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One had to admit, the trailers were certainly enticing with their haunting refrain of “Don’t be afraid,” and I too plunked down my cash for ticket in hopes of seeing a film that would be a serious film. However, Shyamalan who also wrote the screenplay for Stuart Little treated the whole topic in a naive manner.
The film was entertaining and thrilling but in terms of crop circles it was 50’s era brain-sucking aliens cinematic abortion that played on our fear of the unknown. Markedly absent was any attempt to demonstrate a scientific understanding of the phenomena of crop circles. However it was interesting to note that the densest concentration of formations was in India. Given the drought conditions that country suffers, even this is a long stretch for creative license.
What we saw was Mel Gibson playing his umpteenth inner-conflict and emotionally repressed character and aliens who could do as they pleased with the Earth and everyone upon it. The thrust of the plot is that the aliens intend to abduct humans for nefarious purposes reminiscent of the “How to Prepare Man”[I believe that was “To Serve Man.” – LOL] of Twilight Zone fame. Instead of beaming people up to their spaceships (ala Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner) they actually invade peoples homes completely unarmed. In the end, they are defeated by simple water as in, “I’m melting” from the Wizard of Oz.
While the critics may have loved it (which proves nothing), everyone in the audience walked out of the theater the moment the final credits began to roll. Out of curiosity, I turned at the door to look at the faces of the other audience members as they streamed out. There was no excitement. Rather, they all looked as though they had been standing at home plate with a bat in hand and that nobody had bothered to pitch a ball to them. They had come, like myself, hoping to see a realistic scenario and not brain-sucking 50’s era aliens that eventually melted like Wicked Witch of the West from the movie Oz – “I’m melting!” Frankly the film should have been titled, Stuart Little Passes Kryptonite. That would have made sense.
Nonetheless, in these days of predicable, cut-to-the-chase blockbusters, depth and seriousness is something most folks can live without, though I seriously doubt this film will ever become a science fiction classic like Blade Runner. Nor will be likely to see a directors cut either.
All Shyamalan did was demonstrate his ignorance and disregard for crop circles by making mockery of the phenomenon, simply for the purpose of scaring teenagers out of their allowance money.
OK, so Signs was a bad movie in terms of crop circle science (and reality.) So what’s the beef? To answer that question, I need to back up to January 2001. I had just finished taping an interview segment for the PAX TV presentation of, Is There a Doomsday Asteroid?, which first aired on March 20, 2001. After shooting the interview, producer Gail Fallen took my wife and me out to dinner. Over baskets of beer batter calamari, we talked about a wide range of phenomena when she began recalling her experiences during the shooting of a crop circle program for PAX.
At that time, crop circles were an unusual oddity for me -- one that I was aware of, having seen them in the media. Like most folks, I simply did not know enough about them to decide whether or not they were the result of pranks or something genuine. In simple terms, Charles Fuqua’s question pretty much summed up my impression of crop circles at that time: “What is the chance that these crop circles are anything but a hoax?
However, as Gail recounted her experience of walking through a recent formation in England during her location shoot, I became fascinated by the sensations she said she felt. Given all the of the exhaustive pre-production planning I’d done with Gail prior to our shoot, I knew she was cool customer who likes to get the facts straight. She told me how this experience changed her entire outlook on crop circles and that she had begun a serious study of the phenomenon. This piqued my interest and I decided to go beyond the tabloid reporting we now see.
As many of our readers already know, YOWUSA is a privately funded, all-volunteer operation. So how do we pay rent? I for one work in the Silicon Valley and each day I’m working with computer scientists and engineers. Consequently, taking the hard-nosed scientific route seemed natural to me, and the first step I took in my own research effort on crop circles was to , search for trustworthy sources. Ahabit I picked up back when I was producing science features for CNN.
While some may take offence to this, I, like most folks in the media am turned off by web sites using numerology and pyramid fractals to understand crop circle phenomena. For underpaid news producers, the whole matter boils down to keeping you from thumbing the remote while their network sponsors are doing their level best to get you excited about feminine hygiene, jock itch preparations and junk food.
Since I’m no longer in the cable news biz, I have the luxury of taking a higher road and following my own personal philosophy: The greatest truths in the universe are -- by and of necessity – simple. Otherwise, they do not endure.
The same also applies to wild-eyed conspiracy and tin-foil hat theories because at the crux of the matter there has to be a simple and straightforward truth to all of this. And I’m not talking about brain-sucking 50’s era aliens who melt like the Wicked Witch of the West and are in serious need of a good dental plan.
In the course of my personal investigations, I found to my surprise that there is as much disinformation about crop circles as there was truth, if not more. The majority of it comes from unscientific and self-interested people like Shyamalan; “the Bad” if you will. However, the most damaging disinformation comes from government disinformation operatives bent on distorting the public perception of crop circles with fear and doubt. But what does disinformation look like? In a word – ugly!
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We often received emails from people complaining about the mockery and abuse they receive from family, friends and co-workers when discussing this topic.
Our view is that this topic should never be introduced to others, until they demonstrate a geniune interest.
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As moviegoers flock to see Sony's new 2012 film, critics, debunkers and cynics are spewing forth a flood of poison pen pronouncements.
Taken altogether, it is a bizarre twist on the Biblical story of Noah and the Flood — and with strikingly similar themes.
For those new to the topic of 2012, the film is great entertainment, but it also drives home an ancient failing of humanity. That the common folk are often the last to know, whether by their own choices or those made for them by wealthy and powerful elites. Ergo, many will never ask, "where will I be in 2012?" They'll just have enough time to ask, "My God, what's happening?" GO
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One of our readers, Charles Fuqua recently wrote to us in regards to our August 18, 2002 article,
One such protocol has been developed by Eltjo H.
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