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NARRATOR: Incredible designs found in
crop fields all across the world.
You've got these magnificent works
that span hundreds of feet.
NARRATOR: Their origins often defy explanation.
ANDREW COLLINS: Scientists have found evidence
that microwave radiation
was present when the crop circle was formed.
NARRATOR: Many believe that these formations are connected
to visitations by otherworldly beings.
GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS: People have reported seeing lights
above a field and then within five minutes,
there is a crop circle.
NARRATOR: But if so, what is their purpose?
DAVID CHILDRESS: Is it extraterrestrials trying to communicate with us?
Trying to show us
certain cosmic truths that they want us to know?
JERRY KROTH: These are messages,
and they're important.
โช โช
NARRATOR: There is a doorway in the universe...
Beyond it is the promise of truth.
It demands we question everything
we have ever been taught.
The evidence is all around us.
The future is right before our eyes.
We are not alone.
We have never been alone.
NARRATOR: A mysterious formation emerges in a field of mustard plants.
The perfectly symmetrical design is a phenomenon
known as a crop circle.
And it is just one of many strange patterns
that appear in the English countryside every year.
MARK OLLY: Crop circles are
basically, um, features, designs,
illustrations of high complexity in crops.
They tend to be complicated designs of unknown origin.
RICHARD TAYLOR: In terms of the patterns themselves,
they've been undergoing this amazing
sort of ramp-up in sophistication.
You can find these huge-- what they call pictographs--
that span hundreds of feet across a whole field,
and feature multiple components.
And they're arranged with mathematical precision.
Crop circles appear in more than 50 countries.
And there literally have been thousands of them.
Maybe over 10,000 crop circles
that we're aware of in the modern era.
NARRATOR: Today, thousands of people visit these formations,
including researchers who take measurements of the patterns,
collect stalks and soil samples,
and record aerial images for further study.
Documentation of these mysterious impressions
may also include eyewitness accounts
of strange lights and objects seen around the same time
a crop circle appears.
Such accounts have been widely reported since the mid-1960s.
The first modern example of the discovery
of a crop circle actually being made
was by George Pedley in 1966 in Australia.
What George Pedley saw was an object
rising out of a lagoon.
And then the object-- he couldn't tell how they did it--
the object actually made a pattern
in the foliage in the lagoon,
a geometric pattern from that object.
HENRY: He finds a circular area where
the grass in the swamp or the reeds are matted down.
This is reported in the Australian press,
and they start labeling these UFO nests,
or flying saucer nests.
NARRATOR: While crop circles have been documented
for more than 60 years,
there is evidence that these mysterious formations
have been appearing in farmers' fields for centuries.
A woodcut pamphlet called "The Mowing-Devil"
is published that portrays a devilish figure
creating a circle in a field of oats.
COLLINS: It refers to a supposedly true story
of a farmer that saw these mysterious lights in a field,
and the next morning, when he went out there,
he found these circular depressions in his land.
You know, actually within the crop.
TAYLOR: The stalks weren't broken,
but they were folded over.
And people even started to blame the devil,
what was called the-the "Mowing-Devil."
NARRATOR: While the Mowing-Devil woodcut attributed
the mysterious crop formation to an evil entity,
200 years later, English scientist John Capron
applied a scientific analysis to what he witnessed in 1880,
when he proposed that a "cyclonic wind
of unknown origin" created perfectly circular
patches of flattened crops.
Capron might be the first person to connect crop circles
to what we today call UAPs or-or UFOs,
because he's describing some kind of a whirlwind
that is coming out of the sky
and is having this effect on the ground.
It's creating what we call a crop circle.
NARRATOR: Ancient astronaut theorists suggest that these incidents,
along with modern crop circle accounts,
provide evidence that these strange formations
may be connected to visitations by otherworldly beings.
The eyewitnesses who have reported seeing crop circles
manifest have described some extraordinary phenomena.
They describe tubes of light,
swirling beams of light.
Very famously back in the 1990s,
there was, uh, balls of light
flying across a field that were actually seen
to lay the crops flat.
And within a space of only a couple of minutes
they were filmed actually producing one of those designs.
NARRATOR: Many researchers suggest there are now enough reports
of unusual activity around crop circles to disprove
a highly publicized claim made over 30 years ago
that all such formations are man-made.
The Ministry of Defence in the U.K. started
looking at the crop circle mystery in
the late '80s and the early '90s.
And in 1991, two men came forward and said that they had
been responsible for the entire crop circle phenomenon.
Doug Bower and Dave Chorley said we fooled the world.
We've been making these things for years.
NARRATOR: For much of the general public,
Doug and Dave's claim of creating the mysterious giant
patterns reinforced the belief that crop circles were a hoax.
Yet the frequent appearance of crop circles around the world,
and the geometric detail found in many patterns,
left researchers with numerous questions about how two men
could possibly be responsible for the global phenomenon.
COLLINS: Doug and Dave said, "We have created
"all of these formations just using planks of wood
and lengths of rope."
But there are
thousands and thousands of crop formations.
And it cannot possibly be that two men made them all.
HOWE: They were in what I consider to be
the counterintelligence units that were trying,
uh, to make everybody go away
and not take crop formations seriously.
In their own admission, which they said,
"We made the formations in Hampshire
and we made the formations in Wiltshire."
Well, there had been formations in many
parts of England, let alone 22 other countries.
And on their demonstration
of how they made their formation,
they were off-kilter.
And for those of us who have been
in real crop formations, there's just no comparison.
Let's say that you're tired.
And you make one step into that crop formation
and it is as if you've entered into
a completely different space, energy, frequency.
TSOUKALOS: The way you can tell
that it's a man-made circle is
as you use the boards to push everything down,
not only are the stalks sometimes broken,
but they're in complete disarray.
In one that's not man-made,
you can see that the stalks are sometimes
braided and intertwined with each other.
So many formations had braids, and no creases.
Try as a human to do that with wheat.
MONIQUE KLINKENBERGH: We have 300-plus eyewitnesses of seeing
an authentic crop circle form.
And they have one thing in common:
they see the flattening of the crop happening
in a matter of minutes,
or even seconds, by this mysterious force or source.
Sometimes, there are light phenomena
and sometimes strange sounds...
but it happens in just
a very short time span.
Sometimes, there is a mist hanging above the field,
the mist is gone, and there is the formation.
So, the question then arises:
How was that done?
And who did it?
NARRATOR: Do these eyewitness accounts offer
compelling evidence that extraterrestrials
could be responsible for the crop circle phenomenon?
If so, what is their purpose?
Ancient astronaut theorists suggest that the answers
may be encoded within the crop circles themselves...
and might have critical implications for mankind.
NARRATOR: U.S. billionaire and philanthropist
Laurance Rockefeller establishes a grant
to assist with one of the largest studies
of crop circles in history.
The donation reflects the growing interest
in the scientific study of how and why
crop circles are created.
There was a scientist by the name of W.C. Levengood
who did some very, very interesting work, uh,
at various sites in Southern England
where crop circles appeared in the 1990s.
And he found some very strange things were going on.
For instance, he found that some of the stalks
were blowing out,
which he felt was only replicable
by microwave radiation.
Levengood also found traces of
other forms of radiation.
And he even found that some of the corn
would yield much better growth if it was actually taken
from a crop circle formation.
TSOUKALOS: Dr. Levengood, he noticed that inside the crop circle
the growth rate was five times as fast
than what's going on outside of that crop circle.
And when he investigated this,
he actually came up with a technique called
molecular impulse response.
HENRY: From this study he was able to
do a bit of reverse engineering, and he created
electrical pulse technology
that is actually used to accelerate plant growth.
NARRATOR: Scientists were astounded that the radiation research
of crop circles led to new innovations in plant growth.
Radiation was also believed to be the source
of so-called "ghost formations"
where the stark impression of a crop circle
appears long after the field has been cleared.
TAYLOR: There's photographic evidence of many examples,
where people have turned up
after the farmer has harvested the crop,
and they can still see
elements of the design persisting.
Several people have come forward to claim
that they actually witnessed
mysterious lights-- UFOs, UAPs--
in the vicinity of a particular field
and then the next day,
crop circles are actually found.
So, what is the relationship
between these mysterious globes of light
and ghost formations revealing this negative
of the crop formation that had been there the previous year?
NARRATOR: For ancient astronaut theorists,
the appearance of aerial phenomena,
along with the emergence of ghostly pre-existing patterns,
supports the theory that some crop circles are not man-made,
but instead could be an extraterrestrial creation.
And they point to specific features
in certain formations that may explain their purpose.
A crop circle bearing the image
of a strange figure emerges in a wheat field.
At its base is a disc-shaped object
containing what some believe to be binary code,
a computer language consisting of ones and zeros.
It wasn't one of these breathtaking geometries,
but it was highly mysterious
and here is what happened.
In 2002 comes this enormous image
of what you would have to call
the typical world's interpretation
of a Grey alien being now holding a disc.
It's binary code that had to be translated.
NARRATOR: The binary code depicted in the crop formation
was translated as,
"Beware the bearers of false gifts
"and their broken promises.
"Much pain, but still time. There is good out there.
We oppose deception. Conduit closing."
There is much happening here
that is profound, is important,
and we better pay attention
because it means that there is something
that is non-human that is trying to convince us
that this was the genuine intelligence behind
the crop formations and that it was depicting itself
as a Grey and transmitting
in binary code.
NARRATOR: Could the binary code depicted in this crop formation
contain an otherworldly message sent to assist humankind?
Perhaps clues can be found in another remarkable crop circle,
one that appears to be responding
to a message from Earth.
Astronomers at SETI,
the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence,
aim the world's largest radio telescope at a cluster of stars
25,000 light-years from Earth and transmit a message.
It contains binary- encoded information
including the numbers one through ten,
an image of human DNA, a human figure,
and a graphic of the solar system,
highlighting the position of Earth.
Remarkably, almost 26 years after the Arecibo transmission,
a crop circle nearly identical to the SETI binary message
appears in a field in Hampshire County, England.
HENRY: The formation that appeared next to
the Chilbolton Radio Observatory in 2001
echoed the message sent by SETI,
but it seemed to show a different system of planets,
suggesting that it's a different solar system.
The DNA was not double helix and instead of a human,
we see a humanoid being with a larger head and a smaller body.
This was clearly a message and perhaps even a response
to the message transmitted by SETI.
NARRATOR: Could the crop circle that appeared in Hampshire, England
have been an extraterrestrial response
to SETI's Arecibo message?
Ancient astronaut theorists say yes
and suggest the formations
that appeared in both Hampshire and Winchester, England
might also provide clues about how to communicate
with alien beings.
If these two formations were made by extraterrestrials,
one possible interpretation is they were telling us we were
on the right track with the message beamed
from Arecibo in 1974,
that binary code and mathematics
more generally is the language of the cosmos.
And that's how to communicate with them.
NARRATOR: Researchers suggest that while the formations
that included binary code appeared to be attempts
by otherworldly beings to communicate with humans...
other crop circles contain much more complex messages
and instructions.
And they believe that further clues can be found
by examining a curious formation in Wiltshire, England
that contains a depiction of a wormhole.
NARRATOR: Wiltshire, England.
July 13, 2011.
A crop formation featuring two connected spirals
appears on a prehistoric earthwork
known as Windmill Hill.
The same day, another formation with a circular design
appears 20 miles directly to the south,
at the ancient megalithic site of Stonehenge.
Intrigued by the appearance of two crop circles
on the same day, and in the same area,
at two historic sites,
researcher Jerry Kroth studies them
to see if any other similarities are apparent.
So, I see these two formations.
They occur on the same day
and I said how far are they?
20 miles apart.
I said, well, maybe put those things together,
and I said, "Oh, my God.
There's a 3D element here."
If you look at a neutron star, it looks like the crop circle
with magnetic fields as those
swirling things and the stars in the middle.
So, I thought maybe that's a neutron star.
Do you know how wide a neutron star is? 38 miles.
Like how could a star be 38 miles in diameter?
Because it's so dense.
And neutron stars sometimes collide.
They collide and sometimes when they collide,
they make a magnetar,
which is a star that's 18 miles wide.
So, those two circles come together
and make this little tiny dot
and I said, "Is this talking about
a neutron star collision and a magnetar being born?"
NARRATOR: A magnetar produces a magnetic field
that is 100 million times stronger
than any man-made magnet
and causes distortions
in both space and time.
Because of this effect,
some scientists believe the study of magnetars
could help us to develop craft
that can bend space-time
and travel faster than the speed of light.
But could this have been what was depicted
by separate crop circles that appeared on the same day
in Wiltshire, England?
KROTH: There are only around ten magnetars in the Milky Way.
They're extremely rare,
the most magnetic objects in the universe,
so I thought, "Well, nice theory, Jerry.
No way to prove it."
NARRATOR: Could the spiral crop circles
represent the creation of a magnetar?
Within 24 hours of the mysterious
patterns' discovery, Jerry Kroth's theory
would be played out in a real-time astronomical event.
KROTH: July 14th, an astronomer in Madrid
and an astronomer in Sicily
say a magnetar has just appeared.
Now, when they appear, they shoot pulses
at like 700 revolutions a minute.
Really, really fast. (whooshing)
And I wrote to them. Is...
Could anyone have seen it July 13th?
They said no.
So...
A magnetar appears on July 14th
and is studied by every astronomer in the world
and they're going nuts about it and they're seeing
these spectral lines and pulses
and it goes on for six months.
But on July 13th,
there are two crop circles doing this 24 hours before
and that's when I was convinced this was a magnetar.
NARRATOR: Is it possible that extraterrestrials
created the two crop circles in Wiltshire
to forecast the imminent appearance of a magnetar?
And if so, what could the purpose be?
Perhaps further clues can be found
by examining another crop circle formation
that many believe represents one of Albert Einstein's theories.
COLLINS: On the 26th of July 2022,
a remarkable crop formation appeared in Tawsmead Copse.
And this consisted of three overlapping
series of concentric circles.
Some researchers
have interpreted this
as a two-dimensional form
of a Einstein-Rosen Bridge.
NARRATOR: In 1935, physicists Albert Einstein and Nathan Rosen
theorized that with enough energy,
space could be bent in order to connect two separate points
through what they called an "Einstein-Rosen Bridge."
This connection, it is believed, could make it possible
to quickly travel to even the most remote stars
in the universe.
When molecular biologist and crop circle researcher
Dr. Horace Drew saw the Tawsmead Copse crop circle
in 2022, he remarked that the design
"clearly shows the image of a space-time wormhole."
HENRY: It seems very apparent
that crop circles are messages.
They're coded messages for us.
When we look at that crop circle,
what Dr. Horace Drew proposed is that
it has what appears to be
a tube or a portal that links the vortices points
and also the bending of space-time.
CHILDRESS: If you look at a theoretical model
of an Einstein-Rosen Bridge,
what is commonly called a wormhole,
you see this formation and how it looks,
you have to wonder, are they extraterrestrials
telling us how they got here?
NARRATOR: Is it possible that astronomical events
and geometric patterns displayed in crop circles
could be pointing humankind towards future technologies?
Ancient astronaut theorists say yes
and suggest some formations may be telling us how to communicate
with extraterrestrials.
NARRATOR: An intricate formation of concentric circles,
featuring a number of smaller semicircles
appears in a field of wheat.
While the design may appear random,
some researchers believe it contains a message
that can be both seen and heard.
Because it is a perfect match
for what is known as a cymatic pattern.
When we talk about cymatic patterns,
we're talking about a frequency that will create
an image that has a complexity to it.
So, specific frequencies relate to specific patterns.
NARRATOR: The origins of cymatics among human civilizations
can be traced back more than ten centuries to West Africa.
There, tribal rituals involved sprinkling
grains of sand on the surface of drums.
Striking the drums created specific audio tones,
causing the sand to be instantly shaped into distinct formations.
From the resulting formations on the drum's surface,
tribal elders believed it was possible
to predict future events.
CHILDRESS: With cymatics, you have these patterns that
are a visualization really of-of sound and vibration.
And physicists tell us that the entire universe
comes down to vibration and sound patterns,
and these patterns that can be visualized.
NARRATOR: In 1787, German physicist and musician
Ernst Chladni offered a breakthrough on the subject
when he published Discoveries in the Theory of Sound.
In the writing, Chladni revealed that specific tones
consistently create the same visual pattern.
By applying sound vibrations to metal plates covered in sand,
he identified the images
produced by various frequencies.
HENRY: When we look at so many crop circles,
they're consistent with what we see in research on cymatics.
We find the same shapes that are created on Chladni plates.
We find the same shapes
that are created in sound experiments.
So, there's a very key connection
that is to be made here.
TAYLOR: Quite a few crop circles are very similar
to the cymatic patterns, again demonstrating
that there's a deep geometric harmony at play,
something that appeals directly to us.
NARRATOR: But why would cymatic patterns appear in crop circles?
Could extraterrestrials be using audio frequencies
as a method of communication?
Ancient astronaut theorists suggest further clues
can be found by examining the teachings
found in ancient Hindu religious texts
known as Vedas.
DOMINIC STEAVU: The word "Veda" means knowledge in Sanskrit.
There is this close association with
a special type of wisdom or knowledge
that is transmitted through the Vedas.
Now, originally the Vedas were revealed by the gods
to a certain class of spiritual elect.
And they contain, again, these primordial sounds
that are associated with the creation
of the universe and its proper functioning.
NARRATOR: In the Vedic texts, it is said that the gods
gave humankind a visual guide to sacred sounds
in the form of elaborate patterns called "mandalas."
Like Chladni's experiments,
the mandalas translate sound into visual patterns,
but for a profound and otherworldly purpose.
In Hinduism, mandalas are considered to be
visual translations of primordial sounds.
And these are the sounds that gave rise
to the universe, and to the very nature of reality.
And they are divine, they were uttered cosmically
by supernatural beings, by gods.
HENRY: The Vedas tell us that the gods taught humans how to chant.
How to pray and to sing
in order to communicate with the gods.
NARRATOR: The most powerful Hindu mantra is the sound "Aum,"
which is visually represented by a simple circle
with a dot in the middle:
the fundamental element of a mandala.
Incredibly, when the "Aum" frequency
is applied to a Chladni plate, the exact same pattern emerges.
Higher-toned frequencies result in more complex arrangements
that also identically match the ancient mandala symbols.
COLLINS: Is it conceivable that the writers
of the ancient Vedic texts
were given advanced knowledge
on how sound frequencies
can be converted into visual patterns?
Some of the crop circle designs
are very clearly reflections of sound.
Is it therefore possible that what we're looking at
is sound signatures and that this is telling us in some way
that sound is an important means of
communication with such higher intelligences?
NARRATOR: Many cultures around the world
believe it is possible to commune with a higher realm
through ritualistic chanting, singing and prayer.
Like mandalas, could crop circles
contain an otherworldly message for humanity,
one that is based on sacred sounds?
TSOUKALOS: I certainly think that crop circles are messages by
other beings who are trying to make contact with us,
or at least letting us know they're there.
And the entire basis of the universe
is vibration, and sound is vibration.
When we talk about different ways
with which to communicate with different civilizations,
scientists have proposed that can be achieved
with sound frequencies.
CHILDRESS: What they're doing is putting sound and vibration
into a communication device of some sort,
but exactly what they're trying to communicate
to us is the big question.
NARRATOR: Might extraterrestrials
be trying to communicate with humans through
the visual representation of certain sound frequencies?
And could these images have a subconscious effect
on those who witness them?
Ancient astronaut theorists say yes,
and speculate that humans could already
be in the process of responding to these otherworldly signals...
without even knowing it.
NARRATOR: When Doug Bower and Dave Chorley
came forward in 1991
to admit that they had been making crop circles
throughout England, they were labeled as hoaxers.
But today, creating designs in crops
has become an artform practiced by people all over the world.
WILLIAM RUSSELL: Being an artist, this seemed to sort of
resonate that you could go out
and you could make an artwork
in a field, um, anonymously.
I'd spend all night making one of these things,
and then in the morning, it appears on the Internet.
And from that, it sort of gathers power.
NARRATOR: But while artists have become increasingly proficient
at making crop circles, many of them say
they still see formations that defy explanation,
and believe they are carrying on the work
started by extraterrestrial beings.
CHILDRESS: With some of these man-made crop circles
the perpetrators will say that they were inspired
to create these crop circles.
And they think that extraterrestrials
are somehow contacting them
and influencing them to go out and create these.
I've been making circles for over two decades
mainly in and around Wiltshire, but I'm not a skeptic.
We've had some pretty interesting experiences
when we've been out making circles
that are inexplicable.
RUSSELL: You have experiences which would lead you
to think that you're being shown things, such as
flashes of light, or more
extraordinary events in the night sky.
The strangest one, we were leaving a field
and there was a great big white burst of light,
enough to light
the whole area we were in up for maybe a second.
And exactly where I was looking a big orange ball
of light emanated from nothing to a circular formation.
And then blinked out.
There's a rich tradition with circle makers
of us seeing strange lights.
ROB IRVING: What I will say is that the first person
I personally know who made one, Doug Bower,
made it on the back of an existing phenomenon.
So, the circles existed long before human circle making.
NARRATOR: Some circle-makers not only report being compelled
to create crop formations, but also claim to experience
other mental anomalies.
Monique Klinkenbergh
of the Crop Circle Information and Research Centre
has personally experienced what are known as "time slips."
KLINKENBERGH: We have people losing track of time.
It also happened to me once.
It's very strange and, uh, you are just blown away.
I was in a car driving towards an appointment,
regarding crop circles.
And I remember
thinking, "Oh, my God, I'm too late,
I'm not gonna make it in time."
The next thing I knew,
I was on this parking lot.
And I was very much in time.
There is a theory that something out there
is interacting with our thoughts,
so basically you can request or wish
for a formation to happen and we did experiments with it
and we have many, many reports of people thinking or discussing
a certain thing and then it was manifested in the field.
NARRATOR: Similar to the cymatic experiences
of ancient tribes in Africa,
and the mandalas of Hinduism,
is it possible that otherworldly beings
are communicating with,
and influencing humankind,
through the creation of crop circles?
I've heard reports from some of the circle makers
that they've created a whole crop circle,
and they've gone back to check it out the next day
and extra elements have even been added to it
that none of them did.
And so you have this strange kind of connection, uh,
like a human connection between the mysterious forces
that may have made the original ones
and the humans who are making them today.
NARRATOR: Could there be a connection between
circle-makers and an extraterrestrial force?
And is there direct communication,
on a subconscious level, that is guiding
the designs and execution of these elaborate formations?
NEWMAN: One of the things was the makers would have
visionary experiences like when they were going out
in the fields and they would change
their plans in the moment.
And sometimes, they would even turn up
at a crop circle location where they planned to make one
and something had already been created there
before they got there.
COLLINS: Are the crop circle makers,
the people who create many of the formations,
are they themselves inspired
to create what they do?
I think the answer is yes.
NARRATOR: Could it be that the most shocking revelation
regarding the crop circle phenomenon
is that even formations known
to be man-made contain an extraterrestrial message?
Ancient astronaut theorists say yes,
and point to recent disclosures involving UFOs
and the U.S. government.
NARRATOR: Near an old British Royal Air Force base
in the small hamlet of Temple Balsall,
an intricate crop circle appears,
featuring an eight- and 16-pointed star
around a central sun,
alongside pyramids and oval-shaped "helmets."
Curiously, as researchers attempt to investigate
the formation, they are prevented from doing so
by the authorities, leading many to question why.
NICK POPE: A lot of people can't help but wonder whether the government
and the military were as curious as everyone else.
There has been some British government
interest and activity on this.
Questions were formally asked
in the British parliament about this.
KLINKENBERGH: What I do know for a fact,
that I've once been contacted by someone
who said he was from the MI6 and he wanted to speak to me.
But I had to come on my own,
and it had to be under the Chatham House Rule.
That's meaning you have to keep all the information inside.
And that's the opposite of what I want.
I wanted transparency, so I declined.
But it makes you think, why should a government
want to talk to me about crop circles?
I just don't know.
CHILDRESS: Many of the crop circles in England are happening
near the Salisbury Plain,
which is a big military area.
So, that is curious in itself.
The high concentration of crop circles
is very close to a military base.
HENRY: It's very conceivable that in fact it's the British government
that is involved in making the man-made crop circles
as a way to return the messages that are coming from the stars.
NARRATOR: For more than 60 years,
crop circles have made headlines around the world.
And during that time, the United States, England,
and other governments have either ignored it
or dismissed crop circles
as nothing more than elaborate hoaxes.
But like with the U.S. government's leaked
investigation into UAP activity in 2017,
could a similar disclosure concerning crop circles
be on the horizon?
CHILDRESS: With crop circles,
there has been always this indication of...
UFO or UAP activity.
People are seeing lights, they're seeing perhaps
flying saucers and other things flying around in this area.
And perhaps with disclosure, we'll eventually
be told and we'll find an answer
of why all these crop circles are occurring.
HENRY: What I think we're seeing in the crop circles
is a calling card.
It's a message from a higher
intelligence that's asking us to crack the code.
And as we crack the code, we're gonna undoubtedly develop
new technologies and new abilities to communicate.
Not just between ourselves, but also with
these higher intelligences.
NARRATOR: Is it possible that many of the crop circles
found around the world contain important messages
left by extraterrestrial visitors?
Are they attempting to communicate
critical warnings about the future,
profound truths about the cosmos,
and the keys to incredible new technologies?
Perhaps as more formations are deciphered,
we will continue to move closer to a reconnection
with our alien ancestors.
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