November 9, 2003: Explaining Crop Circles - Dr. Simeon Hein | Solar Flare Cycles - Ramon Lopez
November 9, 2003: Explaining Crop Circles - Dr. Simeon Hein | Solar Flare Cycles - Ramon Lopez  
Podcast: The Art Bell Archive
Published On: Sun Jun 29 2025
Description: Art Bell begins with the 40-meter ham band mystery noise, a 100-kilohertz-wide signal of unknown origin appearing daily across the western United States. He then welcomes back Professor Ramon Lopez to discuss the historic solar flare activity, including the record X-28 flare that saturated scientific instruments for eleven minutes. Lopez explains that solar magnetic activity has been intensifying for a century and warns that when the massive sunspot region rotates back to face Earth, more severe storms may follow.The main interview features Dr. Simeon Hein, director of the Institute for Resonance in Boulder, Colorado, who studies subtle energy sciences including crop circles and remote viewing. He describes witnessing genuine psychokinesis in Japan, where a man bent spoons by looking at them and made watch hands spin without touching them. The local magicians union forced the practitioner to label his demonstrations as magic to avoid what they called unfair competition.Dr. Hein presents his most controversial finding: man-made crop circles produce the same anomalous electrostatic effects as those of unknown origin, with voltage changes up to 2,000 volts measured inside formations only twelve feet across. He argues that the geometric shape pressed into living plant material generates subtle energy fields regardless of who created the circle, suggesting that all crop circles, whether made by human artists or unknown forces, function as resonant structures that produce measurable electromagnetic phenomena.