 | The Crop Circle Cowboy |
| The Crop Circle Cowboy |
The following e-mail's were sent to and from Roy Hale, the editor of ELUFON's Down To Earth magazine.
The Subject: Crop Circle Hoax's & Hoaxers. A confession by Matthew Williams.
From: Matthew Williams
Sent: 19 October 1998 01:14
To: Rob Irving; Matthew Bevan, Darren Danks, Diahann Krishna, Bert Janssen, Chris Fowler, Colin Andrews, Sheri Shultz.
Subject: Statement to those concerned.... here is my statement on our activities. I hope people see the positive side to all of this - because there really is one. Love Matthew & Paul.
(Do Matthew and Paul feel guilty about what they have done? It does seem so, as they feel the need to make a statement admitting their actions. "A positive side to all of this", was mentioned, Can't wait to here it. Hands up all of you who think there is a positive side to faking Crop Circles, or anything else UFO related for that matter).
The "positive sided reasons"
1. To determine how easy or hard it is to make complex formations.
(This is just an excuse to go into a field and make a mess of it, with or without the owners permission. It would be nice to know just how difficult it was though, sometime, Matthew.)
2. To observe the reactions of researchers in the crop circle fraternity and to see how good their senses are for the recognition of man made circles.
(Dear Matthew and Paul, could you please publish the results of your research, as it would be nice to know if "your formations" were found to be genuine.)
3. To ascertain if there is a form of communication observable between circle makers via pattern progression. This includes human and "alien" or "spirit" intelligence's.
(OH NO! his Crop Circle is better than ours, we'll have to do better next time lads!!!)
To observe if there were any unusual effects observable of an anomalous nature whilst making a circle - as has been stated on many occasions by other human circle makers.
(The only unusual observation I can see, is that doing this has made honest people of you, or why would you have admitted it in the first place.)
5. To understand the phenomena of circle making and its effects from a different perspective - that of a circle maker as opposed to researcher.
(You will never be 100% a circle faker because you are a researcher or so I thought. I would also have thought you'd have to be totally open minded to do either one or the other. How can you expect anyone to believe that you are serious about your research when you are dishonest? Not only that, but how can anyone ever take you seriously or believe anything you say again, can you tell us honestly how that makes you feel? The address is in the back of the magazine.)
6. To ascertain if various other claims of previous human circle makers were true. The need for secrecy in our work was paramount so as not to change our results or effect the reactions of public or circles researchers. This was not an attempt to "HOAX" people merely a need to maintain status quo, so as to establish a control sample from which we could gauge reactions. We did inform some researchers of what we were doing and even some close friends.
(It would be nice to know the reactions of those who you told, sometime.)
We obviously did not then refer to these people in our observations as they were no longer part of the control. Some people are offended because "they were not told". (I don't think people are offended about not been told of your activities, it's finding out that someone, like yourself, an investigator, speaker, researcher, could become (to put it bluntly) a con-artist.)
Well this is a fact they would have to deal with. As far as we are concerned we told only those that we considered important enough. Now that the "secret" is out, we are happy to talk more openly about our results. Hopefully this will satisfy the questions of those who were not given privy to inside knowledge.
(I think everyone will agree that it would be nice to see the results of your "secrets"
RESULTS:
It was clear that a few months into the circle making season that as we progressed in our endeavours that our group of circle makers was changing its opinions and motivations as to circle making.
(In what way were your opinions changing, surely this would be relevant proof towards your claim of being "The Crop Circle Cowboy") HUFOS's nick name for you.
This also progressively effected a change in the initial questions that were being asked by us.
(I.E.: We are supposed to be professional people in the subject of UFOlogy, why the hell are we faking Crop Circles? Are we mad or just invisible?)
We observed many unusual phenomena in and around the fields whilst making circles. (You mean, like the hundreds or possibly thousands of pounds worth of damage done to the crops you were destroying, some phenomenon or what?)
We noticed changes in our outlook on life whilst making the circles and got a sense that we were in communication with a much higher intelligence regarding the responses to our circle designs - i.e.: other circles which appeared as an apparent response to circles which we created.
(Will you, your group, sometime in the future be letting us know what you were saying to each other, "yourselves and this higher intelligence".)
 | I saw these two Crop Circles laying in a field and thought of you, I just wondered can you identify any of them as your handy work or can you tell us what they are saying? |  |
I will not go into to greater detail about what exactly these life Altering changes were as some of this is still sinking in for me, the Realisations still far too fantastic for me to feel comfortable writing about.
(If you are uncomfortable writing about these things, why are you letting us know about what you have been doing now, giving us only half of the picture, surely it would have made more sense to wait until you could talk or write totally openly about what you did and also about your "life altering changes".)
However I can say that due to special coincidences which took place -Which included the creation of almost exactly the same types of designs appearing in different parts of the country on the same nights as we were working, we had to conclude that human circle makers (ourselves included) were being given inspiration from a higher source for their designs.
(Either that or you were possibly all working from the same photocopied designs. Who were the other human Crop Circle fakers anyway, assuming they were human.)
Due to this change in attitude we then started to see circle making as a form of sacred art which has a higher purpose. This is how I still currently regard the subject.
(This is starting to sound rather like a cult to me, please let me know if I am wrong won't you.)
Our circles were regarded by the circle research community as genuine.
(Unfortunately, we have only your word for this, as you are the only people who know where your Crop Circles are.)
We witnessed many measurable effects such as dowsability of the Crop Circle after creation. These tests were undertaken by both ourselves and independent researchers - albeit not to a scientific standard, but to a near enough level for our benefit.
(You have given us no names for the people "researchers and friends" you claim to have told about your actions, mentioned earlier in your "statement", or for the independent researchers mentioned here. I think its about time you let us in on your secrets, don't you Matthew.)
UFOs and other paranormal events were perceived in and around the areas where we were making circles whilst we undertook their construction.
(Did you report these UFO and paranormal events to anyone or do you not have any evidence for these events either.)
Whilst making circles we became aware that we were being protected by some unseen force or intelligence whilst we worked.
(Are you sure that you were not just apprehensive about the things you claim to have done, due to a feeling of guilt.)
This was evidenced many times to us and even took on the form of making us invisible and inaudible to people standing on the edge of the field we were working in. (We at first found this very disconcerting having thought that we had been caught out by either members of the public or circles researchers, only to find out that we could not be seen or heard!) Maybe this is why no human circle makers have ever been caught.
(Is there any video evidence of the circles being made whilst you were invisible inside the circle, this can't be very difficult to do as you have your own film studio!)
People also experienced various equipment failures in our circles and strange video and photographic evidence has been collected by circles researchers and public.
(How do we ("we" being the rest of the UFO community), know that the Crop Circles in the video's and photo's are of the circles that you claimed to have made, as I have said before, we have only got your word for this. You cannot use these as evidence as we could not see you creating your "forms of sacred art".)
As I have already stated in this issues Grey Column, I recently made contact with Matthew Williams, and shall be publishing his response to this article in the next issue of FASTER THAN LIGHT, both on the web, and in our regular magazine. The next section of this report, deals with Matthew Williams own recommendations, and beliefs concerning Crop Circles.
Results:
It was clear that a few months into the circle making season that as we progressed in our endeavours that our group of circle makers was changing its opinions and motivations as to circle making. This also progressively effected a change in the initial questions that were being asked by us. We observed many unusual phenomena in and around the fields whilst making circles. We noticed changes in our outlook on life whilst making the circles and got a sense that we were in communication with a much higher intelligence regarding the responses to our circle designs - i.e.: other circles which appeared as an apparent response to circles which we created. I will not go into to greater detail about what exactly these life Altering changes were as some of this is still sinking in for me, the Realisations still far too fantastic for me to feel comfortable writing about. However I can say that due to special coincidences which took place -Which included the creation of almost exactly the same types of designs appearing in different parts of the country on the same nights as we were working, we had to conclude that human circle makers (ourselves included) were being given inspiration from a higher source for their designs. Due to this change in attitude we them conclusions that will be revealed as we compile our results.
We started to see circle making as a form of sacred art which has a higher purpose. This is how I still currently regard the subject. Our circles were regarded by the circle research community as genuine. We witnessed many measurable effects such as dowsability of the Crop Circle after creation. These tests were undertaken by both ourselves and independent researchers - albeit not to a scientific standard, but to a near enough level for our benefit. UFOs and other paranormal events were perceived in and around the areas where we were making circles whilst we undertook their construction. Whilst making circles we became aware that we were being protected by some unseen force or intelligence whilst we worked. This was evidenced many times to us and even took on the form of making us invisible and inaudible to people standing on the edge of the field we were working in. (We at first found this very disconcerting having thought that we had been caught out by either members of the public or circles researchers, only to find out that we could not be seen or heard!) Maybe this is why no human circle makers have ever been caught. People also experienced various equipment failures in our circles and strange video and photographic evidence has been collected by circles researchers and public.
Conclusion:
We believe Crop Circles to be a sacred form of art whose purpose is to mystify people and cause them to ask questions of themselves about their spirituality and the nature of the universe. Without the circles -whoever the creators are then such questions would not be asked. Crop circles do represent a tangible paranormal attraction and emitter. We think that the message of the higher intelligence behind inspiration for crop circles and subsequent paranormal activity contained there within is entirely benign and friendly in nature. The circles we made and considered by us to be genuine in both their undamaged nature - how we were able to achieve non damage to plants with use of our "stomper" boards (in the case of some, but not all, circles) is a magical effect. The subject grows in dynamism and interest due to human involvement -as it human involvement that is a heavy part of the circle phenomena. There is probably a non human intelligence working alongside human Circle makers to create some circles outright. I.E. the original phenomena still remains creating circles - a fact to which ALL human circle makers agree. This is a very worthy point to note! Evidence to this come in the form of additions to circles which appear in the morning.
Recommendations:
Anyone wishing to take part in creating circles must do so with Reverence and attempt to maintain a very high standard of work. They should not discuss the details of their work with anyone outside their team - so as not to lose the magical effect for public observers. It is an old adage that authorship causes circles to lose they mystique. Mystique can be a shamanistic way to draw people towards a greater realisation through an occult act (in some cases). (please take the word occult in its literal sense, not a sinister sense). I am sure that those who do ask for guidance get it. Ask with humility and you may be surprised to see your circle making ability improve radically. When circles are made with the wrong intent they look bad and do not have paranormal effects attached to them (sometimes they do but in a lessened quantity - or warped/strange effects are observed). Good luck everybody.... I think this information only goes to make the circle phenomena bigger than it ever was before. Circle researchers should at last now embrace these facts and get on board - see the bigger picture and we should all be thankful that circles have for those who are prepared to take seriously what they read here. Love and enlightenment Matthew Williams & Paul Damon TRUTHSEEKERS.
Of course it must be pointed out here that the above recommendations are those of two self confessed Crop Circle HOAXERS and in no way reflect the beliefs of the editors of FTL or the Hull UFO Society.
Jason L. Lewis
