Sensible Reason for Crop Circles in the U.K. - Interesting

[Jimbeaux]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/ynews_wl3525

[mybrainhurts]

No, it's aliens on skateboards...

[TheEnd]

Only 3 pics...

I bet it wouldn't have taken long to gather up more.

[Jimbeaux]

TheEnd said:

Only 3 pics...

I bet it wouldn't have taken long to gather up more.

One would think. I often use Google Earth to note markings over areas I travel everyday but cannot notice from ground level.

[Pesty]

Somebody should metal detect the st out of that field.

[TheEnd]

Jimbeaux said:

TheEnd said:

Only 3 pics...

I bet it wouldn't have taken long to gather up more.

One would think. I often use Google Earth to note markings over areas I travel everyday but cannot notice from ground level.

I've done it looking round for old WW2 airfields, in the southern parts of the UK, you'd rarely more than 5 miles from an airbase, and there is loads of other obvious traces of different stuff about, old hedge lines, Roman roads, etc.

[Jimbeaux]

TheEnd said:

Jimbeaux said:

TheEnd said:

Only 3 pics...

I bet it wouldn't have taken long to gather up more.

One would think. I often use Google Earth to note markings over areas I travel everyday but cannot notice from ground level.

I've done it looking round for old WW2 airfields, in the southern parts of the UK, you'd rarely more than 5 miles from an airbase, and there is loads of other obvious traces of different stuff about, old hedge lines, Roman roads, etc.

In Essex, during Cold War years, I was briefed on (secret then) airfields hidden under active crops. So there are some that are very recent.

[Sheets Tabuer]

So they could see just for arguments sake, picking something out of the air, like oh I don't know a body for instance. In your garden?

[Puggit]

The markings referenced in the article are very different to crop circles - and only appear during long dry spells (like the beginning of summer 2010, certainly not the end!).

Crops which are growing above ancient walls struggle to grow as well as those which can develop deeper roots - so have a different height and/or colour. Simples.

[DieselGriff]

Sheets Tabuer said:

So they could see just for arguments sake, picking something out of the air, like oh I don't know a body for instance. In your garden?

Depends what you covered the body with, lime per chance? In which case certainly.

[Eric Mc]

The first picture looks like the classic layout of a Neolithic ring fort or settlement.

[Odie]

Sheets Tabuer said:

So they could see just for arguments sake, picking something out of the air, like oh I don't know a body for instance. In your garden?

Pretty stand practice im led to believe.

Also a similar area is aircraft being used to track submarines using specialist equipment. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_anomaly_dete...

[Eric Mc]

Odie said:

Sheets Tabuer said:

So they could see just for arguments sake, picking something out of the air, like oh I don't know a body for instance. In your garden?

Pretty stand practice im led to believe.

Also a similar area is aircraft being used to track submarines using specialist equipment. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_anomaly_dete...

A magnetic Anomaly Detector would not pick up much from the air. They ARE used for survey work as the MAD sensor can detect iron or other metallic elements which affect the earth's magnetic field.

Ground Penetrating Radar is a better bet for airborne archaeology (as well as standard photography).

[The Black Flash]

Puggit said:

The markings referenced in the article are very different to crop circles - and only appear during long dry spells (like the beginning of summer 2010, certainly not the end!).

Crops which are growing above ancient walls struggle to grow as well as those which can develop deeper roots - so have a different height and/or colour. Simples.

[Jimbeaux]

Puggit said:

The markings referenced in the article are very different to crop circles - and only appear during long dry spells (like the beginning of summer 2010, certainly not the end!).

Crops which are growing above ancient walls struggle to grow as well as those which can develop deeper roots - so have a different height and/or colour. Simples.

True; while this is interesting, the "other type" of crop circles seem to be something different.

[Jimbeaux]

Eric Mc said:

Odie said:

Sheets Tabuer said:

So they could see just for arguments sake, picking something out of the air, like oh I don't know a body for instance. In your garden?

Pretty stand practice im led to believe.

Also a similar area is aircraft being used to track submarines using specialist equipment. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_anomaly_dete...

A magnetic Anomaly Detector would not pick up much from the air. They ARE used for survey work as the MAD sensor can detect iron or other metallic elements which affect the earth's magnetic field.

Ground Penetrating Radar is a better bet for airborne archaeology (as well as standard photography).

Didn't the space shuttle use GPR to discover ancient underground rivers beneath the Egyptian desert?

[Eric Mc]

It did discover these using the radar although that was an unexpected discovery rather than what it was intended for.

[ninja-lewis]

Eric Mc said:

Odie said:

Sheets Tabuer said:

So they could see just for arguments sake, picking something out of the air, like oh I don't know a body for instance. In your garden?

Pretty stand practice im led to believe.

Also a similar area is aircraft being used to track submarines using specialist equipment. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_anomaly_dete...

A magnetic Anomaly Detector would not pick up much from the air. They ARE used for survey work as the MAD sensor can detect iron or other metallic elements which affect the earth's magnetic field.

Ground Penetrating Radar is a better bet for airborne archaeology (as well as standard photography).

English Heritage also use LIDAR (Light Detection And Ranging) to survey landscapes, even though thick forest canopies.

[Eric Mc]

How does that work?

[TheEnd]

http://www.webbaviation.co.uk/aerial-archaeology/a...

http://www.historic-cornwall.org.uk/flyingpast/enc...