Light phenomena

In 1995 I did a nightwatch together with Bert Janssen on top of Knap Hill, famous for its many UFO-sightings. At approximately 5 a.m. Bert woke me up. He pointed south-east and asked me what I thought of the light flying there. I watched but didn't see any light. It was already dawning and the visibility was good. I should have been able to see the light Bert was describing to me. He said it was large and very bright, and it flew smoothly from right to left. Bert kept pointed at it, but I simply could not see it...

Eventuelly we forgot about this event. But then in 1996, we interviewed the owner of the Henge Shop at Avebury, David Wyer, for our video documentary Crop Circles, What On Earth Is Going On? He told us in front of the camera that - one night earlier that year - he had stood by the window of his living room, late at night. He couldn't sleep and stared out the window. Suddenly he saw two lights at the horizon. He described how the lights seemed to perform some sort of dance in the sky; sometimes they would disappear behind the clouds and then appear again. He called his partner and asked her what she thought of the lights, but she could not see them... The next morning he heard about the appearance of the 'Double Helix' formation in the East Field at Alton Barnes: the place where he had seen the lights...

So... the crop circle lights seem to decide who is to see them and who is not. This might be not quite as weird as it sounds. After all, the visibility reach of the human eye is very limited. There are many types of light that we simply cannot see, such as infra-red and ultraviolet light. It could therefore very well occur that one person can see a light just yet, while the other person cannot, for it's just outside the reach of his/her eye's visibility.

Experiments have shown that the human eye's visibility is not a fixed thing. Under certain conditions (for instance during mind-expanding meditations), people tend to see more than under other conditions. The eyes then pick up more light frequences. Therefore, the fact that one person sees a light, whereas the other person does not, is not as strange as it sounds. And then, the next step to the possibility of the lights actually influencing our state of mind, through which we see more (or less), is not quite as far-fetched anymore...