Chautauqua – Another season of crop circles to pique our curiosity as we view yet another set of images in an on-going and mysterious one sided conversation.
Are we listening yet?
As with previous seasons; presented here are what I consider to be the best, and most significant crop formations of the season, with rudimentary formations and suspected fakes omitted. As in previous seasons again we see some interesting variations on a theme. With perhaps one or two exceptions I shall resist the temptation to speculate as to the meaning of these messages; as I believe half the fun is figuring out for ourselves, what we think they mean, and the comments section is open for that!
SF Source Augureye Express August 2015
Wikipedia – The first crop circle was described in the 1678 news pamphlet “Strange News Out of Hartfordshire”, now more commonly known as “The Mowing Devil”. The next description of a crop circle was in the 1880 edition of Nature by John Rand Capron, a well respected and frequently published scientist.[13] He described crop circles in extreme detail and also supplied a drawing. Capron ascribed the unusual circular formations as possibly being the result of storm activity.
In 1686, British naturalist Robert Plot reported on rings or arcs of mushrooms (see fairy rings) in The Natural History of Stafford-Shire and proposed air flows from the sky as a cause.[14][15] In 1991 meteorologist Terence Meaden linked this report with modern crop circles, a claim that has been compared with those made by Erich von Däniken.[n 1] Continue reading