- One of the first documented reports of a crop circle
formation - the unexplained geometric designs that occur in fields of wheat
and corn - appeared in 1678 Stirlingshire, Scotland. But this phenomenon
was largely ignored until the 1970s and 80s when formations began to appear
with increasing frequency around the globe. Today most countries - with
the exception of China - are said to have experienced crop circle phenomena.
Yet is China really devoid of these unusual creations? Certainly, if someone
or something is trying to communicate with mankind through patterns carved
into crops, China's sizable population could not be ignored.
Western experts have obviously failed to carefully consider the data from
this country. One only has to refer to the work of Zhang Hui, a research
fellow at the Xinjiang Museum in Urumqi, to find evidence that suggests
China - with its long history - experienced crop circle phenomena long
before any other civilization on the planet.
Zhang claims to have harvested more than 20 stone patterns appearing to
match crop circle formations from other countries, but pre-dating them
by up to 3,000 years.
- After discovering several of these stone circle patterns,
which range from simple circles to more elaborate shapes, in the grasslands
of Qinghe County beside the Sino-Mongolian border, Zhang was intrigued.
He quickly headed to Beijing to consult Chinese translations of reference
works by British crop circle experts.
He was amazed by the similarities.
Zhang believes the primitive people of the region, after witnessing the
formation of actual crop circles, concluded that the designs were a form
of communication from the gods and responded in kind to the divine messages
by placing rocks in the shape of the circles.
For Zhang, these stone arrangements prove China has experienced crop circle
phenomena - possibly more recently than imagined.
According to Zhang, one rare eyewitness described seeing a crop circle
appear in a Northeast China field in only a short time while he was in
the company of Red Guards. However, as the event occurred during the "cultural
revolution" (1966-76), when such superstition was illegal, the account
went undocumented.
- If crop circles are an attempt at communication from
an unknown source, then what is this source and who is supposed to receive
the message?
Humans, being ego-centric creatures, naturally assume the messages hidden
in the crop circles are meant for mankind. But what about the other species
inhabiting our planet. As in Douglas Adam's novel, "So long and thanks
for all the fish" - where dolphins were actually alien observers studying
the human race as a psychologist studies rats in a maze - humans may not
be the most advanced species on the earth.
Possibly, the messages are meant for the legions of cockroach species which
inhabit the darker corners of our daily life. After all, following mankind's
inevitable self-destruction in a nuclear holocaust, cockroaches will be
the only creatures left alive.
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