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."
A couple of things to look for:
An unsymmetric piece in the design that in a perfect mathematical graph wouldn't be quite like that
Crude patterns in the grass as laid down as opposed to what was left standing.
Been a draftsman for a long time. You get so you see the rough edges and don't worry so much about artistic content.
Why would you assume they would do it without planning it out first?
BTW, a simple Spirograph-type setup would produce #9.
Really bored Cubs fans.
Because White Sox fans aren't that creative.
Of course not. What I'd like to know is how they're doing it.
BTW, a simple Spirograph-type setup would produce #9.
Great. But all i've seen is a couple of guys with boards and ropes who couldn't make a decent circle if they're lives depended on it. Plus, they damage the crops and leave footprints. When I think of obvious, that's what I'm thinking about.
Two weeks from now, "Signs" hits the big screen. The movie starring Mel Gibson involves -- you guessed it -- mysterious crop circles.
Gee, this couldn't be a...whatchamacallit?...that publicity stuff, could it? Nah.
I always try to show her in the best possible light...
Gee, this couldn't be a...whatchamacallit?...that publicity stuff, could it? Nah.
Heresy. It must be aliens, hungry for tofu and other fine soybean products....
Nowadays? Y'mean alien signalling is evolving? Scary.
A couple of guys in England got a lot of play two or three years back when they confessed to several they had done. Some of their work was quite elaborate. Perhaps someone here can outline the technique involved ....
Well, okay, there IS something to see here. I just wanted to say that, and someone always beats me to it.
I could tell you, but then my alien masters would...let's just say I'd "disappear". ;)
It's not nearly as hard as you might think - like I said in #55, the equipment you'd need is strictly bare bones stuff...
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.
I take issue with calling it a malicious act, I don't think it was intended as such. Just kids having fun.
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