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The Gift - The Crop
Circles Deciphered
Author: Doug Ruby
Blue Note Books
Reviewer: Arthur
Nott
There are many
conjectures today regarding the meaning of the Crop Circle
phenomenon. These are based on philosophical interpretations,
religious meaning, or some even on ancient symbols. But
whatever their meaning people seem to relate to crop circles
in their own way. For some, particularly those who have been
able to walk among the freshly created circles, there have
been incredible psychic reactions from a balancing effect to a
sense of mind awakening or stimulation.
For many years
now researchers have been gathering data trying to put all the
strange pieces of this enigma together. Now perhaps we are
coming into a time of fitting those pieces together to find
answers. One such answer may lie in a recent publication to
come out of America, a book entitled "The Gift - The Crop
Circles Deciphered" written by Doug Ruby. This book is
possibly the first of its kind to propose a technological
explanation for crop circles.
Doug Ruby has
had 24 years experience in the US Air Force and in commercial
air lines, with extensive training in problem solving and in
complex aircraft systems. So it is not easy to dismiss his
insights out of hand. When Doug Ruby looked at the crop circle
designs he saw them as blue prints for a mechanical device.
Typically, a blue print has floor plans, elevations and
perspective drawings. These crop circles seemed to be in plan
only. His experienced mind conceptualised them in perspective
and began to make logical deductions. His book takes us step
by step through these logical deductions.
He gives an
analogy for the basis of working along this line - the way
trainers work with dolphins. Man and dolphin must get to know
each other by frequent contact. Once rapport is established, a
simple form of communication is started whereby some sign
makes some predetermined sense. That established, the sign can
be amplified and the new form worked on until the sense is
received.
Doug feels it
is essential in understanding these circles that people study
them, experiment with them and get to know them so that the
possible meaning or purpose can be discovered.
To raise the
designs from floor plan to elevation, he started by making a
cardboard model of a simple circle. This was a perimeter with
interrupted arcs inside. And here is where the first of a
series of possibly non-accidental occurrences took place. He
"flipped it up into the air and simultaneously spun it" with
his hand. The spinning caused the interrupted arcs to appear
as solid lines. The thought came to him that maybe it could be
turned into a spinning top to see if it might reveal some
particular shape.
His first
attempt involved gluing a round button to the back of the
centre of the cardboard. And this led on to another idea. He
remembered using model aeroplane kits as a child. Pieces in
these kits were made of plastic - several small pieces,
wheels, for instance, would be linked together by small strips
of the plastic. You were meant to break the wheels off the
strips and reposition them in their correct places according
to the blueprint that came with the kit. Therefore, he
reasoned, perhaps the designs of circles on lines were meant
to have the circle parts removed from the shafts and
repositioned. He removed the circle parts of the designs and
threaded them through the centre onto a wooden dowel. Now he
could spin the dowel in his hands to see what effect the marks
in the circles would show.
When he moved
on to the asymmetrical designs, this hand spinning became
awkward and got out of balance, leading him to construct a
spinning machine out of a fan motor mounted on a box. He
inserted the dowel into the fan motor shaft and experimented
with spinning at differing speeds. He devised various ways of
dealing with the different elements of design, moving pieces
along the shaft to positions that seemed to make more sense.
Over time, crop
circles had changed from simple circles to more complicated
ones such as pictograms. Some of these had small straight
lines set parallel to the shaft. When he replicated these on
flat board and placed them flat on the shaft they seemed to be
telling him that they were meant to be "spacers" or uprights
separating one "wheel" from another. He treated the antennae
appendages of insectograms (pictograms with antennae) as
origami, folding them up from their original position at the
circumference of the circle from which they extended. These,
too, seemed to create a spacing effect. The next puzzle was
what to do with the designs which showed isolated tiny circles
and arcs floating off from the main design. He treated them by
attaching the "floaters" with thin strips to the main shaft so
they stood out just where they were originally.
Incorporating
all these different treatments into his models (he had by now
progressed from cardboard to wood) he observed interesting
visual effects When he spun his models on his spinning machine
he saw semi-transparent fields where the model held items
which extended asymmetrically, and solid form where the model
was uniform. It was not long before the "engineer" in Doug
Ruby had figured out a working model of what began to appear
to him to be a space craft. The very angles of the underside
agreed precisely with what would be necessary for such a
craft. He realised that in the crop circles we were actually
being given the clues for building our own flying saucers - a
massive leap forward in our technology.
One of the most
famous crop circles was the Mandelbrot Circle. Placing his
wooden model (by now a completed space craft) into the shape
of the Mandelbrot and letting the sides of the model touch the
inside of the main circle, he tested it on the spinning
machine. The small outer circles round the Mandelbrot showed
up as a transparent shape surrounding his "space craft" at
particular intervals and ratios in respect to the craft.
Another lateral
leap of his experienced problem-solving mind and Doug Ruby had
twigged he was seeing a force field round a mechanical object.
It was time to graduate from woodlathe models and spinning
machines to computers. With a simple CAD program (Computer
Aided Design) animating and rotating the designs automatically
he began to race ahead with discovery. He deduced the energy
source - photon energy. He deduced the system for control of
flight. It was fitting in perfectly, one discovery following
fast on the previous one. The computer was speeding up the
discoveries amazingly.
He realised
that the crop circle designers had possibly meant all along
that computers should be employed in the interpretation of
these designs. That they had been using a technology slightly
ahead of our development waiting for us to grow into that
level of understanding and that, now we were reaching it, we
would be able to unravel the clues. But at this point, Doug
Ruby has reached the limit of his present capabilities. He
does not have access to a computer with a full professional
level Computer Aided Design program. On such a program, these
designs could be drawn and spun graphically. He feels this is
the true medium needed to break the final codes.
If anyone out
there would like to take up the challenge this book is a must.
The designs shown in this beautifully presented book show you
the full progression of his breakthrough logic, with many more
designs for others to work on. A book highly recommended, not
only for those attracted by the inventive possibilities, but
for all who have followed the crop circle enigma over the
years.
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