No doubt you know about crop circles...those weird, sometimes quite elaborate designs that appear overnight in farmer's fields. According to reports, the local dogs didn't bark and no strangers were seen in the area. Also, there were no tracks leading to or from the spot where the unearthly manifestations occurred.
As with similar tales of woo, the only mystery is that so many puzzlements continue for so long after the truth has been revealed. The Bermuda Triangle canard was definitively put to rest back in 1975 with Lawrence Kusche's book. Yet it came roaring back to life with Spielberg's "Close Encounters" and it's still referenced as though it were fact. And what CE3K did for Flight 19, Mel Gibson's film "Signs" did for designs in the corn.
I am not in agreement with the central premise of this article -- that all crop circles are manmade. Remember, a number of alleged crop circle hoaxers have been found to be hoaxing the hoax. But it is instructive, in that it is representative of the establishment's point of view regarding this anomaly. To read the rest of the article, click here.