Why would nocturnal geometricians trample the fields of Salisbury, England?

Question

Just askin'.

No one (no group, individual, organization) has laid claim to the many hundreds of crop glyphs created in Salisbury, England during the past 25 years or so. Not circlemakers.org, not two old pub mates, not anyone. So, what's the deal?

Why is it that no one knows who created these amazing cereal pictograms that boggle the mind with their inovative geometry, aesthetic beauty, sudden appearances, and plethora of anomolous scientific and "paranormal" characteristics?

Could it really be that the makers are just professionally criminal hoaxer artists with a long term committment to creating an anonymous mystery in the fields of England?

Or is something of unknown origin going on?

Just askin'.

Answer 1

Somebody TPed my house last night. (for those who don't know what it means, it means throwing rolls of toilet paper over the house and trees, covering everything in toilet paper).

Since nobody took credit for this nocturnal performance art, it MUST have be done by aliens from another galaxy. There is no other explanation.

Answer 2

I'm pretty sure that destroying crops is a crime. Why would someone lay claim to a surreal (not cereal. that's what you have for breakfast) piece of art if it meant going to prison? I would just admire my work from the safe distance of behind the Television screen. Some of them could be made by aliens. I'm talking about the ones where the crop is bent over, without snapping the stem. It isn't possible by any means I know. However, there are simple ways to create crop circles quite efficiently with a 2 X 4 that has a rope on each end.

Answer 3

I suspect it's a great many young folk with time on their hands who are doing this and having a great laugh about it at the pub afterward. Does this pub talk make its way into the papers? Doubtful. I don't think they are doing it for the fame, but only to to revel in the hubbub among the gullible. h**l, if I had a wheat field around here and didn't feel bad about trampling crops, I'd try it too. Sounds like fun to me.

Answer 4

Well they've got your attention so that is probably what whoever created them wanted.

Organisations won't take credit any more because of the liability for damages (and lack of mystery).

Answer 5

I think, given the fact that the whole crop circle has been established as a hoax, that it's more plausible some other crop circle person or group is responsible.  Just because no one has publicly claimed responsibility doesn't mean someone didn't do it.

P.S. There are no "anomolous scientific and "'paranormal characteristics' associated with crop circles there or anywhere else.

Answer 6

Just my tuppence:

If I'd done something like that, I wouldn't want a reputation for destroying crops, not to mention that if my interests were something like "proof" that UFO's or aliens exist, and crop circles were something cited as indisputable proof, the act of revealing that I'd faked them would essentially blow the entire theory out of the water.

It's interesting, though, that nobody has come forward.

But in the defense of actual crop circles, it should be noted that genuine crop circles have had some kind of effect on the stalk themselves, rather than merely being mashed or bent. Some have even said that the stalks look almost cooked at a very specific point along the ground, and measurements of the genuine article show that the stalks lie down in a way entirely inconsistent with those who have made even the most impressive fakes.

Genuine crop circle researchers admit that they don't know what does cause them, but the folks at circlemakers are definitely not on the list of suspects, since their handiwork destroys or breaks the stalks, or at the very least doesn't make regular bends to the stalks at the same level without actually breaking the stalk's vascular systems in a predictable way.

But, to more directly answer your question, they would do it for fun, and to promote the idea of space aliens or whatever else gets the blame for making them. But in the end, the truth is that we simply don't know what makes them.