Crop circle science, More than just a hoax Options

I just received this letter from BLT Research ( www.bltresearch.com ). Look closely at their data, and think about it, before taking a skeptical stand.

The BLT effort has never been to confirm particular formations as being
> genuine or man-made--instead we've been concentrating on trying to learn
> what happens in the plants and, more recently, the soils when the
> phenomenon interacts with these materials. When it became clear (from
> our own results on sampled formations and from anecdotal reports) that
> there were a lot of man-made events occurring in the UK we cut down the
> work we were doing there considerably, because we can't afford to waste
> the money it costs to work on formations regardless of their origin [we
> have done control studies and therefore are pretty much aware of the
> effects of mechanical flattening on plants]. Instead we've concentrated
> on formations which have occurred in many different countries, places
> where there is very little, if any, indication of hoaxing, so as not to
> waste the resources we have.
>
> Several formations which revealed some or all of the plant and/or soil
> changes Levengood established as being related to the phenomenon are
> discussed in the 3 published papers (see BLT web-site, "Published
> Papers"). The XRD study was carried out on one formation (in Canada,
> details provided in the XRD Study Report on our web-site); this procedure
> is too expensive (thousands of dollars, provided to BLT by Laurance
> Rockefeller) for us to be able to use it in multiple cases, at least at
> the present time.
>
> Unfortunately, people don't realize the time and expense involved in
> determining likely origin in even one case (apical node measurements,
> expulsion cavity counts, germination abnormalities, microscopic cellular
> changes in the plants, both samples and controls; extraction of magnetic
> material, EDS analysis of those particles in the soils, both samples and
> controls; and all the statistical analyses that have to be carried out),
> and many people fail to understand that we have never taken the presence
> of just one of these changes as conclusive proof.....that it is the
> presence of multiple effects or changes in the plants and/or soils which
> indicates to us that the formation plants/soils were exposed to a plasma
> discharge, rather than to mechanical flattening. What I can tell you is
> that we have found evidence, over and over again, in countries all over
> the world that the phenomenon cannot be attributed to mechanical
> flattening of the crops, and that something far more interesting is going
> on.
>
> We have quite a number of lab reports on individual cases which I very
> much want to get up on our web-site, but unfortunately I can't do the
> web-site myself and have not been able to afford hiring a web-master on a
> regular basis.....if you know anybody who COULD help with getting more
> material up on the web-site, please do let me know.
> --
> Nancy Talbott
> BLT Research Team, Inc.
> Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)
> (www.bltresearch.com)

Hello Merlin (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Yes, I would agree with you that there does seem to be a big effort put into spreading misinformation. Or is it just that good old stubborn tunnel-vision? Think about Galileo, and what he went through only because he believed the world revolves aound the sun. I don't think there was any Illuminati in those days (there was, however, the Inquisition).

I'm not saying there are no "shadow agencies", its just human nature to not accept these kinds of things. We humans always tend to grasp onto old paradigms when things shift, even when we're staring right into the obvious.

Also, who's to say its extraterrestrial. It very well might be, but we're not the only intelligent life-forms on this planet. In my own fuzzy world (IMG:style_emoticons/default/tomato.gif) , I like to think its Devas, Earth-energy, and the overseeing intelligences of Nature who are either trying to communicate with us, or they're using the formations in the same way we would use sigils to try to reharmonize the energy-grid of the planet.