chipstyxx
07-01-2009, 05:05 PM
So I followed the link on the Latest Headlines 05/01/09, titled 'Crop circles and Government'. http://www.colinandrews.net/Government02.html
I was interested to read about 'Operation Blackbird' that took place in 1990. The media saw what happened as proof that the whole crop circle phenomena was just a joke as Colin Andrews, (leading researcher) was fooled by a hoax.
http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/blackbird.html
In the summer of 1990 a group of researchers, who described themselves as 'cerealogists,' set out to solve the mystery once and for all. They camped out on a hillside in Wiltshire, the world-capital of crop circles, and waited with banks of recording equipment for something to happen.
'Operation Blackbird,' as it was called, was a high-tech affair sponsored by British and Japanese television networks and aided by the British army.
On July 25 the Operation seemed to meet with success. The lead researcher, Colin Andrews, excitedly announced to the waiting media that a circle had formed during the night in an adjacent field. Unfortunately he spoke too soon. When the researchers examined the circle more closely, they found the calling card of a hoaxer awaiting them. Someone had suggestively left a board game called Horoscope and a wooden crucifix in the middle of the swirled stalks.
The identity of the hoaxer has never been determined, but the event seriously undermined the efforts of the cerealogists to be taken seriously. Conspiracy theorists insisted that the army itself had perpetrated the hoax in an effort to undermine the credibility of the researchers.
However Colin Andrews has said that the real action was going on about 20 miles away. He claims another highly classified operation was carried out by a covert army group who filmed genuine UFO's creating cropcircles. In this interview he talks about Operation Blackbird and claims the CIA approached him and tried to buy him out so he would denounce all his research:
Firstly, of course, there was `Operation Blackbird'.
JK: Can you say something about that?
CA: Well, it was a very sophisticated, well-planned, and extremely expensive surveillance operation, the largest of its kind anywhere, whereby we cordoned off acres of land and set up a whole collection of cameras and equipment in order to see if we could catch a crop circle being formed on film. We had more than a million pounds' worth of hi-tech equipment there, some of it on loan, some of it provided by the British Army, some of it paid for by the BBC and Nippon Television (Japan). It was a highly sophisticated operation set up in conjunction with the media and - in the event - the military, too. It was planned to go on for ten days.
JK: The military were involved?
CA: It turned out that way, yes. Although I don't want to name names, I can say that within the first twenty-four hours - and remember we were on MoD land - two Army officers turned up and volunteered the technical assistance of the British Army. We were asked to leave the site for a confidential meeting with them, which took place in my car. We were offered the assistance of military personnel and equipment, but only if we would collaborate with them. As far as Operation Blackbird is concerned, on the second day, with a huge media presence - I mean, it really was the Fleet Street Circus at its height; even people in the business said that only the Royal Family had pulled more cameras and hype than this; thirty-two major national and international networks were there, bouncing their stories off satellites and beaming them all around the world - we all felt that something had to happen.
And of course, it did. A hoax appeared. I then had to go on live television and tell the world that a triangular UFO had been seen over the field where the hoax had appeared, and that in my opinion, the formation was genuine. Indeed, I was pulled out of my bed to do this! I was really made to look a fool in front of the world.
But what, in retrospect, is so blatantly obvious to me now that the whole thing had been a set-up was this.
In my car, on my way to the scene, I made five telephone calls, which were private calls - no one knew about these calls. I was alone in my car, on a radio telephone. When I got to the site I made an announcement based on what I was told - it was pitch-black; I could see nothing, but I was put under immense pressure to make the announcement. The next day it became very obvious that we'd been set up. The world's media heard me say that we'd had an event - there was a crop formation in the field, UFOs had been seen, we'd got it all on film: we'd had an event!
However, as soon as daylight came I saw that the formation was clearly a hoax. I remember thinking at the time: `Somebody has set this whole thing up; somebody has infiltrated our operation and knows the technical parameters of the equipment so well that in front of at least twelve infrared and low-light cameras they've managed to execute a major hoax.' The making of this hoax was not captured on film - at least not officially-because it had been made just beyond the design criteria of the equipment installed. Whoever hoaxed that formation knew the equipment inside out - somebody had a very good inside knowledge of what was there.
JK: And you think the British Army or Intelligence may have been behind it?
CA: Well... I have to be careful here... but two army personnel had arrived the day before, as I've said, and had offered their assistance in return for my... cooperation, shall we say. To add to this, another person - again, I have to be careful here - a person who entered the research arena on that very day, the first day of Operation Blackbird (a person who has since gained an international tag, someone who is well known in the research fraternity) also arrived. And so far as I'm aware, the arrival of this person was the first step in the intelligence community's infiltration of the crop circle research arena.
So this was the first indication to me that `someone' was very keen to find out about this phenomenon. The military were there. The world's media were there. And also, of course, the government were there, represented by this person, whose name I dare not reveal publicly.
Then came Doug and Dave, and phase two of the disinformation program got under way.
JK: So why do you think the government would have wanted to infiltrate a research program which most of the world sees as cranky anyway?
CA: What we have to understand, Jon, is this. The reason the crop circle phenomenon is considered cranky, is because of the government's carefully executed hoax and disinformation program. They have deliberately made it seem that way. My personal view is that, even if they knew the cause of the phenomenon, they did not want this information to be shared with or leaked out to the public. I think that somebody - whoever the people are who really run governments, and it certainly isn't who we elect as our representatives - these people feel that we have to be controlled, like children. And I think they are afraid that this, ultimately, by sensing the nature of the mechanism, would lead us to question even such institutions as religion, things that stabilize society so that they can continue to control society. And once you start sniffing in that area, it's highly dangerous to them, to their control.
It's a long interview, the whole thing is here http://www.ufologie.net/htm/cropi1.htm
What I want to know is, what really went on under the cover of operation Blackbird if anything at all? Is Colin Andrews just claiming that something significant did happen to make up for the fact that he fell for an embarrassing hoax? Colin Andrews sells a DVD about what really happened even though apparently he was sworn to secrecy. So is Collins just a disgruntled Crop circle researcher trying to sell DVD's? Does anyone have any more information on what really happened?
I was interested to read about 'Operation Blackbird' that took place in 1990. The media saw what happened as proof that the whole crop circle phenomena was just a joke as Colin Andrews, (leading researcher) was fooled by a hoax.
http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/blackbird.html
In the summer of 1990 a group of researchers, who described themselves as 'cerealogists,' set out to solve the mystery once and for all. They camped out on a hillside in Wiltshire, the world-capital of crop circles, and waited with banks of recording equipment for something to happen.
'Operation Blackbird,' as it was called, was a high-tech affair sponsored by British and Japanese television networks and aided by the British army.
On July 25 the Operation seemed to meet with success. The lead researcher, Colin Andrews, excitedly announced to the waiting media that a circle had formed during the night in an adjacent field. Unfortunately he spoke too soon. When the researchers examined the circle more closely, they found the calling card of a hoaxer awaiting them. Someone had suggestively left a board game called Horoscope and a wooden crucifix in the middle of the swirled stalks.
The identity of the hoaxer has never been determined, but the event seriously undermined the efforts of the cerealogists to be taken seriously. Conspiracy theorists insisted that the army itself had perpetrated the hoax in an effort to undermine the credibility of the researchers.
However Colin Andrews has said that the real action was going on about 20 miles away. He claims another highly classified operation was carried out by a covert army group who filmed genuine UFO's creating cropcircles. In this interview he talks about Operation Blackbird and claims the CIA approached him and tried to buy him out so he would denounce all his research:
Firstly, of course, there was `Operation Blackbird'.
JK: Can you say something about that?
CA: Well, it was a very sophisticated, well-planned, and extremely expensive surveillance operation, the largest of its kind anywhere, whereby we cordoned off acres of land and set up a whole collection of cameras and equipment in order to see if we could catch a crop circle being formed on film. We had more than a million pounds' worth of hi-tech equipment there, some of it on loan, some of it provided by the British Army, some of it paid for by the BBC and Nippon Television (Japan). It was a highly sophisticated operation set up in conjunction with the media and - in the event - the military, too. It was planned to go on for ten days.
JK: The military were involved?
CA: It turned out that way, yes. Although I don't want to name names, I can say that within the first twenty-four hours - and remember we were on MoD land - two Army officers turned up and volunteered the technical assistance of the British Army. We were asked to leave the site for a confidential meeting with them, which took place in my car. We were offered the assistance of military personnel and equipment, but only if we would collaborate with them. As far as Operation Blackbird is concerned, on the second day, with a huge media presence - I mean, it really was the Fleet Street Circus at its height; even people in the business said that only the Royal Family had pulled more cameras and hype than this; thirty-two major national and international networks were there, bouncing their stories off satellites and beaming them all around the world - we all felt that something had to happen.
And of course, it did. A hoax appeared. I then had to go on live television and tell the world that a triangular UFO had been seen over the field where the hoax had appeared, and that in my opinion, the formation was genuine. Indeed, I was pulled out of my bed to do this! I was really made to look a fool in front of the world.
But what, in retrospect, is so blatantly obvious to me now that the whole thing had been a set-up was this.
In my car, on my way to the scene, I made five telephone calls, which were private calls - no one knew about these calls. I was alone in my car, on a radio telephone. When I got to the site I made an announcement based on what I was told - it was pitch-black; I could see nothing, but I was put under immense pressure to make the announcement. The next day it became very obvious that we'd been set up. The world's media heard me say that we'd had an event - there was a crop formation in the field, UFOs had been seen, we'd got it all on film: we'd had an event!
However, as soon as daylight came I saw that the formation was clearly a hoax. I remember thinking at the time: `Somebody has set this whole thing up; somebody has infiltrated our operation and knows the technical parameters of the equipment so well that in front of at least twelve infrared and low-light cameras they've managed to execute a major hoax.' The making of this hoax was not captured on film - at least not officially-because it had been made just beyond the design criteria of the equipment installed. Whoever hoaxed that formation knew the equipment inside out - somebody had a very good inside knowledge of what was there.
JK: And you think the British Army or Intelligence may have been behind it?
CA: Well... I have to be careful here... but two army personnel had arrived the day before, as I've said, and had offered their assistance in return for my... cooperation, shall we say. To add to this, another person - again, I have to be careful here - a person who entered the research arena on that very day, the first day of Operation Blackbird (a person who has since gained an international tag, someone who is well known in the research fraternity) also arrived. And so far as I'm aware, the arrival of this person was the first step in the intelligence community's infiltration of the crop circle research arena.
So this was the first indication to me that `someone' was very keen to find out about this phenomenon. The military were there. The world's media were there. And also, of course, the government were there, represented by this person, whose name I dare not reveal publicly.
Then came Doug and Dave, and phase two of the disinformation program got under way.
JK: So why do you think the government would have wanted to infiltrate a research program which most of the world sees as cranky anyway?
CA: What we have to understand, Jon, is this. The reason the crop circle phenomenon is considered cranky, is because of the government's carefully executed hoax and disinformation program. They have deliberately made it seem that way. My personal view is that, even if they knew the cause of the phenomenon, they did not want this information to be shared with or leaked out to the public. I think that somebody - whoever the people are who really run governments, and it certainly isn't who we elect as our representatives - these people feel that we have to be controlled, like children. And I think they are afraid that this, ultimately, by sensing the nature of the mechanism, would lead us to question even such institutions as religion, things that stabilize society so that they can continue to control society. And once you start sniffing in that area, it's highly dangerous to them, to their control.
It's a long interview, the whole thing is here http://www.ufologie.net/htm/cropi1.htm
What I want to know is, what really went on under the cover of operation Blackbird if anything at all? Is Colin Andrews just claiming that something significant did happen to make up for the fact that he fell for an embarrassing hoax? Colin Andrews sells a DVD about what really happened even though apparently he was sworn to secrecy. So is Collins just a disgruntled Crop circle researcher trying to sell DVD's? Does anyone have any more information on what really happened?