I remember seeing this story on FOX (Sightings) when it aired originally. I was blown away then and continue to be fascinated by this story today. There was no internet then like today and the story disappeared from the public view REALLY fast. I now live in Germany and have visited Grasdorf. The field still gives one a tingling feeling when you enter it. An eerie and strange feeling. What has been said is that the language on the plates is an old Celtic language. There are many, many ancient Celtic sites in Germany. Did the ancient Celts have contact with ETs? Maybe. The gold plate from what I have heard disappeared. I have never heard anything about it being sold. Also, the question about the bronze plate showing no signs of corrosion. If you listen to the guy talking about the composition of the plates, he said that the bronze plate was a strange mixture like none ever seen before. Maybe it had the ability to resist corrosion. It took me several years to get any information on this story once the internet started coming on strong. Only then was it accessible. Good question- what hoaxer would really place such precious items of tremendous wealth in the ground just to have some stranger end up with them?? You are looking at the one and only crop circle that is definitely 100% real. No better evidence than physical evidence. Also, pay attention to the analysis of the stalks in the circle. Another good sign of an authentic crop circle. Stalks bent inches above the ground...not broken. Can not happen with someone faking a circle.

I'm assuming this was a field of crops with no fresh mounds of dirt. I've no idea how long things take to grow, but for this to be a hoax they would have had to bury the plates before the crops were planted. Then they would have had to come back and make the formation, in the right place, when the crops had grown. Adding to that the value of the metals, I don't think this is a hoax.
OK, the guy with the metal detector could have been in on it and knew exactly where to look and what he would find. That doesn't sit well with me, though.

Has any hoaxer ever come forward and claimed responsibility for it? If I'd done it, I'd have to own up eventually for creating such an elaborate hoax!

I'm willing to believe anything if there is enough proof. I have never seriously considered elaborate crop circles to be anything other than man-made, especially after watching a show where guys videotaped their making of a rather complex one, that people were stumped over.

This is an interesting case, I'd like to do more research on it. Does anyone know if there are legitimate papers in regards to the lab tests for these plates? It's one thing to say you had them tested, but I'd like to see the proof.

Also, I'm confused about why someone was looking for metal in the crop circles in the first place.

Even though these elaborate crop circles appear on our planet does this mean they are meant for our eyes or foe another race to see and understand

We all know that the majority have been faked by us Brits as a type of "who can do the mast elaborate design and get on the news

I'm well aware crop circles have been spotted for centuries now so that rules out most of the hoax's, was there not a metal triangle found in the center of one of these crop circles a few years back or was that on the "X files"

Originally posted by fleabit
Does anyone know if there are legitimate papers in regards to the lab tests for these plates? It's one thing to say you had them tested, but I'd like to see the proof.

I would also like to see these papers, and I hope one of the German speaking members here at ATS will try to search for them.

The metal plates were supposedly tested at the German Federal Institute for Material Research (Bundesanstalt fur Materialpufung) in Berlin, by the initiative of Tugingen lawyer Dr Roemer-Blum.

I haven't managed to find any more info about neither the institute nor the lawyer.

If this is not a hoax then was it wise to remove the plates? They were obviously placed there for a reason and if related to the crops circles then they may be needed for future communication.

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This is awesome! To those who claim "hoax," I wonder... Why is it so important that crop circles be hoaxes, even to the point of believing something that would require a hell of a lot of planning and resources, and especially when there are circles that in no way could they have been produced by a few drunk men with string and boards: too complex, crop bent too high, odd properties to the bent crop, etc.?

My husband has used one circle to invent a free energy device, but until we have $$$ to build it, we will not know if it works. But he seemed to understand what the circle was conveying (he calls it the "Tesla Circle - others may too... [shrug]).

So given that people are "decyphering" messages from these circles (some, I suppose, but not all circles), I have to wonder about people still convinced they are all frauds.

Thanks for the info on this one. I had not heard of it before and it surely is facsinating!

Thanks

I have never seen this before and the evidence is over whelming and hard to debunk.

Star & Flagged

Originally posted by ohh_pleasee
Call me crazy.. but as soon as I saw this I couldn't help but think that it is a very simple picture of a time line showing of a galactic alignment?..Possibly. Notice how the middle image seems to be the most significance.. bearing the cross emphasizing everything embodied and observed in the Zodiac.

If a race were trying to tell us something they knew we wouldn't know how to translate.. I'm sure they would say it in the simplest way possible. Through drawings! I mean look at it. What do you see?

Yet again.. this was just my immediate thought. Be nice, I don't think I can study crop circles for a living, lol.

I think that's an excellent theory.

I've always been fascinated with crop circles, too, and I have also never heard of artifacts being found under any other crop circles. When the other crop circles appear in the world, do they routinely do metal detector tests on them? Could there be artifacts underneath the other crop circles, too? If so, and if nobody has found them yet, then that means that there could be a LOT of artifacts just waiting to be found.

It would make sense to leave a "permanent copy" of each crop circle behind, too....the first "temporary" crop circle would be big enough to give the message, and then the diagram would be like a permanent copy to keep afterwards.

Another idea that just popped into my mind: what would happen if all the artifacts were collected together in a room. Could people play around with them and put them together in some kind of pattern? Together, would they create some kind of....activation? It brings up all sorts of questions for me, too.

Star and flag...great post. Thanks for posting this.

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