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Star Dreams; A Feature Documentary Exploring the Mystery of the Crop Circles

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This is a wonderful documentary on the crop circle phenomenon. It mixes images of the crop circle glyphs with the scientific and the spiritual views of the phenomenon. It presents a powerful case that these are made by beings of greater spiritual, intellectual & technological development than humans and they point to an unfolding on planet Earth of a special time in the history of mankind.

This DVD is very well done and presents NEW information that changed my beliefs about crop circles, and opened my eyes to orbs and other paranormal activity. This DVD has been presented at IONS (Institute of Noetic Sciences) community groups for viewing and discussion and has been very well-received in that venue.

Star Dreams - A feature documentary exploring the mystery of crop circles (2005)
Director/Writer/Producer: Robert L. Nichol
Narrated by: Cathrine Fuller
Running Time : Approximately 1 hr 26 minutes

This program essentially consists of video footage of various people expressing their views and/or making comments about what are commonly called crop circles, interspersed with photographic and video footage of certain formations taken on the ground and from the air. The picture and sound quality is generally very good.

This documentary would probably be of interest to those with little knowledge of crop circles and would like to understand more about where they appear, who makes them and why, and what is their meaning. Those persons who have been following the growth of the phenomenon in recent years will probably enjoy the program as well, as I did, for the variety of interesting comments and the video footage of some of the formations.

The opening statement of the documentary is made by the narrator:

"Crop Circles: What are these strange and mysterious symbols appearing all over the planet? Why are they happening? Who or what is doing it? And how are we to relate to this growing world-wide phenomena?"

The documentary then attempts to answer a number of questions which are asked and which divide the program into corresponding segments:

1. What do you think is going on?
2. Why is there so much resistance to the concept that we are not alone in the Universe?
3. What is the meaning of the crop circles?
4. Why are so many circles appearing in England?
5. What is the effect on humans?
6. Are we able to contact the circle-makers?
7. What are the balls of light?
8. How might crop circles be interpreted?
9. What do you think causes crop circles to appear?
10. Whay are so many crop circles appearing now?
11. Why is it, so many refuse to believe in the possibility of life on Mars, given the evidence?
12. What are orbs?

Throughout the documentary there are many views and comments presented by the following people:

Busty Taylor - Crop circle researcher. Pilot. Photographer.
Lucy Pringle - Photographer. Author.
Steve Alexander - Photographer. Author.
David Kingston - British Ministry of Defense (Retired). UFO Investigator.
Michael Glickman - Author.
Andy Thomas - Author.
Dr. Nan Lu - Author.
Freddy Silva - Author.
Polly Carson - Farmer.
Chad Deetkan - Researcher.
Karen Douglas - Author.
Francine Blake - Wiltshire crop circle study group.
Isabelle Kingston - Researcher. Psychic.
Janet Ossebaard - Author. Filmmaker.
Linda Moulton Howe - Reporter. Editor of Earthfiles.com.
Paul Anderson - Canadian crop circle network.
John Haddington - Centre for crop circle studies.
George Wingfield - Centre for crop circle studies.
Charles Mallet - Owner, Silent Circle Cafe.
Neil Olsen - Author.
Richard Hoagland - Author.
Ken and Clynt King - Landowners.
Rod Bearcloud - American artist. Crop circle researcher.
Judith Moore - Author.
Alton Kamadon - Publisher.


Of particular interest to me was the video footage of small UFO's (described as "balls of light") of which two are shown:

1. Footage taken at Bishop's Cannings in England by Peter Sorenson (The date the footage was taken is not provided)
2. Footage taken at Barbury Castle by Donald Fetcher (The date the footage was taken is not provided)

Also of interest to myself was a short segment regarding the message beamed into space from the Arecibo Radio telescope in Puerto Rico in 1974. The message, sent in binary code contained information about human beings on Earth such as our counting system, the relationship of our Earth to the sun, a pictogram of a human and our DNA, and other information. In August 2001 at Chilbolton in England a reply in the from of a pictogram in a wheat field was received which pointed directly at the Chilbolton Radio telescope! The reply was almost the same as the message sent from Earth but contained a number of differences including a pictogram of a short, large-headed being in place of the pictogram of a human in the original message. I would have liked to have seen more about this event in the documentary.

Hardly touched on was another spectacular event which occured in England in August 2002. A huge formation was discovered of what is clearly an alien being presenting an encoded disc upon which is a message. The documentary provides a verbal transcript of what is generally considered the best interpretation of the message and also displays the pictogram itself for a short time. I would have liked for more information to have been provided about this extraordinary event.


There were also a few other items which I found to be of interest:

1. The recent phenomena of ice circles where perfect circles of ice form on lakes or rivers. A number of photographs of different ice circles are presented.

2. A number of unusual sound recordings are presented which were made within crop circle formations. This is the first documentary I have seen where such recordings are presented.

3. A discussion about a possible link between crop circles and the Bible.

4. A discussion about crop circle hoaxing. In 1992, Doug Bower and Dave Chorley, two somewhat elderly retirees, came forward and claimed that they had created hundreds of crop circles over the preceding 15 years using a plank of wood, rope and a baseball cap fitted with a loop of wire to help them walk in a straight line. At that time, Doug was 67 and Dave was 62. Dave Chorley died in 1996.

Unfortunately, towards the end of the documentary especially, a lot of the statements made are what I consider to be "New Age Tosh". Here are a few examples:

"When I was a child I used to live in a village nearby and they always called me 'the fairy child' because I always could see little balls of light round trees and plants and really wondered why no one else could see those little balls of light. And then as you grow up you tend to lose that link with the nature spirits - you know - and some people think you're crazy. The first time I saw those lights again was with the first crop circle I saw so I knew that there was a co-operation with the elementals and the nature divas." Isabelle Kingston

"I feel that the crop circle makers are component parts of all sorts of things... it's the power of the consciousness of the Earth, I feel it's the consciousness of the Universe, I feel it's the aquiescence of the plant kingdoms, and I feel it's our own psyche... our own spirituality... our own connectedness or divinity within all things that are also creating these symbols, so that when you have all those four things coming together they hit a critical mass and an expression of that moment is placed in the field." Isabelle Kingston

"Some researchers are now coming to believe the crop circles are templates for a new human reality about to emerge... to help attune humanity to the new vibratory frequencies being brought to this planet. What has not been ruled out, however, is that Gaia, or Mother Earth herself, is sending thought forms to humanity" The Narrator

"I believe the first thing that each of us needs to do is get out of our heads and bring our consciousness to our heart chakra and then flow with the divine dance that is the phenomena of the crop circle... allow ourselves to experience the gift." Judith Moore

"Each crop circle is a jewel of creation. Each crop circle carries fractalan formulas for healing the planetary crisis, for awakening the higher states of consciousness, for activating our DNA from a two-strand DNA to the full thirteen-strand DNA... as each one of us scan these through our neural synapsis it awakens an encodement in our DNA that interacts with the formulas and affects the collective consciousness." Judith Moore

At this point I would have preferred the documentary to stick to facts, evidence and expert opinion rather than this kind of rubbish.

Anyway, I hope this review has been helpful for any reader considering investing in this DVD. Are crop formations simply a cruel hoax by human circle makers or something else entirely? Please view this documentary, and decide for yourself!

Like Crop Circles - Quest For Truth, this is another excellent documentary about the "crop circle" phenomenon, created by another director who is very open-minded on the subject. The content of the two documentaries is quite similar; this is necessarily so because, short of showing lots of pretty pictures (which are of course not lacking) there is not a huge amount of concrete facts that can be recounted about the phenomenon other than that it exists, that the vast majority of formations are totally genuine and cannot be replicated by human hands, and that there is not much more we can say for certain!

We CAN say for certain that genuine formations exhibit certain anomalies which do not exist in human-made formations. Leaving aside the sheer artistry, size, complexity and geometric precision of many genuine formations, the like of which cannot be reproduced by human hands, the plants in genuine formations are not damaged as they always are in human-made formations. Instead of being flattened they are bent over, the bends are then somehow biologically healed and the plants grow with increased vigour for a linearly-decreasing distance around the formation; even the seeds of affected plants are somehow biologically altered and yet they subsequently grow better than "normal" plants. Also as the plants are gently laid down on the ground they are intricately interwoven in the most amazing ways, as though each individual plant was lovingly and fastidiously placed. Which is impossible because there is enough evidence now to suggest that these formations appear in seconds.

There are also anomalies in the magnetic fields in and around genuine formations, with magnetic north being far from true; there are light anomalies which create multiple ghost images on photographs taken in new formations; there are possibly even aerial anomalies which in the past have been suspected of triggering the ejection of an RAF pilot from the seat of his Harrier on 22nd of October 1987 in the famous "Ghost Plane" incident. Indeed, the course track of the "Ghost Plane" shows without a doubt it changed course a fraction of a second before flying over the middle of three formations, and the location of the pilot's body and ejection seat seem to indicate that the ejection occurred either on or a fraction of a second before the course change. Unconnected? The RAF certainly investigated the possibility that there WAS a connection; the verdict was eventually left open, indicating that no other cause was ever found.

Additionally there are often "balls of light" witnessed and sometimes caught on film before and after formations; some witnesses claim to have seen new formations appear within seconds of these balls of light flying intricate patterns around fields. Governments and the mouthpieces of officialdom have inadvertently confirmed the claim that these formations are not created by human hands insisting that the formations are the result of a meteorological phenomenon and thus likewise created not by human hands. Are the balls of light part of the meteorological phenomenon? Officialdom won't say. They DO say "nothing to see here, move along", and go to great lengths and spend large amounts of public money creating hoaxes and stunts to discredit the genuine phenomenon. If, as claimed, this is a non-phenomenon, the question has to be asked: why?

There is NASA video footage that shows an object flying sedately in low-earth orbit at around 60,000 mph, around 40,000 mph faster than the fastest human-made object. There is a flash of light and what appears to be some kind of missile or energy weapon fired from earth towards the object (a "Star Wars" weapon system, perhaps?), at which it changes direction in a turn estimated at approximately 14,500 earth g's, and accelerates to approximately 250,00 mph in the space of 2 seconds. Is this a hint of the potential of the technology which appears to be hinted at through the decoding of the mathematical relationships within many genuine formations so far? Can mankind afford to ignore the possibility?

As a small taster of some of the things NASA and their political masters do not want you to see, search on YouTube for the following videos (these are the actual search terms; choose the first result in each case). Ask yourself why these things are not publicly acknowledged and discussed. Then open your mind and imagine the possibilities: are these phenomena related? And just how much is really being kept from us? The "why" is the easy part...

UFO Government 'Star Wars' Missile Video Debunked
UFO NASA's unexplained tether overload incident
NASA STS-75 "Tether Incident" - UFO flightpath tracking/stabilization (Extended Version)

This is a great and informative documentary about crop circles it is something that I could watch again and again, its a beautifully photographed film and such and interesting subject. Highly recommended!

I believe this to be one of the greatest enigmas of our time. By who and how? The New World Order types with an advanced technology, or by otherworldly intelligences? For sure not by drunken hooligans or clever pranksters with ropes and boards. This is a mystery that I'll be sitting on the edge of my chair waiting to watch unravel. Keep it coming.

I belong to a group of spiritual seekers and we all watched this DVD together. We all came away amazed and excited by what we all felt is true.It changed the world view of all of us. Four of us bought the DVD, one of us bought four copies to send to her children.

A good vision of many examples of crop circles & the mystery that they are.

If you're interested in this phenomena, this is a good place to start. Filled with facts, it is also emotionally inspiring, with comments from people who study and witness crop circles. Highly recommended.