Crop circles

[NEOWatcher]

Any crop circle sightings lately?
Here's one. (http://www.newsnet5.com/news/9570475/detail.html)
Admittedly not worthy of it's own thread, but this may be a good way to start a list of crop circles...
I just liked this comment:One clue that the crop circle wasn't otherworldly was that it was created near an elevated bridge, offering convenient viewing.

[Titana]

We were just discussing crop circles on another board.

Personally, I use to wonder about these circles myself up until I read and article that stated that two English men (Doug Bower and Dave Chorley) confessed to creating hundreds of crop circles, beginning in the early 1970s. This led me to personally believe that all crop circles had been hoaxes (I guess that is what you could call it anyway).


There is even a web site where you can learn to make your own.....:D..HERE (http://www.circlemakers.org/guide.html).


Diana

[Gillianren]

It just isn't that difficult. The argument is that those two guys couldn't've made all of them, but who ever said they had to? If two guys could make a lot of them, so could other people.

[Titana]

Exactly.


I say it was a trend that these two guys started and was picked up by other's world wide.


Diana

[Roy Batty]

Shocking! those guys should of been charged with grand insult to the arts!
I mean, hadn't they been keeping up with what designs the aliens... errr, I mean other guys, can do now?!! :)

[LurchGS]

oh, I don't know... they looked pretty artsy to me. Certainly more art than a painting of a soup can. I think *THAT* was done by an alien

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You'll know the crop circle is real when there's a drain at the center

[Trebuchet]

Ugh. That's got to be the worst crop circle I've ever seen. Those kids need to go practice in remote locations before they set one up for public viewing.

I tend to pronounce "crop circle" as if it had a different first vowel.

[AGN Fuel]

Ugh. That's got to be the worst crop circle I've ever seen.

The result of "Alien meets Ouzo??"

[Ronald Brak]

I've watched crop circles forming. No flying saucers were involved.

[HenrikOlsen]

I consider crop circles to be form of art rather that hoaxes.
It's the "experts" who run around afterwards declaring them to be proofs of UFO's who I consider to be the hoaxers.

[Ronald Brak]

This describes how crop circles can form naturally:

http://ronaldbrak.blogspot.com/2005/10/how-crop-circles-are-formed_12.html

[mickal555]

could you make a crop circle in sugar cane?

[NEOWatcher]

This describes how crop circles can form naturally:

http://ronaldbrak.blogspot.com/2005/10/how-crop-circles-are-formed_12.html
That reminds me of a segment I saw on TV once. That situation was caught on film in (I think) a wheat field. 3 relatively perfect circles in a few seconds. Unfortunately, the show was leaning more toward invisible aliens since there were no other visible clues of wind.

[Sticks]

IIRC, some years ago a radio show and a newspaper held a competition to see what kind of crop circles could be done by people under the cover of darkness.

They had to get on to the field, do the artwork and get out by a certain time with minimal noise.

Come the dawn, some of the artworks were astounding, poviding plenty of evidence that a lot of the fancy crop cirles were made by people rather than aliens or strange winds.

[Ronald Brak]

Crop circles and crop blobs can be made by winds. Crop Hello Kittys are probably made by people.

[ToSeek]

You don't think there are aliens who like "Hello Kitty"?

PS. The GLP crop circle gallery is here. (http://godlikeproductions.com/gallery/index.php?category=2) But if you go there, stay away from the forum lest your brain explode!

[farmerjumperdon]

This is one of those woo-woo topics that boggles my mind. Even after the hoax is thoroughly busted they remain in total denial.

They are like addicts mired in the depths of . . . addiction.

[Martin_Richer]

Doug & Dave popularized the crop circle 'phenomenon'. They said they'd made a few simple circles that were doubted because they were too, well, simple, so they escalated the complexity and were delighted with the noncritical response from woo-woo warriors who tried to make crop circles evidence of their chosen primary beliefs: aliens, 'psychic' energies, Godguff, etc.

Less known is that Doug & Dave signed most of their work. Look at their circles and in most you'll find one or two 'D's somewhere on the periphery, like an artist does.

I participated in two crop circle hoaxes in the late 1980s, early 90s. The causes respondents placed on our circles were hilarious. One was not investigated by any crop circle advocacy group, but the other was -and pronounced 'real'. 'Real' what we asked in a follow up newspaper story. Unbelievably, the guy continued with his 'real' assessment even after we admitted our hoax, with photos included.

Best book on crop circles is the hilarious Round in Circles: Poltergeists, Pranksters, and the Secret History of the Cropwatchers by Jim Schnabel:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1591021103/sr=1-2/qid=1153942417/ref=pd_bbs_2/104-9621890-9629510?ie=UTF8&s=books