The Psyops crop circle investigation
Before you proclaim that all crop circles are fake, go to this link. I too used to think that crop circles were a waste of time until I read this. I think that these crop circles might just be real. They’re to large and detailed to be fake. I think that parts of they’re interpretation of the message might be a little out there. I mean, using psychic powers to project an image into the enivornment? No way. What do you think?
Why can’t human beings create very large crop ciricles?
Because each one was done in one night.
Aren’t crop circles supposed to be geometrically perfect and don’t they appear overnight? I’m probably exposing myself as an immensely gullible putz but how (and why) can human beings create such complicated but geometrically exact crop circles in such a short space of time? I can’t even draw a geometrically perfect circle freehand on a piece of paper, ever.
the size isn’t prohibitive. it’s too big to have been done by 2 or 3 people, but what about a large group? 20-30 people could have easily pulled this off in a single night with time to spare, if they planned it out first.
Does anyone have any insights into what sort of methods/tools these people would be most likely to use?
You’d think that 20-30 people working on a crop circle would make a lot of noise…
Good point
What difference does it make how much noise they make if everyone in the area (the 20 to 30 people posited) are all in on the scheme? You don’t have to keep something secret from the folks who know what you’re doing!
Why would people working at a nearby government radio dish be in on the scheme?
Y’know, it is extremely easy to tramp a “perfect” circle in a field. All you need is a rope. Someone in the center holds the rope, or you hold the rope with a peg, and someone else walks around in a circle at the perimeter. Then you tramp down the plants in the middle.
Listen people, techniques like this have been around since the Egyptians surveyed the pyramids. All you need is a knotted rope and a little practical math.
If I remember correctly TLC had what was actually a fairly sober minded documentary on this phenomenon. Their evidence moved crop circles firmly into the explained camp in my book. They had three men on the program who made crop circles as a lark.
These men planned and executed an extraordinarily large and complex design in one night with plenty of time to spare. Lemur is quite right in that it was done with a peg and rope. The attached simple wood contraptions to their feet and scooted along flattening the grain.
Much of the nonsense evidence about why this must be supernatural was debunked as well. For example they demonstrated that the stalks of grain bend easily without breaking.
I will admit I wonder who first thought of this silliness, but the results can be quite impressive.
i had to leave the computer before i could finish my last post.
Take a look at this crop formation. The lettering is pretty complex, yet it took 3 people only 16 hours to complete. Because of this, I don’t have much trouble believing that dozens of people, with enough planning, could do something even more complex in a shorter amount of time.
As for the noise, why would there be enough to attract attention? It’s not as if these 30 people would be chatting with each other while they’re stamping out the formation.
So does all this mean that aliens didn’t create the formation you referenced in your OP? No. It just means that it’s reasonable to assume it was done by plain ol’ humans.
I find it very interesting that crop circles have gotten more elaborate since they became more popular in the media, when they started out being very, very simple. I guess there’s two possibly explanations:
The alien life forms, despite amazing technological abilities, have taken ten or fifteen years to ramp up their crop circle abilities up to the level human beings achieved thousands of years ago, or
It’s one-upmanship by hoaxsters.
Take your pick.
Last year, during the drought here in the US, many farmers who gave up the year’s corn crop as a lost cause created “Corn Mazes”. Rather like the garden mazes found on English estates, but with trampled corn instead of hedges. They charged a small fee, & sold refreshments. Quite ordinary people produced amazingly complex mazes.
No help from space aliens needed, and not a plasma vortex in sight. 
Bigger than most crop circles too, as I recall.
If the aliens want to make contact, why would they always make these things under cover of night?
And beings with the technology of interstellar travel can’t think of a better communication medium than stomping crops? If this is indeed a reply to the deep space transmission, then we know they can read radio transmissions. Are we to assume they can read them but not send them, yet have interstellar travel capabilities?
Imagine we get a radio transmission from an alien world. “Hey Fred, we got this message from Alpha Centauri, that we were able to decode and understand. Should we send a reply?”
“No, Sam, put down that transmitter! Let’s develop advanced interstellar flight capabilities, along with the stealth technology to prevent them from seeing our crafts, and stomp pretty designs in their friggin’ corn fields. That’ll be a lot more fun!”
I think the aliens are getting more and more complex in preparation to apply for a site-specific art grant to create FORESTGLYPHS, which will consist of old growth trees bent (but not broken) to form designs which, when viewed from the proper angles at the right time of year, right time of day and particular weather conditions, will reveal the methods they used to create them, but not how interstellar travel works.
What, you think they’d GIVE us that?
There’s a crop circle just appeared in a field two miles from where I live; it looks exactly like the ® symbol and has three little triangular tails, making it look like a comet.
Is this the best the aliens can do? they have the technology to cross interstellar distances and survive, and when they get here, all they do is creep about in cornfields at night making incomprehensible symbols…?
And then there is the theory that the aliens who have come to our planet are simply juveniles, who say
“Whoa, Dude!. These guys are so stupid. Let’s F*** with 'em.”
Well, it could have happened.
I know that if I were an alien, I’d love playing tricks on some lower order life form that thinks it’s hot shit. 
No no no no no! Christ, didn’t you even read the article? They communicated psychically with the Earth’s biosphere, which made the crop glyph itself. Being 27,000 light years away, they couldn’t have received the radio signal and responded by normal means. Duh.
Work with me here, people!