Crop Circles

[Maydup]

It’s that time of year when they used to appear across the countryside. What happened to Crop Circles? Did the aliens simply stop visiting.

[goodgoalie]

Too hot for them

[vulcan42]

the aliens left university and found a new career.

[Old_Geezer]

It's too hot for those that maydup the circles.

[naomi24]

Some of them were incredibly intricate. The crop circles I mean - not the aliens. ;o)

[albaqwerty]

According to the NY Times, it was supernatural forces called Doug and Dave

[JimF]

Yes. Doug and Dave finally got sick of it, phoned the press, made a documentary showing exactly how it was done, and that was that.

[Hopkirk]

It was a few planks and a bit of rope, wasn't it?

[Old_Geezer]

Two of them by the sound of it.

[nailit]

I was once a member of a local paranormal research group
(I was the token sceptic)
Attended a talk by a prominent advocate of crop circles been paranormal (UFOs etc)

One talk entailed been told that a particular type of crop,
that had a circle, could not not have been formed naturally because that particular crop breaks when its trod on. (The crop hadnt breaked or snapped)

I pointed out that the night before, it had rained heavily and the crop was wet and pliable.
The crop was 'snappable' whilst dry but 'plyable' whilst wet.

Sometimes the the most obvious answers are the correct ones!!

We would all like to wish in the supernatural but it doesnt exist.

[nailit]

There have been studies that show that most crop circles show up during student holidays as well....
Weird that....

[Atheist]

However they were made, they were very cleverly done. One just south of Stonehenge appeared (allegedly) within a 20 min time slot. I can't remember the details, but many many circles of various sizes in a sophisticated arrangement. Hard to imagine humans managing that, and probably even harder to imagine extra-terrestrials coming here to do it. Reg Presley (he of the Troggs tapes) was interested in all this stuff.
Makes you think! (Or perhaps encourages people not to think).

[Atheist]

I'd recommend that people look for images of circles and read some of the stuff about them before saying too much.

[nailit]

FGS, Its been shown time and time again how theses 'circles' were made.
Nothing to report here....move along!

So Doug & Dave were fakers but subsequent circles were genuine?

LOL!

[Atheist]

Nailit, there were circles before Doug and Dave and after Doug and Dave. The fact that they made circles proves nothing about the circles.

[Atheist]

Despite Naomi's atheism (sorry if I misrepresent you, Naomi), at least she doesn't automatically dismiss anything odd in principle. I think the crop circles are often fascinating and, although capable of plausible terrestrial explanations, they can be very difficult to explain in such terms.

[ToraToraTora]

jimf: "Yes. Doug and Dave finally got sick of it, phoned the press, made a documentary showing exactly how it was done, and that was that. " - yes well even before that it was pretty obviously none of the things the dims suggested.

[douglas9401]

Wasn't me, I was miles away when it happened.

[Togo]

You just can't get the "staff" after Brexit.

[Atheist]

TTT, have you ever visited one of these circles?