Google's new UFO crop circle logo raises questions
Steve Hammons
September 15, 2009
Google's customized logo has again sparked curiosity and mystery.
On Saturday, Sept. 5, the Google "doodle" featured a disc-shaped UFO with a beam of light or energy connecting the saucer with the "o" in Google. Today, another flying saucer UFO is hovering over the Google logo in the form of a crop circle.
When visitors click the logo, they are taken to the search for "crop circles." The previous anomalous logo took users to a search for "unexplained phenomenon."
Interesting theories and connections related to the Sept. 5 logo quickly surfaced, since Google's usual logo doodles normally celebrate or note significant cultural events. It wasn't immediately clear what the UFO meant.
The Sept. 15 saucer and crop circle doodle is also somewhat mysterious.
However, a connection seems obvious: Both feature a disc-shaped UFO, and crop circles have long been theorized to be connected with extraterrestrial and/or extra-dimensional visitation and communication.
EARTH CHANGES
Although some crop circles have been created by humans, many truly seem to be unexplained phenomena.
In fact, crop circles played a part in my two novels, "Mission Into Light" and the sequel "Light's Hand." In "Mission Into Light," the main character, Mike Green, is recruited into a small San Diego-based joint military and intelligence research group.
The unit, called the Joint Reconnaissance Study Group (JRSG), is tasked with investigating various interesting and unusual phenomena. Mike was on Team Two of three, three-person teams.
In "Mission Into Light," Mike's Team Two partners were pursing their own assigned intelligence and reconnaissance. Team leader Army Col. Ed Thompson and Army Special Forces Capt. Bill MacNeil were looking into something interesting.
At least it was interesting to them. Crop circles.
MacNeil had seen a TV show about them. He was on the Internet at the office the next day, finding out what he could about the strange phenomena. He found photos and information about the many different crop circle patterns on the Internet and he'd shown Ed quite a few.
Bill had worked on farms as a teenager. The idea that crops could be a focus of some strange, cosmic art and communication was fascinating to him.
Ed was also looking into something else. Something Team One member Navy Commander Dan Wells had talked to him about. The concept of upcoming Earth changes.
Wells had come to him on a Monday morning and told him about Team One's Air Force Capt. Amy Mella's dream and the conversations over brunch with her and Green. Dan told Ed about some of the Earth changes theories of geological catastrophe.
At a group meeting, Ed and MacNeil wanted to present the crop circle information and the Earth changes theories in as reasonable a manner as possible. They were confident that their group colleagues had open minds. They had Mac lead off with the crop circle phenomena.
"As you all know, we've been looking at the UFO area. We've expanded that line of research into the crop circle issue."
He looked around at their faces. He and Thompson got a kick out of stretching their imaginations and watching their minds work as they tried out this new angle on their colleagues.
"You probably have heard about them. Large and often intricate symbols in fields of canola, wheat, and other crops. Clearly a form of communication."
"Although there've been some pranksters and fakes, there are also many crop circles that cannot have been hoaxes. There seems to be mathematical, scientific, and symbolic meaning to the formations. Possible symbolic maps or universal symbols and messages. Maybe something to do with physics. It's not completely clear."
"In the apparently legitimate cases, the actual plants have gone through unique changes which have caused them to bend, and not break. And some biological and cellular changes in the plants have been reported by botanists."
MacNeil reached into a cardboard box he had brought into the room and passed around packets of photos of crop circles, most taken from the air.
"There's a portfolio of twenty examples for each of you. We can get you a much larger sample if you want. It's on the Internet and there are some good books of photographs available. A brief report on some of the dynamics of the circles, locations, theories, and the like is attached to the photos. Maybe we can discuss it further after the meeting, if anyone's interested."
PARTS OF THE PUZZLE
In the sequel novel, "light's Hand," crop circles continue to play a role. At a group meeting, the JRSG commanding officer, Air Force Col. Tom O'Brien, leads the discussion.
"Okay, the team leaders will now brief us on where we stand with the ongoing research and where we're going. Commander Wells, do you have any more to add about the marine mammals and the geologic problems?"
"Lt. Commander Etienne, Capt. Mella and I will continue our work with the Marine Mammal Program with a new emphasis on the Pacific Plate problem, as we've said. We're going cross teams a little, too. MacNeil's work on crop circles may tie in with Earth geologic changes, so he's going to be involved in some of our research. That's about it for Team One."
It may seem odd for a U.S. military and intelligence group to be researching strange things like UFOs, ESP, crop circles, near-death experiences and similar anomalous phenomena, but the JRSG mission statement spelled it out in some detail.
When Mike Green read it, he felt it was a straightforward document in some ways, yet cryptic and mysterious between the lines. The JRSG had already made a dent in some of the "areas of research" and barely scratched the surface of others, Mike thought.
The first research area was UFOs. Mike, Ed Thompson and Bill MacNeil had witnessed an apparent UFO in the distance during a chopper ride from San Diego to Fort Huachuca, Arizona. At least that's what the Navy chopper pilot called it ... off the record.
Ed and Bill had also gone to Phoenix after the half the city spotted a huge v-shaped craft gently glide over town one evening. They asked a few questions over at Luke Air Force Base but didn't come up with anything more than the general public and press knew.
Bill's research into crop circles also seemed to be probably linked to UFOs.
And when Mike and Bill were sent from Fort Huachuca to Roswell, New Mexico, the trip was suddenly canceled due to a reported ambush to discourage them. Uncle Jack had showed up to take them to a safe house in Phoenix. Why would Roswell be a sensitive issue at this late date? Dozens of books, movies and TV shows had looked at almost every angle of the so-called "Roswell incident" in 1947.
Mike remembered Bill MacNeil's thoughts about the crop circles he was investigating. And MacNeil's friends in crypto were coming up with ideas that the crop circles are trying to say something about planetary or physics concepts that might be related to Earth changes.
MORE CIRCLES
As the second novel moves toward the final climax, crop circles play a key role. At the group's office on San Diego's Point Loma peninsula, Bill MacNeil was sitting at his PC and was on the Internet. He was looking at a Web site on crop circles.
Something was going on. He needed to advise the CO, Col. O'Brien and his team leader Col. Thompson.
"Sirs. You might want to take a look at this. This Web site is reporting a significant increase in crop circles in the last seventy-two hours. In England, Belgium, Holland, Switzerland, Sweden, and Denmark. Over here, in Ohio, western Tennessee, Missouri, Iowa, Kansas, Colorado, Montana, Oregon, and Alberta and British Columbia, Canada. Down in Mexico too. And a few in Australia and New Zealand."
O'Brien and Thompson looked at the screen of MacNeil's PC. MacNeil clicked his computer mouse until there were three maps on the screen. One of Western Europe, one of North America, and one of Australia and New Zealand. The new and previous crop circles were marked. There were dozens and dozens of new circles noted on the maps.
While they were watching, three new circles were forming that very minute in British Columbia, Washington state, and California's Imperial Valley, which was just east of San Diego County and west of Yuma, Arizona.
What did it mean?
Members of the JRSG quickly find out that a major event is in the making, and the crop circles seemed to be connected to it.
Maybe we should all take a second look at crop circles – what they are, what they mean, what they are trying to say. Google may be helping us recognize this.
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