August 25, 2001: Is The US Militarization of Space Behind The Chilbolton Crop Circles?
August 31, 2001:Dr. Eltjo Haselhoff — Chilbolton Crop Circles A ‘Quantum Leap' In Design
This formation created a great swirl of controversy in 2001, which resulted in a floating parade of hoaxers and debunkers on our television sets and web sites, telling us that this formation was anything but genuine.
This left a cloud of doubt over the 2001 Chilbolton Reply to Sagan's 1974 Arecibo contact message, as many wondered if the 2001 Chilbolton formation was a matter of idle speculation or fact.
Or more to the point, are we still equivocating because the truth frightens us? If so, what is that truth, and what will take for us to see it?
Lighting Strikes Twice — A Second
Reply To Sagan's 1974 Arecibo
Contact Message Appears in 2002
There is an old saying that lighting never strikes twice. However, scientific studies have clearly shown that it can and does. In a similar vein, a second reply was received here on Earth to Carl Sagan's 1974 Arecibo contact message in a crop circle formation that appeared in Crabwood England on August 15, 2002.
In terms of sophistication and message content, the Crabwood formation remains the most important crop circle formation ever witnessed on Earth.
Further, the glyph of the binary disc in the formation uses the exact same binary coding sequence used by Carl Sagan's 1974 Arecibo and 1977 Voyager contact messages.
Within hours after this formation appeared, a translation of the message by 2 anonymous authors was published by the Earthfiles.com web site, and it proved to be a clear disinformation fraud designed to negate the true significance of this formation with unnecessary controversy.
During his 3-hour interview with Coast To Coast AM host George Noory in May 2003, YOWUSA.COM publisher and SCP founder Marshall Masters, explained that Earthfiles.com site was cleverly duped by disinformation operatives who cashed in the confidences they'd acquired from the site owner through the sharing of truthful (but not sensitive) information. When this formation appeared, they capitalized on this trust and were able to use the Earthfiles.com site owner as unwitting (but all too eager) broadcaster of this highly successful disinformation ploy.
Is this speculation? Consider this; the Earthfiles.com site owner has yet to reveal the names of these anonymous authors. Also, consider this; as a former member of an armed forces information office, Marshall Masters was taught early on that the difference between good disinformation and bad disinformation is that good disinformation always gets the benefit of the doubt. To this day, these 2 anonymous Earthfiles.com authors and their disinformation ploy continue to receive the benefit of the doubt.
That being said, it is also fair to point out that YOWUSA.COM was also eager to publish an accurate translation of the message contained in the 2002 Crabwood formation.
YOWUSA.COM, August 18, 2002
Crabwood Formation Offers Clear
Evidence of Contact Event
Upon close examination of the Crabwood formation, it becomes readily apparent that the four aspects of workable protocol are offered: Data structure, error checking, send complete and receive confirmation.
With the Crabwood formation, this elaborate setup scheme is most likely not used. Rather, it appears that the data is presented quickly and simply where the binary ones and zeros represent the actual black and white pixels used to form the image of the alien.
It is important to note that a final determination requires much better imagery and aggressive analysis. This is why we are making our plea that the formation not be plowed-under until it can be properly photographed.
However, in the summer of 2003, an accurate translation of the message was deciphered by computer software developer and crop circle researcher Maurice Osborn.
YOWUSA.COM, 03-May-2003, 03-July-2003
Are Extraterrestrials at Odds With Crop Circle Messages?
Using the binary numerical representation method embedded in the 1974 Arecibo message created by Drake and Sagan, Osborn performed a careful analysis of the 2002 Chilbolton glyph and translated it using ASCII code as follows:
"Beware the bearers of FALSE gifts & their BROKEN PROMISES. Much PAIN but still time. BELIEVE. There is GOOD out there. We oppose DECEPTION. COnduit CLOSING,"
In the context of this project, the significance of the formation is that it uses a combination of the binary coding system transmitted into space by Carl Sagan in 1974 and the ASCII lingua digital of the Internet to convey the message on the disc.