All Crop Circles are Man-Made!, page 8

-taps mic to make sure its on- Testing..1..2...ok, good

-takes out some papers and starts reading in a monotone voice--

Crop circles are thought to be a recent phenomona however if we look at cave drawings in europe, the americas, australia, and many other places we see there are many similar patterns

-presses a button showing a image on your screen-

As you can see, this drawing shows a odd spiral, a picture of wheat, and a star in the picture, along with animals..the symbolism here is pretty clear

There are thousands of rock and cave paintings around the world showing spirals, ufos, stars, patterns, and other type of potential evidence. I encourage you to use google for all your research needs on cave art.

Next we consider a more recent history of accounting of crop circles. We must look at studies then by credible sources.

In 1686 a British scientist, Robert Plot, published a book entitled A Natural History of Staffordshire, which contained accounts of geometric areas of flattened plants found on both arable land and pastureland. He describes not only circles but also spirals and squares within rings, up to 150 feet across. He reports that the soil under them was much looser and drier than normal, and that a whitish, musty substance or hoar, ‘like that in mouldy bread’, was sometimes found on the plants. He hypothesized that the designs were created by lightning exploding from the clouds. In July 1880 the science journal Nature published a letter from a scientist who described finding multiple circular areas of flattened wheat on a farm in southern England. He suggested they were the result of ‘some cyclonic wind action’.

This shows then that there were oddities in the fields appearing and reported on as early as 1686.
The people claiming responsibility for all crop circles in the 80s would have to be approximately 400 years old for their claims to be held seriously.

Now we come to today..there of course are entire volumes of books devoted to crop circles, so what has been stated here is just a tiny scratch.

Here is the overall issue with claimed crop circle hoaxing and the "real thing".
I can take some clay, form it, and paint it...making it look like a perfect IPOD...does this then mean there is no such thing as IPODs? no..it doesnt. and once you look past the superficial properties of the clay formed IPOD (cpod?) you realize that there are some significant differences..its not the actual form and shape of the crop circles thats even important, its the properties. Some of the big ones are listed below in very condensed format

1) Abnormal enlargement of cell wall pits in bract tissue
2) Enlarged (both laterally and longitudinally) plant stem nodes
3) Expulsion cavities (this may have been explained away as potentially natural, however still left up because of the rarity of such events happening to begin with naturally)
4) Stunted, malformed seeds and germination effects
5) A small percentage of formations--both "simple" circles and events of quite complex design--there is clear visual evidence in the newly-planted field of the previous summer's crop circle. In some cases the new plants in the area where the crop circle had been will be a slightly different color, or they will be shorter, or taller, than the surrounding crop.
6) tiny 10-40 micron diameter spheres (and/or partially ablated particles) of unusually pure iron have been regularly found in soils from crop circle sites. Sometimes clusters of these very small, perfectly spherical, magnetic particles are found; sometimes larger spheres (40-50 microns in diameter), which are strongly magnetic, are discovered adhering to bits of soil covered, or inter-mixed, with a partially-melted glaze of the same material.

Chances are, religious skeptics are no longer reading, so I will close this quickly from now on -notes most have left or are sleeping in the audience-

Crop Circles are indeed manmade often, there is the expression "monkey see, monkey do", and indeed there are plenty of monkeys in the world with 2x4s and ropes attempting to do what they have been seeing since the dawning of our species. luckily we have ways of seeing what is and isnt remarkable. monkeys have yet been able to add in the remarkable properties, so some testing of the soil and wheat shows quickly what is and isnt genuine.
I have suggested there be two catagories, Crop art and Crop circles...the art being manmade, and the circles being...something else.

Crop Circles does not mean alien made, but it is the simplest answer if you eliminate manmade. I am a believer in occams razor and so would say if its proven not to be manmade, but does seem to be of intelligent design, then it must be a form of intelligence creating these things. be it aliens, or dimensional creatures.

Crop art is typically done, poorly, by some drunk hillbillys whom fail to understand that just because you can make a clay replica of a IPOD, does not mean its a IPOD...yet, they will always refuse to listen, often because they cannot comprehend or have a decent reading ability.

Peace.
(on the fence about crop circles actually...but thats purely for a belief system not prepared to accept it verses a rational reason to disbelieve all of them...but at least I admit it)