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December 04, 2003

Crop Circles

Never ones to let facts stand in the way of their goofy beliefs, the crop circles true believers continue to find mystical causes for the nifty patterns that pop up regularly in farmer's fields. Of course, their continued faith requires ignoring the people that have admitted to creating the circles as hoaxes or jokes.

Steve Moreno of Psi Applications, a group that describes itself as researchers of paranormal, UFO and metaphysical phenomena, will discuss the results of the group's investigation at a news conference Wednesday afternoon in Fairfield.

The investigation concludes the 'hoax was a hoax.'

'We've concluded that it's highly unlikely that four teenage boys could have made the large, complex crop circle that appeared on June 28 in Larry Balestra's field. The scientific data, and our ongoing investigation, tend to point towards some other, perhaps anomalous, unknown source,' founder and director Moreno said on Psi Applications' Web site.

'The physical changes in the wheat stalks can't be duplicated. It's a phenomenon,' Moreno said Tuesday evening. He suggested a form of energy, possibly plasma energy, caused the crop circle formations.

I admit, Signs was a good movie, but crop circles were debunked years ago. Go play with a pyramid or something...

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Posted by zombyboy at December 4, 2003 12:21 PM | TrackBack

Comments

I know I might sound like an idiot here, but I'm not satisfied with the explanation given for the crop circles. I might be able buy the fact that four boys did it, but I'm still not sure why they did it and why other crop circles look the same and how the method of creating them has been disseminated and why.

Posted by: Patrick at December 4, 2003 01:38 PM

The method is pretty simple, but as for the "why" of it--I just don't have an answer to that one. The guys in the UK who admitted to doing it and then demonstrated the techniques on a TV program simply seemed to think it was funny. I'm betting that there might have been a pint or two of bitters involved...

Posted by: zombyboy at December 4, 2003 01:42 PM

I'm the type to mostly laugh off the alien idea, and especially that crop circles have anything to do with things that stupid people find numinous for stupid reasons. (The abundance of circles around Stonehenge seems like a goofy human thing.)

But I've also never entirely bought the easy brush-off that people make all of them as hoaxes. Some are quite complex and would need a large team to assemble overnight. Also, they usually trot out the same group of people to say they did them, which makes you think: If there are only 2 or 3 known groups doing this, what accounts for the rest? There've also been eyewitness accounts of the shapes just flattening into place all at once; but make of those whatever you will.

The "inverse vortex" theory, though, is even dumber than believing aliens did it. That's a complete write-off.

Posted by: Lummox JR at December 5, 2003 08:15 AM

Greetings,

Hi. Steve Moreno here. Just wanted to respond that we have far from ignored the alleged hoaxers and we have an outstanding invitation, request, whatever you might call it,asking to speak to them with open receiving minds. However to this day just like the skeptics society they have totally avoided us.

To Truth & Advancement
Steve Moreno
Director Psi APPLICATIONS
Humanity's Right To Know !

Posted by: Steve Moreno at December 26, 2003 03:53 AM