Creatures of the Crop

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Submitted by Nick Redfern on Sat, 05/07/2011 - 12:21

Without doubt, one of the strangest aspects of cryptozoology, is it’s tie-in with the Crop Circle mystery. Although it’s a little-known aspect of both phenomena, more than a few accounts exist of strange creatures seen in and around Crop Circles. From Matthew Williams – the only British man ever arrested, charged and convicted for making a Crop Circle - come several such accounts.
 
It transpires that, unsurprisingly for someone who has spent years deeply immersed within the Crop Circle controversy, Matthew is a veritable fountain of knowledge with respect to tales of weird creatures either having been seen in, or at least in the direct vicinity of, complex Crop Circle formations. One such case is truly strange.
 
 Matthew advised me that the story in question concerned a man who had felt curiously compelled to drive late at night to a certain field in Wiltshire many years ago. On doing so, he parked his car and duly, and carefully, began his walk into the depths of the crop. Suddenly, out of nowhere, a large, black, human-like figure appeared in the air over the field.
 
“It reminded me a little bit of the Mothman sightings when I heard this story,” said Matthew, not without a high degree of justification. Matthew continued that the source of the story could only stand and stare in awe, while suddenly gaining the distinct impression that the hovering entity was the source of at least some of the Crop Circle formations that were appearing in Wiltshire.
 
At that precise moment, a simple Crop Circle suddenly appeared on the ground immediately below the black figure – after which it vanished from the skies and the man was left utterly alone in the field, and with no real option other than to make his shocked way back to his vehicle and drive home, baffled and bewildered by both the weird, aerial entity and what it was that had directed him to the field.
 
And still Matthew’s accounts were not over: “There was one time, I’d rather not say when or where exactly, as I could get into trouble for admitting I trespassed on the farmer’s land and made the crop circle formation. Plus, I had a friend named Paul helping me with this one. We were making this circle when we noticed these three bright lights – small balls of lights coming towards the field. We watched them; we were fascinated. But they split up and each of them went to a corner of the field – and which only left one corner for us to leave by without getting too close to these things.
 
“That was a bit unsettling. We didn’t know what these balls were; so we raced out of the open corner of the field. We looked back as we ran and could see the balls heading towards us: gliding very gracefully just above the top of the crop. It was like they were on a railway track, just moving very smoothly, but it left us sort of disturbed too: like they were almost ghostly and alive.”
 
The story was far from over, as Matthew notes: “Well, I went to get the car, and told Paul to wait in the bushes at the edge of the road so he wouldn’t be seen. The last thing I wanted was for him to get arrested if the police happened to drive past. But by the time I had got the car and got back to Paul, he was walking up the middle of the road with all his Crop Circle equipment in full view. I pulled up, wound the window down and shouted at him: ‘What the hell are you doing? If people see you carrying your [crop circle-making] equipment, we’ll get arrested.’
 
“Paul looked scared stiff and said: ‘If they had arrested me, I’d have gone with them, just to get me out of there.’ I asked him what he meant, and Paul said that while I was getting the car he had heard these strange, animal-like screaming noises coming from inside the field and he had just charged out of there and onto the road. We never found out what it was though.”
 
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 Publicity ShotNICK REDFERN 

Born:
1964.

Education:
Pelsall Comprehensive School, Pelsall, West Midlands, England, 1976-1981.

WORK HISTORY:
1982-1984:
Employed as a staff-writer for Zero – a British Magazine on rock music and fashion.

1984-2001:
Worked as a freelance feature-writer/journalist for the following British Newspapaers: the London Daily Express; the People; the Western Daily Press; the Express & Star; and the Planet on Sunday (as a full time feature writer).

1996-2001:
Worked as a freelance journalist for the folling magazines in Britan: The Weekender (a monthly newsstand magazine on fashion news, the world of entertainment, music and lifestyles); Animals, Animals, Animals (a monthly, newsstand magazine for children on animals); Pet Reptile (a monthly newsstand magazine for reptile enthusiasts); Military Illustrated (a monthly, Anglo-American, newsstand publication on military history); Eye Spy (a monthly, Anglo-American newsstand magazine on the subject of espionage); The Unopened Files (a bi-monthly, newsstand magazine on espionage); The XFactor (a bi-weekly, newsstand magazine on unsolved mysteries); UFO Magazine (a monthly newsstand magazine on UFO’s); Alien Encounters (amonthly, newsstand magazine on UFO’s).

1997:
A Covert Agenda: The British Government’s UFO Top Secrets Exposed
Published by: Simon & Schuster, London
Book Author: Nick Redfern
This book was published in the UK, Canada, Russia, Poland, Austrailia, New Zealand and Portugal.

1998:
The FBI Files: The FBI’s UFO Top Secrets Exposed
Published by: Simon & Schuster, London
Book Author: Nick Redfern
This book was published in the UK, Canada, Russia, Poland, Austrailia, New Zealand and Portugal.

2000:
Cosmic Crashes: The incedible Story Of The UFO’s The Fell To Earth
Published by: Simon & Schuster, London
Book Author: Nick Redfern
This book was published in the UK, Canada, Austrailia, New Zealand and Portugal.

2001 – To Date:
Nick Redfern has run the U.S. Office of the British-based Center for Fortean Zoology, which is dedicated to investigating mysterious animals such as Bigfoot, Lake Monsters, the Yeti and the Loch Ness Monster.

2003:
Strange Secrets: Real Government Files on The Unknown
Published by: Simon & Schuster, New York
Book Author: Nick Redfern

2004:
Three Men Seeking Monsters: Six Weeks In Persuit of Werewolves, Lake Monsters, Giant Cats, Ghostly Devil Dogs, and Ape-Men
Published by: Simon & Schuster, New York
Book Author: NIck Redfern
Paraview, New York, published a first-time US Edition of Nick Redfern’s book

A Covert Agenda

2005:
June 2005
Body Snatchers In The Desert: The Horrible Truth at the Heart of the Roswell Story
Published by: Simon & Schuster, New York
Book Author: Nick Redfern

Nick continues to write in a regular freelance capacity for the London Daily Express newspaper, UFO Magazine; and Fate Magazine.

2006:
On the Trail of the Saucer Spies: UFO’s and Government Surveillance
Published by: Anomalist Books, New York
Book Author: Nick Redfern

2007:
Celebrity Secrets: Government Files on the Rich and Famous
Published by: Simon & Schuster, New York
Book Author: Nick Redfern

In July 2007, Nick’s book Man-Monkey: In Search of the British Bigfoot was published by CFZ Press; and New Page Books published Nick’s Memoirs of a Monster Hunter in September.

2008:
In March, Alamah of Mexico published a Spanish-language edition of Nick’s Memoirs of a Monster Hunter.

Consultancy Research:
Nick Redfern has undertaken freelance research in a consultant capacity to the world of entertainment since 2001. He has worked as a consultant to various TV production companies, including (a) Mentorn TV of Britain; (b) Red Star Films of Canada; and (c) the United States’ Sci-Fi Channel.

Nick worked for 12 months as the co-editor of the newsstand magazine Phenomena. He has had widespread experience of editing articles for length, clarity, grammar and punctuation to the high levels required for, and expected by, newsstand publications. He has also ghostwritten and edited a number of published books for authors.

He has also worked full-time as a consultant to several authors, conducting research on their behalf.

TV/Lecture/Media Appearances:
Nick has appeared on more than 60 TV shows to promote his books and his research. In the late summer of 2004 he traveled to Puerto Rico for two weeks with a film team from the Sci-Fi Channel’s series, Proof Positive, to make a documentary about the Chupacabras. He appeared on the MSNBC show Countdown with Keith Olbermann on February 9, 2005. He also traveled to Puerto Rico in September 2005 to make a show about the Chupacabras for Canada’s Space Channel. He has lectured at a variety of conferences, including the Laughlin UFO Congress (in 1998 and 2001); the Mutual UFO Network Conference in 2004; the Aztec UFO Conference in 2003; the Texas Bigfoot Research Conference in 2004; at numerous events for the British-based UFO Magazine between 1997 and 2000 (now closed); and at the UFO Crash Retrieval Conference in Las Vegas (in 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2006).

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