Tis the season to be dicking around in the snow, apparently. Crop circles are now soooooooo last decade, so it is good to get the ball rolling early for the new era of field formations - snow circles.

The case comes from Robbert van den Broeke in the Netherlands, who is worth a mention in his own right:

[He] is singular in his ability to consistently and accurately predict the appearance of new crop formations in his general vicinity. Now 28 years old (2008), he has since early adolescence experienced "visions" which contain both the location and the design of the new crop circle accompanied by a clear sense that the new formation is either occurring at that precise moment or that it will occur soon. In the days just prior to these experiences he generally feels a build-up of physical and/or mental "angst" (nervousness and tension) which dissipates once the crop circle has actually formed.

Over the years he has also visually witnessed quite a few crop circles forming, these circles usually accompanied by unusual light phenomena although not the same light anomalies in each instance. In both daytime and at night he has observed single or multiple spheres of bright white or yellowish light hovering over a field (frequently the one that is directly behind his home), under which the plants suddenly flatten into a crop circle. Sometimes he simply sees a flash, or multiple flashes, of light, after which new circles or formations of circles are seen in the field.

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He also states that he increasingly experiences both a "UFO" energy (a vibrant, intense sort of feeling) and a "Mary" energy (also intense, but gentle and very loving) as being present both at the time when specific crop circles are forming and afterwards, when he visits the new formations in the fields

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Over the years events around Robbert have included many which are generally labeled variously as "psychic" or "poltergeist" situations, "out-of-body" experiences, "remote viewing," physical "translocation," "lucid dreaming," and "UFO" and/or "ET" encounters--and are documented with thousands of highly unusual photographs.

Which is turning everything up a notch or two from previous claims and throws in a BVM/UFO link to boot.

So on to our snow circles.

On December 17-18th Robert began to get the feeling some circles were imminent:

When they arrived at the field around 1:00 am (now Saturday, Dec. 19th) Robbert immediately felt what he described to me as a peaceful, very still, "holy" feeling and heard what he could only describe as sounding like a choir of "angels singing" in the air above the field. I asked if Ellen heard this, too, but Robbert said "no" -- it was only he who heard the "singing." As they walked down from the dike they could both see multiple rings scooped out of the snow-covered field.

Because it was dark, and quite cold Robbert and Ellen did not stay long to inspect the field. Later, when the sun had come up (Saturday, Dec. 19th), Robbert's friend Roy Boschman returned to the field to take photographs and was stunned to see the entire formation -- the largest such snow "circle" ever reported anywhere.

There were some interesting features - the lack of human footprints (apart from theirs), the way the snow seemed uncompacted in the circles like it had been scooped out not stomped down, the circles themselves were a generally consistent 11 inches wide, with some evidence for "brush-strokes" inside the circles.

The odd thing is, when the snow began to clear, it persisted for longer where the circles were.

Then after it all cleared it became obvious that one of the reasons for this was that the snow was resting in circles in the grass below.

Meanwhile, a second, even larger one appeared in an adjacent field over the 21-22nd December. It was 140m long and contained 35 rings.

So what is going on? Well the most obvious explanation is that Robert is doing it all but that would involve some pretty consistent hoaxing over a number of years or someone else is taking advantage of his gullibility to report their own efforts (not impossible, of course, but a lot of effort, often requiring messing around in freezing weather conditions.. Also it is unclear how the grass was damaged when the snow had been cleared not stamped down). I suppose it is also possible that he has some wild talent that could either manifest itself in such a manner or he is sensitive to whatever forces are at work here (from the descriptions it doesn't really sound like classic flying saucers though). It is tricky knowing where to go from here to find out the real cause of all thisk - the simplest way would be to set up cameras to monitor the field when he thinks a circle is about to appear and see what happens - it is rare someone claims they get premonitions about a circle's appearance, so it'd be a shame to not take the opportunity to test it. Unfortunately, such talents do seem to become even more... "elusive" when subjected to scrutiny. Without it you have a lot of impressive sounding claims, some fairly run-of-the-mill photos showing camera problems and a whole series of impressive crop and snow circles.

Of course, it might just be snowmen rolling their snowballs around - you know what they are like!!

Anyway they have a lot more details and photographs (of which the above are only a small selection to highlight the main aspects) over on the main page for this so check it out and make it up our own mind.

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