The second time I witnessed the forming of a crop formation took place in Germany. For several years, a formation had come down during 'Walpurgisnacht' (the German Beltane) in the area of Kassel. Reason enough to visit Kassel on that particular night and do a night-watch together with a group of German researchers, united in the FGK.
And so, in the night of 30 April to 1 May 2000, Bert and I were sitting on a hill near Kassel, whereas fifteen other FGK-researchers had taken their position on other hilltops, not far from us and overlooking the same valley. It was a cold night, so we stayed in the car. In front of us was the oilseed rape field we had to keep an eye on, behind us was a motorway.
It seemed to become a boring, long night. But suddenly, at 1.00 am, something changed. At first, our attention was drawn to the streetlights of the village on the other side of the valley. They dimmed one by one. Strangely, they weren't just turned off, but they dimmed gradually, as if something slowly descended and hid them from our view. The lights on top of the hill dimmed first, after which the other ones - down the hill - dimmed as well. Whatever was dimming the lights, came from up above!
Silently and awe-struck we watched how the entire valley became dark. It was as if a bell glass was put over the area. And we too were inside that bell glass. The motorway behind us seemed to have disappeared. The streetlights and car headlights had vanished... For a short while, we thought it might be some sort of a thick fog, but as we were thinking this, a car drove down the small road only 300 feet in front of us. We could see its headlights: there was absolutely no fog whatsoever...
The darkness that suddenly had appeared was so extreme, it was as if we had gone stone blind. Bert and I could see each other allright in the car, but outside everything seemed to have vanished completely. I have done an awful lot of night watches, and I know from experience that your eyes always get used to the dark. Even at new moon, you can eventually see just about everything. But that did not happen here. It remained pitch-dark, as dark as I had never ever experienced in my life. So dark, that you realise something is wrong...
The second curious thing was that it became totally quiet. So quiet that it seemed as if we had gone stone deaf. All nightly sounds (you'd be surprised how many there usually are!) had vanished. Even the humming sound of the cars on the motorway had suddenly disappeared. The windows of our car were wide open, so we should have been able to hear everything. But there was nothing. No sound at all. Yet, when we said something to each other, or simply moved in our chairs, our voices and the sounds we made sounded perfectly normal. So we weren't really deaf...
After about 15 minutes, things began to change. The lights down in the valley started to reappear. Higher and higher up the hill, they became visible to us again. Whatever had put our world under some sort of a glass bell, was ascending. The sounds too reappeared: the rustling in the grass, the wind through a shrub, an owl in the distance. And the motorway was back: the sound and lights of the cars were once again part of our world.
I remember saying to Bert: "If we find a crop circle in the morning, it was formed just now..."
One hour later, the identical thing happened again: the dark bell glass came down once more and took all sound and vision away from our valley. And 15 minutes later it ascended once again and the ordinary world returned. Once again it was an experience that can be described only as 'not of this world'...
The next morning at dawn, everybody started the engine and checked all the fields in the valley. All night watchers had experienced the same thing, all from different strategic points and angles. And yes, a brand new formation was found. Almost right behind us and just behind the motorway, there was one single, small oil seed rape field that no one had been able to see. And there was a beautiful, small formation in pretty yellow flowers. The stems were nicely bent, not broken.
Well, during this night in Germany, we were shown once again that the crop circle phenomenon cannot be caught in one particular frame. True, science has proven that crop circles are made by balls of light, but both times that I was there, I didn't see any lights. I became 'deaf and blind', or maybe I was put in a parallel universe for a while, or I experienced true bliss. In other cases, eyewitnesses tell about a local fog that hung over part of a field. When the fog disappeared after a while, a freshformation was there in the field... Other witnesses felt a thrust of air or experienced nothing whatsoever.
I get the impression that the Circle Makers would like to keep their identity hidden just a bit longer. They show themselves whenever they wish, to whomever they wish and the way they wish. And they certainly have a great sense of humor. It has happened more than once that they picked out a spot in a field that was just outside the visibility reach of the night watchers.
How much longer before they show their identity and their mission to us?
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