ok, so let me get this straight, these circles have been found since 1994 and when did they find the plates...just this week? or ..?

if they just found these circles, why is just hitting the news ?? I've never heard of this in all the circles I've read about.. something doesn't smell right..

Plus, they sold the solid gold one.. hmmm.. doubt it, I bet the jewler still has it and paid them for it. I'd seriously doubt a jewler would melt this down, well.. if he's creditable..


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Another reason why it smells of a hoax is simple. If this was truly from an alien species, probably from a different planet, then I'm 100% positive that the government/military would have confiscated these plates to be analyzed for a number of reasons(origin, diseases, content, etc etc).

Any time a UFO happens to be in the area, then the government steps in, and tries to get all the evidence before anybody else. So why did they let this one slide? Oh sure, the government was like, "ohh well, lets just let these plates made from aliens slide. Lets let the finders of these plates sell them if they want".

only 2 possibilities seem viable. its real or its a hoax.

if its real then cool more questions
if its a hoax then who had the money and resources to pull it off, i mean solid gold and silver plates only someone really rich or the government would have the resources to pull something like this off.

but either way they both open more questions than they answer

Giant hoax or giant cover-up.

Neither is good news. Hoaxers need to get a life (while they still can) and the cover-up merchants will get theirs (and I am not talking about a life).

If humans cannot be honest with each other (which, apparently, we cannot), why would aliens bother to be honest with us?

Probably the only reason they didn't take us over long ago was because they took a look and didn't like what they saw.

Originally posted by Razimus
I don't gotta answer anything I'm not under trial suckas. We have proof man have made crop circles, we have no proof of anything else.

Again the plates have been melted down, that's the type of thing I'd expect a black market grave robber to do in ancient egypt but not in the 90's, hoax hoax hoax.

Finally I'm not the only one that admits man has made them, it is common knowledge, the cropcirclemakers guys I have heard of them, but I don't buy their story, that story sounds like something they would make up in an attempt to keep crop circle freaks interested in the subject, to continue to relate it to the unknown.

I once heard Ed Dames through remote viewing claim crop circles were markers for time-travelers, that's the only thing I've ever heard of which sounds more bogus than them being from ETs.

I've also heard the government laser theory, I guess it's likely but not as likely as the guys with the boards, as far as the microwaved wheat, that would be interesting if it was before the invention of the microwave.

If E.T. is ever proven to be connected to crop circles I will be 100% willing to admit I'm wrong, thats the type of person I am.

thank you razimus, finally a beacon of light in the pitch black darkness of delusion that is this thread, Its posts like yours and people like you that reaffirm my allegiance to ATS. Logic, and proof and scientific thought are the currency in which I trade and this thread is severely lacking value. The reason I like this website is becuase there is an abundance of so called skeptics, I'm not saying you necessarily are a skeptic, but I'm saying theres nothing wrong with a little skepticism, and linear thinking. Some conspiracy websites out there are full of nothing but lunatics who have absolutely no idea whats actually going on in the real world, and who are so far gone they've lost touch with reality years ago. People, the value of sitting down and looking at things objectively cannot be overlooked. Occam's razor states that the simplest most obvious answer will inevitably turn out to be correct. I can't stand it when people let their imaginations outweigh their logical thinking and start posting absolute drivel. The fact remains that their is incontrovertible proof that at least some of these crop circles are man made, there have been numerous shows on discovery science and TLC about how to make them, even a team from MIT did it and that was a great show. They had an irradiation machine and a machine that dispersed bits of iron ore and other metals, its was a great thought experiment, just to prove that these things can be man made, and I feel most are. Mankind is very creative, and some of these are simply art projects. Proof is undervalued alot around here and its good to see some people haven't forgot the value of it. Good show razimus

hmmm - the alledged destruction and sale of it [ the gold plate ] does raise a big red flag

what is worth more ?

a 7 kg gold plate - with provenance that it is an allegedly important crop circle artefact

OR

7 kg of smelted gold

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also - the disapearence of the aleged gold plate does make the the cost of an alleged hoax far more managable

as has been pointed out previously

if you were to hoax the bornze plate - it could be done for < 200 dollars

to hoax the silver plate < 3 thousand

but to hoax a gold plate would cost > 200 thousand

and guess which item is no longer " avaliable " ?