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Sara Sgarlat, Publicity Director
434-296-2772, ext. 49
ssgarlat@hrpub.com

     Most people think crop circles are a relatively new phenomenon created by Doug and Dave, the crop-circle hoaxers. They’d have to have been awfully busy to create them all in the last twenty years there have been almost 10,000 crop circles documented. Crop circles have appeared as fractals a design previously only created by computer. Other patterns have been insects, mandalas, Celtic crosses and the spiral helix of DNA, all done on a massive scale. And they appear in seconds eyewitnesses say 10-15 seconds is not uncommon.

     The suggested causes for crop circles have been as various as weather patterns, men with boards and string, aliens and the devil. People have suggested that there are government cover-ups around the origination of the circles. Organizations have been started to study them, and other organizations have been created to debunk them. College students try to reproduce them, and farmers charge admission for people to see them in their fields. Signs, the hot new film by M. Night Shyamalan starring Mel Gibson is about crop circles. They have been viewed as a warning of war by aliens, a message of peace, or a manifestation of the primal sound the word of God.

     All of these topics and hundreds more are addressed, along with stunning original photos of crop circles, by Freddy Silva, considered by many to be the foremost expert on the subject. Secrets in the Fields will fascinate you, enlighten you, and challenge your view of the universe.

ISBN 1-57174-322-7 / $19.95 / trade paper / 291 b&w & 42 color photographs