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Crop Circles 2006
By Chet Snow
FATE :: February 2007
The year 2006 marked a sharp decline in English crop circles. Fewer than 50 appeared for the first time since the 1987 Harmonic Convergence. Only 47 circles occurred between May 21 and August 15. This was a drop of 39 percent from last year’s 77 circles. And many of these 47 occurred in non-traditional locations; just nineteen were in Wiltshire, seven in Oxfordshire, plus one each in Hampshire and East Sussex. Somerset, Bristol, and Yorkshire didn’t have a single circle.
Formations continued to appear close to Neolithic stone circles like Avebury or ancient sacred paths. Eleven formations in Wiltshire and Oxford came near the Ridgeway, a 5,000-year-old track, while all five formations in Kent were adjacent to the “Pilgrims Way,” once linking Canterbury Cathedral with the coast.
There’s no easy explanation for this decline that continued a downward trend since 1999 when 150 circles dotted England, with 52 in Wiltshire. Paul Vigay, of cropcircleresearch.com feels such trends are like the ocean tides’ ebb and flow. Eventually, we’ll hit bottom; then more circles will come again. Others, like me, who link crop circle activity with the 5,125-year Mayan calendar Long Count, see such changes reflecting little-known aspects of its unfolding as we approach its turn-over point on December 21, 2012. Many formations’ symbols have matched Mayan glyphs.
International Statistics
Other countries have not necessarily followed the British decline. Based on national crop circle websites plus the data from cropcircle.connector.com and x-cosmos.it/cropcircles, I estimate there were 102 non-British formations in 2006 vs. 115 last year. Germany remained on top with 20 formations but it was now matched by Italy’s 20. Poland had 13 circles and Belgium saw 11, while 14 were found in the United States (ten were considered genuine). The Netherlands had six circles as did Switzerland, while France had five. Canada dropped to three. Other countries, like Hungary, Finland, Australia, Croatia, Slovenia, and the Czechs, reported just one.
Wiltshire remained the epicenter of the phenomenon despite the 2006 season’s slow start on May 21, a month later than normal. It wasn’t until June 30 that a truly inspiring circle appeared: a 270-foot set of twin crescents near Avebury. The design looked like two 3-D whirlpools, spinning in opposite directions. Although it was cut out by the angry farmer, as was a June 21 circle at Silbury in vain attempts to stop more formations, photos taken before the destruction sparked lively debate.
Some commentators compared it to 1995’s magnetic patterns, noting design similarities with electromagnetic-based “Time machines” purportedly used in secret military experiments at Montauk, New York. The same ideas were used in a 1960s science fiction TV show and in 1960s “op art.” The formation seemed to highlight a curving, dynamic space-time universe as opposed to a flat, unidirectional one. Were we being shown what is called a wormhole, through which energy theoretically can pass from one part of our universe to another faster than the speed of light?......
Read the rest of this article in the February 2007 issue of FATE
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