On August 21st, 2002, this crop formation appeared in Sparsholt, Hampshire, England. It has come to be known as the Grey Alien Holding a Disc crop formation for obvious reasons. It is the first formation of its kind - appearing to be showing binary code. The 3 circles over the alien’s shoulder also seem to represent the 3 stars of Orion’s belt.
The message within the disk was deciphered using the standard 8 bit binary code known as ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange). The cipher starts at the center of the disk and spirals outward counter clockwise; this is also the same read pattern that a compact disc or DVD uses.
The empty spaces represent the binary number of 0 and the blocks represent the binary number 1. Using this cipher, we get the following message:
“Beware the bearers of false gifts and their broken promises.
Much pain, but still time. Believe there is good out there.
We oppose deception. Conduit closing. 0x07”
The binary code of 0x07 at the end of the message would produce a bell sound similar to that of an old typewriter. (Example: DING!)
Exact message construction:
Beware the bearers of FALSE gifts & their BROKEN PROMISES. Much PAIN but still time. BELIEVE. There is GOOD out there. We OPpose DECEPTION. Conduit CLOSING (Ding!)