It’s a good thing I don’t hold my breath about these things anymore. As Bertrand Russell once said, “it’s a good thing to have an open mind... just not so open your brains fall out.†What this nice producer actually did was go to the UK so as to hire what the TV show states is the “most expensive†group of acknowledged circle-makers, rent a field on the beleaguered farmer’s property next to Silbury Hill and all sorts of cranes and other equipment... and then spent two weeks or so talking with many of the people in the UK who mechanically flatten crop circles for their own amusement [balanced just slightly with interviews of a very few researchers like Andy Thomas, editor of Swirled News]. I wonder if the President and/or stockholders of National Geographic know that quite a bit of the company’s money was spent hiring hoaxers who, it is stated in the actual show, are criminals involved in a “risky†business (“every time they go into a farmer’s field without permission, they are committing a crimeâ€)?
I thought is was also pretty interesting to note, again in the actual show, that this group of hoaxers did all of the measuring for their National Geographic circle in daylight... and, so far as I could tell, flattened the formation in daylight also… and, over several days. I thought these guys were supposed to do this stuff in the dark?
