The Sci-Fi Channel’s April 29 “Tuesday Declassified” segment aired the two-hour feature documentary Crop Circles, Quest for Truth, produced and directed by William Gazecki. After seeing this film, no one could maintain the position that the phenomenon is only created by humans using string, tape measures and footboards.
Gazecki's first documentary, Waco: The Rules of Engagement, about the disastrous federal siege of the Branch Davidian compound in Texas, was nominated for an Academy Award in 1998. His success allowed him to focus on crop circles, with which he had become fascinated after hearing a lecture in 1991.
Experts interviewed on the film conclude that intelligences beyond our world are communicating with us using the non-threatening medium of art. Using the symbols and conventions of “divine geometry” and mathematics, they appear to be instructing and subtly raising our consciousness in “homeopathic amounts” that will not upset our civilization. As one author pointed out in the film, this is a far wiser and less intrusive method of communication than the proverbial “alien invasion” or “flying saucer landing on the White House lawn.”
The method by which the complex formations are formed remains a mystery, except for the “balls of light” that often appear in connection with the circles. The documentary includes footage of such an object, about the size of a basketball, moving purposely across a field, following a road and then taking a sharp angle past a man driving a tractor. The tractor driver also saw and described the object as it passed about 30 feet above his head.
One man who came face to face with one of these objects said it was simply a luminous ball, not very bright, that hovered for a few moments then vanished. Some speculate that these are the legendary “will o’ the wisps” described throughout the ages.
While the specific meaning or “code” behind the formations, if any, remains a mystery, some aficionados interviewed in the film claim the phenomenon is interactive, responding to psychic messages that they sent. They would get together in a group and concentrate on a certain shape, which would appear in a field nearby the next day.
The film includes interviews with scientists who describe effects on the crops that cannot be explained by any known mechanical method. An American scientist who investigated a crop formation in the United States described how the joints or “boles” of the crops expanded or burst, as if heated by microwave radiation. The effect diminished in a linear progression away from the formation.