NARRATOR: In 2004,
a mysterious rock was found near the Roswell crash
site bearing the same image as a crop circle that was
discovered in Chiseldon, England, on August 2, 1996. On the Roswell rock,
you have an almost identical symbol in England. To me, it's very
fascinating, because it essentially shows
that they're trying to somehow communicate with us. So the idea is that perhaps
some of these crop circles indeed are messages
from elsewhere, and elsewhere, in
my opinion, means of extraterrestrial origin. NARRATOR: Could it
be that some crop formations serve as a medium for
extraterrestrial communication? Many crop circle researchers
say, yes, and suggest further evidence of this
can be found by examining the advanced
astronomical, scientific, and mathematical equations
contained within them. One formation had
everyone baffled, and people were saying,
well, what is this? Then, a mathematician
had to look at it, and said, wait a minute,
that's a representation of pi, and it's correct down
to 10 decimal places. It's a representation of
pi in a geometric sense. It's kind of interesting,
because the way you get pi out of it is the lengths of the
different arcs in each segment. And what happens is there's
these little notches in the spiral that let you know
you're at the end of an arc. So you actually have
to measure the arc lengths as you go
around, and their lengths give you the digits of pi. And there's a little circle
to give you the decimal point. So it's a really
interesting example of using geometry as a
code for representing digits and numbers. NICK POPE: It just shows
the level of knowledge, mathematical knowledge,
geometric skill that goes into making these things. Many of the most
famous crop circles actually derive from
fractal patterns-- the Mandelbrot
set, the Julia set. To make things you have
to have knowledge of math. Mathematics is, of course,
the universal language. If we ever encounter aliens,
they're not going to speak English or French or German. We'll speak and we'll
communicate via mathematics. Could crop circles,
as some believe, be an attempt from an
alien civilization to reach out and communicate with us? DAVID WILCOCK: There's
a consistent amount of sacred geometry-- tetrahedrons, cubes,
octahedrons, and even more complex geometric patterns. Many of our best
and top scientists are now saying that
this geometry is the secret keys to
the higher dimensions, and it's right
there in the crops. As if they're giving us
a trail of breadcrumbs, showing us how to get to
the next level as a planet. NARRATOR: Milk Hill,
Wiltshire, England, 1991. Steve Alexander, a
local photographer, is filming footage
of a crop formation from a neighboring
hill when he captures a strange metallic light
floating in the field below. CHARLES MALLETT:
His camera caught sight of what seemed
to be a white orb of light flying right
across this field, right next to a crop circle. That orb of light,
whatever it was, flew directly over a tractor
working in the next field down. And later on, that
farmer was contacted. And he said, I saw
this weird orb of light about the size of a melon or
something fly over my tractor. I myself have seen
several, and they are astonishing in
their brightness. We are dealing with intelligent
plasmas that are sending and receiving information
for another intelligence of unknown origin. Orbs of light are a commonly
associated phenomenon with crop circles, and this goes all
the way back to the story of the mowing devil in 1678. The sighting of
lights is often associated with these phenomena,
and they do seem to suggest something we don't understand. The ghost lights, the
will-o'-the-wisp sightings, represented some force of
nature we had not entirely acknowledged or given sufficient
respect to, some mystery that we need to come to grips with. It could be an actual
craft, or it could potentially be something like the stylus
from an extraterrestrial hand that is somewhere far
away, but this light is the projected
form of a technology being used from the safety
and comfort of space. We have to imagine an advanced
extraterrestrial race sending out orbs of light that
are sort of like peepholes for exploration. They come to a planet. They find something interesting. The peephole opens
into a portal, perhaps through which these
advanced visitors can pass, or perhaps through which a human
could even enter and travel to the home planet of the orb. Is this what a crop circle is? To me, the proliferation of
wormhole-themed crop circles tells us that this is the
method of communication, as well as travel, of
these advanced visitors. There is a
possibility that we are dealing with time travelers. The time travelers
are using the crop formations to judge the
accuracy of their time travel. So are the crop formations
designed for humans at all? NARRATOR: Just what purpose
do crop circles serve? Are they landing codes
for time travelers, as some crop circle
investigators suggest? Or is it possible that they
serve as a communication medium, one only meant
for us to discover once we've evolved enough to
discern them from the sky? [music playing] NARRATOR: Winchester,
England, April 24, 2022-- a mysterious formation emerges
in a field of mustard plants. The perfectly symmetrical
design is a phenomenon known as a crop circle. And it is just one of
many strange patterns that appear in the English
countryside, every year. MARK OLLY: Crop
circles are basically features, designs, illustrations
of high complexity in crops. They tend to be complicated
designs of unknown origin. RICHARD TAYLOR: In terms
of the patterns themselves, they've been undergoing
this amazing sort of ramp up in sophistication. You can find these huge what
they call pictographs that span hundreds of feet
across a whole field and feature multiple components. And they're arranged with
mathematical precision. Crop circles appear in
more than 50 countries. And there literally have
been thousands of them-- maybe over 10,000 crop
circles that we're aware of in the modern era. NARRATOR: Today,
thousands of people visit these formations,
including researchers who take measurements
of the patterns, collect stalks and soil samples,
and record aerial images for further study. Documentation of these
mysterious impressions may also include
eyewitness accounts of strange lights and objects
seen around the same time a crop circle appears. Such accounts have been widely
reported since the mid-1960s. The first modern example of
the discovery of a crop circle actually being made
was by George Pedley, in 1966, in Australia. What George Pedley saw was an
object rising out of a lagoon. And then the object-- he couldn't tell
how they did it. The object actually
made a pattern in the foliage in the
lagoon-- a geometric pattern from that object. WILLIAM HENRY: He
finds a circular area where the grass and the swamp
or the reeds are matted down. This is reported in
the Australian press. And they start labeling
these UFO nests or flying saucer nests. NARRATOR: While crop circles
have been documented for more than 60 years, there is
evidence that these mysterious formations have been
appearing in farmer's fields for centuries. Hertfordshire, England,
1678-- a woodcut pamphlet called "The Mowing
Devil" is published, that portrays a
devilish figure creating a circle in a field of oats. ANDREW COLLINS: It
refers to a supposedly true story of a farmer that
saw these mysterious lights in a field. And the next morning,
when he went out there, he found these circular
depressions in his land, you know, actually
within the crop. RICHARD TAYLOR: The
stalks weren't broken, but they were folded over. And people even started
to blame the devil-- what was called the mowing devil. NARRATOR: While the mowing
devil woodcut attributed the mysterious crop
formation to an evil entity, 200 years later, English
scientist John Capron applied his scientific analysis
to what he witnessed in 1880, when he proposed that a
cyclonic wind of unknown origin created perfectly circular
patches of flattened crops. Capron might be
the first person to connect crop circles to what
we today call UAPs or UFOs, because he's describing some
kind of a whirlwind that is coming out of the
sky and is having this effect on the ground. It's creating what we
call a crop circle. NARRATOR: Ancient
astronaut theorists suggest that these incidents,
along with modern crop circle accounts, provide evidence
that these strange formations may be connected to visitations
by otherworldly beings. The eyewitnesses
who have reported seeing crop circles
manifest have described some extraordinary phenomena. They described tubes of lights,
swirling beams of light. Very famously,
back in the 1990s, there was balls of light
flying across the field that were actually seen to
lay the crops flat. And within a space of
only a couple of minutes, they were filmed actually
producing one of those designs. NARRATOR: Many researchers
suggest there are now enough reports of unusual
activity around crop circles to disprove a highly
publicized claim, made over 30 years ago, that
all such formations are manmade. NARRATOR: Wiltshire,
England, May 19, 1999. US billionaire and
philanthropist Lawrence Rockefeller establishes
a grant to assist with one of the largest studies
of crop circles in history. The donation reflects
the growing interest in the scientific
study of how and why crop circles are created. There was a scientist by
the name of WC Levengood who did some very, very interesting
work at various sites in Southern England, where crop
circles appeared in the 1990s. And he found some very
strange things were going on. For instance, he found that some
of the stalks were blowing out, which he felt was
only replicable by microwave radiation. Levengood also found traces
of other forms of radiation. And he even found
that some of the corn would yield much better growth
if it was actually taken from a crop circle formation. GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS:
Dr. Levengood, he noticed that inside
the crop circle, the growth rate was 5% times
as fast than what's going on outside of that crop circle. And when he
investigated this, he actually came up with
a technique called molecular impulse response. WILLIAM HENRY:
From the study, he was able to do a bit
of reverse engineering, and he created electrical
pulse technology that is actually used to
accelerate plant growth. NARRATOR: Scientists
were astounded that the radiation
research of crop circles led to new innovations
in plant growth. Radiation was also
believed to be the source of so-called
"ghost formations," where the stark impression
of a crop circle appears long after the
field has been cleared. RICHARD TAYLOR: There's
photographic evidence of many examples where
people have turned up after the farmers
harvested the crop, and they can still see elements
of the design persisting. Several people
have come forward to claim that they actually
witnessed mysterious lights-- UFOs, UAPs-- in the vicinity
of a particular field. And then the next day, crop
circles are actually found. So what is the relationship
between these mysterious globes of light and ghost
formations revealing this negative of
the crop formation that had been there
the previous year? NARRATOR: For ancient
astronaut theorists, the appearance of
aerial phenomena along with the emergence of
ghostly pre-existing patterns supports the theory that some
crop circles are not man-made, but instead could be an
extraterrestrial creation. And they point to specific
features in certain formations that may explain their purpose.
