I'm still finding this thread ridiculous. There's a major difference between ufo sightings and some whacko reporting that a crop circle appeared within 15 minutes....

...think about it this way...why the hell do they always "land" in corn fields?? Whats wrong with a nice big bit of grass? You never hear of circles being burnt into landscapes or anything similar without it turning out to be a hoax....so tell me this...if you're an alien intelligence looking for somewhere to land on an unknown planet in an enormous ship, would you :

a) land on the biggest flattest most remote site possible

or

b) land in the middle of six foot high corn field that for all you know could contain substances/animals/elements that would damage your ship.

hmmmm...next you'll be telling me that they're attracted to corn cos its pretty.

let me rephrase that question...you're an alien intelligence building a ship to fly to distant galaxies, do you :

a) design it in an ergonomically viable and sensible manner, which when complete you then repeat for the construction of the rest of the fleet.

or

b) design a ship that looks pretty with lots of little circles and will make nice large geometrically perfect shapes on the ground when you land....then continue to build the rest of your fleet completely uniquely giving each one of them a different funky base....like an "intergalactic artist with an unlimited budget"

hmmmm...actually come to think of it, maybe I would opt for b)

Small colonies of homicidial hamsters. They live under fields, surfacing only to kill solitary cows. The disturbance caused by the cow struggling and the grass being flattened as they drag he cow the ground and carry it down to their underground lair is the cause of crop circles. Many intricate patterns have been achieved in this way. The hamsters position the cows in certain patterns using their mind-control weapons. It is part of their tribal worship of the demon aspargus god known only as Piglet.







I'm making record time!
If only I had someplace to be...

hmmm you wouldn't happen to know "Krazy Scout" by any chance would ya?

@Zone.

Which one? I was referring to the incident Leonhart described.

Ah, sorry, didn't read the quote properly. I don't know if we ARE talking about the same one, I assumed it was but what I heard in the local rag was that it was someone up for a nice day flying. Not really looking for anything specific. Who knows. Well, Leon presumeably as he'll know if he's talking about the one next to stonehenge too...

My gap year in Borneo

It's a well known fact that aliens like corn, and perhaps they do find it appealing aesthetically but lets not get rediculous with our assumptions.
We all KNOW that they need CORNILIUM-21 (a fuel derrived from the bending of the stalks of corn) to fuel their ships, not to mention the desperate need of WHEATONIUM and depleted uranium lined argyle socks for their hull plating and shield generation plants.
I know this to be true because depleted uranium lined argyle socks can generate quite a bit of static power as the aliens run up and down their carpet lined ship corridors during interstellar flights.

But please, don't let my knowledge of the FACTS force you to change your mind.
And remember, crop circles are just doodles the aliens make while on the phone, E.T. proved it!

nah that's so way off the mark. You forget that there are other aliens that use Maizeon as fuel, others that use Sunflower Oil Super. yet others utilise Cabbagium-14, Potaton-357, and Carrotian-76, amongst many others. Recent studies seem to indicate that new age hippies, far from being the workshy stoners as popularly depicted, may have it right after all - aliens ARE vegetarians.

Taw

How could you have forgotten the mother of all propellants: Beanium 239?

I heard that if you copy all the crop circle images from across the world, and put them all together, you get a picture of Roseanne Barr in the shower.

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Well, Leon presumeably as he'll know if he's talking about the one next to stonehenge too...

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I am not realy sure about location, as I read about this some time ago...but I do believe it was by stonehenge...

@Taw, I hope not, at least not one of her old pictures. People still mess around in field today, just to get people going, but end up getting caught.

Finalday

Until that final day. /Keith Green\ (1953-1983)

how the fr*g do the aliens get one by S'henge, seeing as it's guarded day and night and loaded up with cctv?

having said that, Salisbury Plain is a very odd place, full of very secret MoD bases that are up to stuff, and not necessarily good or nice stuff. me and me Mrs were chugging along quite happily past warminster one vening when a line of bloody great big Challengers came tearing across the road, followed by MoD police who yanked us out of the car and ripped all the film out of me camera, b*stards. And i hadnt even taken a photo, we'd been to Bath for the day.