Posted on 07/26/2002 11:24:55 AM PDT by Dengar01
Timing Suspicious On Mysterious Suburban Crop Circles
Could Eerie Mystery Have To Do With Movie Release?
Is it a case of mysterious crop circles -- or an elaborate movie hoax?
A soybean farmer in Naperville said the broken, concentric rings that appeared in a field off Diehl Road left him scratching his head.
"Have you ever heard of something so crazy?" Steve Berning said. "Unbelievable."
Berning said the circles appeared last weekend and damaged more than 10 percent of his 8-acre field.
The circles do resemble similar ones seen in England, but in this case, the timing of their appearance in the western suburb is a bit suspicious.
Two weeks from now, "Signs" hits the big screen. The movie starring Mel Gibson involves -- you guessed it -- mysterious crop circles.
William Leone, an investigator with the Mutual UFO Network, said soil analysis could determine whether the circles have human or extraterrestrial origins.
But Illinois Farm Bureau spokesman Dennis Vercler scoffed at that idea.
"Since I don't believe in UFOs -- at least not soybean-destroying UFOs -- I have to assume whoever did this did it intentionally as a malicious prank," Vercler said.
Meanwhile, Berning doesn't seem overly upset about the circles.
"There's some damage, which upsets me," Berning said. "But I'm more curious than anything. I"ll always be asking questions."
Who said there were no stakemarks? If you saw the little holes, would you recognize them as stakemarks? And, finally, if they mattered, why wouldn't the makers take an extra 30 seconds and cover them up?
As for precision, a couple of $2 pen lasers (1000m range) will give you all the precision you need. Although I note that we never see pictures from close up (at ground level) to check the regularity of the edges, the probable spacing of the board, marks from ropes, undisguised footprints, or errors, etc.
I recall turning around and bringing the tractor alongside to stop and ponder it for a few minutes - and if you knew about my dad's "sunny dispostion" you'd know that taking a break was a very *rare* occurance.
Since that day I've walked in many interesting and secret places - the hallways of NASA - inside nuclear bunkers - but never since have seen anything as completely strange as that one simple circle.
Sound advice for any issue...
Thanks for the links. I stand corrected - it's even easier than I originally thought.
I'm sure that if we'd heard of these things in my college days, we'd made a few cartiods or leminscate figures or something totally bizarre too.
If you're referring to the "Circle Makers", previously known as "Team Satan", although they may have created somewhat elaborate formations, they've never been able to duplicate the symmetry, mathmatical and geometric precision, or the "bending effect" found in actual crop circle formations. Also lacking is the celluar changes, background EM/RF emissions, and elevated radiation levels.
In fact, in a attempt to create an elaborate formation, they spent DAYS in New Zealand in creating one in the DAY. Again, it lacked symmetry and geometric precision, as well as the other aforementioned characteristics.
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Also, if I was this farmer and had just lost 10% of my crop to a prank, then some "aliens" would be going to jail or pay the damages if I could catch them!
Nobody said that here, but I've seen the lack of stakemarks touted elsewhere as evidence of otherworldly origins.
Silliness. The dead giveaway of human origins on 90% of these things, like the one picture in the thread here, is that they're basically six-pointed designs. That's exceedingly easy to do with nothing more than a long piece of rope and something to flatten the stalks. This is basically the old middle-school geometry method of inscribing a hexagon within a circle using a compass and straightedge, writ large. Your rope functions as both the compass and the straightedge in these cases, and it's absurdly easy to do.
I'm halfway tempted to call some friends and give it a whirl, just to see how fast we can pull it off. You can really get some surprisingly complex designs with just a bit of planning....
"In late July 2001 circlemakers John Lundberg, Rod Dickinson and Wil Russell created a complex 240ft crop circle formation (pictured right) that was commissioned by broadcaster HTV West for their 30 minute television documentary about the crop circle phenomenon. The formation took approximately 4 hours to construct under cover of darkness and was located in the Beckhampton area, in the shadow of Silbury Hill. The formation consists of eight fold geometry and is certainly amongst the most complex formations to appear in the 2001 season, spanning 240ft and consisting of 178 individual standing and flattened elements. Because of the delicate nature of the design there was very little room for error in the surveying of the formation."
"My own analysis is suggesting that this crop circle, along with two other crop circles of the season, may have been the product of weapons testing. The ground evidence suggests that an energy in the microwave region has been used. Genuine crop circles contain traceable electromagnetic energy (in the mid to high MHz range), which ally with biological and brainwave states (these would be responsible for the changes in chromosomes in crop circles plants, and for the range of physiological affects on visitors); microwave however operates in the GHz range and tends to leave plants and soil sterile (the opposite is true in genuine crop circles). Technology capable of transmiting coded information at such a range was recently switched on in Alaska, under the U.S. military's secret project HAARP. It's just a thought..."
Dunno, but he sounds like a nut to me.
It's a dead giveaway that it's a multiple of six. I'd bet good money that with me and five other guys, working in three pairs, we could get it done in under three hours. It's time-consuming, sure, but hardly difficult...
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