron particles are. magnetized perfect spheres, it means. they were melted and formed within a. highly energetic magnetic field. When. people are inside crop formations, many. are affected by electromagnetic. radiation. Just look at this.

As part of an experiment, [music] a. woman with an enlarged thyroid sat in a. crop formation for 2 and 1/2 hours. While being monitored by a doctor, her. thyroid shrunk by [music] 40%. Often. cameras, watches, and other electronic. devices stop working inside a crop. circle. In fact, pregnant women and. people with pacemakers are discouraged. from going near one. Now, to skeptics,

all this talk about energy sounds. woo-woo, but I just showed you the real. effects on plants and people. Now, it's. fair to say that the elongated nodes and. growth rates of wheat could be a. coincidence. It's also fair to say that. the physical reactions experienced by. people could be psychosomatic, all in. their minds. But skeptics, [music] how. do you explain this? These are called ghost formations or. ghost circles. This is when the design. of a crop formation is still visible.

after the field has been plowed. Sometimes a ghost formation remains. through the following season. Sometimes. it remains for 2 years before finally. fading. But this doesn't happen with all crop. formations. Nobody knows why, but it. could have something to do with where. the patterns are found. A study was done. in the early 2000s of all the crop. circles in southern England found that. year. The study showed that 98% of all. non-man-made formations were over chalk. aquifers. And by the way, chalk aquifers.

can be used for generating electricity. Everything keeps pointing back to. electromagnetism. If there's an epicenter for crop. formations in southern England, it's. Silbury Hill. Silbury Hill was built. thousands of years ago. It's 129 ft tall. and covers an area of about 5 acres. Nobody agrees on what it was originally. used for, but every year crop formations. appear near it, sometimes right next to.

it. And by the way, the whole thing is. one giant pile of chalk. Not far from. Silbury Hill is Stonehenge. Crop circles. appear there, too. One of the most. famous of these is called the Stonehenge. surprise. On Sunday, July 7th, 1996, this formation appeared near feet from. Stonehenge. It's been called one of the. most complex and spectacular crop circle. designs ever seen. The design is a Julia. set, a type of fractal. Fractals are. visual representations of mathematic.

formulas that repeat themselves at. different scales. Zoom way in or way. out, the pattern is the same. Look at. how close Stonehenge is to the. formation. Look at the visibility. Stonehenge has 24-hour security. The. guards saw nothing unusual the night. before. Crop formations also appear near. Avebury, which is in the same area. The. Avebury Henge is massive, twice the size. of Stonehenge. Now, a ley line is. believed to be an invisible path or.

energy line that connects sacred sites. Ley lines are thought to create a. network of energy across the Earth, influencing the flow of energy and. aligning with cosmic forces. The area. around Stonehenge is on one of those ley. lines. If crop formations are an attempt. at communication, they're clearly using. mathematic concepts, and this would make. sense. Math is a universal language. But, what do the messages mean? What. story do they tell? Are crop formations. proof of space travel? Do they offer an. explanation for space travel? Are crop.

formations a map? Are they blueprints. for a machine? Well, the answer to all those questions. is yes. Over the years, crop formations got more. and more complex. What started out as. simple circles became patterns like. this. This is the famous Milk Hill. Galaxy spiral found in 2001. The spiral. consists of 409 perfect circles, 1,000. ft across, spread over 700,000 sq ft.

And look at how clean the design is. That's not even flat ground. This. formation is a hard one for skeptics to. deal with. Remember, England is pretty. far north. In the summer, the days are. very, very long. The night the spiral. was made, there was only about 4 hours. of darkness. It would take a huge crew. of people to lay down this pattern in 4. hours. And by the way, it was raining. the night it appeared. You'd think the. field would be full of muddy footprints. by the army of hoaxers it would take to.

make this, but nope. The Milk Hill. spiral is pristine. Fractals are a. common theme with crop formations. Geometric shapes and other expressions. of mathematic functions are also quite. common. Even complex math problems are. expressed. Squaring the circle is a problem in. geometry first proposed in Greek. mathematics. Squaring the circle. involves using a compass and a ruler to. create a square and circle with the same. area. Now, this has been proven. impossible since calculating the area of. a circle requires using pi. And if you.

remember your math lessons, pi is an. irrational number, meaning it can never. be exact. So, you can never get the area. of a circle to equal the area of a. square. But, there are methods that. allow you to get close. And these. methods have been seen in crop. formations for years. Crop formations. often use other mathematic concepts like. the golden ratio and Fibonacci numbers. Here's a formation that when it. appeared, people found very confusing. Then a mathematician solved it. It's a. representation of pi after 10 decimal.

places. The lengths of the arcs. represent each digit. There's even a. decimal point and an indication that the. number continues forever. But, there are. also designs that at first glance look. like geometry, but not exactly right. That's when some researchers had the. idea to stop looking and start. listening. This particular circle. resembles what's called a cymatic. pattern. A cymatic pattern is a shape. that forms when sound waves vibrate a. material like water or sand. Ernst.

Chladni was a German physicist and. musician who documented cymatic. patterns. He proved that different sound. frequencies create different patterns, and these patterns could be predicted. and repeated. Could the builder of this. crop circle be telling us that this. sound frequency has special meaning? If. it does, how do we apply it? Well, let's. look for more clues. In 2011, this. double spiral formation appeared on. Windmill Hill, the location of another. ancient site. The same day, another. double spiral appeared near Stonehenge,

just a few miles away. Dr. Jerry Croth. thought these formations could represent. neutron stars. And although it's very. rare, sometimes neutron stars collide. and form a magnetar. What makes magnetars unique is their. incredibly strong magnetic fields, which. are among the strongest known in the. universe. These magnetic fields are thousands to. billions of times stronger than those of. neutron stars. A magnetar's gravity is.

so strong that it dramatically warps. space-time around it. In theory, this. warping of space-time could lead to an. Einstein-Rosen bridge, better known as a. wormhole. A wormhole, again in theory, can connect two very distant points in. space, essentially creating a shortcut. that allows you to travel to a location. faster than light could get there in a. straight line. Now, I'm aware this is a. lot of in theory and possibly and maybe. regarding these crop formations. After. all, magnetars are so rare that in the.

entire galaxy, only 10 have ever been. found. Well, 11. Because the following day, literally the. day after these crop formations. appeared, a new magnetar appeared. I. don't mean it was always there and was. just discovered. I mean, it wasn't there. yesterday and it's there today. Then in 2022, this crop formation. appears. Two sections of concentric. rings connected by a line. It's been.

theorized that this represents a. wormhole. It shows two points in space. surrounded by warped space-time and then. a portal between. The outer ring. represents the bending of space-time. Now, maybe this crop formation is just a. design with no special meaning, but that. would be rare. Almost all crop. formations have a message or purpose. So, let's assume for fun that all these. messages are puzzle pieces that when the. pieces are fit together, they show proof. of a wormhole and a map of how to get to. it. But, how? How do we do that? Well,

that's the question that electrical. engineer Nikola Romaniuk asked. [music]. Nikola saw this image of a crop circle. that seemed to be meaningless. It didn't. have a recognizable geometry. It wasn't. symmetrical. But, Nikola had an idea. He. brought the shape into his 3D software. and extruded it around the center axis, meaning he spun it around to make a. shape. So, Nikola found more crop. formations and did the same thing. He. rotated the designs around a central. axis to create their shapes in 3D. And.

after a while, he had a collection of. what appeared to be blueprints, instructions on how to create some kind. of machine. So, what did he do? What do you think he did? He built it. Nikola Romaniuk reached out to filmmaker. Charles Maxwell and asked for help. Maxwell was working on a documentary. about crop circles. Nikola needed help. and funding to build his machine. This. machine, he thought, was a vehicle that. ran on zero-point energy, could alter.

gravity, and reach light [music] speed. How could you not build it? So, they. enlisted 3D designers and machinists. They hired electricians and fabricators. It took over 3 years and they finally. had their prototype. No. It didn't work. [music]. Oh. Well, they got some plasma to ignite, but they ran out of money. Oh. The entire process is in the. documentary, which I linked below. The. truth is, whatever they were building. probably wasn't going to work. But, it's. possible that Nikola was onto something. That the secret to zero-point energy, gravity, and space-time all comes down.

to one thing. Spin. Whenever government whistleblowers. describe reverse engineering UFOs, spin. is always a core piece of the. technology. According to Mark. McCandlish, a former aerospace designer, UFO anti-gravity and propulsion are. achieved by rotating liquid mercury. The. infamous Nazi bell-shaped UFO, Die. Glocke, was said to use similar. technology. Bob Lazar talked about. studying element 115 when he worked at. Area 51. E115 is said to power alien.

spacecraft. And when Lazar made those. claims in the 1980s, there was no such. element. But in 2003, E115 was. discovered. A whistleblower came forward. just a few weeks ago. He claims to have. been a military contractor working on. reverse engineering UFOs. He said their. engines use counter-rotating cylinders. with element 115 as the power source. [music]. Russian physicist Nikolai Kozyrev. believed the twisting and spinning of. space-time called torsion was the secret.

to unlocking gravity and unlocking. everything. In 2019, an engineer working. for the US Navy filed a patent for a. plasma compression fusion device. This. is a machine that can generate a. tremendous amount of power, like. terawatts of power, in a small package. The device is about the size of a car, but can put out as much energy as a. nuclear power plant. [music]. If it's real, the energy is clean and. unlimited. His invention is based on. spin. [music]. The scientist is Salvatore Pais, and he.

currently works for the US Space Force. [music]. He's filed quite a few interesting. patents on behalf of the United States. government. Propulsion engines, room. temperature superconductors, [music]. inertial mass reduction devices, and. high-frequency gravitational wave. generators. This may sound like science. fiction, but the US military is taking. these patents very seriously. Every. single one of them is based on spin. Now, I don't know if it's irony or. poetic justice, but it could turn out.

that nature's most mysterious secrets, like gravity, won't be discovered in a. lab. It's possible that unlocking the. secrets of nature. might be done in a field of wheat. Crop circles are a controversial. subject. The history of the crop circle. community, if that's what you want to. call it, is filled with intrigue, lies, and double crosses. Today, if you bring. up crop circles in any mainstream venue, you'll get eye rolls and laughter. But, that wasn't always the case. At one.

time, crop formations were taken. seriously by the media, the government, and the general population. A new type. of science emerged called cereology, named for Ceres, the goddess of. agriculture and grain crops. Journals. were created. Articles about crop. formations were mainstream. Nick Pope. spent over 20 years investigating UFOs. for the British Ministry of Defense. He. said the army started investigating crop. circles in 1985. Then, glyphs started to. appear in southern England in 1989, and. crop formations were becoming complex.

There seemed to be an intelligence at. work. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. asked her cabinet to find out what the. hell was going on. The following summer, Operation Blackbird was launched. Blackbird was a 3-week surveillance. operation with a goal of filming a crop. circle forming in real time. The project. was planned by prominent crop circle. researchers Colin Andrews and Pat. Delgado. It was sponsored by the BBC and. Japanese National Television. Not only. did the project have the blessing of the.

British government, but the crops to be. filmed were on land owned by the. Ministry of Defense. By working with the. MOD, acres of farmland could be cordoned. off to keep out hoaxers and prevent any. genuine crop circles from being trampled. by a curious and excited public. The. military had every inch of the field. covered with cameras. They had night. vision, and even infrared cameras to. detect body heat. If a circle was going. to form, it would definitely be seen. This was a huge event. Millions of. people around the world watched, and.

every day Colin Andrews would appear on. TV and describe the day's events. On day. two, a crop circle appeared and Colin. Andrews went on television and spoke. very enthusiastically about the. discovery. And then everything came. crashing down. The formation was a hoax. Not just a hoax, but an embarrassing. one. The design was crude and placed in. the center of the circle was an. astrology board game. Colin Andrews, a. serious investigator and the face of the. crop circle phenomenon, was humiliated.

Somebody's had a laugh. They've had a. joke. They've actually done none of us. any good, but sets these sort of things. only set the research back. In the span of an afternoon, the field. of crop circle research went from. mainstream science to fringe theory and. it's been there ever since. Hang on. What? If the army had the whole thing blocked. off and covered with cameras, how come. they didn't see nothing? It was a setup. It was a setup. Well, allegedly. Totally a setup. Colin Andrews believes, and I think. there's plenty of evidence to support. his theory, that the army intentionally.

wanted to discredit him and the entire. crop circle phenomenon. That doesn't. mean the military didn't believe in crop. formations. Quite the opposite. At the. same exact time the highly public. Operation Blackbird was going on, the. army was running a secret surveillance. operation a few miles away on Silbury. Hill. In fact, they allegedly had film. of bright orbs flying over the fields. just to the south of the hill. But this. operation only became known later. It. appears that Blackbird was slight of. hand. Get the public focused on.

Blackbird while the real operation took. place a few miles away. Even now, when. crop circles or glowing orbs appear, it's not uncommon for military. helicopters to show up. Not only do the. helicopters patrol the area, but they'll. also chase the orbs around the. countryside. Clearly, the military. believes that crop formations are. something more than simple hoaxes. But. after the Blackbird fiasco, none of this. mattered. Crop circles were debunked and. Colin Andrews became a fringe character. Colin's partner, Pat Delgado, was so.

disheartened by the Blackbird hoax that. he retired and gave up his research. Sounds like deep state wins again, huh? But that's not the end of the story. Go on. Colin Andrews may have become fringe in. the public's eye, but he was a serious. investigator, and crop circles were a. real phenomenon. Even without mainstream. support, he continued his work, and. plenty of people supported him. Believers in crop circles were now. fringe believers, but they still. believed. This could be a problem for. the government. They couldn't allow crop.

circles back into the mainstream. So, British intelligence began a. disinformation campaign. And to help. them spread disinformation, they brought. in the best. CIA. CIA. In his 1999 book, Cosmic Top. Secret: The Unseen Agenda, author John. King got Colin Andrews to sit for an. interview. Colin knew that the only way. hoaxers could get onto that field during. Blackbird was if it was an inside job. When Colin made the announcement that a. crop circle appeared, he hadn't even.

seen it yet. It was pitch [music] black. He was pressured to make the. announcement, so he did. He didn't. report what he had seen with his own. eyes. He reported what was described to. him by the army. As soon as the sun came. up, he knew it was a hoax, but there was. nothing he could do. He had a deal with. the military that they would provide. people, equipment, and land, but he had. to cooperate with them. Ah, big mistake. You shake hands with. the military industrial complex, you're. making a deal with the devil. Yep. According to Colin, phase one of the. disinformation campaign was to debunk.

crop circles with Operation Blackbird. Phase two was Doug and Dave, who showed. up a year later. Doug Bower and Dave. Chorley admitted to being the makers of. crop circles, and to this day, that's. the official explanation. Colin doesn't. think they're part of the intelligence. community, but he believes they were. used by and compensated by people in the. IC. They were paid? Oh, yeah, they were paid thousands of. dollars for their story. We know this. for a fact because they were only paid. half up front. They had to sue for the. other half. Deal with the devil.

Next came phase three. A freelance. journalist named Jim Schnabel arrived on. the scene. According to Colin Andrews, Schnabel was CIA. Now, James Schnabel. was not an official CIA officer, but he. certainly could have been an agent. If. you search his name in the CIA database, you'll get plenty of hits. And. Schnabel's name is always connected to. paranormal like crop circles and remote. viewing. Anyway, Schnabel was conducting. private interviews with everyone. involved with Blackbird and with other. crop circle researchers. He was driving.

wedges between people, misquoting them, and pushing the narrative that crop. circles were debunked. Colin Andrews. became convinced of Schnabel's CIA. involvement during a spooky. conversation. Schnabel had recorded and. read to Colin the details of private. conversations Colin had one evening. while sitting in his car alone. And. Colin Andrews has other evidence that he. was being bugged and surveilled. It has. to do a lot with invoices and stuff, and. I'll link below if you want the. specifics. Uh, he literally has the receipts. He has the receipts.

And look, it's very, very common for the. CIA to use journalists as assets, more. common than people think. People talk to. journalists, so they're useful at. collecting intel. And people listen to. journalists, so they're great at. spreading disinformation. You may have. heard about Operation Mockingbird. This. was a project where over 400 American. journalists were working as direct. [music] assets for the CIA. Carl. Bernstein exposed how at least 10. journalists and editors at The New York. Times were CIA operatives for years.

[music]. And this is still happening right now, and I can prove it. But covering that. and Operation Mockingbird is a full. episode. And if you'd like to hear the. whole story, let me know in the. comments. Now, whatever your favorite. newspaper is or your favorite news. channel is, assume 10% of editors, reporters, and media personalities are. working for the CIA or FBI in some. capacity. Yes, it's that many. Well, JFK warned us this would happen. He certainly did. Colin Andrews. remembers a direct approach from a CIA.

operative. He met a man who claimed to. have seen a crop circle being formed. while he was out one night studying. foxes. Oh, sexy broads. No, actual foxes. Ah. The man used the story as a way of being. accepted in the crop circle scene. People got used to seeing him around. Well, a few weeks later, this man knocks. on Colin's door. They go for a walk and. the man asked Colin tons of questions. about crop circles, their locations, what he thinks they are, and on and on. But, Colin started to get annoyed when. the man was asking if he knew if the.

Russians were involved. At the end of. their talk, the man tells Colin, "You're. one of us now.". I said, "What do you mean?". And he said, and this sounds even funny. coming out of my mouth, but he said, "CIA.". The man told Colin that there was a. large amount of money waiting for him in. a Swiss bank account. All he had to do. was state publicly that crop circles. were a hoax. Colin could go on. researching circles all he wanted. The. CIA would help him become the number one. crop circle expert in the world. They. would give him special equipment. They. would give him a staff. They would give.

him a budget. But, when he came across a. real crop formation, he was to call this. man and nobody else. Colin Andrews. passed on this offer, but the man. harassed him with phone calls for a. while after that. Soon the calls became. so threatening that Colin contacted the. British Ministry of Defense, but they. said there was nothing they could do. What what? Well, they said it was out of their. jurisdiction. Oh, is he in England? Yep. That is a bunch of bull. Yeah, Colin was annoyed, but after a. short time the call stopped. Eventually,

Colin Andrews moved to the US. And here. he was approached by Pentagon analyst. who introduced him to a writer named. Rosemary Ellen Guiley. You might know. her name from her many appearances on. the Coast to Coast radio show. She wrote. 49 books and even hosted her own radio. show all about the paranormal. Collins. said Rosemary went to, in his words, every extreme to try and convince him to. co-author a book with her. And she. wanted to work on the book in his. office, which would give her access to. Colin Andrews' entire database on crop.

circles going back 30 years. She was. persistent, but he turned her down. Colin is convinced, without a doubt, that Rosemary Guiley was a CIA asset. Again, Rosemary Guiley was the perfect. candidate for an intelligence asset, especially since she was a regular guest. on Coast-to-Coast, where she would be. heard by millions of people. She would. be allowed to continue her work in any. way she wanted, but from time to time. she would be instructed to disseminate. information provided by the intelligence. community. It's more common than you. think. So yeah, Rosemary Guiley was the.

perfect asset. Uh I can't help but notice you're uh. you're speaking about her in the past. tense. Yeah, she died in 2019 at the age of 69. Yeah, that's that's kind of young to. die, isn't it? Isn't it? There's another crop circles character. with an interesting story. John Lundberg is an English artist and. documentary filmmaker who founded the. website circlemakers.org in the early. '90s. He's responsible, or claims to be. responsible, for some of the more. elaborate crop formations that have been. found over the years. On the.

circlemakers website, which is still. around, there are links to the many crop. formations that the group takes credit. for. There's no doubt that the. circlemakers created complicated and. often very beautiful crop formations. But crop circle researchers Robert Hulse. and David A. Cayton think there's more. to John than meets the eye. But in our opinion, the the whole. circlemakers website and. Lundberg and Co. are all part of a. disinformation. campaign, possibly funded by government.

Robert Hulse said at one time the. circlemakers website had a recruiting. link that took you directly to the. recruitment page for MI5, British. military intelligence. Paul believes. that the Circlemakers group is funded by. British intelligence and was. specifically created to spread this. information. Paul believes the. Circlemakers' goal is to muddy the. waters and confuse serious crop circle. researchers to make it as difficult as. possible to determine what was and.

wasn't a genuine crop formation. Now, there's no hard evidence that the. Circlemakers or its founder are. connected to military intelligence. But. in 2009, researcher Richard D. Hall dug. into Lundberg's background and found a. lot of interesting information. Lundberg. got his master's from the Slade School. of Fine Art in London in 1992. At this. time, Slade was next door to the then. secret headquarters of MI5 at 140 Gower. Street. It was literally next door. The. two buildings shared a courtyard. Paul. makes the point that intelligence.

agencies often recruit final year. college students. That's always been. true and is still true today. Lundberg. started making crop circles immediately. after graduating. Paul notes that if you view the HTML. source of circlemakers.org, the second keyword is MI5. Now, that was. in 2009, but even today, the site's. keywords contain entries like MI5 and. CIA. And something I just noticed while. researching this episode, why is alleged. CIA asset Jim Schnabel a keyword on this.

site? In 2004, the Circlemakers website. teased Colin Andrews, who at the time. was raising money for his research. Circlemakers said that if the. fundraising fails, Colin could just join. MI5 psyops and retrain to be a crop. circles maker. Now, psyops is short for. psychological operations, which is the. use of psychological techniques and. tactics to influence the perceptions, attitudes, and behaviors of a group. people. And this is a type of strategic. communication used by military.

intelligence and government. organizations all the time. It sure is. Just turn on the news. Well, that's true. If you spent an hour. reading the news today, you consumed. government intel. Believe me. Now, Hall acknowledges that these. references to MI5 seem just too blatant, but he believes they're a double bluff. Meaning, if we sarcastically connect. ourselves to the intelligence community, people will think we're joking. Nobody. would be so obvious. But this is. absolutely a real and effective psyops. technique. Hall found that the website.

was hosted in Pittsburgh. Now, at the. time, and even today, to some degree, it's uncommon for British organizations. to host their sites in the US. And Hall. found that the administrative contact. for the domain belongs to a colonel in. the US Air Force. Now, it could be a. coincidence, but the man has an unusual. name. Now, I'm not going to name him. here, but I'll link to Hall's research. down below. Richard Hall looked into. Circle Makers finances, trying to figure. out how they pay their bills. Lundberg. had registered a couple of companies, but they were inactive. But there was an.

interesting quote on the Circle Makers. website. You'd be surprised how expensive running. a successful website can be. Don't. panic. We're not going to ask you for. money. Our retainer, from sources we'd. rather not disclose, has kept our. virtual head above water. What does that mean? A retainer? From. who? Who's financing them? Making crop. formations is technically a crime. It's. trespassing, vandalism, destruction of. private property. What investor would. fund that and become complicit in those. crimes? Plus, there could be civil.

liability. If you create a crop circle. and a bunch of strangers show up and. tear up my field, I could sue you for. that. Even if they're minor crimes and. rarely prosecuted, it doesn't sound like. a good investment. Hall did a land. registry check on the apartment where. Lundberg was living at the time. He. found that technically, there are no. apartments listed on the deed. Hall dug. further and found that there are four. apartments, including Lundberg's, that. have their rents paid by the local. government. So, did Richard Hall reveal. that John Lundberg is in fact an asset.

working in media whose job is to spread. disinformation about crop circles? Well, the evidence Hall provides is purely. circumstantial and coincidental, so. there's no way to know for sure. In. fact, some of Hall's evidence is so. far-fetched I left [music] it out of. this episode. But, a few years after. Richard Hall conducted his research, Lundberg directed a documentary. A. documentary that I've referred to. multiple times on this channel. It's. called Mirage Men. Mirage Men covers. Richard Doty, a retired [music] special. agent who worked for OSI, the United.

States Air Force Office of Special. Investigation, Air Force Intelligence. Richard Doty is, according to Mirage. Men, one of the chief architects of the. military's campaign to disseminate lies. to the UFO community. In other words, to. spread disinformation. Doty's job was to. muddy the waters so UFO researchers. wouldn't know what sightings were real. and what were hoaxes. Now, this is, according to Hall, Hall's, Cain, and. many others, exactly what the circle. makers have done and have been doing to.

the crop circles community for years. There's a reason why John Lundberg would. make a great intelligence asset. And. Rosemary Guiley, and James Schnabel, and. countless other writers, journalists, and media figures. They already work in. the paranormal community. They're. trusted by that community. They continue. to do their work, but every so often. they spread a little bit of. disinformation to that community. A. little nugget to steer people away from. the truth. This is why you shouldn't. trust anyone in the media. Whether it's. your favorite news anchor, TV show host,

podcaster, blogger, or writer, be wary. of anyone with influence. These media. personalities may seem trustworthy. They. may seem like they have your best. interests in mind, but some of that is. just a performance. Not all of it, but. some of it is a performance designed to. sway your opinion, or even alter your. entire belief system. The intelligence. community does not want you to know the. truth about crop circles, UFOs, secret. space programs, or alien technology. That's a fact. Millions, perhaps.

billions of dollars are put into black. budget programs designed to distract and. confuse you from the truth. When CIA. needs to spread [music] disinformation, they look for trustworthy people with. large audiences to deliver their. message. So, keep your eye out for. clues. An intelligence operative, an. agent, an asset could be. anyone. Thanks so much for hanging out with us. today. My name is A.J. You know.

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