In this extraordinary study, Lucy Pringle brings together her stunning aerial photographs with her many years of intensive research investigating a phenomenon which continues to baffle scientists throughout the world.
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Lucy Pringle is a founder member of the Society for Crop Circle Studies and is co-ordinating research into the effects of electro-magnetic fields on living matter. For the last 10 years she has taken aerial photographs of the circles that have appeared in english fields. She is lectures on the subject throughout the world and has taken part in numerous TV and Radio programmes.
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41 of 46 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Extremely informative and enjoyable,
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This review is from: Crop Circles: The Greatest Mystery of Modern Times (Hardcover)
The book has numerous photos in color and black & white and easy to understand text. The author covers a variety of aspects of crop circles such as physical and emotional effects, animals reactions to, hoaxes (and how to tell them from the real thing), mechanical failures, missing time and "other dimensional" experiences. There are also many eye witness testimonies which lend even more credence to an unusual phenomenon.
26 of 31 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Beautiful Photos......Poorly Researched,
This review is from: Crop Circles: The Greatest Mystery of Modern Times (Hardcover)
The author is an aerial photographer and took some gorgeous pictures of very interesting crop circles. But if you would like to know (as we would) answers to the important questions, this book won't help you. Like: Who made the crop circles? What do they mean? Why are they being made? What does the British Gov't say about these questions? How about the British Army? How about Prince Charles or the Queen? What about top British Phd's and researchers? The problem with this book is that the author has no access to top people in high places who might know something of value. At first, the author did a good job explaining some of the theories. For example, one can tell a real crop circle from a fake, using five variables. Real crop circles have unbroken stems, are stretched and bent at the base of the plants, and leave an electromagnetic signature that can be measured with sophisticated instruments. There are three other variables the experts look for to determine a real circle from a hoax. They materialize out of nowhere in a matter of minutes. Some are 1500 feet in diameter. Unfortunately, Ms. Pringle did not tell us which crop circles pictured in her book were real and which were phony. This left us feeling like she wanted to mislead the public. We know that 80% of all crop circles are manmade (fake). The other 20% are unexplained. Ms. Pringle did not help us to learn which ones pictured in the book were not genuine. For example, there was a photo of the most mysterious crop circle of them all (in our opinion), which is a glyph of ancient Mason Text from the time of Augustus Caesar. I saw this glyph shown on a television show, and some PhD's translated it. The glyph resembled the latin words "Oporto Apsos" which translates roughly into "we opose cunning and deceit." But Ms. Pringle didn't say a word about this glyph in the book! She had the picture in the book, but didn't confirm if the words were real or a hoax. She didn't give readers the translation either. So this made us feel like she was a bit slopply in her research. One would expect an analysis of each picture. Again, here is an example where we felt like the book was too vague. Real crop circles display sophisticated elements of Euclidian Geometry, and some are related to musical composition. Ms. Pringle did not do an analysis of the Geometry, which really dissappointed us. I have seen Geometry analysis done by other researchers in this field and this is crucial information in understanding the special intelligence and perfection of workmanship displayed in a real crop circle. Lastly, Ms. Pringle devoted a good portion of the book interviewing local witnesses about various phenomenon. We didn't find this very credible. This portion of the book seemed unscientific, and poorly researched. The local witnesses came across as uneducated and superstitious. Their observations were sometimes silly and childlike. Some of the witnesses seemed to exagerate normal occurances. For example, a witness is sitting in the center of a crop circle in the pitch black of night, and suddenly hears footsteps and "strange" noises. The witness firmly believes that the noises are alien crop circle makers. Later on in the book, another witness from the same village speaks about deer, birds and other animals being injured in the crops. If you put two and two together, deer and birds can also sound like "footsteps" and "strange noises" in the night. In summary: The book's photos left us in awe at the simplistic beauty and sophistication of the crop circles. But we wish we could have learned more. We are still as baffled as ever.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Even-handed book on controversial topic,
By Jon Graham (Rochester, Vermont USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Crop Circles: The Greatest Mystery of Modern Times (Hardcover)
This is a thorough and well reasoned, and well-balanced examination of a phenomena that has excited strong feelings on both sides. (See the previous review--though its author appears not to be aware that the hoaxers he speaks of were unmasked as having exaggerated the number of sites they created--there are also significant differences in the sites they are known to have created and the "genuine" sites.) This book should be of interest to both believers and skeptics and to my mind presents the most thorough account to date.
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