I remember last year a 110 feet crop circle being found in Wiltshire (and I'm from Dorset, so that's like 50 miles away), being discussed as the most intricate image EVER, a coded 10 digit image.
But that's nothing new.
I live in a seaside town, thats full of pretention and resturants, and behind the town is hundreds of miles of British countryside. Flat fields of rapeseed, corn and other crops. And Stonehenge is about 30 miles away from me. Theres quite a bit of druid history locally, I used to live in a town where 13 lay lines meet.
Every summer, we get crop circles. A few make the papers. And a 600ft one was found this week.
Nobody saw a UFO, nothing was taken, no sightings of little green men, no tracks leading from the circle.
Seriously, if they were made by a spaceship why was nothing touched by the circle? Why no footprints? And why the hell did anybody not notice a spaceship making a 600ft jellyfish in a field?!
My theory is much eerier and more sinister.
Crop-circle theorists are making them.
Think about it, 'croppies' probably are in their late 30s and live with their parents. All they do is hang round with other croppies and watch star-trek. But when a 600ft crop cirlce is found, people pay attention to them. Its their fifteen minutes. They might even go on TV!!
My theory, which probably isn't correct, is that each circle is made by a group of croppies who want their fifteen minutes, but each group of croppies won't admit what they've been doing to other croppies, because they all believe the other croppies are finding UFO evidence. We know that nerds can make crop circles, a few years ago a massive hoax was uncovered and admitted to. Once even someone made a Richard and Judy for a laugh (this wasn't claimed by a circle maker) http://forgetomori.com/2008/skepticism/crop-circle-marketing/
I just like to think that using Occams Razor - the simplest explaination is ususally correct - mine is a simpler theory than aliens are trying to communicate, or lightning, or some paranormal phenomenon.
