[Quix]

I've read one claim that it's American military folks at a computer terminal tasking super high tech satellites.

However, folks have been in fields at night or adjacent to fields or overlooking fields and seen lighted orbs flit about the fields for sometimes just minutes or maybe close to an hour. When the orbs disappeared, the observers went into the fields and found a new crop circle--sometimes with electric discharge static sorts of sounds going off irregularly, too.

Basically, your dismissiveness does NOT match the hard scientific facts from a number of perspectives.

You can continue to hold your perspective, if it helps you sleep better at night. But it's not one consistent with the objective facts.

[Vinnie]

The whole crop circle thing started with 2 brothers in England.
There was a lot of speculation for years about circles that appeared in a field.
When the two brothers admitted doing the circles and demonstrated how, well that didn't satisfy the believers.
Now it's a worldwide phenomenon.
It's young people having fun.

Are the aliens trying to prove their existence? Are they sending us messages? They certainly picked a poor way of doing either.