Crop circles? I don't pretend to know what causes them, but I do know that a couple of guys with some rope and a plank couldn't make most of the ones I've seen. They are just too precise, too intricate, too large and they appear too quickly (overnight). You tell me how even a crew of people could create one of these in one day, in broad daylight! Seriously, I bet you couldn't get a team of contractors to produce some of the ones I've seen, they were just enormous, covering acres of land. And this happens overnight in every case that I'm aware of, so the parameters are:
A: Crews of people
B: Working at night during mostly summer months with short nights, sometimes less than eight hours
C: Creating enormous artistic works that are amazingly precise in their execution
D: Creating their works in a single night in every case
D: Without ever being detected!
There has never been a farmer who ran into a crew of vandals cutting crop circles into their fields. Not one that I'm aware of.
Are there prank crop circles? Sure there are. But there are a whole lot of them that just defy that explanation. I don't have an answer but I ain't buying the "prankster" explanation.
But there are a whole lot of them that just defy that explanation. Aliens travel billions of miles to reach another civilization. When they arrive instead of contacting centers of civilization -- our big cities -- they go to the countryside and make patterns in crops.
Then they travel billions of miles back to their own planet.
Several years ago a group of people taped themselves making some crop circles, then called in UFO "experts" who declared the circles the product of extraterrestial origin.
When shown the tapes of how the circles were made the experts simply refused to believe the fraud and STILL claimed UFOs did it.
A circle appeared on my new coffee table last night. My wife says I put a glass of iced tea on it without a coaster and she is NOT happy. I say it was a miniture UFO that did it.