Students Claim Responsibility for Indonesia Crop Circle
- Posted on January 25, 2011 at 10:09am by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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Thousands of curious onlookers are flocking to central Indonesia to look at a “crop circle” in a rice field following rumors it was formed by a UFO. But a group of college students tried to quell those rumors by claiming responsibility on Tuesday.
The pattern looks like an intricately designed flower. Its 70-yard-wide (70-meter-wide) circle has drawn so much attention that police have blocked off the area with yellow tape.
Villagers have started charging entrance fees.
Guntur Purwanto, chief of Jogotirto village in Sleman district, said the circle appeared in the middle of the green rice paddies over the weekend.
Among those turning out Tuesday and offering opinions were officials from Indonesia’s space agency, well-respected astronomers and nuclear agency officials. And while extraterrestrial enthusiasts are excitedly giving credit to aliens, others are skeptical.
“We will not send investigators to the scene because we suspect the crop circle involves human invention, not natural phenomena, nor scientific phenomena associated with outer space creatures commonly referred to as aliens,” Thomas Djamaluddin, the head of atmospheric sciences and chief of astronomy research at NASA, told the Jakarta Globe.
And if the Jakarta Post is correct, that was the right decision. According to the Post, a group of students posted on the website studentmagz.com claiming responsibility. The group of seven students from Universitas Gadjah Mada reportedly made the circle to show off their design and math skills.
In 1991, Doug Bower and Dave Chorley shocked the world when they revealed that they could create, and were creating, crop circles in less than an hour:
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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spreadcommonsensenot pc
Posted on January 26, 2011 at 5:14amTHIS IS FREEEEEEEEEEEEKY—Ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Report Post »spreadcommonsensenot pc
Posted on January 26, 2011 at 5:14amYep, just as I thought—college students!!!!!……………if they believe this **** they will believe Van Jones…..
Report Post »even worse——–O-blabber-mouth
Mytur_Bin_Isdirty
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:27pmI doubt NASA knows anything about outer space anymore. They are too busy pushing global warming propaganda to school children.
Report Post »Spawnomite
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 5:30pmThe Aliens are looking to get some of that OBailout money in regards to their social justice.
Report Post »Movies have been making aliens out to be the bad guys for years.
BurntHills
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 3:49pmany idiots caught making circles on THIS Great Plains wheat acreage are going to be fertilizing this wheat for a very long time. .
Report Post »Moment of Clarity
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 2:42pmthey’re heeeerrrrreeeeeee ……..
Report Post »vaughan
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 2:41pmI want to know how the students did it. I would like to see a demonstration of their skill.
Report Post »It could explain the other crop circles in England and elsewhere.
cranberry
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 1:31pmMaybe the students are aliens.
Report Post »IM4GOD
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 12:36pmNot sure where I stand with Crop Circles, but I think it is pretty arrogant to think we are the only speck in this universe that has intelligent life on it. Just look up into the night sky, and start counting those stars.
Report Post »Deutscher
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 4:44pmAgreed. But it’s hard to imagine how/why they could transit the huge distances measured in 100s of light-yrs to trample crops.
Report Post »HairyMark
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 11:15amStudents Claim Responsibility for Indonesia Crop Circle
D O Y , did anybody really believe aliens do these?
Report Post »Snowleopard the artist {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 11:44amThere are people who still insist the pyramids had to be built by aliens from space. It has been shown to be fairly simple to design a pyramid, and with generations of experts of stone cutters and such to be able to make one.
Crop circles are the same way, experience from a simple one at the start, and then evolving into more and more complex designs.
Report Post »philm1
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 11:12amHow many times do people have SHOW YOU ON VIDEO of how they make crop circles before the idiots who buy into it stop claiming its extraterrestrial origin? Geez!
http://www.halfuhmind.com
Report Post »APatriotFirst
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 11:08amThey are beautiful when done.
Report Post »trolltrainer
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 10:37amPalin did it
Report Post »Snowleopard the artist {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 10:54amI imagine someone will try to blame her and Beck for it; or add Bush to the list as well.
Report Post »Cabo King
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 10:21ame.t. phone home
Report Post »Pa7sy
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 10:15amSounds like a bunch of crop to me.
Report Post »Ironmaan
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 10:14amIs there anyone who belives these things are anything but a hoax? Come on!
Report Post »http://guerillatics.com
walkwithme1966
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 10:58amWhy is this story on a news website? Just curious!! http://wp.me/pYLB7-x6
Report Post »Snowleopard-the artist {cat folk artist}
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 10:13amIf one group of people could make a crop circle in less than an hour in England and other nations, so why not make one in India. Nothing having to do with UFO’s and the little green or gray men for that matter; it is just some well thought out patterns done by human beings.
Report Post »HillBillySam1
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 10:16amYou know that it was students who did this crop circle….it was spelled wrong.
Report Post »TexasCommonSense
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 10:35amI thought this was put to rest years ago.
Report Post »Snowleopard the artist {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 10:53am@Texas
This matter is about at rest like the sightings of Elvis still being alive or on a UFO; the various multi headed conspiracies of JFK, and such. For every ‘mystery’ or ‘theory’ there will always be someone who will believe it even when confronted with concrete proof of the origins.
There are probably some people to this day who will claim the earth is flat just to have something to disagree with.
Report Post »Secret Squirrel
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 11:12amYou’re not going to believe those lying students, are you?
Question: Why are there no crop circles in the U.S.?
Report Post »Answer: We can’t get students to work that hard.
EgoBrain
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 11:17amYou guys never saw Signs.
Report Post »BlazingInSC
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 11:27am@Snow – This is just an FYI:
Report Post »India != Indonesia (Different countries on the same continent)
Snowleopard the artist {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 11:42am@The Blazers
Apologies for my messing up I used “India” when I should have used “Indonesia.” My mistake across the board and the land. Thank you for catching that, I will work harder when writing on proofreading first.
Report Post »TruthTalker
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 10:11amWe’re being invaded!
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 1:26pmI’m considering going into hops farming soon, on 40 acres (well, technically, 39 for farming, 1 for living). Any idiots feel like making crop circles on my crops, and are caught, will find themselves brought up on no amount of legal charges and will have themselves sued until they bleed. Many crops are a big up front cost to put in the ground, and ignorant hooligans out for fun that stomp them down can potentially put a farmer out of business.
Report Post »historyguy48
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 3:10pmI knew the movie “Mars Invades” was a real true story.
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