HOWEVER!!!!! NOT ALL of them are man made.... possibly just all the ones in wiltshire.. they happen all over the country and all over the world but largely go unreported because they dont want a spate of copy cat wiltshire type situations going on. It damages crops and yes brings tourism to the area etc and industries are based around the "phenomena" but the farmers do not benefit from this in anyway.

 

I saw threee perfect circles in a village called Garthorpe which is between goole and Sc**thorpe at the end of the road called West End (you could probaby google it) when i was about 12.  It was an entirely farming village and nobody would have been arsed to fake them.  This is the only reason I believe that some of them are made by entitites unknown... if it wasnt for that experience I would 100% think they were all man made.

 

When I met Mathew I asked him where he got his inspiration from, he said he didn't know and when I asked if he had any paranormal activity whilst making them he said yes, he see's lights in the sky....

 It makes me wonder whether the images he recreates have been planted in his psyche from somewhere.. get my drift?

 

He came onto this forum a few years ago and posted and I chewed him a new one for being so arrogant but when I met him and discussed these things with him I found him to be a really likeable bloke.

 

 

If we look at the scientific data some of the crop circles show signs of having been exposed to a heat source.  The indications of this are bubbles on the stem where the moisture has been heated and has blown part of the stem and then theres the fact that the soil has radionuclides (radioactive isotopes) in it which suggest microwave radiation has been used.  These anomalies are too large in percentage to ascribe to normal soil variations.

 

In man made circles these isotopes are not apparent nor are the stems affected in the way I described.

 

 

It's not one that I ascribe to personally but it is interesting and definitely has legs if not wings.

 

I prefer to think that the no9n man made ones are based on the ETH.

 

I remember the BBC interviewing an old boy who was a bit of a smartarse.

Im going back, maybe, ten years ago when there was a real glut of these circles.

I remember him giving a demo using a long thin plank, with string at either end, that he pulled on and used one foot to keep the plank down on the ground, thus keeping the strings tension, blah, blah... 

The point is, he reckoned that he had been making these circles for YEARS.

1990s? Donkeyknob!

 

Dunno - just throwing that in there.. 

 

As for the stalks Kari.. none of them are vut but there is an interesting point that I made in an article once. In the event of a non human circle whatever is the catalyst seems to be tuned into only one crop.. for example.. seeds atray from one field to another and grow, in one particular instance a rapeseed plant had grown in amongst the wheat but it was totally upright and untouched and the flowers were intact and undisturbed while all around it the crop had been flattened.  Another point to make is that in genuine circels the crop is matted not just flattened down.  It's very precise and you can easily tell which circles are genuine.

 

Thanks for the link hon.... good to see you on here again :) xxxx

 

Now that one really is amazing!