The binary-ASCII code from Crabwood 2002: a second message embedded somewhere?
On August 15, 2002, a now-famous crop picture appeared at Crabwood in England. It showed the schematic image of a "military grey alien" using an old-fashioned 60-line TV signal from the 1950's, and also the image of a "spiral compact disc".
Lucy Pringle (www.lucypringle.co.uk/articles/crabwood),
Yet its "compact disc" provided only a fairly obscure message for the inhabitants of Earth, when translated from 8-bit binary ASCII code into English. Thus, its 1368-digit string of zeros and ones read as follows: "Beware the bearers of FALSE gifts & their BROKEN PROMISES.Much PAIN but still time.BELIEVE.There is GOOD out there.We oPpose DECEPTION.COnduit CLOSING\" Taken on face value, that ASCII message would seem to: (i) warn us against any possible alliance with the military grey aliens, who may have promised (some governments in secrecy) advanced weaponry systems for nation-state warfare, that turned out later not to work; (ii) warn us that there will be much trouble on Earth in our short-term future; (iii) inform us that there are also good, spiritual extra-terrestrials hanging around Earth today, in addition to the nasty ones; (iv) inform us that they know about media lies and deception concerning the reality of modern crop circles; and (v) inform us that such messages are being sent to Earth by means of "space time conduit" technology, that we later saw depicted in the "wormhole" crop pictures from 2006 (see www.cropcircleconnector.com/anasazi/wormholetechnology.html).
So far, so good! But could there be another level of information encoded within that long binary string of numbers, on some deeper level that they did not expect us to immediately understand? Indeed, could a second message be found now in 2008 upon closer scrutiny? Two anomalous features of their original binary code (see below) do seem to suggest a second level of information, not yet decoded.
52 examples of false capitalization in their ASCII text
First, their ASCII text of 151 characters showed 52 examples of false capitalization, where the first three digits of any ASCII 8-bit letter were changed for no apparent reason from "011" to "010". At least two of those appear as the second letter in otherwise lower-case words ("oPpose" or "COnduit").
Details of their false-capitalization scheme seem to vary slightly from one analyst to the next, so I re-inspected the original crop photograph to produce a consensus as listed below. Any informed suggestions to further improve the accuracy of this binary consensus would be welcome.
6 extra binary digits were added within the main text
Secondly, their binary code contained 9 extra digits beyond what was necessary to supply 151 x 8 = 1208 digits of ASCII text, plus 151 half-width separators "S" for a total of 1359. Three of those extra digits lie on each end of the binary code to help start or end it correctly.
But six others lie within the main text! Two of them create 9-digit "letters" as shown below, while one creates a 12-digit "letter" within the hard-to-read word "BELIE-0101-VE".
Various "space", "period" or "ampersand" symbols have been labelled below in italics, to help the reader find "words" within different parts of the ASCII text by visual inspection.
Six other crop pictures from the summer of 2002 showed CD-like spirals or double spirals
In order to help us better understand their Crabwood message, our crop artist friends also drew six other CD-like spirals in English crops during the summer of 2002. Some of these were: (i) a two-start spiral at North Farm on June 23; (ii) a nautilus-seashell spiral at Pewsey on July 17, (iii) another two-start spiral at Stanton on July 26; (iv) two overlapping arrowed-circles at East Field on August 14; (v) two connected-spirals at Ridgeway on August 18, or (vi) a DNA double helix at Crooked Soley on August 28 (see www.cropcirclearchives.co.uk, 2002 or www.lucypringle.co.uk/photos/2002/jun.shtml).
All of those highly symbolic "double spiral" crop pictures would seem to suggest a second level of message within the Crabwood spiral CD, not yet elucidated.
No obvious hidden "second code", but let's keep trying!
For all of these reasons, I recently compiled a fairly accurate digital representation of the Crabwood CD message as listed below: because it is our only known, authentic, SETI-type message to the inhabitants of Earth. Various sceptics have derided crop circles in general, and the Crabwood message in particular, because it was not sent to us by means of expensive radio-telescopes. But one year earlier in 2001, they did send a long message in the field next to a radio-telescope at Chilbolton, and no one cared (see www.cropcircleresearch.com/articles/arecibo.html)
Okay, guys, let's end all of this xenophobic, fearful denial and get serious. Does anyone really believe that two old guys with rope and boards made the 1368-digit Crabwood CD message by hand, late at night while no one was looking, and contrary to all other eyewitness accounts of its creation? You might as well believe in Santa Claus or the Easter bunny!
I have already tried to find a second message within that Crabwood binary string using: (a) 5-bit, 6-bit or 8-bit character codes from our past (Baudot, CCITT2 or EBCDIC, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_binary_codes); or (b) a reflected 8-bit binary code invented by Gray in 1947 (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray_code). Those early attempts produced little to no success, but then am not a computer expert.
Come on, all of you geeks and nerds worldwide: let's get to it! You can be even more famous than Jodie Foster in Contact if you succeed! (Carl Sagan used a wormhole there too, because his friend Kip Thorne told him they were possible.)
START OF THE CRABWOOD 2002 MESSAGE
01 01000010S 01100101S 01110111S 01100001S 01110010S 01100101S 00100000S 01110100S 011010000S 01100101S 00100000S 01100010S 01100101S 01100001S 01110010S 01100101S 01110010S 01110011S 00100000S 01101111S 01100110S 00100000S 01000110S 01000001S 01001100S 01010011S 01000101S 00100000S 01100111S 01101001S 01100110S 01110100S 01110011S 00100000S 00100110S 00100000S 01110100S 01101000S 01100101S 01101001S 01110010S 00100000S 01000010S 01010010S 01001111S 01001011S 01000101S 01001110S 00100000S 01010000S 01010010S 01001111S 01001101S 01001001S 01010011S 01000101S 01010011S 00101110S 01001101S 01110101S 01100011S 01101000S 00100000S 01010000S 01000001S 01001001S 01001110S 00100000S 01100010S 01110101S 01110100S` 00100000S 01110011S 01110100S 01101001S 01101100S 01101100S 00100000S 01110100S 01101001S 01101101S 01100101S 00101110S 010000101S 01000101S 01001100S 01001001S 01000101S 0101 01010110S 01000101S 00101110S 01010100S 01101000S 01100101S 01110010S 01100101S 00100000S 01101001S 01110011S 00100000S 01000111S 01001111S 01001111S 01000100S 00100000S 01101111S 01110101S 01110100S 00100000S 01110100S 01101000S 01100101S 01110010S 01100101S 00101110S 01010111S 01100101S 00100000S 01101111S 01010000S 01110000S 01101111S 01110011S 01100101S 00100000S 01000100S 01000101S 01000011S 01000101S 01010000S 01010100S 01001001S 01001111S 01001110S 00101110S 01000011S 01001111S 01101110S 01100100S 01110101S 01101001S 01110100S 00100000S 01000011S 01001100S 01001111S 01010011S 01001001S 01001110S 01000111S 01011100S 0
END OF THE CRABWOOD 2002 MESSAGE
Notes
Spaces, periods or ampersands have been labelled in italics.
9 extra digits 0 or 1 have been labelled in bold italics.
52 examples of false capitalization have been labelled in bold.
50 of those are full-word, while 2 are second-letter (“oPpose” or “COnduit”).
Other reported false capitalizations such as “But”, “Still”, “Oppose” or “OPpose” seem less likely upon careful examination of the original crop photograph. Revisions will of course will be considered if better evidence becomes available.
END OF NOTES
P.S. These ideas were
discussed at a recent crop circle workshop held in
Narooma, NSW by the famous researcher Janet Ossebaard
(see
www.circularsite.com).
They stirred so much interest there, that I was
encouraged to make the complete binary code available to
other researchers worldwide.
A new and plausible
interpretation of the cryptic lowercase-capital letter
code from Crabwood in 2002, as “EA LIVE (go back)”,
resembles “Ea Enki space” which was coded in binary
ASCII at Poirino, Italy in 2011
A cryptic
lowercase-capital letter code from Crabwood in 2002 may
be interpreted most easily, if we assign an extra binary
digit of “0” to each lowercase-letter word, and a binary
digit of “1” to each capital or uppercase-letter word.
Then we will have 25 extra binary digits to study as
some sort of hidden code.
The total number of
“words” in its 1368-bit primary message was “25” (see
time2007n). That is the product of two prime numbers
“5” and “5”. Now it seems logical that we should arrange
those 25 extra binary digits in the form of a 5 x 5
square matrix, just as we expected unknown
extra-terrestrials to arrange many other binary digits
in a 1974 radio message from Arecibo Observatory to the
stars!
In that case, the radio
message contained 1679 binary digits, which could be
subdivided as the product of two prime numbers 73 and 23
(see
Arecibo_message). We expected unknown aliens to test
two possible arrangements of either 73 rows and 23
columns, or alternatively 23 rows and 73 columns, to see
which made better sense? In this case, the primary
“crop” message contained 1368 binary digits, while our
overlaid “hidden” message contained 25 extra binary
digits, as shown in the slide below:
Following the example of
that 1974 Arecibo radio transmission, we arranged our
extra 25 binary “crop” digits into a square matrix of
two prime numbers “5” and “5”. Then we looked carefully
to see which arrangement made better sense? By this
process, we found right away that a vertical reading of
those extra digits as five (or six) numbers 4, 0, 11, 8,
21, 4 matches five (or six) letters of the English
alphabet which spell “E A L I V E”, followed by a
“backslash” symbol meaning “go back”.
One interpretation of this
newly-decoded message might be that “EA” (a
god-scientist from ancient Sumeria) still “LIVES”, and
that he is “going back” soon to planet Earth. Nine years
later near Poirino, Italy, we saw a related message in
binary ASCII which read “Ea Enki space”. That message
suggested once again that “Ea Enki” is still alive, and
somewhere out in “space” (see
www.youtube.com).
Any astronomers who work
in the SETI program may wish to study these important
crop-based messages further, if they wish to learn more.
Red
Collie (Dr. Horace R. Drew, Caltech 1976-81, MRC LMB
Cambridge 1982-86, CSIRO Australia 1987-2010) |