Portuguese man-of-straw: The jellyfish crop circle in a barley field in Kingstone
Coombes, Oxfordshire, measures 600 ft from tip to tail
Posted on 06/02/2009 1:14:31 PM PDT by yankeedame
No one ever seen a jellyfish like this before --particularly not in the middle of a farmer's field.
The 600ft monster, similar to a giant Portuguese man-of-war, has delighted crop circle watchers by turning up near Kingstone Coombes, Oxfordshire.
Crop circle-expert Karen Alexander said: 'We have seen butterfly and bird patterns in the past, but this is the first jellyfish crop circle in the world. It is absolutely huge, three times the size of most patterns.
Portuguese man-of-straw: The jellyfish crop circle in a barley field in Kingstone
Coombes, Oxfordshire, measures 600 ft from tip to tail
...'We are looking into the meaning of it, but at present it just seems to have appeared out of nowhere.'
Sceptics might suggest that someone in Oxfordshire is trying to muscle in on Wiltshire's dominance in the crop circle stakes - from April to the September harvest the mystery patterns are believed to bring millions of pounds in tourism to the western county.
Something fishy: No one knows exactly how the crop pattern was made
The massive jellyfish thoroughly trounces the 350ft Wiltshire yin-yang symbol mysteriously cut last week into a barley field near Devizes, a crop circle hot spot.
The design is not strictly a circle, of course, and is a long way from the simple shapes that appeared in the 1980s and gave rise to the name 'crop circle'.
Some argue that the patterns are the work of artists with access to computers and plenty of volunteers - but crop circle enthusiasts say summer nights are just too short to accomplish such complex work secretly.
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So where are the photos of the botched crop circles? Where the team accidently turns left where they should’ve turned right?
Sure they can “correct” part of the design but there have to be examples of “oops”.
You have to give the artist credit, doing anything this size takes talent and skill not seen much.
too easy to cover up with another solid circle.
Or....Maybe teenage aliens were out joyriding and thought a jellyfish would be a cool crop circle..... LOL!
>>> but crop circle enthusiasts say summer nights are just too short to accomplish such complex work secretly.
80-90% of the work occurs before one foot steps into the field. These “enthusiasts” are either stupid, or in on it.
I bet this pattern could have been trampled out within a couple of hours by a single person.
GPS anyone?
That’s a particularly beautiful one. Nobody eats barley anymore anyway.
“No Water Ballet”?
Mr. Peel loves it! Its his favorite carb.
Perhaps it's the work of.......KINGONS!!!
If you look closely at the "circles within circles" that are trailing from the center "tentacle" the diameters appear to be reducing by some sort of geometric rate until you get the the third and second from the end. It appears that they are reversed as respect to the others. Since this sort of prank is often done after dark using strings to lay out the pattern, somebody messed up and used the wrong length string to set the diameter for those two circles. Either that or ET was just being very subtle.
It must be great to have so much time to screw around...
Regards,
GtG
How’s that for a resume enhancer? Expert in Crop Circles!
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