Contact Through Crops Book Summary

Contact Through Crops sets out the evidence that some crop circles come from a higher intelligence. This is a summary of its main points.

Early history

Reports of patterns in crops go back centuries. The best known is the Mowing Devil pamphlet of 1678, which blamed a circle in a field of oats on the devil. In 1686 the naturalist Robert Plot wrote about rings in grass and suggested lightning as the cause.

The modern wave

Formations began appearing in large numbers in southern England in the late 1970s. They grew more complex every decade. Early explanations ranged from whirlwinds to hoaxes, but the designs soon outgrew both.

The Doug and Dave story

In 1991 Doug Bower and Dave Chorley said they had made many of the circles with planks and rope. The press accepted this quickly and many people stopped taking the subject seriously. Their methods could not explain the more complex designs that followed. The book asks whether the timing of their story, months after an official sighting, was a coincidence.

The 1991 sighting

In July 1991 a driver and his wife pulled off the A350 south of Warminster and watched a bright whirlwind make a circle in front of them. The report was released by the Ministry of Defence in 2008. It describes four bright whirlwinds spiralling from the centre of the circle, moving around each other, then disappearing.

Signals in the patterns

The hydrogen signature. A simple ringed circle that often opens the season, read as a greeting. See why the first crop circles depict hydrogen atoms.
The Arecibo response. A reply to humanity’s 1974 radio message, beside the Chilbolton radio telescope in 2001.
The DNA disc. A binary DNA spiral at Crooked Soley in 2002.
The device series. A broadcast device in 2000, a two-stage expansion in 2001 and a three-stage device in 2009, which may show how formations are made. See the technology behind crop circles.

Light orbs and contact

Chris Bledsoe has described many meetings with light orbs, which have drawn interest from US government agencies. Steven Greer claims to have called up orbs and formations through meditation, a method he calls CE5. If either is right, contact may be something people can take part in.

What the book concludes

Some formations show devices and processes that point to an advanced technology.
Repeated markers like the hydrogen signature point to an intelligence behind them.
People may be able to make contact through intention, as in CE5.
Official interest and the speed of the hoax story suggest the subject has been played down on purpose.

Free edition

There is a free edition to read first. The full book adds more than 45 pages, roughly one for each year of the modern phenomenon, with 10 more chapters, infographics and a bonus chapter on recent events.

Get the free edition from the book page.