An increase in critical distance...

Continuing on the crop circle theme, here's another hour-long documentary on the phenomenon that does more of a service to the matter than "New Swirled Order" below. These British researchers go further than their counterparts in that they actually distinguish between genuine and man-made circles in the long list of impressive contemporary (past five years) examples.

Whereas "NSO" and other such films typically present the science behind the truly compelling cases, they nonetheless montage the most visually spectacular circles together without concern for which have been suspected of being hoaxed and which actually display these puzzling physical characteristics. It almost seems to be a rule that the more elaborate a design becomes, the more likely it is to have been made by human hands.



Produced by Richard Hall, this film also delves into possible connections between circle hoaxers and Mi5 funding/direction. The idea is that British intelligence gave incentive to an art student to become proficient at creating particularly dazzling formations so that the "human hand" hypothesis could be less easily challenged with solid genuine cases...or so that researchers would have a harder time telling the difference...or that the phenomenon could be exploited in the public eye as catering to the 2012 crowd...or all of the above and then some. Fascinating stuff, and an angle on the topic of crop circles I haven't seen pursued before.

Check out his list of possible Mi5 operatives connected to the circle phenomenon, which includes the author of "The Men Who Stare At Goats," which was recently made into a not-too-successful George Clooney film. Disinformation, anyone?

via Andre Heath @ The Alien Project