After Doug and Dave came Team Satan: three men from London who claim to be artists. In the course of years they changed their name into The Circle Makers. However, I will always refer to them as Team Satan, for their claims too are based on lies.
listen and shoot film (1998)
When I interviewed them in 1998 for the production of the video documentary
In 1998 Team Satan was hired to push the shape of a car into the crop, for a commercial of Mitsubishi. The piece of crop that would be flattened was bought from the farmer (Tim Carson, owner of the famous East Field at Alton Barnes) and the three men went to work, in broad daylight. And that was very interesting, because now we could finally see just how capable they were. Well, it was a learning experience, for both parties... First of all, they hammered posts into the ground to mark certain spots in the field. This of course created holes in the ground (which you don't find in authentic formations) and it produced a lot of noise. Strange, for 'professionals' who claim to work without a sound... Furthermore they couldn't agree on many things, whereas teamwork should be absolutely indispensable to perform such a task professionally. They argued about how to hold the measuring tape, about who was supposed to stand where, about many issues one might expect a professional team to perform blindly. Finally, they needed no less than 14 hours to put the car into the field, under these ideal circumstances (broad daylight and permission of the famer). Fourteen hours was far too much, since the available number of hours of darkness in summertime is no more than five...
Watching this event left us with but one conclusion: these men were definitely not responsible for the appearance of UK's magnificent crop formations. Some barefaced lies were exposed...
Another thing that caught my attention was that these men are extremely communicative! I am a professional communication consultant and I can assure you that these men are professionals. They are extremely well trained, eloquent, and (apart from the example mentioned above) intelligent. I don't often meet artists like that. Most artists are so focused on their creations, that they neglect their communicative skills. Team Satan is a hugh exception. Take a look at their website: it's far too smooth! I still wonder if these men were trained by the government in order to bring desinformation into the world, thus aiming to keep the majority of the public away from the crop circles. They are simply too well trained, too smooth and too cunning to be just some jokers from London...
And let's face it: desinformation is a very effective tool. This became quite clear after the claims of Doug and Dave. No matter how ridiculous they were, they had the world convinced. Even these days, in 2004, when I tell people I'm a crop circle researcher, many times I hear: "Crop Circles? But aren't they made by those two old guys from the UK?"...
And when, in 1994, two Dutch boys went to the press and claimed to have made a crop formation that had been discovered the day before, their story turned out to be nothing but a lie. They just thought it would be fun to be in the newspapers just once... But the public opinion was formed: "That crop circle was man-made, we can relax and go back to sleep..." For suppose the formations are not made by man, then by whom are they made? Isn't that a scary thought?...
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