Colin Andrews CROP CIRCLES

243 Pages·2008·21.3 MB·English

Crop Circles
Signs of Contact
by Colin Andrews
with Stephen Spignesi
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Andrews, Colin.
Crop circles : signs of contact / by Colin Andrews with Stephen J. Spignesi.
p. cm.
Includes index.
ISBN 1-56414-674-X
1. Crop circles—Miscellanea. 2. Curiosities and wonders—Miscellanea.
3. Science—Miscellanea. I. Spignesi, Stephen J. II. Title.
AG243.A54 2003
001.94—dc21 2002045245
Dedications
To Synthia, my wife,
who has been a tremendous pillar of support,
and a friend I love and respect so much.
—COLIN ANDREWS
To my brother, David Spignesi,
a stalwart paladin of self-awareness and self-improvement.
—STEPHEN SPIGNESI

Acknowledgments
Colin Andrews
In the past 20 years, many people have contributed to my research in various
important ways, and I thank them all from the bottom of my heart. To name but a few:
Gordon and Elsie Andrews (Mom and Dad), David Andrews, Peter and Jean
Andrews, Helen and Hayley Andrews, the late Richard Andrews, Mary and Jean Noel
Aubrun, John Barrell, Mandy and Peter Butcher, Terry Butcher, Ian Chistopher, Iris
Demauro, Pat Delgado, David Duhig, Marie Galbraith, Yeva Gladwin, Dave Haith,
Gerald Hawkins, Simeon Hein, Victoria Jack, Pam Jones, the late Count Carli Kanitz,
Countess Irene Kanitz, Shelly Keel, Toby King, Franz and Mona Lutz, Chris McMillan,
Sue Paruch, Reg Presley, Suzie Ramsby, Quinn Ramsby, Laurence Rockefeller, Jane
Ross, Ron Russell, Valerie and Evan Scurlock, Freddy Silva, Peter Sorensen, Steve
Spignesi, Busty Taylor, Ruben Uriarte, Valenya, Chuck Walker, John White, Mat-
thew Williams, and the tolerant farmers.
Stephen Spignesi
As usual, I received more help and support with this book than I could have ever
hoped or prayed for. The gratitude I feel for all of my caring angels knows no bounds.
Pam Spignesi, Lee Mandato, Dolores Fantarella, John White, Barbara White, Colin
Andrews, Synthia Andrews, Jim Cole, Bill Savo, Gayze DiRienzo, Mike Lewis, Ron
Fry, Stacey Farkas, John J. O’Sullivan, Anne Brooks, Georgio Simeon, Production Tran-
scripts Inc., Mick Garris, Jay Holben, Steve and Marge Rapuano, Busty Taylor, Laura
Lattrell, Carter Spignesi, Kim McDonald, Paul Vigay, Lucy Pringle, William Gazecki,
Kevin Quigley, Publishers Marketplace, Stan Wiater, Jodi Branson, Dr. Michael Luchini,
the University of New Haven, Dean James Gustav Speth and the Yale University School
of Forestry and the Environment, Utrecht Inc., Manischewitz and Streit Matzos.

The nature of God is a circle
of which the centre is everywhere
and the circumference is nowhere.
—Empedocles, c. 500 B.C.