.....and not drunken students from the nearby college of agriculture?
What do farmers think when they come out and find some muppet has squashed huge areas of their corn down with a board?
If you had a UFO, would you waste all that time and fuel flying to Earth just to leave a crop circle then fly home?
Probably not on STW, but in the real world Im sure you will find someone. Afterall, its no different to believing in a magician that lives in the sky 😉
Aren't you about 10 years too late to this?
and not drunken students from the nearby college
Of course it was! Well, that and pissed up Moonrakers after a good fill of 6X!
Too late? Why? Was it all exposed as students 10 years ago?
Stop it with the crazy talk. You'll be saying Santa isn't real next.
Too late? Why? Was it all exposed as students 10 years ago?
I thought it was all exposed as a couple of old boys having a laugh on their way back from the pub about ten years ago. All done with a plank of wood and some string.
Wheat or Barley squashed flat is a pain to combine
Jeez, anyone who'd believe it was aliens should get their head examined - preferably the open top examination.
Anyone with any understanding of science knows it's a result of moonlight faerie dancing.
why do you never see incomplete or rubbish designs then?
they're always perfectly geometric shapes.
Have you not seen ancient aliens on the history channel? Of course it's aliens
this one:
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[url= http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/inter2012/germany/Andechs2012b.html ](some people really take this seriously....)[/url]
was made by a friend of mine and five of his mates in 2012 just south of Munich. done over two nights. when they were done the called a local paper and saying they had just been walking the dog and found this massive circle.
within a day the area was swarming with people; people with crystals, people with cameras, people with a "connection". there were even a few sick people who were carried to the centre of the circle to help them fight their sickness with the positive energy.
when the farmer came to harvest his crop there were people laying down in front of the combine harvester....
probably wasn't helped that the location is called "Heiligeberg", or "Holy Hill"..... 🙂
if you can understand German, these are really funny.....
(skip to 2:15 for the combine and translate the description under the vid for a laugh)
[url= http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=andechs+kornkreis&sm=3 ]like really seriously.....[/url]
within a day the area was swarming with people; people with crystals, people with cameras, people with a "connection".
So sadly true! And not just in Germany, Wiltshire, too! 🙂
...was made by a friend of mine and five of his mates in 2012 just south of Munich.
Fair do's, that's some impressive circlage.
Too late? Why? Was it all exposed as students 10 years ago?
Pretty much yes.
(Not specifically students, but exposed as the work of "pranksters" in general)
Alpin, thats great. I bet one of your ancestors did a similar trick with some fish and bread 🙂
Unidentified Field-Flatterning Oiks? Yes, I believe they exist...
Rachel
If you had a UFO, would you waste all that time and fuel flying to Earth just to leave a crop circle then fly home?
Maybe they don't fly home. Maybe they stay. What other explanation is there for Michael Gove?
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This is the one and only crop circle I ever had a wander around. Somewhat impressive.
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10 years too late? More like 20 shirley?
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Nope
To be honest, never really figured out why a complex pattern made in crops (it's never a potato crop circle is it?) was ever supposed to be the work of Aliens or whatever.
I mean, if you wanted to communicate, just leave a fricking note if your too shy to say hello. Or if you've just landed to stretch your legs and probe a cows anus, why have your engines designed by Spirograph. Although I suppose it might be the alien equivalent or neon light strips on a Clio 1L.
I think Hope A2Z and galpher need to have a chat with some of these guys, they are missing a trick for some nice disc designs.
the late, Dear old Reg Presley certainly did.
I'd rather spend my royalties on other pursuits but good on him...
[url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/wiltshire/features/regpresley.shtml ]BBC link[/url]
In recent years, The Troggs' frontman, Reg Presley has become as well known for his obsession with crop circles as for penning evergreen pop hits like 'Love Is All Around' and 'With a Girl Like You'.
Indeed, in 1994 when Wet Wet Wet spent a whopping 15 weeks at number one with their cover of 'Love Is All Around', Reg famously joked that on receipt of the imminent royalties, he'd finally be able to devote all his time to investigating the mysterious field formations.
The same aliens who made a crop todger in a field near Stourhead, Wilts?
wrecker - Member
Stop it with the crazy talk. You'll be saying Santa isn't real next.
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Best Crop Circle ever:
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I reckon there all made by richmtbguru.
It would require belief that crop circles are UFO-made however it would not require belief to say that only a few are made by pranksters.
Quite what entities makes the rest of them is [i]unknown[/i].
This was from 30th December in California - no way did a bunch of students make that in the night.
http://www.ufosightingsdaily.com/2014/01/elaborate-crop-circle-spotted-in.html
In this report the police officer describes what are commonly known (among UFO/ET researchers) as Nordic aliens at a crop circle http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/ufo/6394256/UFO-alert-police-officer-sees-aliens-at-crop-circle.html
MI5 exposed in hoaxes: http://www.richplanet.net/detail.php?dbindex=209
Who knows what else is "out there"? Remember we once were sure the earth is flat...
There's loads that appear next to Chilbolton Observatory - bearing in mind that it's RIGHT NEXT TO 2 military air bases and a massive no fly zone with lots of "special" radar there are designs that have appeared in under two hours there.
One was a 6 figure mathematical equation that took their own computers almost three days to calculate - that appeared in under two hours between Apache patrols with no break in radar coverage and nothing showing.
Bearing in mind their radar covers anything bigger than a badger for close on 8 miles in every direction.......
Who knows what else is "out there"? Remember we once were sure the earth is flat...
Quite right; however I doubt that 'they' would tease us with their presence by symmetrically sabotaging our porridge capabilities.
They exist alright, but circles rather than the fancy fake designs.
When crop circles first attracted the Woo crowd, my father in law grunted something on the lines of "They've been around since I was a lad", (1940s) and specified what fields they happened in. He was a farmer in Wiltshire, a few miles from Warminster & Westbury, and a grumpy cynical old sod, so I believed him.
This was from 30th December in California - no way did a bunch of students make that in the night.
Why not ? Any particular reason ?
If anyone still thinks UFO's are responsible for crop circles. Think about this.
It is known that 90% of crop circles appear in England. If there is a link between UFO's and crop circles, then why is that more than 90% of UFO sightings are reported in places other than England?Are the Crop Circle UFO's a special type that don't get spotted as easily as the ones that don't do Crop Circles?"
Its not just crop circles though. Me and a few mates built Stone Henge after a long weekend on rough cider in 1986. 4 guys, two sack barrows, jobs a good un.
They exist alright, but circles rather than the fancy fake designs.
When crop circles first attracted the Woo crowd, my father in law grunted something on the lines of "They've been around since I was a lad", (1940s) and specified what fields they happened in. He was a farmer in Wiltshire, a few miles from Warminster & Westbury, and a grumpy cynical old sod, so I believed him.
I don't think anyone's denying they exist. Rather, we're suggesting that rather than being extra-terrestrial in origin, they were in fact crafted by a couple of old blokes on the way home from the pub using a plank and a bit of rope. Largely because they admitted to it about twenty years ago. The rest are copycats; as soon as they made the news everyone started doing it.
Here's some aliens, in 1991.
CaptainFlashheart - Member
within a day the area was swarming with people; people with crystals, people with cameras, people with a "connection".
So sadly true! And not just in Germany, Wiltshire, too!
There was a beauty in a field right next to Avebury circle a year or so back. You can imagine the sort of people sitting in the middle of it, 'communing' with the creators, or whatever.
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There was another one, below Cherhill White Horse, which had daft Americans talking in serious terms about how it was sending a message, there were serious vibrations emanating from it...
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Bearing in mind their radar covers anything bigger than a badger for close on 8 miles in every direction.......
Which would therefore suggest that the most logical answer is that it was made by people FROM the observatory...
Especially since the design wasn't a mathematical equation, it was a resemblance of the world-famous Arecibo Message that was transmitted into space in 1974. It was supposed to represent a possible "reply" from an alien civilisation.
You can even watch how they did it here:
Cougar,
rather than being extra-terrestrial in origin, they were in fact crafted by a couple of old blokes on the way home from the pub using a plank and a bit of rope. Largely because they admitted to it about twenty years ago
Yeah, but why bother in the 1940s when the fields the circles appeared in weren't en route to any pub? And why continue for 3 decades without any publicity whatsoever? Yes, there were fakes, but those were in the 70s. I doubt that the blokes who owned up to circle-making were old enough to drink when my father-in-law first got them.
Yeah, but why bother in the 1940s when the fields the circles appeared in weren't en route to any pub? And why continue for 3 decades without any publicity whatsoever? Yes, there were fakes, but those were in the 70s. I doubt that the blokes who owned up to circle-making were old enough to drink when my father-in-law first got them.
So, if it wasn't those two blokes.......the only other possibility is Aliens then ?
Hmm, so it sounds like there are two possibilities:
Option 1:
•Intelligent extraterrestrials must exist.
•These intelligent extraterrestrials must have the ability and the desire to visit Earth in spaceships capable of traveling millions of miles across space and sustaining their occupants for years in order to make the trip.
•These intelligent extraterrestrials must have a reason for wanting to come to Earth for the purpose of pressing weird designs in to fields of grain.
•The process of creating crop circles must be done without the possibility of these extraterrestrials being witnessed in the act of doing it.
Or Option 2:
•Some human beings must have the desire to play a prank.
•Some human beings must have access to a board, a piece of string, and a baseball cap.
•Some human beings must have some knowledge of geometry.
Yeah, but why bother in the 1940s when the fields the circles appeared in weren't en route to any pub?
Well,
a) based on a sample anecdote of "one", it's entirely possible that your FIL is either mistaken or lying,
b) it seems unlikely that the fields aren't between [i]someone's [/i]house and a pub somewhere, and
c) the presence of the pub, or the field being on a pub route, whilst almost certainly inspirational, is not mandatory.
"Hey Doug, what say we go and play a joke on the farmer after this pint?"
"Nah Dave, it's just not possible. After all, we'd have to go slightly out of our way."
Aliens, clearly.
Yeah, but why bother in the 1940s when the fields the circles appeared in weren't en route to any pub?
Just for the record, beer consumption peaked around 1874, at which time it provided around 30% of the exchequers revenue. Second only to cotton, and employed over 1.5 million people in the uk directly and indirectly.
The production of beer during the Second World War was a serious business treated with surprisingly high importance by the UK government.
Some of the results of "alternative" brewing techniques however, where quite unpleasant but still quite effective.
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/mar/22/george-osborne-beer-cultural-value
Attitudes changed by the second world war. With bombers attacking the home front, beer and pubs were an essential morale booster. Beer was never rationed, and Churchill personally mandated that every fighting man at the front must receive eight pints a week.
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