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David
Kingston is one of the country's leading UFO and Crop Circle reasearchers.
Below is an article he wrote in 1998 exploring the history of crop
circles and some of the facts are his first experiences of crop
circles, and some of the facts which he says are irrefutable.
The
History of Crop Circles
by
David Kingston
1998
"I
have been researching the Crop Circle phenomena since I saw my first
one in 1976. I had been on a "night watch" for UFO’s on Clay Hill
in Warminster.
Three
separate orbs of approximately six feet in diameter of coloured
light had been weaving around and above us for some three hours
on the top of Clay Hill, merging at times into a single globe and
then separating again above us.
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| David
Kingston, at the site of a UFO sighting in Dorset in 1998
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Suddenly
one of the orbs descended to some thirty feet above us and then
flew down into a field at the base of Clay Hill.
As dawn broke I noticed a flattened circle in a field of wheat.
On
inspection there were no broken stalks just a perfectly flattened
circle some thirty feet in diameter.
At
that particular point in time I had seen and had knowledge of the
famous "Tulley UFO Nests" in 1966 in Australia but had not heard
of anything of a similar nature in this country.
There
then appeared to be a lapse in the appearances of any Crop Circles
despite my search and request for any information on them until
the early 1980’s.
In
my search and research for them during that period of time I uncovered
a mention of them in early French literature.
The
Bishop of Lyon at that time had written to the local parish priest
who was taking over his parish just outside of Lyon.
The
contents of the manuscript were basically to warn the new priest
that there had been "devil worship" by his local parishioners who
were collecting seeds out of "flattened circles" and using them
for fertility rites.
I spoke
to quite a few farmers who remembered seeing "odd shapes" in their
fields or their parent’s fields when they themselves were young
but no real proof.
I uncovered
information from a second world war pilot who had been returning
to RAF Tangmere after an aerial reconnaissance mission over Germany,
as he approached the grass runway at his base he saw two flattened
circles in the nearby growing cereal crop and photographed them
not knowing what they were.
I tried
in vain to locate these two black and white photographs, which the
pilot remembered were handed on the aerial reconnaissance film but
once again to no avail.
The
pilot remembers seeing the film with the German aerial photographs
and the two crop circles on it at his debrief which were then sent
to the Air Ministry Intelligence at Whitehall.
During
the early 1980’s there were simple circles appearing in cereal crops
ranging in sizes from ten to thirty feet in diameter but as we moved
into the latter half of the eighties more complex shapes started
to form which generated a lot of media attention.
We
had a definite evolution happening with the Crop Circle Formations
or Crop Glyphs as they were called and lots of theories being put
forward as to the causes ranging from meteorological effects, military
experiments through to UFO’s and encounters of the human kind.
They
were, and do not only appear during the hours of darkness, they
were and still do not only appear in just summer cereal crops, but
in grass, stinging nettles, winter crops such as beet and kale,
sugar cane, underwater in rice paddy fields in Japan, in the snow
13,000ft up in the mountains in Afghanistan, in fact world wide,
not just restricted to Southern England as quite a few people believed
such as the two famous Doug and Dave.
These
two hoaxers had claimed to have made all the crop circles in England
since 1980; little did they know then the extent of the formations.
Yes,
each year we do have formations that are man made, this is in no
dispute with any of the researchers, but this does not account for
remaining ones for which there appears to be no logical explanation.
With
my investigations into the UFO enigma since the 1950’s I felt, and
still do, that there is a link and in 1988 I started up my own research
unit called Crop Phenomena Investigations.
Since
that period I have been working with several institutes including
the famous Dr. William Levengood’s laboratory in America.
He
is a biophysicist and with his team carries out research on all
samples sent to him from around the world that are taken out of
Crop Circle Formations including the ones from this country.
He
has had his research papers published in several scientific journals
worldwide.
What
do we really know about the formations?
FACT:
We know from the scientific research that I am involved
in that they are (the genuine formations) formed by an energy, which
has the ability to alter the molecular structure of the plant without
damaging it and the ability to alter the growth rate and pattern.
This same energy has produced numerous photographic anomalies.
FACT:
There is a distortion in the earth’s electromagnetic
field, sometimes a ghost image a short distance from the original
formation.
FACT:
Spheres of light have been recorded on film in the formations,
also military helicopters seen flying over these spheres apparently
taking quite a keen interest in them.
FACT:
The energy involved appears to be benign and to my knowledge
is not used on this planet.
FACT:
Some formations radiate a frequency at approximately
7.5hz in the electromagnetic spectrum but this can vary from formation
to formation.
Many researchers and BBC Television whilst filming in a formation
have recorded it.
I, recently using the aid of a computer and a specialised programme,
have discovered that these beautiful creations of art in the fields
are capable of producing the most unusual sounds and music.
FACT: This same frequency has
been picked up many times in close proximity to UFO sightings.
FACT:
Despite several ploughings after the crop has been harvested
the shape of the formation has remained, in some cases, in the soil
for at least six months. This cannot be achieved by "crop formations"
made by humans.
FACT:
In some of the formations, compasses rotate at will
denoting a magnetic anomaly present, camcorders, cell phones and
other battery run equipment have displayed a discharged battery
state when this is not the case.
FACT:
Crops outside of the formation does not display the
same characteristics changes in cell structure as the crop found
inside.
FACT: There is no level of
consistency, in some formations we have the sound factor, the magnetic
anomalies, photographic anomalies and the lasting impressions in
the soil but this is not to say you will find one or all of these
in the next formation you visit but it can still turn out to be
part of the genuine article.
FACT: If no human being goes
into a formation the crop will continue to grow and the farmer will
not lose any crop, only possibly what the birds will eat by the
downed seeds.
FACT: Farmers have combined
the formations from their fields to avoid damage by the members
of the public when they have occurred only to find another one appear
a short distance away the following day.
FACT:
Each year human beings causing untold criminal damage
to crops create a large number of formations, approximately 80%,
and my sincere sympathy goes out to the landowners.
I just
wish more landowners would prosecute these criminal vandals.
Scientific
papers have been recently released on the research carried out by
Dr. William Levengood and are available to the general public for
a small fee to cover the costs of package & postage from the United
States of America.
I have
the research laboratory's address on my web site.
Lucy
Pringle, a fellow researcher, has carried out over the past seven
years the physical and physiological effects the formations have
had on human beings.
So
what are we left with?
Beautiful
geometric patterns in the fields, which defy our laws of logic,
physics and reasoning but none the less keep appearing world wide.
This
does not include the large number that are man-made. They appear
to have a very spiritual, profound effect on all who visit or research
them; perhaps if nothing else this is their reason.
Like
the UFO scenario, there have been cover-ups with the Crop Circle
Formations, they are a mystery which one day mankind will know,
for the truth is out there, if you know where to look."
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