# Crop circles: how do those guys make such intricate patterns? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [February 21, 2014, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crop-circles-how-do-those-guys-make-such-intricate-patterns/681894 "2014-02-21T17:39:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2014, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crop-circles-how-do-those-guys-make-such-intricate-patterns/681894/41 "2014-02-25T15:44:34Z")
> [@](#): > > Quoth **MikeRosePro** : > > If you bothered to read the part where I mention that a “genuine crop circle” stem shows a different growth node compared with the simple bend or break of e.g. a faked circle stem, would you have something serious to add? > > You immediately rush to say “But to answer your question” but then leave us completely in the dark as to what you thought my question was. Yes, I read that part, and that’s the part I was answering. They’re all made by pushing the stalks over with a board or similar tool, and all result in the same effect on the stalks at the point where they’re bent. Some proportion of them are examined by idiots who don’t know what a bent stalk normally looks like, and who therefore think that these bent stalks look different. They don’t: They’re bent the same way that all the other stalks are. But since the examiners are idiots, they don’t realize that. ---
**Author:** ![Esox\_Lucius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/848f3c/32.png) [@Esox\_Lucius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esox_Lucius)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2014, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crop-circles-how-do-those-guys-make-such-intricate-patterns/681894/42 "2014-02-25T20:29:41Z")
> [@MikeRosePro](#): > > The other hugely significant point in Rich’s vids, link below, is this: YES there’s a contract team of artist types, paid handsomely to make fake crop circles. In fact most circles will be unmistakably done by board-flattery. Only perhaps 1 on 20 crop circles will be authentic, with grown-bent stems as I described. > > So why would MI5 or was it MI6 bribe students huge sums to create fakes? (The Team Leader lives in an expensive unmarked Govt apartment in Dockland) Yeah, the best way for government to keep its clandestine activities secret is to hire the public to do its secretive work.😃 It works so well that no one knows who the team leader is, and that he lives in an expensive unmarked government apartment in Dockland.:rolleyes: If the government is that stupid, we have nothing to fear from it. > [@MikeRosePro](#): > > I personally wasn’t in the least interested in the topic precisely because I assumed the phenomenon is all hoax. The Powers That Be nearly succeeded > in keeping me off the track, so to speak. Thank goddess I watched Rich’s video, and learned about each stem regrowing as if instantaneously. If that’s all it took to convince you, you’re too gullible. > [@MikeRosePro](#): > > I have no idea who or what or how is the real circle creator BTW I do–Bigfoot. Think about it. What other creature is so secretive that it’s never seen? What other creature has peduncular attributes so large that it’s named after them–_attributes perfect for flattening large swaths of crops!!_ There’s no other explanation. ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2014, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crop-circles-how-do-those-guys-make-such-intricate-patterns/681894/43 "2014-02-25T20:34:33Z")
> [@MikeRosePro](#): > > The Powers That Be nearly succeeded > in keeping me off the track, so to speak. Thank goddess I watched Rich’s video, > and learned about each stem regrowing as if instantaneously. You know, it’s quite amazing that The Powers That Be haven’t taken YouTube down yet. The Truth™ about just about everything is on there, from JFK to 9/11 to the Apollo hoax. People are going to discover everything if they’re not careful! ---
**Author:** ![MikeRosePro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9dc877/32.png) [@MikeRosePro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeRosePro)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2014, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crop-circles-how-do-those-guys-make-such-intricate-patterns/681894/44 "2014-02-27T07:07:21Z")
Why bother Michael…? ---
**Author:** ![Esox\_Lucius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/848f3c/32.png) [@Esox\_Lucius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esox_Lucius)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2014, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crop-circles-how-do-those-guys-make-such-intricate-patterns/681894/45 "2014-02-27T21:50:22Z")
The boat needs to be rowed ashore? ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2014, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crop-circles-how-do-those-guys-make-such-intricate-patterns/681894/46 "2014-02-27T22:06:38Z")
> [@Colophon](#): > > You know, it’s quite amazing that The Powers That Be haven’t taken YouTube down yet. The Truth™ about just about everything is on there, from JFK to 9/11 to the Apollo hoax. People are going to discover everything if they’re not careful! But that’s all part of the hiding in plain sight. The powers that be hire idiots to put up all sorts of idiotic conspiracy crazy talk so that the real grains of truth are hidden among the chaff. The fact that so much of it is illogical and easily debunked shows that the real truth is in there. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2014, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crop-circles-how-do-those-guys-make-such-intricate-patterns/681894/47 "2014-02-27T23:19:45Z")
> [@](#): > > The powers that be hire idiots to put up all sorts of idiotic conspiracy crazy talk so that the real grains of truth are hidden among the chaff. This part is actually true, or close to it, for one real-world conspiracy theory. When the Project MOGUL balloon crashed in Roswell, New Mexico, the government actively encouraged the alien conspiracy theory as cover to preserve the secrecy of Project MOGUL. ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2014, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crop-circles-how-do-those-guys-make-such-intricate-patterns/681894/48 "2014-03-01T12:51:21Z")
Yes but that’s just what they _want_ you to think. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crop-circles-how-do-those-guys-make-such-intricate-patterns/681894.md?page=2)