Crop Circles

by Lucy Pringle

Crop circles first appeared in the 17th century and have been increasing in both size and complexity, particularly in the last part of the 20th century. They are now appearing all over the world and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0722538553
• ISBN13: 9780722538555
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Thorsons Publishers
• Length: 159 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.2" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

Even-handed book on controversial topic

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.

Spellbinding Stories

Lucy Pringle's Crop Circles is a unique collection of stories and anecdotes about peoples' strange experiences with crop formations. Anyone reading this book cannot escape the conclusion that crop circles are a mysterious phenomenon that create nonordinary perceptions and energy effects. There are wonderful accounts of people who witness the spontaneous creation of these crop patterns, very similar to those told by researcher Colin Andrews. Anyone who thinks that crop cirles are merely exotic designs in the field needs to read this book. Pringle discounts the idea, unfairly in my view, that humans might be involved in making many of these patterns. Nonetheless, the book demonstrates that crop circles are truly weird phenomena, not easily explained away. (Simeon Hein is the author of Opening Minds: A Journey of Extraordinary Encounters, Crop Circles, and Resonance (Mount Baldy Press, 2002).)

Crop Circles, The Greatest Mystery of Modern Times

Researcher and writer Lucy Pringle begins this well-illustrated book of more than 150 black and white and color images with eyewitness reports concerning crop circle creations. One of the most haunting cases involved a couple in 1990 while walking in the early evening near their Hambledon, Surrey home. They were suddenly confronted with a strong gust of wind and felt as if they were being sucked upward. "Looking down we saw a circle being formed around us. It only took a couple of seconds. A spiral appeared anti-clockwise and grew outwards from the centre, about two metres in diameter. In the centre of the circle there was a small pyramid of corn, the stalks stacked up against each other."Others over the years have reported seeing mysterious lights associated with cereal crops going down in various parts of the world. The lights rarely have structure and have been an enigma since the Warminster, U. K. flap of the 1970s which also involved crop circles. Lucy also documents a variety of effects on animals such as dogs and birds, both of which are known to detour from crop formations as if sensing something to avoid not visible to humans.

Extremely informative and enjoyable

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.