Are Crop Circles Home Made?
Many of us have been waiting for "inside" confirmation
that the crop circles (the other 20%) were some how
connected with military satellite testing. KK
Wes Thomas
[west@sonic.net]
Tuesday, August 13,
Crop circles: military satellite IR communication system tests?
In this article draft (forwarded with permission), Marshall Smith, Editor,
BroJon Gazette, www.brojon.com, advances some startling evidence for what
I've long suspected: that crop circles are a test of military satellite
laser or microwave technology. This may turn out to be relevant to some
issues presented on these lists if it turns out there's a way to achieve the
same kind of highly collimated (narrow) beam with masers (microwave
equivalent of lasers) needed to achieve high power levels at the ground. The
other possibility (although I don't know how it could be done): there may be
some way for IR beams modulated with voice or signals to be demodulated in
the human body, perhaps by combining beams, as in HSS and other ultrasonic
systems (this is highly speculative). There would also be body heating
associated with this, which I don't remember having seen reported on these
lists, correct me if I'm wrong. If you have any questions about this,
Marshall, who is busy writing a book, has asked me to answer the easy ones
and forward any tough ones to him. - Wes
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Marshall Smith:
I hope you heard Colin Andrews interviewed about crop circles last nite on
Art's show hosted by George N. If not, Andrews pointed out that he was
funded by Laurence Rockefeller - and was "given" special "info" that the
English Crop Circles were 80% "man-made-fakes" and that 20% were "real."
Whatever "real" means. Andrews pointed out that he thinks he was told by
the "CIA" that he had a "close relationship" with the Rockefellers, and that
the information came from "Laurence." Of course, most ppl in the audience
including George N - never got or made the connection of what that all might
mean. So George never pursued or even asked Colin about Laurence
Rockefeller.
Colin pointed out that there have been "crop circle" type phenomena reported
back to the year 1687, but that the beginning of the "modern" crop circle
phenomena started about 1975. He also noted that this pre-dated the
possibility of modern man-made satellite laser devices which could produce
such phenomena. Thus George and Colin concluded that the 20% which are "not
man-made" must be from space and thus "extra-terrestrial." But Not So
!!!!!! (And thus the Laurence Rockefeller UFO-space connection)
Little does Colin Andrews know that in 1982 I worked for Ford-Aerospace in
Mt View to design a top-secret "updated cutting-edge" laser aiming mechanism
for a "Reagan Star Wars" device using a satellite communication laser based
on late '60's to early '70's technology. I proved, using standard physics
that the new aiming device was not accurate or sensitive enough over
thousands of miles to hit and destroy a target moving at orbital velocity,
and thus quietly the project was dropped, but not before the device was
actually test-flown in space.
Publicly, the next year, in 1983 the project was hailed in the press as a
"success" for Star-Wars, simply because "the experiment" was completed. But
I had already calculated, proved and knew it was an absolute failure since
the time needed to turn on and heat up the aiming device to a stable
temperature before there could be any accurate aiming in the vacuum of space
was at least 45 minutes and by which time New York and Washington DC would
be toasted cinders. So much for "success."
Nonetheless, I also calculated and knew that the existing 1970's infrared
communications devices could easily be used from low orbit to focus at a
stationary object several hundred miles away on the surface of the earth and
"draw or burn" with simple math computer programs many "geometric and fancy
fractal" shapes covering several acres within a matter of several seconds.
In the early '80's (1982 in fact) I even proposed to my bosses at Ford-Aero
using such a method to prove the targeting of space objects by simply
"drawing" shapes at remote locations on the earth to show the accuracy and
speed of such a space-based laser aiming device. And that this could be used
to calculate the worst-case example with atmospheric diffraction and the
equivalent motion of both the source and target satellites over distances of
several hundreds of kilometers. Thus it had been possible with even the
late 1960's technology using already-in-orbit advanced military infrared
laser communication satellites, to draw or burn large geometric shapes on
the earth's surface.
My working relationship at Ford-Aerospace was rather strange. I did have
one direct boss who signed my weekly timecard. But I actually worked for a
committee of about eight individuals who were not employees of the company
but all wore "visitor" badges. They seemed much more technically informed
than my direct boss. I only met with them in secret once a week in a sealed
room and I never was told their names. I asked to get more tech specs of
the equipment and test conditions so I could build a test unit in the lab,
and I was told, "We'll send your requests and suggestions up the chain of
command and we'll determine what we can tell you, in about a week or so."
None of these men wore uniforms, but whether they were Pentagon, DIA, CIA,
NSA, etc, I had no way of knowing and they obviously weren't telling. When
I told them of my suggestion for a quick and dirty aiming test by simply
drawing test patterns on the earth from a moving satellite, none of them
blinked an eye nor even made any comment. I assumed because they had
already been doing that test for about 10 years, and they now wanted
something a little more sophisticated.
The purpose of those early laser-communication satellites with their
land-based laser links sitting inside unmarked vans with a telescope mounted
on top, was to provide a wide-band multichannel real-time up/down data link
from Central Command in Florida to a battlefield commander, in the field, at
any point on the earth. With an array of only several of these satellites,
as with the GPS satellites, there could be continuous world-wide coverage of
any battlefield location and situation. Before the advent of the
wide-spread use and growth of the Internet in the mid-'90's this was really
hot stuff and of course was very very "top secret."
Most of those mysterious "crop circle" patterns appear very similar to the
"fractal-swirls" which I used to draw as test patterns on Sun Micro large
high speed X-Y plotters back in the '70's to test the plotting speed and
accuracy of my real time data display system which I was developing for NASA
and DOE. To make the up-down data link secure, the laser beams were not
broadcast to the "enemy", but were highly focused with a footprint of about
a mile to make it easy to keep both the space and ground based telescopes
aimed precisely at each other. This was done with the tracking telescopes
automatically controlled by X-Y gimbaled stepper motors to maintain the live
data link as the satellite passed overhead. The focus of the satellite
laser telescope could easily be changed from a footprint of about a mile
down to only several inches to a foot, depending on the thickness and angle
of the atmosphere through which the beam passed.
To prove the Army satellite aiming devices are still functional over the
several years lifetime of the satellite, an X-Y geometric test pattern is
loaded into the aiming control system, and a test pattern is "drawn" in some
poor farmer's wheat field during the height of the growing season. The
slewing speed of the beam must be programmed to be just slow enough to
"kiss" the wheat and make it bend over, but not so slow that it actually
burns or destroys the wheat. The infrared beam can penetrate storms or
cloud cover, so the test can be done any time anywhere during the growing
season.
Some days later, another visual snooping satellite takes a snapshot of the
test pattern and then that photo and the original X-Y computer program can
be sent to the Army Satellite Command headquarters and compared to ensure
that the laser communication satellite still has a tracking capability
within mil-spec tolerances. Weeks later some young army tech sergeant wins
another ribbon and maybe another stripe for having performed a highly
complicated technical test, and for having written such a complicated but
"pretty" swirling test pattern so that nobody would think it was coming from
the Army.
There is no "message" in the test patterns. And they must all be different
so that nobody gets the idea that they are all coming from the same source,
which is the system of "secret" laser communications satellites. If the
test patterns were all the same it would be like writing in the wheat
fields, "This is only a test. Please Ignore, signed, US Army Satellite
Command." Then, of course, a lot of people would start asking, "A test of
WHAT??" And by then the secret of the Army's worldwide up/down high-speed
highly-secure data link system between Central Command in Florida and
battlefield commanders around the world, would be let outta the bag.
By creating different test patterns for each satellite test, the secret of
its source is kept. And the Army does not even need to make up a cover
story for this mundane annual satellite proficiency test. After each test,
the Internet IRC chat channels are filled with "Wow - I wonder what message
the ET's are sending us now??" This provides enough confusing public
distraction that nobody would even suspect the true source of the test
patterns. And in the last several years there has grown to be many groups
of ground-based hoaxers who now tramp through green wheat fields with foot
boards to make "pretty patterns" in the grass. This also adds to the public
confusion, but does not affect or interfere with the Army's test operations,
since the Army simply ignores all test patterns which are not its own.
The crude ground-based hoaxers also tramp the grass to the point that it
destroys much of the wheat crop and this really upsets the farmers, who are
getting very tired of these childish pranks. The Army test patterns, on the
other hand, have a delicacy and piquancy which simply "kisses" the wheat
stalks with enough infrared heat to temporarily bend the young grass over,
but weeks later the stalks "recover" and grow to maturity so the farmer does
not lose even one stalk or head of wheat. This is one way to tell the
ground-based hoax patterns from the other "real" patterns. This is what
Colin Andrews, who claims he got his data from Laurence Rockefeller, means
by the numbers "80% are hoaxes" and "20% are real." And how does Laurence
know the actual numbers and what is "real?" Its simple.
Laurence has been at the top in the Pentagon since his days as a civilian
assistant or attache to Gen Douglas MacArthur during the occupation of Japan
following WWII. In the late 1940's you couldn't get much higher in the
Pentagon than MacArthur in the Pacific and Eisenhower with NATO in Europe.
So Laurence has had an "in" with the Pentagon for over 50 years. It seems
it was Laurence and his money which provided the seed for building the first
tests of the highly secure laser satellite communication systems back in the
1960's. These were later developed and built by two competing commercial
"black-ops" defense contractors, Ford-Aerospace and Raytheon. It was while
working at Ford-Aero that I was designing a modification of one of the
existing satellite devices to be used as an aiming device for a much more
powerful destructive "Star Wars" type laser weapon.
Since I was hired as a Physicist/Electronic Engr contractor for the
black-ops project, but without any security clearance, I was not given any
information about the existing satellite laser communication system, other
than I was working on a modification of one of the existing space devices.
I was not told how many satellites were in the system. But a little logic
would show that it probably is not just only two satellites, and its
probably not 200. An educated guess for worldwide secret and secure
communication coverage for the Army would be about six satellites, with
maybe two backups online in space just in case one fails. This is about the
same ball-park number of satellites as the GPS worldwide locator system also
developed about the same time for the US military.
Lets assume the total number is about eight, and that they were launched and
came online about one per year starting in the early 1970's. This is about
the same time when several "crop circles" started showing up in places like
farmer McNab's lush new wheat field on his back forty acres down by the
Loch. By the late '70's there were about eight "Army test patterns" being
dropped each year in the green fields of England, Ireland, Canada and a few
in America. A good clue to their source is that they all appeared only in
NATO countries. As a ground preparation for such a test somebody from the
Army would need to "scout out" the region just before the tests and
determine what crops were planted in the field, the age of the crops, and
that there were no sheep, cows or people located in the field. These
pre-test ground preparations could not be done in the Soviet Union, Eastern
Europe nor China during the 70's and 80's and, Ta-dah, no "crop circles"
ever appeared in those locations during those years.
In the late 1980's a number of ground-based hoaxers started stomping out
"look-alike" patterns into many other green fields around the world.
According to recent "crop circle" reporters such as Linda Moulton-Howe,
there are now in the last few years about 40 or so crop circles showing up
each year. A little simple math shows that if only eight of them are "real"
Army laser comsat tests, divided by the total of 40 circle patterns each
year, that 20% are "real" and 80% are "ground-based hoaxes." If there is
any take-home message in all of this, it is the use by Laurence Rockefeller
of the term "real." We all know what a "ground-based hoax" means. But what
is a "real" crop circle? What did Laurence mean by that term? And why did
he give those numbers and words to Colin Andrews to broadcast to the public
around the world?
The answer to that question is easily determined by looking at an analogy
which I uncovered with a similar deep-cover "black-ops" system two years
ago, which is the cover stories surrounding the military use of HAARP. As
I reported in 2000, the legitimate military use of HAARP is for the Navy to
reliably communicate with its deep- water nuclear submarines using Ultra Low
Frequency generated in the auroral jet just above HAARP, and the Air Force
uses HAARP to generate a flood of high speed particles in the region far
above the atmosphere to destroy the electronics in any "incoming enemy
missile" while still in orbit and thus act as a sort of missile defense
shield. The legitimate military use of HAARP can only be kept from the
public and from the "enemy" if there are also many other wild stories about
HAARP being used to modify the weather, control populations, repair the
ozone layer hole, guide the jet stream etc, etc. The wild cover stories so
distract the public, that they give up trying to find the legitimate
military uses of HAARP.
I have discovered that all of the HAARP "horror stories" came from one
single source. They came from a technical paper written and presented in
1987 at a Geophysics-Radio conference by the HAARP inventor, Dr Bernard
Eastlund. This was five years before anybody had ever heard of HAARP, or
Congress had even passed the budget to begin construction of HAARP in 1991.
The HAARP horror stories were passed on by a legitimate third-party with
supposed credentials, named Dr. Nick Begich. In the mid-1990's Begich wrote
a book about HAARP and began doing many radio interviews passing on the many
stories which Begich claims he gets directly from "The Father of HAARP", Ben
Eastlund. For the last 10 years, Eastlund claims he is not connected with
the military nor even directly connected with HAARP, but nonetheless, he
continues to be an ongoing source for Begich and the HAARP stories.
By analogy, the "Father" of the Army Laser Com satellite system, Laurence
Rockefeller claims he is no longer connected with the military nor with the
Army project. Nonetheless, Laurence continues to be a source for the cover
stories connecting "crop circles" with ET's, UFO's etc. Rockefeller in the
last decade has spent considerable money to fund research projects into UFO
sightings, the Roswell Incident, and so on. As with HAARP, the "Crop
Circle" stories are passed on through a legitimate third party, in this
case, Colin Andrews who reports the story about the "real" crop circles on
the Art Bell program. In both cases, the third-party reporters claim a
direct connection with the "Fathers of Invention", Ben Eastlund, and
Laurence Rockefeller.
Also in both cases the military has "clean hands" since in neither case are
the deep cover stories for these "black-ops" started by or spread by the
military, but were, in fact, passed on to the public from the "Fathers"
through third parties. The military and the government can claim it has
never lied to the public, nor are they the source, nor do they even know the
source of the wild cover stories. There are many legitimate reasons for the
US military to develop advanced military systems, which account for the
billions of dollars spent each year for "black-ops" and "off the books"
weaponry which only have any value if they are kept secret. If the systems
are exposed to the public, the "enemy" can easily defeat the military
systems simply by developing counter-measures.
Nonetheless, the Army's secret laser communication satellite system is now
30 years old and is "passe technology" which can be more easily and cheaply
done by encrypting data channels which run through the redundant data
back-bones of the Internet and up/down linked through the large web of
commercial satellites now in geo-sync orbit. The military has its own web
of geo-sync satellites, but they could be destroyed during wartime, so the
commercial communication satellites act an abundant and robust backup.
Soon there will no longer be a need for the Army's separate secret
laser-comm system and no longer a need for the annual tests of the system by
dropping "pretty pictures" on farmer McNab's back-forty wheat field next to
the Loch. Then "Father" Laurence Rockefeller and his third party
go-between, Colin Andrews, can legitimately report that 100% of crop circles
are now "ground-based hoaxes." But that makes for very dull reporting and
unexciting news. And now you know more about Crop Circles than you ever
wanted to know.
Marshall Smith
Editor, BroJon Gazette
www.brojon.com
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