Recent British Columbia Crop Circle
Apparently undisturbed dandelion seed head in center of circle
A new report up at the BLT Research site examines an apparently anomalous circle formed in a crop of hay, which was discovered on July 20. Salient points about this formation:
1: Dandelion seed heads (the kind that blow away in the wind) were unmolested by the formation of the circle.
2: Hay was gathered into central “tufts” which were apparently twisted and knotted.
3: The blades of the crop appeared to be undamaged apart from the bending produced by the force used to flatten them.
There is apparently no evidence of heating, as in other seed crop (wheat, rye, etc) formations.
BLT also reports that the flattened crop was “layered,” but this seems like it could be produced easily enough through systematic techniques by hoaxers. Of course, the other findings are more problematic. The formation could have happened before the dandelion seeds had matured, but there is not enough information provided to determine the age of the crop vs. the development of the dandelions.
According to the report, more information will be forthcoming.
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Aug 28 2008 
August 29th, 2008 at 5:41 pm
Why is it always assumed that the crop circles are externally generated?
What if the plants do this themselves, using some unknown rare biological phenomena.
I mean there is no evidence to suggest that, but what evidence is there for any of the other “explanations”.
August 29th, 2008 at 7:18 pm
yeah,
maybe ‘the crops’ are making alcohol
and getting smashed.
last week tried a great local micro brew :
“Fordham’s Close Encounter Harvest Ale ”
(from Delaware , home of the likely next Vice President-
curiously, jets were sent from NewCastle Delaware to intercept UFOs in ‘52 over DC -which makes no sense really-
but i happen to really like NewCastle Brown Ale from England)
The label is kinda like a crop circle - 6.5 - and i hope to try more !
Anyone know of other ‘ET/Alien’ brews ?
Anyone tried ’smokin’ a crop circle ?
September 1st, 2008 at 9:29 pm
La Lune,
Interesting idea, but I would ask why and how the plants heat themselves up. Also, what purpose do the formations serve?
For the record, BLT has never posited any theory about the supposed external force responsible for the anomalous formations, and I agree with this agnostic stance.
September 1st, 2008 at 9:31 pm
mouse,
Were you drinking the crop circle ale when you wrote your comment?
When I was in Roswell, I saw Alien Beer for sale at the Wal Mart, and one of my flying buddies gave me a home brew made by someone in his work group when they were launching a spy satellite from Vandenberg AFB which features an alien on the label.
September 2nd, 2008 at 2:05 pm
Perhaps the plants themselves are simply extensions of the planet, and the Earth has an intelligence of its own, ala Stanislaw Lem in Solaris.
If you were a sentient ball of rock and gas orbiting a star and you lacked the capability of communicating with the sentient species inhabiting you in their own languages, maybe you would shoot off a signal flare as a way to get their attention. Perhaps the signal flare would take the form of crop patterns with obvious intelligence in their design. That would certainly get the attention of the monkeys.
~R~
September 2nd, 2008 at 5:13 pm
Raven,
Your theory also resonates with the ideas presented in Jim Brandon’s Rebirth of Pan, i.e. that the Earth has its own sort of intelligence that shows up on the landscape from time to time.
Perhaps the planet will eventually get tired of trying to gently communicate and give us a good spanking.
September 2nd, 2008 at 7:30 pm
The article’s not on-line now, but
reported in Newsday Aug/04 =
Tale of malt & mystery -
Crop Circle Beer
Brewed using Crop Circle Optic pale malt from
Warminster Maltings in Wiltshire, England,
right from the fields where crop circles have appeared!
btw Larry Byrant republished his review of “Project Beta”
(from Fate ) at “posterous “.
September 2nd, 2008 at 8:50 pm
MOM,
I remember that beer.
Thanks for the heads-up on the review! I’ve already posted a comment at Bryant’s blog.