circlespeak - the phenomenon

CircleSpeak is about people. The premise of the film is that we can best understand the crop circles by looking through the eyes of the people who live the mystery. They are the people who make, measure, investigate, experience, witness and understand crop circles at a soul level. They know every village, farm lane, pub and footpath in crop circle country. They know the ancient history of the sacred landscape. They’re the ones who witness the balls of light, have camera failures and get banging headaches. They’ve been chased by military helicopters, experienced time distortion, and witnessed extraordinary synchronicities. They savor the best formations and remember the best seasons. They are the heart of crop circle country.

Peter Sorensen
American Peter Sorensen was so taken by the crop circles when he first saw them in 1992 that he has returned every summer to document the phenomenon with his video camera. After more than 12 years, he has amassed what is possibly the world’s most comprehensive archive of crop circles and the crop circle community. Look for Peter’s hidden Scrumpy Jack commercial on the DVD extras menu.

Additional information at Peter's website.

Colin Andrews
Colin Andrews is widely considered to be the world’s foremost authority on crop circles. He was one of the original researchers and co-authored (with Pat Delgado) Circular Evidence, the book that brought the phenomenon to the attention of the world.

Additional information at Colin's website.

Lucy Pringle
Lucy Pringle was a founder member of the Centre for Crop Circle Studies. She has been dedicated to crop circle research and aerial photography for over a decade. She is a respected photographer, lecturer, researcher and author of Crop Circles – The Greatest Mystery of Modern Times. See Lucy Pringle's home page.

Busty Taylor
One of the original researchers, Busty Taylor was invaluable as a pilot and photographer who documented the phenomenon throughout the 1980s. He invented many of the crop circle photography techniques still being used today. Learn how Busty invented the ‘pole shot’ on the DVD extras menu
. See Busty Taylor's home page.

Stuart Dike and Mark Fussell
By the mid 1990s, the crop circles were a worldwide phenomenon. Mark Fussell and Stuart Dike created the first major crop circle website – The Crop Circle Connector. Mark and Stuart are featured on the DVD’s deleted scenes menu.

Frances and Charles Mallett
All of the researchers depend on the circle scouts who discover the new formations. Frances and Charles Mallett are among the most dedicated and experienced. Frances’ son Kieron also helps with the investigation. Update: Charles recently announced the re-opening of the Silent Circle Café in the heart of crop circle country.

Polly Carson
The most famous crop circle of all time appeared on Polly Carson’s farm in Alton Barnes. She was first of the farmers to welcome the crop circles, which returned every year to the famous East Field. Polly welcomed all visitors, fed the researchers, and shared her stories over many a cup of tea.

Isabelle Kingston
Nowdays, crop circles are commonly associated with metaphysics and new age paradigms of consciousness. But Isabelle Kingston was the first trance medium to get “messages” about the coming of the circles and their meaning for mankind. She even foretold of the human circlemakers years before they were common knowledge.

Doug Bower
Doug Bower and his partner, the late Dave Chorley were the infamous “Doug and Dave” who came forward in 1991 to claim that they were responsible for making all of the crop circles. There is no more controversial figure in crop circle history.

John Lundberg
London-based artist John Lundberg was a member of the infamous “Team Satan”. Later, the group became known as ‘The Circlemakers’. Whether you call them circlemakers or hoaxers, they are widely considered to be the most accomplished circlemaking team since the Doug and Dave era.

For more about The Circlemakers, click here.

Steve Alexander and Karen Douglas
Photographer Steve Alexander and Writer/Researcher Karen Douglas put together an extraordinary crop circle yearbook each year. Steve is one of the most professional and dedicated of the crop circle photographers. Karen was one of the organizers of the Glastonbury Crop Circle Symposium and is a steadfast defender of the genuine phenomenon. Temporary Temples Website

Andy Thomas
Andy Thomas is a prolific writer, researcher and lecturer, and also a co-organizer of the Glastonbury Conference. His Swirled News webpage encourages a vigorous debate on all crop circle matters, and his book Vital Signs is highly recommended.

Check out Andy's Swirled News website.

Ed and Kris Sherwood
Ed and Kris Sherwood are pioneers in the study of human consciousness. They’ve worked for years deciphering the crop circle language. Through meditation and intention, they‘ve been able to interact with what they feel is a genuine circle creating intelligence. Learn about their Millennium Research project and their website at www.cropcircleanswers.com.

W.C. Levengood
Michigan-based biophysicist W.C. Levengood was the first scientist to analyze the crop circle plants themselves. His crop sampling protocols are still used 10 years later, and his lab results provide compelling evidence of an unexplained phenomenon that goes beyond stomping boards.

Ron Russell
Ron Russell made his name as an accomplished artist specializing in cosmic art and spacescapes. He is also one of the foremost American authorities on crop circles and he leads annual tours to crop circle country. He is actively involved in developing “new scientific” protocols and paradigms in the crop circle and UFO arenas. Learn more about his work at www.cropcircles.org

Matthew Williams
Ever since Doug Bower hung up his stomping board, Matthew Williams has been the most outspoken and controversial of the human circlemakers. While previous circlemaker/hoaxers preferred to stay in the shadows, Matthew has led a contentious campaign to publicize human circlemaking. Learn more about Matthew’s activities at: http://www.truthseekers.freeserve.co.uk/

Freddy Silva
Freddy Silva’s web page claims to be the “world’s premier crop circle research site” and it may well be just that. No one has worked harder than Freddy in compiling an extraordinary array of information related to genuine crop circles. His book Secrets in the Fields was an international bestseller. Freddy’s site: http://www.lovely.clara.net/homepg.html

Michael Glickman
An architect by training, Michael Glickman chooses to focus on the message of the crop circles through his detailed analysis of the geometries. He is perhaps the most outspoken proponent of the genuine phenomenon and the most critical of the hoaxers. You can read his columns on the Swirled News website or go to his website at: http://www.michaelglickman.net/

Andreas Andreas Müller
Like Michael Glickman, German researcher Andreas Müller also has architectural training and an eye for the designs of the formations. He is one of the most experienced and knowledgeable experts on the history of European crop circle phenomenon. When visiting England, his team is often the first to discover and investigate a new formation. Learn more about Andreas on the DVD extras.

Andreas’ site: http://www.kornkreise-forschung.de/

Francine Blake
Francine Blake lives in Wiltshire and uses her esoteric training to help people interpret the metaphysical meaning of the crop circles. Along with her Wilsthire Crop Circle Study Group, she organizes annual crop circle conferences each summer.

Dr. Terence Meaden
The very first crop circle researcher, Dr. Terence Meaden used his training in meteorology to propose a “plasma vortex” theory to explain the simple circles that first began appearing in Hampshire in the early 1980s.

Pat Delgado
In 1981, engineer Pat Delgado joined Dr. Meaden in the Hampshire wheatfields. Delgado went on to become the co-author, with Colin Andrews, of the seminal book “Circular Evidence”. In 1991, Delgado was targeted by “Today” newspaper in a trap set to bolster claims that “Doug and Dave” were the true crop circle makers.

George Wingfield
A former IBM researcher, George Wingfield was the last to join the original group of core investigators in the 1980s. He was one of the first researchers to visit the famous Barbury Castle formation of 1991. During the 1990s, Wingfield actively sought to expose the human hoaxing that had threatened to undermine research into what many people believe was (and still is) a genuine phenomenon.

Stanley Messenger
We were fortunate and honored to get a chance to speak with Stanley Messenger at his home in Glastonbury, which is a town rich in esoteric and religious traditions. Stanley is a philospher, trained in Rudolf Steiner school of Anthroposophy, and a true Avalonian elder. His views on cerealogy, ET communication and interdimensional travel can be found in the Extras menu.

Dr. Simeon Hein
When American sociologist and Remote Viewing instructor Dr. Simeon Hein paired with long time crop circle researcher Ron Russell, they developed new protocols and theories suggesting explanations for how man-made formations could produce anomalous energetic effects. Dr. Hein’s book “Opening Minds” lives up to its title.

Visit his web page at: http://www.mountbaldy.com/openingminds/

Paul Vigay
Paul Vigay has been one of the most steadfast and dedicated of all the British crop circle researchers for well over a decade. He avoids sensationalism and works diligently every year to maintain his important website and crop circle database.

Support Paul’s work by visiting: http://www.cropcircleresearch.com/

Dan Darby
One of Matthew Williams circlemaking team, Dan Darby lives with his wife and daughter in a narrowboat on the Kennett and Avon Canal in Wiltshire. As he says in the film, it is the closest he can get to a “renewable lifestyle”. It also places him in the heart of crop circle country where he can work covertly at night creating mysterious formations.

Terry Wilson
Although Doug and Dave claimed they invented the crop circles in 1978, Terry Wilson’s research showed considerable and impressive evidence to the contrary. His book “The Secret History of Crop Circles” will open your eyes to a more complex story. His interview can be found on the extras menu.

George Vernon
Many visitors to crop circle country have been charmed or amused by the flamboyant Mystic Merlin. CircleSpeak shows you the person beneath the Harry Potter hat and cape. Like many visitors to crop circle country, George Vernon has had his share of unusual experiences. Merlin’s crop circle board game and books can be purchased at: http://www.cropcircleboardgames.co.uk/

Tim Carson
The famous ‘East Field’ in the Wiltshire Village of Alton Barnes has hosted many of the most spectacular crop circles of all time. The field has been in farmer Tim Carson’s family for over 100 years. CircleSpeak contains interviews Tim and several other Wiltshire farmers.