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Crop Circles: Evidence of a Cover-Up (An Orbis Enigma Book) [Paperback]

Nicolas Montigiani (Author)


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November 2003
For more than thirty years, the mystery of crop circles has caused passionate debate - baffling farmers who own the land, police who investigate them, and scientists who study them. Viewed from above, these complex designs of circles, straight lines, arabesques, and symmetrical patterns reveal their forms in perfect harmony without the slightest identifying mark of their creators or clues from where they came. In Crop Circles: Evidence of a Cover-up, author Nicolas Montigiani addresses three central questions that remain at the core of these agricultural enigmas:

Who or what is responsible for creating crop circles?

How are crop circles made?

What is the reason for their existence? From meteorology to the military, Crop Circles provides a detailed history of the phenomena and a thorough discussion of the various causes that have been proposed over the years. With exploratory rigor and a good deal of humor, Nicolas Montigiani demonstrates once and for all that extraterrestrials have had little to do with the geometric impressions that have been puzzling people for decades. The author's systematic approach is investigative journalism at its best. As a journalist and an avid photographer, Montigiani used his investigative skills to locate a reasonable, scientific, and convincing cause of crop circles and to offer the most likely explanation made to date. Ultimately, he relies on logic, hard evidence, and history to arrive at an answer that has been thirty year's in waiting - one that certainly won't leave his readers running in circles.


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From Publishers Weekly

An example of a good thing in a small package is Montigiani's clear and cogent study of crop circles. Circles showing up mysteriously in farmers' fields are recorded as far back as the 17th century, but the bulk of them seem to have appeared since 1970, most of them in wheat fields in a small area of southern England. The author, a freelance investigative reporter, discusses and rejects environmental, supernatural, extraterrestrial and hoax explanations for the increasingly complex and elaborate figures, up to and including Mandelbrot sets. He goes on to claim that an anonymous French scientist discovered that the wheat stalks in circles he examined showed signs of extreme heating, compatible with exposure to microwave lasers and similar directed-radiation weapons. He concludes that the crop circles are the result of the tests of such weapons, intended as antimissile and anticommunications devices. One would like to read more about the frequency of crop circles before the 1970s and the possible percentage of hoaxes. One would also like to read fewer quasi-paranoid accusations that everyone offering another explanation is part of a military coverup. Still, the book is a comparatively sober discussion of a plausible hypothesis in an area where such do not grow on bushes or even in wheat fields.
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"A terrifying reality. . ." -- Science Revue

Product Details

  • Paperback: 200 pages
  • Publisher: Carnot Pr (November 2003)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1592090370
  • ISBN-13: 978-1592090372
  • Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 0.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 11.8 ounces
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,138,229 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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