Crop Circle Code: Messages in a Cosmic Bottle Mysteries have
always intrigued us, the human species. It isn’t difficult to
see that if someone ‘out there’ wants to send us a message, one
of the quickest ways to get our attention is to say it in code.
Crop circles in the last few years have been full of it.
Compared with complex designs appearing in crop circles between
2001 and 2007, however, the summers of 2008 and 2009 have been
spectacular in attracting an array of this now universally-known
phenomenon. We discussed the rather esoteric code delivered in
2002 in a field of swirling wheat and barley next to the radio
telescope of Chilbolton. This was clearly a reply to the Arecibo
message sent to the stars. One year earlier to the day in the
same field another message in binary code was accompanied by a
‘face’, as though making animate the urgency of the
transmission. The 2001 message, decoded, read: Beware the
bearers of false gifts and broken promises; much pain but there
is still time; believe there is go