Crop Circles: The Greatest Mystery of Modern Times

📖 The Greatest Mystery of Modern Times

Reviewer: Dr. E. H. Haselhoff of Eindhoven, the Netherlands (learn more about me)

Lucy Pringle has long been known worldwide as a gifted and prolific crop-circle photographer. Her years of work on the crop-circle phenomenon make this book a natural outcome. That a mainstream publisher, HarperCollins, approached Pringle and asked her to write it is persuasive in itself.

This well-made hardcover is filled with artistic photographs, as readers would expect, and presents the crop-circle phenomenon in full—from firsthand accounts of people who watched circles form, to scientific research and paranormal phenomena. A wealth of anecdotes gives the book a personal tone, and it is a pleasure to read.

Even so, die-hard skeptics will still find things to pick at. Many of the reports of “anomalies” in the book—cameras failing, effects on the moods of animals and people, unpleasant physical effects, and so on—will be casually written off by many as “coincidence” or “pure imagination.” I agree with them on this point: “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.” On the other hand, I have experienced for myself that strange things do happen inside crop circles, but if one wants the public to take this seriously, it must be stated with great care. I also believe the existence of human-made crop circles should not be ignored. People do make crop circles. That is only a small part of the whole phenomenon, but the fact should not be lightly dismissed, as Pringle does.

All in all, I recommend this book as an excellent introduction to “the greatest mystery of modern times”…

📖 A Gripping Story

Reviewer: Simeon Hein of Boulder, Colorado, USA (learn more about me)

Lucy Pringle’s Crop Circles is a distinctive collection of narratives, gathering stories and anecdotes of people’s strange encounters with crop circles. Anyone who reads it will reach one conclusion: crop circles are a mysterious phenomenon, capable of producing unusual effects on perception and energy.

The book includes vivid accounts of witnesses watching crop circles form on their own, very similar to descriptions by the researcher Colin Andrews. Anyone who thinks crop circles are merely odd patterns in a field ought to read this book.

In my own view, Pringle unfairly dismisses the possibility that humans took part in making many of the formations. Even so, the book amply shows that crop circles are a genuinely strange phenomenon, far from something that can be explained in a few words.

(Simeon Hein is the author of Opening Minds: A Journey of Extraordinary Encounters, Crop Circles, and Resonance, published by Mount Baldy Press in 2002.)

📚 Source:UFO Evidence Bookstore