Very nice!

Thanks for the thread.

IMO, man-made crop circles are hoaxes to muddy the waters so to speak. They are a scapegoats for the handful of real ones that occur & still amaze and perplex.

But OP, you failed to point out or list the numerous & various other phenomena/anomalies of the real circles for our newer ATS'ers.

Indeed, they are not all man-made.

Pz.

Crop-circles: do you really understand what’s going on in the rape seed fields?

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There will be no rape on ats or in a field with alien drawing on my watch.

Very interesting work. I must say, I have never really paid much attention to crop circles, thinking they were more kinda public artworks performed by rogue artists than anything else.

Having grown up on a farm, I totally understand what is being said about the Rape Seed stems - some plants have very brittle stalky stems that snap when bent while others are far more resilient and can be squashed then spring back up again. Growth conditions do not really affect a stem in relation to it's brittleness, so even if 2010 was a slow growing year, the plants would still break off at the stem like in earlier circles.

One thing I must ask though; Has anyone considered if they are created by humans that these 'new' circles are now being created by a hormone spray applied at the base of the stem? If any of you are unfamilair with hormone sprays, they are a type of spray that literally causes a plant to grow itself to death. When applied a plant will grow all gnarly and twisty, keel over then die.

Not all plants are susceptible to all hormone sprays and different dilutions can cause a plant to go a bit gnarly, but it can recover. So it is possible to create something along the lines of these circles, admittedly it would be a lot of work and unless they have discovered a very fast acting spray (maybe possible if one experimented with it) the circle would appear over the period over a few days. One indicator of this being a possibility is that the pics of the stems of the 'new' circles are constricted and withered looking at the bend spot - possibly caused by direct contact with hormone spray.

Wow. Half of you obviously didnt even read the OP, you probably just skimmed through the pictures. Some of you are jumping to the conclusion that the author is trying to convince you that aliens make crop circles, but that is not at all true.

Not once does the word "alien", or "extraterrestrial" appear in the original article. However, elevenaugust does mention the word "alien" in his "personal notes" and this is what he (or she) says:

Originally posted by elevenaugust
Personal note
To clear up things, I do not say with that study that the answer automatically lie in the alien hypothesis, but rather that evidences shows that some (rares) rapeseed CC cannot have been done using the olds “Doug and Dave” classic tools...
It's now up to people who wants (and have the capabilities to do so) to prove that it's possible using another method. That's will be the subject of another future thread explaining the whole protocol and methodology to try to reproduce what we can see in the rapeseed fields.
Otherwise I guess that this subject will stay for a long time in the highly speculative field....

Obviously, there is something strange going on, but to jump to the most radical conclusion first is just foolish. With todays technology, anything is possible. I think if you can find out what can bend the stems of the plants forever without killing them, you will find the basis of whatever equipment or technique was used to create CCs with the same kind of effect. I could see how some modified laser surveying equipment and a laptop computer could help make CCs more elaborate and complex. As for bending the stalks permanently I could imagine some kind of steamer. Kind of like a curtain steamer, if you know what that is. I'm not sure if this would work or how someone could use it on such a large scale. I am just trying to think outside the box.

Thanks, elevenaugust, for translating and sharing that.

I wonder if the bent stalk circles were formed in the rain, and the broken stalk circles were formed in dry weather.

Originally posted by dbriefed
I wonder if the bent stalk circles were formed in the rain, and the broken stalk circles were formed in dry weather.

That's exactly right. Since these are made at night, when the dew sets in, the crops are almost always moist, making them more flexible than they would be in the daytime - when "researchers" generally do their testing, sometimes being unable to recreate the bending effect.

Ive read that the circles may be created by some sort of sub-contious energies and frequencies emitted by us humans.Theres tons of possibilities i guess..

S&F for this w/o question~!! Thx you so much for bringing the scientific research into such a deep subject; it's late April/ early May, perfect time for some more to come out... Plz continue your endeavor to continue your research and bring ALL of this into the light of truth, whether or not it's hoaxs.

If it's not a hoax, we will have a greater responsibility to mankind to bring & KEEP this in the light of truth...

Very nice information, well researched. I am really interested in the radiation and molten metal left behind in some circles. I can not think of any way normal people could leave that behind.

ah well! back to this old chestnut
the simple fact is ALL PARANORMAL STUDIES be they cc, ufo's,ghosts etc
are contaminated by naysaying fakers determined to prove something false at any cost
these people who claim to have done this vandalism should be billed and sued for damages
quite simply put if you hoaxed a few circles and found mass media interest if ALL DAMAGES WERE ATRIBUTED TO YOU AND I MEAN ALL
THE CIRCLE MAKERS WOULD DISASSOCIATE THEMSELVES FROM ANYTHING THEY DID NOT DO!
THERES NOTHING MORE MOTIVATING TRUTH WISE THAN A MILLION DOLLAR LAWSUIT(for ordinary people)
these objects are just the same as all unexplaned phenomena 99% fakery and flannelling!
but the one percent that cannot be quantified are the real reason we all come here the circle makers and all fakes can be discarded because at the and of the day we know the search peramiters for a real circle as discribed in the o.p.
just ditch all the crap!
xxaly