(Melchizedek Communique, MC120709) Lachezar Filipov, along with other honored Bulgarian scientists, reportedly claim to be in contact with extraterrestrial beings. Their methodology involves "deciphering pictograms which are said to have come in the form of the so called 'crop circles' with which the aliens answered 30 questions posed by the BAS researchers." ("Bulgarian Academy Scientists Reported to Be in Touch with Aliens", Nov. 23, 2009. http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=110282)

Reportedly, among the responses to the questions posed to the aliens, and responded to via pictograms of crop circles, is that "the aliens are angry about global warming, disagree with in-vitro fertilization and don't like cosmetics." ("Respected scientist says aliens are among us," Toronto Star, Nov. 27, 2009. http://www.thestar.com/news/article/731645--respected-scientist-says-aliens-are-among-us)

Yet a lack of information on the methodology involved is the general complaint. How exactly did Lachezar Filipov et al. manage to translate crop circles into "the aliens don't like cosmetics"? We are not told about the process leading to the conclusions, at least not in the various news reports. (Background: "Extra-Terrestrials Angry About Global Warming", http://www.shout.net/~bigred/mc120509.html)

Way back, before the time of Conspiracy Nation, "Conspiracy for the Day" published excerpts from an article in Science News, dated Feb. 1, 1992. In "Euclid's Crop Circles", author Ivars Peterson reported on one Gerald S. Hawkins, a retired astronomer, who had studied the geometry of the crop circles. "Hawkins found ratios of small whole numbers that precisely matched the ratios defining the diatonic scale." Eventually, Hawkins discovered four original theorems, derived from crop-circle patterns. Double-checking, Hawkins could find none of these theorems in the works of Euclid, nor in any of the mathematics textbooks and references, ancient and modern, that he consulted. (Source: http://www.skepticfiles.org/skeptic/cereolog.htm)

So Hawkins, and then Ivars Peterson, at least provided some semblance of the methodology used. Lachezar Filipov and the other honored Bulgarian scientists, at least in the press reports, reveal almost nothing about the steps taken which finally led to their startling conclusions.

In 1991, paranormal-type scenarios for the crop circles suffered ridicule when two elderly landscape painters, David Chorley and Douglas Bower, claimed they had been hoaxing various of the amazing designs. The mass media did a "Tiger Woods" on that story: trumpets blared; drums were beaten. But then, in 1998, "tiny articles" tucked away in the nether regions of the press quietly announced that the surviving hoaxer of the David & Doug team had done a U-turn! An "unknown force" was causing the "corn circles" he now claimed. ("Is Sound Behind The Crop Circles", by Freddy Silva. Oct. 29, 2009. http://www.conspiracyforum.co.uk/is-sound-behind-the-crop-circles/)

Freddy Silva, source for the preceding paragraph, is apparently an expert on the subject. He has written a book, Secrets in the Fields: The Science and Mysticism of Crop Circles. "Suppose you were given a set of keys," he posits. "Keys that awaken a worldwide, sleeping network of energy." But then suppose great efforts have been employed to suppress the facts? (http://www.cropcirclesecrets.org/crop_circle_secrets.html)

And then suppose mass media loud-speakers kept blowing trumpets and banging drums about inconsequential nonsense. It would be hard for you to think then, wouldn't it?