[Closed] Crop Circles.. Made by Bob with a stick or ET

recent scientific research has shown that 98% of unexplained crop circles were made by cheeky Irish TV personality Graham Norton utilising his hitherto unheard of powers of psychic energy manipulation.. 😯

Couple of my mates were early crop circle-ers in East Cornwall round 1990-2. They were on some awful/unintentionally funny documentary, cut between beardy types who had visited their 'work' (if you can call falling around a field a bit drunk at two in the morning 'work') commenting on the ionic energies and similar guff.

Made by really high kangaroos that for some reason like to jump around in circles when high.

Seriously! [url= http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8118257.stm ]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8118257.stm[/url]

*Whistles nonchalantly*

Walking home from college a few of us made one, using a demo we had seen on that new invention the Internet. Some you see are really intricate and clever, ours wasn't. A few days later a cock shape appeared in the same field...

I helped make one once, for a magazine article. It was alright... But it took a load of us working in daylight to make a small, fairly rubbish, simple one so how the massive ones pop up overnight I don't know. The "crop circle expert" they brought in to comment on it took one look and said "fake" because of the way the crops were compressed down, apparently proper circles are all interweaved or alternatively folded or somesuch.

Anyway, it was not the worst day's work I've ever done, even if we couldn't get them to agree to let us make a massive cock and balls.

Now you see some pretty neat ones over in the next county, here in Hampshire I've yet to see anything remotely like a crop circle. Seems a bit of a waste of time to keep em' all in one county, not like we ain't.got some nice fields n all..

What kind of alien would travel for years just to knock down some long grass in a pattern and then not stop to say hello, very rude if you ask me.

One appeared up here just a few weeks ago, it's gone down well with the local farmers and got one crack pot a bit excited.

http://www.northumberlandgazette.co.uk/news/local-news/vandals_slated_over_crop_circle_1_3731758

Now you see some pretty neat ones over in the next county, here in Hampshire I've yet to see anything remotely like a crop circle. Seems a bit of a waste of time to keep em' all in one county, not like we ain't.got some nice fields n all.

Hippenscombe, near Vernham Dean last year. Though thinking about it, it might have been in Wiltshire, a gnats chuff from the border.
Definite fake, pretty good though.

Unsurprisingly, it's all been dismissed as a hoax now. Most of the original perpetrators have owned up to it.

Know of several ones that have been made by locals on the way back from the pub which were verified as of non human origin by 'experts' and appeared several books in books 😆 😯 😉

This one appeared fairly recently below Cherhill White Horse in Wiltshire. A Dutch visitor maintained that it was clearly genuine, and other visitors said they could feel vibrations from it.
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They have obviously been smoking the same stuff as the alien.

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Windmill Hill, Wiltshire
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Windmill Hill, Wiltshire
The top one is July this year, the bottom one some years back. I went to see it, and it was vast, nearly 1000ft across. I'd like to see a bunch of drunks with planks and string do that in five hours of darkness. Aliens didn't do it, either. Lovely works of art, anyway.

that bottom one is impressive

not as good as this one

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Stupid question: does it ruin the wheat (or whatever it is)? or can farmer Giles still harvest it?

Ignore me - I just RTFA.

Doh! 🙂

Ahh theres all sorts in Wiltshire.. Must be the Ale they drink over there.
I've actually never seen one in the "flesh" before. I'm intrigued to find one and stick my face into it..
As for Farmers, they seem to be a bit manyana about it now don't they, some are pee'd off about the damage some are pee'd off about the tourists and some are, well as interested as other folk.
It's still impresive the amount of detail thats been able to put into these things, some are just so impresive.

Count - now that I'm in Wiltshire I shall have to check these out. 8) Was at Cherhill last weekend but guess I need to be on the A4 to see it? Is the Windmill Hill one still there? Thanks. 🙂

Must be the Ale they drink over there.

Summer Lightning? 6X? Heelstone? Flint knapper? Innspiration?

So much good beer! Some of the above have certainly fuelled some crop circles in certain parts of Wiltshire.......apparently. Friend told me. Er, this isn't being recorded is it?

so funny when a good mate of mine came down to live in that London from Brighton (we are Welsh lads).. I went to meet up for a bevvy etc, back to their flat for more booze etc. went to the toilet and pride of place framed over the lavvy was a cutting from The North Wales Weekly News (local paper) of mysterious crop circles all over above Mochdre (conwy area). I said, what's with that?

oh, that'll be me and Jim pissed, bored and 16!

they are very much productive members of society now. but that's how it starts!

C_g, I doubt the Windmill Hill one, the top one, is still there, that was taken in July, the lower one six or seven years ago. There is one near the Ridgeway at the moment, just above Avebury. Can't find any photos of it though.
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It's somewhere around Down Barn, I was looking South from the byway at the top that takes you across Fyfield Down and Overton Down, looking to my left on the way back to the Ridgeway and Avebury, and it was about half a mile or so away. It's listed on one of the crop circle sites as Overton Down, but there are no pics on there. Crops are being harvested now, so it won't be there much longer.

Ooh I like the ones Count Zero's posted up, they are beautiful.

That bottom one in CZ's post...I understand that it's not been done by aliens or anything like that, but it strikes me that you'd have to have something more than ropes and planks to do it - such is the symmetry and geometry involved.

So are they using sophisticated measuring equipment to do them?

Dd, honestly? I haven't a chuffin' clue! The skill to plan, and execute, something of that scale in the dark, in a huge flat field is waaaaay beyond me. The largest circles in that lower one were easily twenty-thirty feet across, small one's about four-five, at a guess. IIRC it was around 950ft across the widest point. Even from the highest viewpoint you could only really see part of it, you had to get an aerial view to get it all in. Amazing piece of work, and I am full of admiration for anyone who can carry out something of that scale during the few hours of darkness available.
[edit] see http://www.temporarytemples.co.uk/imagelibrary/ for the best archive of crop formation images. [/edit]

Thanks Count, it really is fascinating stuff. 8)

Hi c_g, see my edit on last post.

i seem to remember something about giant pictures of birds and similar in the deserts of America made by lines of stones. From the ground you didn't even notice the stones were grouped together but from an airplane you could see the pattern.

Identified as man made several hundred years ago when there were no planes and no high mountains to look down and check the picture.

it was walked paths you are describing WCA in South america somewhere - recall the same programme. Pilgrims or some such but i am also failing to recall it in great detail.

Do you mean these? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazca_Lines

i did , cheers

The Uffington White Horse near Wantage is a bit like that. It can really only be clearly seen from above:
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Close up you can only see bits of it:
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CF = ~Could be those. i thought it was north america and stone piles but i could have got it totally reversed and it was south america and removal of stones. never was a detail person 😉

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Morning!

Btw, c_g, what part of the Kingdom of Wiltshire are you residing in now?

Btw, c_g, what part of the Kingdom of Wiltshire are you residing in now?

Not a million miles away from you Count! We shall have to hook up for a ride. 🙂

Nice bit of Wiltshire singletrack here 😉

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This is where I went today, can you guess where it is?

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Well, I certainly recognise that big hummock, I drove past it this afternoon going to and from Savernake Forest, walking, not biking; 7.8 miles around the forest.
The other two pics I would hazard a guess at Imber, never been there, so it's just a guess.

Is cycling permitted in Savernake Forest? Worth a look?

Yes, the pics are of Imber and it was my second visit today. Amazing place in a valley surrounded by empty 'houses', together with a shocking history. The church was open and has some interesting stuff to read.

Nice, I camped not far away from there last weekend, at Honey Street.
The Westeley Woods are quite pleasant to ride in, too.

As for crop circles, Mrs M is a Wiltshire farmer's daughter. When crop circles were first reported widely he was quite dismissive - something on the lines of, "huh, they're nothing new, we've been getting them on the farm at least since the 1940s"
Thye were quite simple ones, apparently, just single circles of flattened grass or crops.

Hi c_g, there's lots of cheeky little trails through the forest, some of it's fenced for grazing animals, and there's a bit over the far side which I've ridden through, but the roads are marked as private access.
Here's where I was walking today:
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There are tyre tracks around a lot of where I went, although one or two places were difficult to get through on foot, a bike would be impossible. The Lodge is a private area, the rest, pretty much go where you want/can get through.

My first croppie of the year!!
Those of you with a keen eye and attention for detail will know where abouts in Yorkshire I am (the clues in the distance) and the croppie itself wasn't that large, it was close to a cheeky trail, about 80 in dia and looked like a bloke on a bike no less..
Funny I had to travel uooop North to get my first one in, and early Sept too..

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Why can't I see the piccy from Picasa??

Sob, sob, sob..