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Is there a God? What is the meaning of life?
Where do we go when we die? These are the
types of questions which have enamored and perplexed humans across
generations and locales. But perhaps no query holds a place
of prominence on this list, quite like the age old
question are we alone in the universe? For many people,
it seems impossible that Earth would be the only place
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in the universe with intelligent life. Just think about it.
There may be more earth like planets out there than
grains of sand on our entire planet. But if there
is other intelligent life out there, if aliens do exist,
how could they contact us? And if they did, how
could we be expected to understand each other across what
would presumably be vastly different languages or modes of communication.
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There is, of course, at least one universal language in
the universe, the language of mathematics. Perhaps aliens could use
math in an attempt to communicate with human beings on Earth.
Perhaps they already have. On the morning of January nineteenth,
nineteen sixty six, an Australian banana farmer named George Pedley
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was driving his tractor, as he did every morning, through
the horseshoe Lagoon region of Tully, Australia. Suddenly, a loud,
hissing noise pierced the air, nearly knocking Pedley from his seat. Frightened,
he watched as a strange gray object some twenty five
feet long, rose from the lagoon and sped off into
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the sky. Examining the area from which the object had appeared,
Pedley found a circle of flattened reeds he described as
a nest. Oddly, the reeds were not simply bent over,
but physically uprooted from the lagoon, somehow floating on the
surface of the water in a swirling mat. The next day,
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Pedley brought the police to the site to show them
what he'd found. In no time, the local press had
taken note of the story. Sightseers and curious onlookers flocked
to the area, discovering as they did a number of
similar nests scattered throughout the lagoon. The mystery would go unexplained, though,
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even though the Royal Australian Air Force noted that during enquiries,
a number of local residents stated that the reported nests
are fairly common during the onset of the wet season. Incredibly,
this story was not even the most bizarre of its
kind in Australia that year. Months later, over two hundred
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staff and students at a high school in Melbourne witnessed
a large disc about twice the size of a car,
not entirely dissimilar to that described by Pedley, flying through
the sky outside their school in the middle of the day.
Before flying off and disappearing into the horizon, the disc
landed on the ground in the distance. When students ran
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to the spot, they found a large circle of flattened
and twisted grass, what Pedley may have described as a nest.
More bizarre, though, was what happened in the days and
weeks that followed the incident. According to witnesses, the area
where the disc had landed was immediately cordoned off by
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the military. Many students were visited by men in black
suits who warned them against speaking about the incident. In fact,
the school's headmaster was apparently so scared and disturbed that
he told students they would be severely punished and staff
that they would be fired if they talked about the
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incident at all. Even the local media's footage covering the
story has mysteriously disappeared from their archives. If there was
a cover up. It worked, The story faded from memory
and the world went on pleasantly unaware of Australia's mysterious nests.
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That is until the late nineteen seventies, when a series
of strange circular patterns started to appear in farmers fields
across the countryside in England, eerily similar to those in
Australia a decade before. These mysterious crop circles, as they
came to be known, appeared overnight, oftentimes spanning many hundreds
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of feet in diameter. Shocking and inexplicable as they were,
this was not the first time they had been seen
on Earth. As far back as the sixteen hundreds, art
depicting circles being cut in fields of oat, representing a
legend known as Devil's mowing, the ominous titles suggesting an
unexplained other worldly origin. By the late eighteen hundreds, crop
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circles were being discussed in detail in the highly respected
Nature Journal. The appearance of these crop circles became prevalent
in England in the nineteen seventies and only grew more
frequent through the eighties and nineties. To this day, crop
circles appear with regularity all over the world. But what
are they, these great masterpieces of mystery and intrigue? Where
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did they come from? And what could they mean? Could
they really be from mysterious flying objects from extraterrestrial visitors.
At first, scientists tried to explain the formation of crop
circles as the result of unusual wind patterns. Several scientists
even suggested they were a result of the particularly vigorous
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sexual activity of hedgehogs. Then in nineteen ninety one, an
answer presented itself. It was all a hoax. Two men,
Doug Bower and his co conspirator Dave Chorley, colloquially known
as Doug and Dave, came forward and revealed that, in
what started as a drunken prank, they had been the
ones creating crop circles. They explained that they did so
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by using a stock stumper, quite simply a rope tied
at both ends to a board, used by holding the rope,
putting a foot on the board, and physically stomping the
crops down in a circular pattern. Immediately it was declared
that the mystery had been solved, the magicians having revealed
their magic trick, and fortunately for those inherently dismissive of
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a so called conspiracy theory. Like crop circles, it was
not quite so simple. Shortly after dug and Dave introduced
the stock stumper to the world, one scientist ventured to
actually study the stocks which had purportedly been stopped. His
name was William Leavenwood, a well respected biophysicist and the
author of over fifty peer reviewed papers and six patents. Curiously,
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in plants taken from the crop circle areas, Leavenwood found
a series of significant anomalies, strangely elongated plant nodes, seed
cavities totally devoid of seeds, and expulsion cavities blown open
at the nodes. Obviously, these types of things do not
happen to plants when someone steps on them with the board.
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In leven Goood's own words, the affected plants have components
which suggest the involvement of rapid air movement, ionization, electric fields,
and transient high temperatures combined with an oxidizing atmosphere. Leven
Goood's discoveries led some to speculate that crop circles could
have been made by individuals using some sort of microwave emitter,
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which would superheat the stem of the plant and cause
it to fall over. But then another layer was added
to the intrigue thanks to a study on the soil
where crop circles had appeared. Astoundingly, the study found that
the clay minerals contained within the soil had somehow crystallized,
a phenomenon previously only seen in sedimentary rock which had
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been exposed to massive geologic pressure over the course of
hundreds or thousands of years. It made no scientific sense
that this crystallization would be found under a crop circle.
Even if the requisite geologic pressure had somehow existed, and
even if it had somehow acted to form a crop circle,
the pressure would have obliterated the crops, while if pressure
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was replaced by the kind of heat required to encourage crystallization,
that is six hundred to eight hundred degrees celsius for
a period of many hours, the crops would surely have
been incinerated. Perhaps it had been something else, something related
to electric fields and transient high temperatures, as leaven Gooods surmised.
It is important to note that these characteristics studied by
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leven Goood are not found at every crop circle site.
That is to say, some crop circles are literally tramped
down by a person with a rope and a board.
But that's just the point. Some, not all, even the
most skeptical of scientists, would likely admit that there are
a number of crop circle sites exhibiting characteristics which defy
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modern scientific understanding. In other words, while crop circles were
proven to be a hoax in the early nineties, since
then the scientific community has said, not so fast, and
it goes far beyond the structure of the crops or
the composition of the soil. In nineteen seventy four, famed
American scientist Carl Sagan oversaw the broadcast of the so
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called Arecibo Message into space, the goal to contact extraterrestrial
life with the most powerful radio waves ever produced by humans.
The broadcast included information about the Earth's location, the appearance
and DNA of human beings, as well as core principles
of our mathematics and science. It was an ambitious, if
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outlandish project. After all, what chance was there really of
receiving a response? What chance? Indeed, twenty seven years later,
a crop circle appeared in Chilbolton, England, next to the
UK's largest telescope and observatory, which appeared to be a
depiction of the face on Mars photograph. This was interesting
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enough on its own, but days later, something even more
mind blowing appeared. There in the same field appeared a
crop circle described as a dead ringer for Sagan's nineteen
seventy four message. It was formatted in the same way
and seemed to respond to the information originally broadcast into space,
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detailing a different solar system. The appearance of the sender
an information on non human DNA. Some described it quite
simply as the ultimate response we could have hoped for.
But wait, if Sagan's message had received a response, who
or what could have done such a thing? Could it
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really have been some sort of alien race? Some have suggested.
The answer to this question was revealed through the appearance
of another crop circle in Italy in twenty eleven. There,
in the small town of Porino, a crop circle emerged
which depicted a seven pointed star. Contained in the design
was a code which seemed to identify its creator as
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somebody named Aenki. This is not a random or inconsequential name.
Aenki is the name of an ancient Sumerian god, a
precursor to Aquarius. More importantly, Aenki was, according to some,
the leader of an ancient group of aliens called the Anaki,
who visited Earth long ago. Thinkers like Zechariah Sitchin and
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Eric von Donnikin have asserted that these Anunaki colonized Earth
some five hundred thousand years ago, genetically engineering human beings
as a slave race. Perhaps it is the Ononaki who
are now contacting humans, announcing through crop circles the impending
return of Anki. As Sitchin has stated, the zodiacal cycle
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returns to exactly the same spot every twenty five thousand,
nine hundred and twenty years, so we are now leaving
the age of Pisces. Ankee was the prototype god of Aquarius.
Whether this means that it is all going to happen again,
that Ankie is coming back, I don't know. There are
a lot of signaling and signs that all point in
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that direction. If human beings were enslaved by the Onanaki before,
then why not again. However, there is another side to
the story, another angle to the Oninaki legend. Many believe
that this alien race has in the past provided humans
with advanced technology and knowledge. That this in fact, explains
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seemingly impossible structures like the Pyramids or Stonehenge. With this
in mind, look again at the seven pointed star crop circle,
which appeared in Italy. As researcher Michael Lee Hill pointed out,
in the world of geometry and frequency, a seven pointed
star is crucially related to four hundred and thirty two hertz.
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Consider a simatic image of a frequency exactly four octaves
below four hundred and thirty two hertz appears as a
seven pointed star identical to that found in Italy. Significantly,
four hundred and thirty two herts is known as the
magic number, the natural frequency of the universe. Because of this,
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it has been suggested that the appearance of a seven
pointed star crop circle is a coded message. But what
sort of coded message? A prominent Native American elder named
Bear Cloud has cryptically suggested, when scientists learned that the
seven pointed star has a forward progression and recreates itself
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infinitely as a whole unit, there will be huge leaps
in the progress of man. Meanwhile, Hill's research into the
Italian crop circle produced a more concise message. Somebody is
trying to tell us something. If I had to guess
it's to show that four hundred thirty two hertz equals energy.
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Italy was not the first nor the last time it
appeared that somebody was trying to tell us something through
crop circles. In fact, some would say that over the years,
crop circles have revealed many secrets. In the mid afternoon
on July seventh, nineteen ninety six, a commercial pilot was
flying his normal route over the Stonehenge monument in Wiltshire, England.
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This was not an unusual occurrence. Many companies offer aerial
tours of Stonehenge to tourists. The pilot reached his destination
and turned around, passing the same spot about forty five
minutes later. What he saw stunned him. There in the field,
directly across the highway from Stonehenge was a huge centipede
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like geometric pattern, dozens individual circles, which had not been
there when he had flown over less than an hour prior.
How is this possible, he wondered. Stonehenge security was on
duty twenty four seven and tourists were everywhere. Anyone walking
into the field with an armful of equipment in broad
daylight would surely have been spotted and stopped. Even more incredibly,
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a closer examination by experts revealed that the centipede like
pattern was not just any random design. In fact, it
represented a mathematical pattern called the Julia set. This went
far beyond the actions and abilities of hoaxers looking for
a laugh. Whomever or whatever had created these crop circles
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possessed a deep understanding of complex mathematics. But the Julia
set would only be the start, only the tip of
the proverbial iceberg. In the years that followed, crop circles
appeared in rapid succession, which provided examples of advanced mathematics
or complex physics. In two thousand ten, a three hundred
foot design appeared in a field in England, which, once decoded,
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revealed a mathematical formula called Euler's identity, known as the
most beautiful and profile mathematical equation in the world. Two
years before that, a coded image had appeared in the
same area, which represented the first ten digits of pie.
But it goes back further. In two thousand, NASA scientists
Alan Holt visited Wiltshire, England, the location of many crop
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circle appearances, to examine the phenomenon tongue planted firmly in cheek.
Holt put out the thought in a crop picture, somewhat
as a test, but really a request that he would
like to see a crop pictogram appear which could provide
some insight into the direction he should pursue in his
advanced transport and field physics research activities. Incredibly, two days later,
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in a field near him, crop circles appeared which revealed
a detailed diagram of a magnetic field near a bar magnet,
ask and ye shall receive it appeared. In fact, between
nineteen ninety seven and two thousand and nine, no less
than five crop circle appearances showed compleat diagrams of twisted
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vortexes representing the side and top views of a magnetic field,
while others displayed mechanical routers or the field lines of
an electric charge. Then crop circles appeared, which revealed detailed
blueprints for magnetic motors. What could this possibly mean? This
continued appearance of complex mathematics and electromagnetic diagrams in crop
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circles around the world for centuries, Human scientists have suggested
reaching out to intelligent life in the universe through mathematics
as far back as the eighteen hundreds, famed German mathematician
Karl Goss suggested that trees should be planted in the
Siberian forest in a way which displayed the Pythagorean theorem,
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while at the same time Austrian astronomer Joseph von Littre
suggested kerosene filled trenches in the Sahara Desert displaying geometric shapes.
If humans have come to this conclusion, then it would
probably be safe to assume other forms of intelligen that
life have done so as well. Perhaps they have already
tried just such a method. Could it be that crop
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circles are in fact a form of this extraterrestrial messaging,
similar to a forest displaying the Pythagorean theorem. As early
as nineteen ninety one, in a book written by Alec
Bartholomew entitled Crop Circles Harbingers of World Change, the idea
that crop circles could be messages from non human intelligence
was being discussed. Bartholomew asked, if crop circles were messages,
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what were they trying to convey. In the book, British
historian and noted psychic Isabel Kingston professed that crop circles
might contain a blueprint for a new form of energy
that would one day be unraveled by scientists. It may
have seemed far fetched at the time, but after decades
of increasingly complex mathematical patterns and electromagnetic diagrams appearing in
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crop circles, there are many who now believe Bartholomew and
Kingston may have been onto some. Some assert that crop
circles are extraterrestrial messages to humanity, blue prints for new
futuristic technology designed to help humans move to the next
level of their existence, that hidden within the diagrams of
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magnetic fields and motors are the secrets to a new
form of unlimited energy. A particularly poignant example of this
may have come in twenty eleven, when a crop circle
revealed the designs for a magnetic flywheel invented by self
taught American engineer ed Lead Scalon way back before World
War Two. Lead Skellon and his flywheel would have been
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a totally unremarkable reference but for the fact that he
was the creator of Coral Castle, a monument in Florida
made of over one thousand tons of coral. Little is
known about how leads Scallon constructed this monument. Apparently he
did it by himself and in the dead of night.
When asked for an explanation, he said, I understand the
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laws of weight and leverage and know the secrets of
people who built the pyramids at Giza in Egypt long ago.
With this cryptic answer, the speculation became that leads Scalin
had used some sort of magnetic levitating device to move
the stone. Speculation expanded further when, after lead Scalin's death,
strange remnants of what appeared to be an electromagnetic device
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were found in a chamber beneath Coral Castle, wires wrapped
around bottles, piles of magnets and chains. Could it be
that leads Skelenin had discovered the secrets of electromagnetic energy
known previously by those who constructed the pyramids as he suggested,
and used it to create Coral Castle, And if so,
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is it possible a diagram for his magnetic wheel appeared
as a crop circle to draw attention to this fact.
Similar questions can be asked of the many other examples
over the past few decades of crop circles revealing magnetic
motors and diagrams. In fact, they are being asked. Since
at least two thousand and eight, the Italian inventor Umberto
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Boudo has been using crop circles as inspiration and blueprint
for an invention he believes will provide unlimited free energy.
Boudo asserts that crop circles are the maximum expression of
a message, because through an image you can communicate much
more than with words without any doubt, especially if the
message is addressed to someone that does not speak our language.
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And what is the message which is being communicated in
these crop circles? Quite simply, According to Bowdo, since two
thousand and eight, I realized that it is absolutely possible
to generate free energy to all of the planet. Bodo's
work has led him to experiment with magnetic motors and
systems of centrifugal force, entering uncharted territory and working against
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conventional wisdom and a powerful status quo, not to mention
the laws of thermodynamics. In twenty twelve, at a small
meeting in Modena, Italy, Boudo said crop circles. The media
and science treat this phenomenon subtly, but it is of
great importance for humanity. Only those who study it seriously
can understand that it is not a joke. After long
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and exhausting study, I can demonstrate that many of these
crop patterns are not man made. Since the beginning of
my research, I noticed there were technical drawings which show
us new ways to produce free energy. I have been
trying to reproduce those patterns for a long time using
permanent magnets with no result. Then I realized a new
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way to develop those mechanisms, and I will show you
how they work with the help of a simulator. What
he would show were complex systems based on diagrams obtained
from crop circles which used centrifugal force. Bowdo tested these
systems using computer simulations which allowed him to rotate shapes
at high speed and examine what happened to energy generation
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both with and without the variables of gravity, magnets, springs,
and chains. He asserts he has created a model which
continues to build momentum even after the engine is turned off,
unlimited energy. In his own words, the main key to
understand it is fundamentally one the centrifugal force. Just like that,
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as we move into the third decade of the twenty
first century, it is far from just umberto Bado, who
is working on something like this. Across the world, scientists
and inventors are working with the complex diagrams seen in
crop circles in pursuit of free energy, futuristic transportation, and more.
Of course, many questions still remain, why, with such seemingly
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incredible potential are the messages contained in crop circles mostly
ignored the circles themselves portrayed in mainstream popular culture as
elaborate hoaxes. One answer to this question can perhaps be
found by examining who stands to lose the most with
the discovery of a source of unlimited free energy, Oil
and gas companies, the industrial juggernauts which control the global economy,
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but economics assigned, It must be asked, if science agrees
that some crop circles can't be explained by any earthly phenomenon,
then where did they come from? If they are some
sort of extraterrestrial messages, then what are they trying to say?
And just what might these messages allow us to achieve