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A Disturbing Report.
We have news of a disturbing trend increasing the crop circle
world. The Crop Circle Connector relies on members of the public
for information about possible crop circles around the UK. The
Connector receives hundreds of reports each year relating to
possible sightings and we attempt to investigate these reports in
order to bring our audience the latest news, images and videos of
the crop circles.
Our research team work tirelessly to ensure you receive only
genuine information, however, we have had an increasing number of
reports that are aimed at deceiving the tens of thousands of
people who make up the Crop Circle Connector audience.
We would like to draw your attention to one of these deceptions
in this article:
We received an email from someone that claimed to have found a
crop circle and had taken a photo of it. See picture 1
At first glance the crop circle looks interesting, a very clean
design and something that our audience would certainly enjoy
seeing. We were about to contact our drone pilots when one of our
researchers became suspicious of the image that had been emailed
to us. Our researcher was convinced that the image was a
photoshopped fake of a crop circle and not a genuine image at all.
Why would the person emailing in do this? What were they aiming
for? If indeed the image was fake it would appear that the person
emailing in was hoping we would share the picture with our large
audience in order to deceive them with a fake circle photograph.
Before we would commit to dispatching a drone pilot we wanted to
be sure one way or another that the circle was real. Our research
team spent several minutes scrolling through the Crop Circle
Connector archive and soon found another circle that was in this
very location on the 11th of July 2007! - Hat Gate Cottage, Wooton
Rivers, near Savernake Forrest, Wiltshire, UK. Reported on the 11th
of July, 2007.
PICTURE 1 has been removed on the
insistence of Mr Steve Alexander
We managed to find images on another website of the crop circle
from 2007 and it was immediately obvious that these images were
the base images used to create the fake photoshop images. The
original photographs were taken by a well known crop circle
photographer back in 2007. Also it is felt, by photoshop users we
asked, that these fakes could have only been created by using full
resolution copies of the
original full resolution photos.
The video below, produced by MrGyro, shows the images overlaid
with the photoshopped fakes that were emailed to us. You will see
that great care has been taken to change the colour of the field
from brown to green using a simple filter available in any home
user photo editing software package. The circle was then
manipulated in order to finalise the deception.
The Video has been removed on the insistence of Mr Steve Alexander Video Link:
HERE
To be 100% sure that we were indeed correct a local researcher
went to the field in question. As expected, there was no circle
and the field was in fact growing oil seed rape. The Crop Circle
Connector works tirelessly to protect the integrity of it’s
content that is why we do not post photos of crop circles unless
we have adequate proof of the location. Some other sites are
prepared to take the risk.
Thank you all for your continued support.
The Crop Circle Connector Team. |
