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u2nmh@csc.liv.ac.uk (N.M. Humphries) writes:


>2) Crop circles. All are hoaxes. Speaking as a hoaxer myself, I've found that
>the "experts" cannot tell a natural circle from a manmade one, so any research
>would be pointless.

"All are hoaxes" is a rather sweeping statement.  I can honestly say there
are those that *are* hoaxes, but there are those where it is not so easily
dismissed.  I took a class here at UNO, and UFOs as well as crop circles
were discussed.  
The information that was presented was scientific research of grasses and
grains affected by the circles.  Hoaxes were obvious, as crops were
damaged and broken--no further growth occurred.
However, oddities were present in some circles, namely, grasses were not
broken and kept growing long after the formation of the circle.  These grasses
could even later be harvested.  Also noted were oddities occurring on growth
nodes of the grains that could be replicated--but only if stuck in a microwave
and nuked.  There is no known technology that can cause sudden heat induced
changes in plant growth nodes while at the same time causing a bending but
not breaking of the same grasses.
So it is unknown exactly what causes these sorts of crop circles.  I just
don't think all are people circling around with a board.  That just couldn't
cause the above listed oddities.  Some have said that the heat from a UFO, as
well as its strange sort of effects on gravity could cause such oddities.
A theory, but not proven.


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