THE ASSESSMENT

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ASSESSMENT 2011 SPECIAL EDITION

A TWO-YEAR INVESTIGATION

INTO HUMAN-MADE CROP CIRCLES

IN ENGLAND DURING 1999-2000

COLIN ANDREWS


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It is very important to know all the

information before we dig deeper

into what this period has meant

and why all this happened. Also who

is behind it and why. I intend to tell the whole

story, as far as it is currently known. For many

people making circles, only some know what is

really going on.

COLIN ANDREWS—2008

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The Colin Andrews archives are the largest and most comprehensive

accounting of the early crop circle phenomenon around the world.

This Special Edition is a re-telling of the original research report from

1999/2000 prepared by Colin for the now deceased American

philanthropist Laurance Rockefeller and the Rockefeller Disclosure

Project. Rockefeller had funded research about the “best cases” of the

UFO phenomenon which he distributed to the Clinton White House and

other governments around the world. He considered what was

happening with crop circles to be part of the same dynamic interacting

with humanity.

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When the results of this Report were

first announced to the public in 2000 it created a firestorm of controversy for Colin and the

crop circle “industry”.

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Today, some eleven years later, the results of this Report still dominate

many interviews Colin gives. In the summer of 2010 Colin was uninvited

to a major conference in the UK when one of the “true-believers” protested

his participation. There is a small group of these true-believers who still to

this day do not want to accept what is really going on in the fields all over

the world (50+ countries). They still espouse that all of the circles are

made by unknown sources. Their cottage-industry of photographers still

magically seem to know where the circles and formations are before

everyone else.

Most of the circle-makers, with the exception of a few, have still not come

forward. The farmers have gotten smarter and many now charge to see the

formations in the their fields. But the “Why” questions have not been

asked by most of the true-believers. They are satisfied with making money

from the color photos, tee-shirts, and other artifacts they create and sell.

Same with the local governments and tourism groups which now count on

the “croppie” business each year. Better to let the formations happen then

to prosecute anyone and scare off the tourists.

Colin’s research during the last two decades has centered on the ‘Why”

questions ever since Doug and Dave came forward (the first two admitted

circle-makers) with their claims. For Colin, it is now all about

“consciousness”, about the internal process that the circle-makers go

through, the Why.

If you remember the Richard Dreyfuss character in Close Encounters of the

Third Kind, who is driven to make the clay replica of the mountain where

the aliens want them to meet at, then you can begin to understand what

the circle-makers are going through. Even Doug and Dave have said, "But

you know, it's as if something makes us do it."

I hope by publishing the Series more of the circle-makers will come forth

and tell us all their own unique reasons, their own unique Why, and maybe

then we will begin to know who or what we are really dealing with.

Mike Gravino

Publisher



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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

ANALYSIS……....................... 13

METHODS………………...….... 34

EVIDENCE…...……………....... 68

APPENDIX…………………...... 93

CONTENTS THE ASSESSMENT





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I would like to thank all those who assisted

me during 1999—2000 with this research.

Rob Speight

Busty Taylor

Freddy Silva

Dr. Jean Aubrun

Prof. Gerald Hawkins

Mark Fussell

Stuart Dike

Ron Russell

Peter Sorensen

Steve Alexander

Shelly Keel

Paul Vigay

Quinn Ramsby

Dr. Simeon Hein

UK Ministry Of Defense

Laurence Rockefeller

The Mail On Sunday

The Evening Press

The Daily Mirror

John Macnish

BBC Television

CropCircleInfo.com

The Crop Circle Connector

Doug Bowers

Matthew Williams

Louise Caine

Tim Weisselberg

Karen Douglas

Iris DeMauro

Ulrich Kox

Dr. Franz Lutz

Richard Hall

The Fred Foundation

Wil Russell

John Lundberg

Dr. Gale Ramsby

Synthia Andrews

The Andover Advertiser

Lucy Pringle

Robert Irving

Rod Dickinson

David Duhig

The Circular

The Circlemakers

Pacific Research


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HOW FUNDING FROM USA PHILANTROPIST,

LAURANCE ROCKEFELLER, CHANGED THE

WORLD OF THE CROPPIES, OR DID IT?




I suggest you dissect each

component part of the crop circle

phenomenon before developing the

case for or against any particular

theory or conclusion.

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In 1983 our small research team

started working together in

England. As the investigation

evolved for me, so did the

questions. What first jumped out

then was:

documentary they were making

about the involvement of those

same two men, Doug and Dave.

John was good enough to consider

the impact upon me, of what he

believed he had discovered,

before releasing it to the public.

Pat Delgado and I had taken part

in many TV programs for the BBC

and had got to like him and his

wife Jayne, very much.

The details he revealed could only

have come from someone who

made many of the crop circles.

He showed me letters and the

envelopes they were received in,

on which designs were sketched

and date stamped, before they

appeared in the fields.

There also were photographs

(negatives) of crop circles that

even our small team had not seen

before nor in some cases did the

farmers whose land they were on.

“What created this set

of swirled circles?”

“Which ones did they

make?”

In 1991, after I was privy to some

significantly detailed claims by

Doug Bowers and Dave Chorley in

the presence of the Today

National newspaper at Pat

Delgado's home, again the

question changed. That question

was then:

In the late 1990's I received a late

evening phone call from BBC's

television director, John Macnish

and his wife Jayne. They were

filming interviews surrounding a

“To say the least, we

were shocked by what

we saw.”




The mail and the negatives came

from the same two men, Doug and

Dave. This was very compelling

evidence to support their claim

that they made the crop circles in

the early 80s - but NOT ALL OF

THEM as we will see. Some of their

claims were flawed and I had the

evidence.

In 1996 I was asked by Laurance

Rockefeller to provide information

for the Rockefeller Initiative. The

Initiative provided the United

States government with the ‘best

available evidence’ regarding the

UFO with the purpose of opening

public dialogue.

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I continued to receive funding in

1999 from Laurance Rockefeller

to conduct a two-year

investigation into crop circle

hoaxing. I put together a team

which studied the construction

patterns of man-made crop

circles.

Members of this team infiltrated

several circle-making groups

uncovering new information

regarding the level of anomalous

phenomena experienced by the

hoaxers while making circles.

Using man-made circles as a

base, our team studied the

formations that appeared in

England throughout 1999 and

2000.

“ The people taking the

photographs knew

where the circles were

before anyone else,

because they made

them. “

There was one common denominator

in all this and that was the highly

mysterious events being witnessed

by researchers and the public alike,

and even by the people making them.

"But you know, it's as if

something makes us do it."




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It’s now eleven years

since I announced

the findings of the

Rockefeller study, but

many who are in the public

eye, still, will not refute that

even that one circle is made

by people.



Our research data brought us to

the unpleasant conclusion that in

1999/2000 in England, that 80%

of all the circles we studied

showed "unassailable" signs of

being man-made.

The remaining 20% showed all the

signs of being part of the genuine

phenomenon we had encountered

20 years earlier. The publication

of this data was largely rejected at

the time. Today, in 2011, the

majority of honest, unbiased

researchers have come to believe

the truth of this assessment.

It might seem strange to be

talking about an important

phenomenon in the same breath

as showing evidence that many

are man-made.

We are starting at the beginning,

where any detective has to, and

will finish up at a verdict when

all the evidence has been

gathered and thought through.

One thing is for sure and should

be stressed at this stage. There

is no advantage for any of us to

create myths or new religions as

we experience the realization

that emotions are impacted by

what we see in these fields and/

or, what we would like to believe.

Emotion is, I believe, part of a

much larger study and perhaps

even key in understanding what

could be described as the

biggest social experiment in our

time and just when we needed

the lesson.

“I know from personal experience that no one likes

their belief system challenged, and they sure

don't like facts that force it.”


Even worse is that some know

better but don’t have the

courage or honesty to come

clean. I know that for a fact.

A full eleven years after I

announced the findings of the

Rockefeller financed study, that

only about 20% could not be

explained, many who are in the

public eye, refute even one circle

is made by people.

I feel such privilege and honor to

have been given this opportunity.

I didn't go out looking for this —

it just happened that I found

myself involved in it.

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Well known people in this research

are in vast denial with major parts of

the puzzle and, so to complete the task of

understanding it, is impossible.

And I can stand back after

twenty-eight years and see

what an opportunity this has

been to observe, from the

inside, an extraordinary thing

that is occurring.

I've seen all the human

weaknesses and strengths that

have come to bear as time has

elapsed. We began with three

regular guys — two coming

from science, and the third a

meteorologist who basically

just "dropped in" to the

phenomenon and drew it to the

public's attention.



The remaining 20% showed all

the signs of being part of the

genuine phenomenon we had

encountered 20 years earlier.



Certainly there was a time

when hoaxing did not occur.

But now it is the norm.

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“There have been

layer upon layer

of intelligence

agencies types

checking out this

phenomenon.”

Although I have to say that I've

only been directly approached

twice, but have intuitively felt

their presence from time to time.

I've seen a lot as time has gone

on — some of it very disconcerting

and some of it very uplifting. It

has been an extraordinary human

experience, and I do think that

those words "human experience"

express the bottom line.

We have to embrace every

element of the phenomenon in

order to get its full worth.

Certainly there was a time when

hoaxing did not occur. But now it

is the norm.

We see how the mystery attracted

"Doug and Dave" and those like

them. And the immediate

question is, why? What motivates

people to do such a thing.




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They both felt that there was

something within them — something

outside of their character, outside of

who they were as people — it was as if they

were prompted at a deeper level to get out and do

this.

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By their own admission to

John MacNish from BBC

Television (who went

undercover to investigate

the Doug and Dave

incidents, and who was

dumbfounded when he

heard this), "But you know,

it's as if something makes

us do it." Doug Bowers

was acknowledging this,

and his partner, Dave

Chorley, concurred.

I've heard this same kind of thing

coming from just about everyone

out there that the public doesn't

see — the other people that are

making counterfeit circles.


So I don't think we "get" the entire

picture if we simply deny these

people a voice, if we just simply

say, "you're lying." I believe they

have credible experiences in their

own right. Not to my credit, of

course.

I've been spending so many years

with this, and it's only been during

the last few that I've been open to

talking to people who I had

perceived initially to be deceptive,

dishonorable, and dishonest — in

other words, those that were

making crop circles to fool people

like myself and the public.

But then I felt that I should open

my door and be prepared, first of

all, to listen, and to ask why. This

is very important!

Unless we get answers to the

“why’s”, we don't see the entire

picture.

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I started to literally phone these

people. And I've now met quite a

number of them confidentially, and

I'm getting a picture that fits the

equation I looked at before I

opened the door to them. Again,

this is a "human experience." This

was meant to happen, and it's

coming on two fronts.

The first front are those humans

who are "inspired" to make the

circles. The second front is the

"something else" that is interacting

authentically with the human circle

makers.

We don't know who the

"real" circle makers are.

But there is certainly

compelling evidence that

whatever the source is, it is

intelligent. It knows what

it's doing. This isn't a

random placement of

nature.

When I and Pat Delgado (who had

just finished working with the

Mariner Project for NASA) joined

forces and starting researching this

phenomenon, we wrote the book

Circular Evidence and put this

subject into the public domain.

From that moment on, you could

say, we kicked ourselves in the

teeth, because we had introduced

to the public this dynamic focus

and potential of possibilities. So

now we weren't the only people on

the planet wondering what the

heck was going on.

Suddenly there was TV, and millions

of people, asking the same

questions.




We were, I hope, acting as

beacons of light and the

disseminators of information.

And, indeed, we felt a deep

responsibility. It was important

for us to be totally up front and

not to be brought into any

particular camp, agency, or

business, but simply to be the

public's front. We were very

conscious of that. But, it did

have its downside.

A couple of young guys, for

instance, might have a pint of

beer and run out into a field

and have a go at it. These

attempts were, and still are,

very obvious. Even youngsters

can spot them.

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Then there are those who have

become much more

professional and successful in

replicating extraordinary,

accurate designs.

Indeed there are some designs

that I would hold up my hand

to say couldn't be made by

humans — setting myself up, of

course, because now people

are going to great pains to

replicate features that I had

hitherto believed could not be

replicated.

We started

seeing more and

more people

making crop

circles that were

obviously and

notably fakes.



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1) Who are these people? What is the profile of a determined

individual who is trying to replicate

or construct a crop circle.

2) Why? If it hadn't been for John MacNish

spending quality time with Doug and

Dave, we might never have received

that little bit when they said, "This

doesn't feel like us."

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Two Questions





I notice there are NOT a lot of people

out there, and certainly not the

media, who are asking the “WHY?”

question. I don't think people are quite able

to deal with the answer.





USING TWO DECADES OF FIELD AND

SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH METHODS FROM

WORKING IN THE FIELDS AROUND THE

WORLD.


METHODS SECTION II.




To “assess” the involvement of people

in the construction of crop circles

during 1999 and 2000 in England.

RESEARCHER

Colin Andrews

Author & Researcher

THE CLIENT

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The Disclosure Initiative

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RESEARCH METHODS

> Aerial Observation

> Site Inspections

> Professional Detectives

> Observe Circle Formation

> Analyze Results



Method #1

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Method #2

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Site Inspections




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Professional

Detectives

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Method #4

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Observe Circles

Being Made and

Analyze Results




Popular Methods To

Make A Crop Circle

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First Prosecution Matthew Williams was the first

person in the England to be

prosecuted for making a crop

circle.


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Investigation Filmed and witnessed by researchers

being made at night near the famous

Cherhill White Horse, Wiltshire.



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THE KEY EVIDENCE FOR THE MAN MADE

ORIGINS FROM OVER 200 CROP CIRCLE

INVESTIGATIONS DURING 1999/2000

EVIDENCE SECTION III.




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> CROP CIRCLE STATISTICS

> ANDREWS ARCHIVES SERIES

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Historical Statistics BASED ON 27+ YEARS OF DIRECT FIELD RESEARCH REPORTS

AND HISTORICAL RECORDS (through 2010).

Date # New

1600’s 2

1700s 0

1800’s 2

1900-1939 6

1940-1949 10

1950-1959 36

1960-1969 77

1970-1979 91

1980-1989 353

1990-1999 2269

2000-2010 1410

350 yr total 4256

2879 England/UK 283 United States 218 Germany 171 Canada 114 Netherlands 86 Italy 43 Poland 39 Belgium 37 Czech 36 Australia 30 Switzerland 25 Hungary 23 France 19 Japan 16 Wales 13 Scotland 11 Austria 11 Sweden 11 Russia 8 New Zealand 7 Brazil 7 Finland 7 Mexico 6 Israel 5 Croatia 5 Slovenia 4 Spain 4 Ireland 4 Denmark 3 Norway 3 Yugoslavia 2 Argentina, India, Peru, Romania, Turkey 1 Afghanistan, Bulgaria, Chile, China,

Egypt, Lithuania, Luxemburg, Malaysia, Nigeria, Sardinia, Slovakia, Tasmania, Ukraine, Uruguay

Date # New Countries

1600’s 1

1700s 1

1800’s 1

1900-1939 1

1940-1949 3

1950-1959 8

1960-1969 10

1970-1979 11

1980-1989 13

1990-1999 38

2000-2008 38

# of Countries 50

It has been reported by other researchers that in 2009 and 2010 there were more than 240

additional formations reported around the world. These reports have not been included in the

country totals (left), except for the UK, which they have been.

50+ Countries

Since the 1600’s there have been 4200+ crop circles.

Country Totals

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