Jacques Vallee in BoingBoing

Dr. Jacques Vallee is one the finest and most well respected researchers on UFOs, and his body of work is not only prolific but captures the evolution of his thought on the subject quite succinctly. Starting with his early observation of an unidentified object as an astronomer and the cover-up of that sighting by the bureaucrats above him, his viewpoints evolved from a nuts and bolts viewpoint (Anatomy of a Phenomenon: Unidentified Objects in Space – A Scientific Appraisa(1965)l and Challenge to Science: The UFO Enigma(1966)) through to his exposition of the similarities of the phenomena with other anomalistic phenomena throughout written history in Passport to Magonia: From Foklore to Flying Saucers(1969). His take on the subject is often at variance to that of the general public and usually well ahead of it; hence his books The Invisible College: What a Group of Scientists Has Discovered About UFO Influences on the Human Race (1975) and Mesengers of Deception: UFO Contacts and Cults (1979). But after a trilogy published from 1988 to 1991 (Dimensions: A Casebook of Alien Contact, Confrontations – A Scientist's Search for Alien Contact and Revelations: Alien Contact and Human Deception) he published little on UFOs and began to focus more his work as a venture capitalist. He worked with DARA in the early development of what was to become the internet, and recently has begun to reemerge as a iconic figure in the ongoing history of the scientific study of anomalous phenomena.

Crop Circles, Part Deux: Alien Glyphs, Human Myths, Blogging BlissJacques Vallee at 8:47 PM April 8, 2010 http://www.boingboing.net/2010/04/08/crop-circles-part-de.html

In Search of Alien Glyphs (or are they microwave blasters?)
Jacques Vallee at 11:12 AM March 23, 2010
http://boingboing.net/2010/03/23/in-search-of-alien-g.html#previouspost


 Of Flattened Flora and Expulsion Cavities: The crop circle controversy continuesJacques Vallee at 11:21 AM April 28, 2010 http://www.boingboing.net/2010/04/28/of-flattened-flora-a.html


 Crop circles themes on ufologie.net, with a particularly nice collection of pictures, including obviously fake, poorly executed circles and exquisitely beautiful patterns and links to wide variety of web articles http://www.ufologie.net/htm/cropthemes.htm

Links from comments section are quite interestingSand Art: A New Kind of Land ArtExquisitely beautiful, reminiscent of crop circles and hauntingly ephemeralhttp://theswedishbed.wordpress.com/2010/04/27/sand-art-a-new-kind-of-land-art/

BLT Research Team, Inc.PURPOSE:     The BLT Research Team Inc.'s primary focus is crop circle research - the discovery, scientific documentation and evaluation of physical changes induced in plants, soils and other materials at crop circle sites by the energy (or energy system) responsible for creating them and to determine, if possible, from these data the specific nature and source of these energies. Secondly, our intent is to publish these research results in peer-reviewed scientific journals and to disseminate this information to the general public through lectures, mainstream articles and the internethttp://www.bltresearch.com/

Crop Circles: Artworks or Alien Signs?National Geographic article, unfortunately lacking photographshttp://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/08/0801_020801_cropcircles.html


 The Field Guide: The Art, History and Philosophy of Crop Circle Making, by Rob Irving and John Lundberg, from the publisher of Strange Attractor Journalhttp://strangeattractor.co.uk/fieldguide/
And the authors website, Circlemakers.orghttp://www.circlemakers.org/index.html

How Crop Circles Work, on HowStuffWorks.com, well researched and pretty well balancedhttp://science.howstuffworks.com/crop-circle.htm

There are two interesting things about crop circles from the viewpoint of The Anomaly Agnostic; the need for people to hoax others, in the sense of making crop circles and crowing about it afterward, and the need of people to believe in other explanations in spite of the clear evidence of hoaxers operating in the field.