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From the High Desert

A Cultural History of Art Bell

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January 14, 2007: UFOs and Crop Circles - Ed Sherwood & Kris Sherwood

Jan 14, 2007
2h 34m
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Art Bell is joined by crop circle researchers Ed Sherwood and Kris Sherwood, who bring more than 30 years of combined experience studying the worldwide crop circle phenomenon. The couple, based in Santa Monica, California, report having videotaped over 40 daylight UFO sightings above their apartment since June of the previous year, capturing spheres, tubular white objects, and formations of bright orbs on camera.

Ed describes filming a large white opaque object for 30 minutes as it moved against the wind before dissolving into multiple bright spheres that flew away in formation. The Sherwoods explain their practice of synchronized global meditation, during which they invite benevolent extraterrestrial intelligences to participate in Earth healing visualizations. They note that many of their sightings occur during or shortly after these meditation sessions, raising questions about whether consciousness plays a role in initiating contact.

The discussion also covers UFO sightings reported over Iranian nuclear facilities, with Art speculating these could be secret American surveillance technology. Callers share stories including a ghost encounter in Las Vegas, dolphin beachings along the Atlantic coast, and observations about the ready.gov preparedness campaign.

Key Moments

  1. 40 daylight UFO sightings over Santa Monica: The Sherwoods describe videotaping over 40 daylight UFOs above their Santa Monica apartment since June, including a 100-foot 'sphere container' tube object that flew against the wind for 30 minutes before dispersing into a fleet.

  2. Inviting benevolent ETs into a Sunday meditation: Ed Sherwood explains that during a synchronized global Sunday meditation they specifically invite benevolent ET intelligences to participate and grant a sign, and that more than half the time an object appears within 30 minutes.

  3. Co-creating a crop circle with Steven Greer: On a Wiltshire hill in 1992 with Dr. Steven Greer, nine people silently visualized a design; seven independently pictured three circles in a triangle linked by a path, and that exact pictogram appeared in a nearby field the next morning. Sherwood frames most non-man-made circles as a 'global poltergeist' of collective consciousness.

  4. Mexico City UFO and the dolphin/saucer pictogram: The most-witnessed UFO sighting in history occurred over Mexico City on July 11, 1991; nineteen days later a Wiltshire pictogram combining a flying saucer cross-section with a dolphin appeared, and soil analysis later turned up 13 radioisotopes including deuterium normally only found in nuclear labs.

  5. Over 90 percent of crop circles are man-made: Sherwood estimates fewer than 10 percent of all reported crop circles are non-man-made, and notes no genuine non-man-made formation has appeared within 40 miles of Stonehenge since 2001 due to the prodigious volume of human hoaxing.