Ooh! Ooh! More crop circles!!

[MorningGlow]

June 12



June 12 (Fibonacci number)



June 13



June 13 ("imperfection" may represent predicted solar flare)



June 14

[gblady]

1. wow....

pretty, pretty.
These are fascinating.

[MorningGlow]

2. Upon reflection

I just want to share my impression that the last one (the thunderbird) may be manmade. Just my $0.02. Happy to be proven wrong on that account, of course! :)

[Delphinus]

3. Which one is

possibily predicting the solar flare? The one where there seem to be cracks going through two of the four circles or the one with the Star of David design?

By the way, I think they're all real. The Thunderbird (thanks for stating what that is) is too precise to be human-made - in my opinion.

Thanks for finding these and sharing!

[MorningGlow]

4. Solar flare is in the one with the Star of David, yes

There's one circle that has a wedge in it that was pointed out on Crop Circle Connector to be a possible indication of a solar flare. This is the person's diagram:



I thought the thunderbird's "wings" were kind of wobbly (if you go to CCC and look at some of the other pics it shows up more clearly).

[Matariki]

5. I think I'm this forum's resident skeptic

in spite of the fact of regularly talking with spirits, lol.

These just seem too much like new age symbols and not like previous circles which are more abstract and geometrical. I think a group of people figured out a way to make these. They are beautiful to be sure, but I don't think they have prophetic messages attached to them.

Does anyone know whether they have all those particulars attached to them that supposedly indicate they aren't human made? Like the elongated stems, the exploded stems and magnetic iron in the soil?

Oh, this is a pretty collage of crop circles, looks like a quilt:

[northernlights]

6. it's too soon for research results

"Does anyone know whether they have all those particulars attached to them that supposedly indicate they aren't human made? Like the elongated stems, the exploded stems and magnetic iron in the soil?"

It's not elongated stems, but elongated nodes where the stems are bent. I haven't read anything about exploded stems anywhere before, lol.

Since these just appeared within the last few days, it's too soon for any research results to be known, let alone published. Unless the researchers happened to be there this weekend (which I guess is possible, since it's the season for them) they'd have to schedule the trip. And then they have to spend some time exploring them and collecting samples. Then bring the samples back to the lab for study.

One challenge researchers face is getting to them before there is much damage from people tramping through them. Another is money -- BLT is nonprofit. Even when the economy was booming and interest was at its peak, they could only research a percentage of them, not all, due to funding.

[MorningGlow]

7. I know what Matariki is talking about--the stems

There are sometimes small "exploded" spots on the stems; one theory is that whatever is used to flatten the stems boils the moisture inside them and sometimes that leaves "blowholes"; once the stems are softened, they're flattened, and then they cool down in their new position without being crushed.

[northernlights]

9. omg, I'd forgotten about that!

:rolf: Yes, and I just double-checked on the blt site. They discuss them -- no hypothesis about the cause, just what they've found -- and have nice pix.

[Matariki]

13. Right. Some people replicated that with a portable microwave device

[MorningGlow]

8. LOL it's cool, Matariki

As we found out in a thread from several weeks ago, we all have our topics that we're skeptical about. That's why critics really can't paint all of us with a broad brush; we can have vastly different viewpoints, but that's no big deal.

I agree that the earlier circles were far more cryptic. If I wanted to be cynical, I'd say we didn't "get it" so they had to dumb down the symbols for us!
:rofl:

[liberalmuse]

10. I see two Thunderbird cropcircles...

what does that mean?

[MorningGlow]

11. The first one is a phoenix

Essentially a different mythological creature, but I conflated them in my first impressions as well.

[SpiralHawk]

12. Thunderbird

The thunderbird is one of the cross-cultural characters in Native American mythology since it is found in legends of Pacific Northwest, Plains, Southwest, and Northeastern tribes. He can bring sudden change, and for healers with an associative realtionship, thunderbird brings surges of light, clarity, and power.

The wingspan of the thunderbird is said to be twice as long as a canoe. Underneath its wings are seen lightning snakes which the thunderbird uses as tools or weapons. Lightning is created when the thunderbird blinks his eyes that glow like fire.

For many people, Natives and non-Natives alike, the thunderbird represents change, power, strength and nobility.