Bergensavisen 7th of mars 2003-03-16

 A look into mysterious circles

By ARILD HAMRE

Interested in knowing more about crop circles - and other circles? If so go to hear the lecture by Eva-Marie Brekkestø Saturday and Sunday at the Alternative Convention in Grieghallen (concert hall in Bergen. Ed.)

A BIG THING IN ENGLAND: Crop circles is a big thing in England – both in number and size.
This formation is from Crabwood Farmhouse in Hampshire last august.

I was aware of the crop circles at Toten (area in the central eastern part of Norway. Ed) in 1995/96. But it was when I first saw pictures of crop circles in England in 1997, that I fell acutely in love, says Brekkestø to Bergensavisen.

Today she is an enthusiast in the work the Norwegian Crop Circle Group is doing in this country, and an eager lecturer. In her lecture “Crop Circles, facts, research and mystery” in Grieghallen she will show slides and some amazing footages of balls of light over English fields. Among the footages there is one showing four balls of light making a crop circle in some few seconds.

- Not only this footage shows this. There were also 50 witnesses present who are all willing to confirm what they saw, she states.

- Crop circles have appeared for several centuries, and have always fascinated. From the end of the 1970-ties enthusiasts have carried out solid but so-called amateurish research on crop circles. The last ten years crop circles have also been subjected to scientific research, primarily in USA, but also in other places.

The research now starts to give results, and today one claims to know some of the forces that contribute when crop circles appear.

- I understand the scepticism many feel towards the crop circles – I was among the sceptics myself. But I have come to the conclusion that most people who are sceptical, are so due to lack of knowledge, says Brekkestø who points to several scientific articles published in acknowledged magazines.

It has, among other things, been shown, on the basis of comprehensive studies, that grains and soil from crop circles have been affected physically, biologically and chemically. These changes have not been found in control samples from outside the formations.

The Norwegian Crop Circle Group has no membership or budget. But on an idealistic basis they run a web site to gather and spread information about crop circles in Norway and abroad. – Up till now we’ve only registered 5-6 persons, in Bergen (we got in contact with them at last year’s convention) who are interested in crop circles. We of course hope to get reports of crop circles in the western part of the country. So far we’ve only registered circles in Trøndelag (Middle part of Norway. Ed.), the southern and the eastern part of the country, she says.

Take a look at the group’s web site: www.kornsirkler.org .

ARILD HAMRE tel. 55 23 51 73