Mark Pilkington and the Crop Circles

So Mark Pilkington says that all crop circles are made by people he knows. Before we judge whether he is right or wrong, it is best to know a little about this person. Mark is undoubtedly a very intelligent person in his own right, but he has been a leading member of the UFO (UK) sceptical establishment and has been for some years. He is an active part of the intensely sceptical Magonia Magazine/Fortean Times axis, and in the past has been assistant editor of both publications. We have only to add Andy Roberts, Dave Clarke, and Peter Brookesmith and the The Old Gang of UK debunkers is almost complete.  New blushing babe on the block is Jon Ronson, who fits pretty much the same formula. Both Ronson and Pilkington are associated with the Guardian newspaper which published recently a completely negative Guardian Supplement on crop circles (05/06/09). There is strong evidence to indicate that  the author of his piece, one John Vidal, was supplied with material from the Magonia mag/Fortean Times UFO-trashing axis.

For me to say any more might entail libel charges. For now it is sufficient to say that both Pilkington and Ronson in particular are anti-UFO and all things mystical, metaphysical, holistic, and/or transcendental. They will both do anything to put down, trash, or destroy all and any such things. They both act like Lutheran Fools, cat-spraying and tearing apart on cue all things magical or anomalistic, and producing absolutely ridiculous mechanical "explanations" at the drop of a hat. I noticed this tendency in the Fortean Times when I wrote for it extensively some year ago, and that is why I left the magazine. It was truly a conspiracy against the UFO and all its associations.

For the record, all Pilkington and his associates have to do to win their argument is arrange for the press corps to see a demonstration of their skills in full daylight on a crop field in Wiltshire, and their arguments would be proven. They will not do this because in my opinion they are all involved in some kind of most peculiar disinformation exercise, and that includes the author of Men who Stare at Goats. In contrast, Imaginary Weapons by Sharon Weinberger is far better than Jon Ronson's book. The latest corn circles are far too complex and they are executed  so swiftly and so precisely it is almost impossible to think that human beings (those imprecise club-footed fuzzy creatures that we all are) made these patterns. That is unless they have a technology which no-one knows about.  Investigations are proceeding into specific satellite positions at the time of the formation of the circles. All interested parties should get in touch with the Combat Diaries.

The very latest Wiltshire patterns are beyond belief as far as purely human activities are concerned. Of late, they are been updated three nights in success with a pattern so complex that Mark Pilkington is obviously either being fed with outrageous disinformation, or he is guilty of what Winston Churchill called a terminological inexactitude. I prefer to believe the former. But since the deadly sceptical Fortean Times represents the biggest lying conspiratorial hub on the magazine stands, I have my doubts. Should anyone not believe that, then they should ask themselves why not a single image of Nick Pope, Timothy Good, a crop circle' or a UFO has not appeared on the front cover, and never will.

Undoubtedly, the crop circles are projected with computer graphic precision from above the field, possibly from a satellite, beaming down patterned pressure of some kind. There is no noise from possible helicopters, their are reports that the circles appear in seconds, and local farmers are astonished that their dogs show no response. People milling about in complete darkness (there is not even city glow reflected in these rural areas, and no street lights), would certainly become confused, and whispers and footfalls (loud in such stiff vegetation) would arouse  the many dogs to fury. Their equipment (or whatever they use) appears to be completely noiseless. Farmers have  have sat up all night with hunting dogs, shotguns and searchlights to guard and ward off supposed crop circle makers. They have even set scores of trip wires across the fields and these (almost invisible) wires have not been broken, the circles appearing below the wires as what some would call a kind of Trickster joke. Other farmers have installed expensive motion-detection equipment but with no result. Since the sound and heat given off by such a large group of people toiling away must be considerable, noise and infra-red detection equipment is on its way to try and detect this. Local dedicated coast-watchers in Wiltshire say that there has been no suspicious road traffic at night, and no organised groups of people (approaching at night) have been seen.

We might add a 911 touch by saying that local criminal networks know nothing, local natives know nothing, and neither does the active patrolling police intelligence network. There are no informers, and no journalist has yet penetrated the circles of so-called circle makers. There are no insider betrayals, no litter, no footsteps and absolutely no mistakes. It sound like the Chemtrails and 911 to me. The silence is deafening, (see my article Did a Fishmonger Do It? in UFO Magazine).

We always have a Fortean event when the resource spectrum does not match the phenomenon. A senior architect heavily involved with buildings and installations for the coming UK Olympics told me that he would not even try to make crop circle without full daylight, good weather, a professional team of no less than 10 people, and at least four theodolites. What baffled him was the complete overall consistency of the pattern integration. The generation of complex mathematical curves alone made him hold his breath.

Complete lack of response from of such big eyes and ears is suspicious in itself. In the bargain, good old "scientific" investigation has proved as useless at it always is when investigating mechanically acausal effects. Non-Cartesian systems cannot be measured by Cartesian means.

The two system-paradigms cannot talk to one another, although the case of the crop circles, there is (paradoxically) the formulaic mathematical content is mind-boggling.

Regarding this, only constant characteristic which fits all five theatres of 911 and the crop circles is the level of precision with which both the plot and the circles are executed.

Frankly, I do not think we are Alone. See Father Gill case where quite human figures were observed on the deck of an Adamski-type UFO.