CROP CIRCLE WEB SITE, July 31, 2001
SCIENTIFIC STUDIES "CONFIRM CROP CIRCLES ARE MADE BY BALLS OF LIGHT"

DR ELTJO HASELHOFF is one of the few people on planet Earth to have had a paper published on crop circles in a peer-reviewed scientific journal (‘Physiologa Plantarum’).

"My paper shows that the node lengthening in several crop circles corresponds perfectly to the effect that would be created by a ball of light, heating up the crop during the creation of the crop circle. This is not the case for a man-made formation. The amount of node lengthening, and in particular its symmetry over the crop circles, lack any trivial explanation.
In the early 1990s, the American biophysicist William Levengood discovered that plants inside crop circles often had much longer nodes than those in the undisturbed, surrounding crop.

Although there are known biological effects that can create node lengthening, these could be easily ruled out. It was clear that something else had happened. The effect could be simulated by placing normal, healthy stems inside a microwave oven. The heat induced by the microwaves made the liquids inside the nodes expand, just like the mercury inside a thermometer. This caused the nodes to increase in length, while the amount of lengthening increased proportionally to the amount of microwave energy that was generated. This finding led to the conclusion that the node lengthening effect may be caused by the involvement of heat, possibly caused by microwave radiation. In fact, traces of heat have been found innumerable times in crop circles all over the world, such as dehydrated plants, burn marks, and molten snow."
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Of course we should not rush to conclusions. We know for example that the military has developed very powerful microwave weapons and its not beyond the bounds of possibility that they've been installed in satellites and tested as part of a "Star Wars" program.

On the other hand a number of crop circle researchers have reported seeing strange balls of light in and around crop circles. One even got video footage of this but before he could show it to others he was beaten up and his video was taken by an individual we suspect is a member of military intelligence.

Likewise crop circle researcher Charles Mallet reports that military helicopters seem to be taking a keen interest in the formations. On a number of occasions he seen them, and sometimes black, unmarked helicopters, circling low over crop circles.

So either they are following up on the testing of new technology. Or they know as much about it as we do and are trying to find out more. Either way it's probably best to reserve judgement on the phenomenon.