If you recall the movie Signs, these crop circles are meant for navigation and can be seen from space. Since the inhabitants of our planet have botched things so badly...aliens are coming to either rescue us or take over and run things the right way. To those of you who complain about big government, wait until you see what's coming!

While some small "crop circles" can be explained as being done by pranksters with corn covered shoes, many large(too big to be made in one night,etc) and ancient markings are not explainable. Some large ancient markings are so big as to make no sense to the ancient ground dwellers or too exact. Also the fact that Pyramids are being discovered all over the globe has not been explained, nor the construction of the great pyramids and geographic ramifications.

Electricity cannot be seen, yet we know it exists. Newton's theory of light wavelengths was dismissed by contemporaries as a parlor trick but finally accepted 100 years after his death. Columbus was warned not sail too far or he might fall off the "edge" of the earth.

Traversing the great distances of the universe are not likely (Alpha Centauri the nearest star system is 4,366+ light years, which is not possible under conventional 3-Dimensional travel) unless an alternate means of travel were used, such as dimensional or time travel.

Either the government knows more than they are telling us, or a scarer thought is that they too can't explain many of these incidents.

"Crop circles" have periodically appeared in Central Washington grain fields for more than a generation. And each well-publicized occurrence has been followed by a significant increase in local day-tourism, and a big economic boost in business for local restaurants and other area small businesses. You can expect more of these agricultural field patterns to occur in Central Washington until the Autumn harvest ends.

The "aliens" which are responsible for this are hiding among us; in the local Chambers of Commerce, business organizations and Grange Halls. They are very hard to distinguish from ordinary humans, except for the smug, self-satisfied grins which gives them away.

Thanks Chuck, great post! Please, just make sure they take rush limbaugh and glenn beck with them on their first trip. I'm sure pollution of the airwaves is also a problem for aliens.

Too funny Chuck! Make sure they also take all of Hollywood with them as well.....just sayin....

Whoever they are they sure do such fine art work! o_O

Hey Jaxx! Won't be long now before the big hair guy from Ancient Aliens documents this as proof.

They're ba...aack.

Someone has fun every year.

Aliens, don't forget to take social media sites and annoying ringtones too!

“It seemed to be highly unusual,” Brougher told the Associated Press. “As I recall from a couple of years ago, there was no good explanation of how they got there.”

I'll take a shot....people?

I think otto is serious.

Must be a friend of bubba's!

@otto-372694 post 1.3

Its not the government that knows the truth. Its the super big business elite thats covering it up. Why? If the truth was known, profits would decline overnight and the end of our slavery would occur. Our corporate controllers will not allow it. They use the media to block, deny, or publicly ridicule dissidence.

@Motz in KC

Here's my problem with the "They use crop circles for navigation!" argument. In order to even get to us, we'd be talking about beings that had mastered interstellar travel...a concept that our current understanding of physics can't comprehend. It'd take far too long, require too much energy to sustain life that long, etc. And yet these aliens - despite all their advance technologies - require making landmarks so they can find their way around a single planet? Hell, even WE have GPS.

If it were for alien navigation, then wouldn't there be crop circles appearing in snow covered fields just the same during the winter months? Or are these wheat fields just an alien summer vacation spot and used only during late summer?

Maybe they are inter-galactic cows, just marking the quality of the food, with the alien mark of food safety. Also note, all the cattle for 12 miles in every direction have smiles on their faces.

RJ17 and K. Truant; Even if they did need it why not use existing landmarks?

As for "Signs" aliens, I believe them to be some sort of cargo cult because they only seem to be able to work their ships but have no concept that they shouldn't visit a planet that is mostly water, which can kill them, when they are naked and they have trouble with pantry doors. Obviously, these aliens skipped some tech in their technological evolution like a saw, crowbars, biohazard suites, guns, a hammer... damn that movie frustrates me.

Wizard, come on now. This is a fun article we can all laugh at, and Otto, so please leave the politics out. The other political comments were funny, yours was an attempt to be serious.

Crazy talk Kid

I was thinking the same thing. Why not use existing landmarks to navigate? Also, if the crop circles are here giving "them" a road map, it would seem they wouldn't need a map because they have already arrived. Plus, with all of that technology, one would think they could communicate on a frequency or method that is beyond what we could comprehend anyway.

I'm just sayin....

Um, yeah. There are a few logical gaps in the reasoning that suggests creatures who are able to navigate over 100's of light years need to scratch marks on corn fields in order to find ther way around the surface of our tiny little rock.

Crop Circles for Navigation? Extra Terrestrials don't need crop circles or any other type of landmark to navigate on Earth or any other planet.

They have GPS. ( Galactic Planetary Search) Duhhhhhhhhhhhh!

Just great! Now the price of bread will go up! Stupid aliens!

Just so long as the aliens don't have a book titled To Serve Man, we'll do just well (or medium-well - well-done and we'd be too tough).

"please take most Republicans"

It should read, "Please take all of the politicians we have in both parties, and the process we now have to elect them, and send them as far away from the Earth as you can, we are sick of the lies and rhetoric that they all spew on us."

We have to be fair in this, both sides are a joke, and not even a funny one at that.

If you're here to rescue us, please take most Republicans and ALL dictators...

Well, I suppose Barry will be on the first flight out as well...

these guys ever hear of a f@cking helicopter...

Oh, I'm sure they have rae. Ever heard of using a little more thought first, before posting an opinion?

Mathematics? Really, you people are really stretching it. Pointing to some area on the planet for aliens? These circles are made by dust devils touching down, and if the marks are not exactly random, then neither are weather patterns which do follow patterns of magnetism and strange alignments. If you want to read into things and find more than coincidence, you can find aliens under your bed, but the simple answers almost always turn out to be the correct ones. Eastern Washington is full of dust devils which are like mini tornadoes and would leave just such a pattern if no debris was there for them to wreak the kind of devastation that we normally associate with the kind that can be seen on a meteorologists screen after the fact. Use some common sense and the mystery clears itself up.

rae, did the pranksters rapel down Special Forces style? LOL. You need to think that through.

I think it was Solar Flares.

If it were a helicopter, the wheat would show wind damage.

As for taking all the politicians, that kind of thinking is what is wrong with America... politicains are just citizens that decide to govern.

What is really wrong with politicians is the money in politics. Take that away, and you attract a completely different sort of personality.

-- instead of arrogant, narcisisstic, greedy, lazy people bent on spending their time running to continue the gravy train,

you would get smart, knowledgeable, honest, philanthropically minded, hardworking folk that just want to make a difference.

Those are the TRUE aliens

If you look at the pic, it is clearly the Mickey Mouse logo used by Disney and lends itself well to crop circle design. I agree with Robert in Oregon that this is man made with a few people and stepping on 2X6's from a radius. But, clearly the Mickey image.

@ Crazy Talk Kid

And that's why Signs was just another god-aweful M. Night Shabamalamadingdong movie. I believe in aliens, I believe it is mathematically impossible for us to be alone in the galaxy, let alone the universe. I don't, however, believe they've been visiting us recently.

For M. Night to conjure up a species of aliens to whom water might as well be the most potent form of acid in existence is just ridiculously absurd. It assumes these aliens, again, have the technology and understanding of the universe to master interstellar travel...yet they're apparently clueless as to what is harmful to their own race? Water really isn't that rare of a resource in the galaxy (liquid water, maybe, but water itself appears throughout the cosmos in one form or another) and to think that in the thousands, if not millions of years it would take to advance far enough to master interstellar travel that they would have no idea it's harmful to them, let alone be able to detect that a planet was mostly covered in the stuff, is just brain-hurtingly stupid. About as stupid as my using the non-existant phrase "brain-hurtingly". Hell, they have active camo (i.e. cloaking their ships), yet the best line of defense you can have for your home is leaving the lawn sprinklers on and "holding the line" with a garden hose with your thumb over the end? That's just ridiculous.

In short (and getting back to the real topic), to assume that aliens need crop circles to navigate assumes that they're ridiculously more advanced than us just to get here, yet hopelessly under-advanced when it comes to simple navigation.

Orthehighway;

Dust devils or whirl winds as they are known around here, are, as you pointed out, like small tornadoes. As such, they do generate debris fields, just in smaller scale. Also like they're vastly larger counterparts, they are a low pressure vortex, they tend to pick things up and throw them around. Dust devils are visible because of the stuff they pick up and carry along. They also tend to run along the ground for hundreds of yards and they do leave a clear trail or path of their movements. They don't tend to form in one spot of a collection of spots and just sit there.

Convincing yourself you have the answer, is self delusion, not truth.

I for one welcome our new alien overlords.

Moderator would you please take a look at peter-2718245, I don't have a fat butt I only weight 150 pounds dripping wet. To peter my dad has stated my brains are in my a-- and I sit on them all day ;-}

Not taking any chances huh?

Don't mind a good joke or put down, butt sometimes I draw the line. And fat is tooo far!

I agree. Heck, that's what I wanted to see

Probably?

Yeah. It would have been nice to see an overhead view of the design.

I remember a few years back seeing a special on this group of like 3-4 people who make crop circles. They mathematically calculate their design, taking scale into account of course. Then they go out in the middle of the night into the field, walking between the rows so as not to leave any traces that the farmers didn't already leave themselves. Then, with 2x4s and some rope they press down the wheat with each step they take. Again they are very careful and precise about how they press the wheat down so that they stick to their design.

These people are amazing because they are able to pull off some very intricate and highly mathematically precise designs in the middle of the night with just some rope and 2x4s.

Yes, the side picture can be way different than the aerial one. I wanted to see that too. I figured no one had an available plane or helicopter...lol.

They should check for those little magnetic metal balls that get stuck in the wheat in "legitimate" crop circles

@manfromnantucket.....there have been many instances that all the stalks of wheat within other circles reported in the past were twisted in groups of 3. In other instances, the shaft of the wheat had been blown out from within, as if a tiny explosion took place. In other cases, the ground, not the crop itself, had been baked almost to a consistancy of concrete and the property owners claim that nothing will grow in that area after the phenomena.

I've seen the old gentlemen you speak of and their rudimentary process of creating their elaborate circles, and like you, I was very impressed. But personally, I don't think mathmatics and 2x4's can explain the above scenarios. Peace to you.

Yes, ManFromNantucket. But, in that same special, they tested the grain affected and found that it's DNA was also altered compared to the surrounding wheat. They said it was the same affect if the grain had encountered radiation. Just sayin... LOL... let the mystery continue! ;)

Angelfire

If you believe that I have bridge to sell, or desert to rent, or a certain politician to vote for!

Ferrosynthesis-3490482 If you believe the world is so simple then I have some crayons and a coloring book for you.

Bel-dar Conehead ran out of Tang, the drink the astronauts took to the Moon!

Astronauts to the moon............Ha ha ha ha ha!

Please explain to me the reason for intelligence capable of traversing great distances desires to communicate by making circles in a field of crops?

Let us see—2x4's and pranksters or an alien intelligence—which one does Occam's razor prefer?

The blown out nodules are the results of an excessive force pushing the crop down, a sure sign of a hoax. Granules of lead or iron in crops are easily explained by intricate hoaxers using a device that anyone is capable of building. In fact, if you want to make a proper circle take a microwave apart and hook up a 12 volt battery—instant anomaly. All you have to do to disprove crop circles as anything other than human intelligence is to look at their history and how they've evolved since the first reported circle.

John Doe

What in blazes are you referring to?

You believe in alien generated crop circles?

LOL @Ferrosynthesis-3490482. Merely stating what the film showed does not mean that I believe. Your logic contains fallacy.

However, you discredit all the people who made the film (which was produced by a credited scientific group) as conspiracy theorist nutjobs who sit around with tinfoil hats. Please make a full-fledged movie with experts from around the world and scientific research and experiments just for the fun of it. You have to fund it too.

Just because something seems impossible doesn't mean it is. The better argument would be IMPROBABLE.

The artist might have come from as far away as Seattle

... and after November they will be gone.

*They're

Sorry, I couldn't resist.

OK MJ you're right, I have to fix it.

They're Heeeeeereeeer!

No drought here in eastern Washington - one of the wettest / coldest springs I can recall - 43 and raining in June while the rest of the USA fought record high temps.

I live on the Eastern side of the state and I can confirm that 95% of everything here is irrigated. Farmers use river and ground water to grow crops. It's always arid and dry on the Eastern side, but this year I say up to mid July we had more rain than normal. Much less than what New England sees though.

Farmers get rain, drought, flood, hail, tornado insurance in the form of government subsidies. The farming industry has many safety nets to protect farmers from losses, unlike most other forms of business who don't get "bailed out"(except big banks)when they have a loss.

David Letterman owns big farms and receives government subsidies(like the oil industry).

Hey Otto, farmers payfor the insurance they have. Yes the government does give low interest loans, but do you really want to starve the whole country?

@Otto: 'unlike most other forms of business' ... like the unionized Automotive Industry?

uh oh............the pubs have arrived.........they just hate alien immigrants

ROFLMFAO .... TY marklepew needed that >:o):

Anyway, I think it's cool the couple are taking it so light heartedly. They're having fun with it.

Much Love,

Da Pup

>:o):

Astonishing how you disgrunts work Obama into every discussion, no matter how trivial! Give it a rest.

martha -- Different than how Bush was treated how?

The reason Obama is worked in is bc he is our leader, right Martha? Oh nevermind, if we had a leader you would know what i am saying.

Gfgfgf....the reason Bush was treated as a moron was because he is a moron...

It's how the Vogons have chosen to communicate their countdown. It's not their fault we haven't learned to read their language. Translation books have been available on Alpha Centauri for 50 of our Earth years along w/ all the planning charts and demolition orders.

This is what happen when Obama will not enforce the borders all the aliens start coming in!

It's how the Vogons have chosen to communicate their countdown. It's not their fault we haven't learned to read their language. Translation books have been available on Alpha Centauri for 50 of our Earth years along w/ all the planning charts and demolition orders.

I got my towel, I'm ready.

Ever tried to flatten a corn stalk? Not very easy, and they just break, family grew about an acre of corn when I was a kid, so I know.

The thing that's most mysterious about crop circles is how some actually believe they must have been made by aliens or supernatural forces.

Seriously. People created every painting in every museum in the world (and built the museums, too). People sculpted Mount Rushmore. People built the golden gate bridge. People sent men to the moon and machines to Mars. People discovered the Higgs Boson by building a 17 mile long machine to precisely smash together invisible, sub-microscopic particles moving close to the speed of light.

But when it comes to trampling some circles into a wheat field, no there's just no way mere people could have done that, right?

@Nathan: But that's just what THEY want you to believe. THEY want you to think humans could all that so that THEY can keep the aliens a secret until it's too late. And it's all true, I saw the proof on YouTube and, just like the rest of the Internet, not just anyone can post anything they want regardless of its factual content. I mean come on, man, you believe we went to the moon or that there's a Golden Gate Bridge? Next you'll try to have us believe there really is a New Jersey and people actually live there.

;)

@dwighthuth: Don't know why either that it is usually wheat fields, but do know the growing of rice and barley date back many centuries compared to that of wheat.

I've seen THEM! Turns out they were just a bunch of giant, radioactive ants. Very anticlimactic. And also probably ill suited to making crop circles.

You know, us kids who make these circles really laugh at you nuts...

I grew up on a farm where we grew soybeans, wheat and corn.

I have walked through such fields and I can tell you that if a human did the bending that it would be very difficult to bend each stalk even with a board in the manner of perfection that the crop circles are made.

Each plank used would not be able to be precisely placed to create such perfection as seen in the crop circles.

But what could be used would be a form of Nanobot (very small robots) that can be injected into the stalks of each wheat shoot where a magnet would be used to control the Nanobots movement to injest the atoms within the stalk to control and bend them in perfect fashion as seen in the many images that have not been made by humans.

Another way to determine if the crop circles were made by humans is too use specially trained dogs that are able to pick up the scent of a human. Humans are very sucretive creatures and give off funny smells that will cling to the stalks when a human brushes against them even if the human is clothed.

The notion that humans merely walked along the tire tracks made by the tractors in the field can also easily be upended.

The tractor tread on the tires would leave a very definative depression in the dirt as well as in the stalks their self. This pattern can be seen by creating a mold of the tracks made by the tractor and equipment it pulled.

Once the pattern has been made various points would be located on the display that would relate to the high and low points that the tractor tread made while bending the wheat stalks.

Since the tractor and equipment pulled would only make one pass with the stalks naturally raising back up after the pressure of the tires due to the weight of the equipment having been removed the pattern would remaine the same.

If a human walked over the tire tracks to the area where the crop circles are made they would leave a telltale sign of their movevment as any new pressure and weight upon the stalks would disrupt their natural return to their state of rest after the tires and equipment had passed over them.

Sigh.

No mysteries of the cosmos here. Just some idiots destroying a farmer's property so they could read about themselves on the internet, of which the internet gleefully obliges, in turn encouraging more of the same.

nibor = troll

Nibor, why even click on an article like this, and then comment on it if all you want to talk about is politics. There is no relation and your comments are obnoxious and brainless. You are off subject and inappropriate.... just like a fanatical republican.

People have been able to recreate the Crop Circles but not near the perfection of most Crop Circles that have been catalogued extensively by scientists and engineers.

Lean forward and bend over. He isn't finished yet.

Nibor take your political BS to a thread that is actually about politics. NBC mods should delete all posts and warn people when they are not commenting on the thread topic.

The crop circle was made by bending the corn stalk so that it laid on the ground to form large circles in different patterns in a field of corn! I hope this simple explanation helps!

Well, Bubba, that explains crop circles in a corn field. Now, explain the crop circle in a wheat field where no trail leads to or from the circles.

I agree with you Jan because you are right about one thing.......there were no trials leads to any & all of these crop circle discovered thru out the world and further more these were done in the early wee hrs of the morning in the darknight so here's another for Bubba......how do you explain the ones that were created in broad daylight without anyone seeing them? thats a real mystery.

POGO Stick ;-} Sun Screen ;-}

OK genuises

As pointed out earlier, why would an entity that could travel in space for light years want to communicate with crop circles? Wouldn't it be easier to say "Hello"?

It has been shown over and over again how they do this, and it ain't hard.

But a good silly fantastic story is more fun than the boring truth I guess.

Anyway these circles are boring compared yto some they were coming up with a few years ago, before sanity emerged..Perhaps emerged but didn't completely take over.

I have to disagree with you Tracy on this subject and sure some of these crop circles are man made as I saw it done on the NGEO & Discovery channels by a group of people who call themselves crop dusters but how did they get there & out without leaving any trace of trials behind and they did not use a heli as it would create broken stems so thats out and while I'm at it there were crop circles that were made in broad daylight now how do you explain that without anyone ever seeing them? Thats a real mystery?

If they could fly light years to get here...I'm pretty sure they would have the technology to go undetected. You know, a little memory wiping here and there...MIB stuff :)

Tony,

That is too obviously true. We need a good conspiracy theory.

To Tony 1329239 I have to diagree with you as I been studying crop circles for 5yrs now and I see them come & go and sure some are man made by a group who call themselves crop dusters and it takes them more then 2hrs to make depending on the design the larger it is the longer it takes to create it.Anyways how do you explain the ones that were created in broad daylight without being seen and without leaving a trail of some sort?now thats a mystery I say and wether you believe in aliens or UFOs thats up to you of course evan tho it sounds far fetch but never the less crop circles has been a big mystery among us for years and as far as the ones created by the crop dusters I've seen them do it on the NGEO & Discovery channels when they made those in the wee hrs of the morning after12:A and like I said its a wonder how they got there without leaving any trails behind and you have to remember these are 4 leaf clovers crop circles which took more then2hrs to make I guarentee it.

The Twilight Zone jingle is playing in my head.

Carry on.

Right Don....and how do you explain those invisible crop circles? There was one in Kansas that resembled the Mona Lisa sitting on a rocking chair eating oreo cookies but because it was invisible the lamestream media didn't report it.

Aliens far more advanced than earthlings obviously have figured out how to travel light years in crafts of unimaginable materials and complex technology so they can knock down cirle patterns in wheat fields and play with our heads......diabolical it is!

They are clearly using cloaks of invisibility and are right now watching Don.

TFNJ,

I think Don is now watching you????

Maybe they are already here...

Probably just ringworm...

I dunno about tourism, but I'm sure there is a genre on youtube that would be interest in seeing it. ;)

@ JohnnyRotten: The biggest hinderance to truth is the assumption that you already have it. The age of the earth can be an interesting argument, especially when you look at limiting factors and eliminate the assumption-based theories.

Villian157

Noooooo

The biggest hinderance to the truth is REFUSING to see it despite ALL the peices to the puzzle being in place.

The age of the Earth IS interesting. The "argument" with brain washed fools.....not so much. Just tiresome.

"assumption based theories" LOL. Is that a church "coin phrase". ALL theories are based on an assumption.That is what a Theory IS. It's how one (or MANY) start to work through a mystery.

When everyone looks at that assumtion in everyway possible and the answer comes forth....that theory becomes solidified.

Evolution happened.

All you Feebles need is ONE bone out of order to send the "Theory " of it crumbling.

It stands so strong (like the age of the Earth it occurred on) because every fossil found is IN ORDER. You can't find that ONE bone out of place (say...a Bunnie bone in the same layer as a Diplodocus) because it was NEVER there.

Has it ever occurred to you....that billions of years of evolution is The BIGGER story. Evolution is GRAND. An older planet makes God's story (the one she left in the rocks for ALL to discover....not just some) so epic.

The Bible is a boring, sad dismissal of the true power of life and what a growing world's potential really is.

The truly crazy thing is I was just on planet Gonxza, and all the Chinjians think that Humans come to their planet to create hexoganals in their plurbum fields.