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For us "croppies", this article from today's Telegraph shows an absolutely stunning crop circle that has just appeared in the Oxfordshire countryside.

Much larger than normal, it measures 600 feet, and makes the shape of a ......... jellyfish!!?!!

From the article:

Karen Alexander, a crop circle expert, said: "We have seen butterfly and bird patterns in the past, but this is the first jellyfish crop circle in the world.

"It is absolutely huge - roughly three times the size of most crop patterns and extremely interesting. People have been aghast at the size of it. It is a complete monster.

"We are looking into the meaning of it, but at present it just seems to have appeared out of nowhere."

Link below to the whole (short) article, including a very good photo.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstop ... field.html

Hi Richard

That is really great! Thanks for posting!

Looks like the image depicts a cosmic solar radiation wave with the planets in alignment....she said in complete non-astronomy speak.

Thanks for posting it Richard.

Sounds pretty impressive to me! Good call, possibly. The eleven larger globe shapes could represent the nine known planets in our solar system, including our own, plus the sun, plus the oft speculated upon tenth planet. Then the smaller ones could be moons - the four Galilean ones of Jupiter, plus Saturn's sixty odd ones, another fifty or so for Jupiter ... Mmm. Maybe not.

But cosmic, yes. Which would make more sense as the subject of a "circle" - whether constructed by croppies or some other entity - than something as prosaic as a jellyfish.

Whatever it is, it is beautifully constructed. If you look at the curved bands at the top, they have been shaped in such a precise way as to give a slightly 3-D effect. Very expertly done - whoever or whatever made it.

Are we not due for the Earth coming into perfect “precessional” alignment with the center of the Galaxy...like say round about end of 2012?

I think there is a theory about that, yes, or at least I'm aware of one concerning the so-called "tenth planet" making it's every-ten-thousand-years-or-so orbit close to earth, so much so that this will cause some catastrophic shift in the poles. If I sound hazy on the detail, it's because I am, and also not too worried (I think we would have spotted it in the night sky by now!). This has then been conflated with 2012 apocalypse predictions and, well, you can imagine how many google hits that produces. Personally I think there is more than enough of a truly ghastly nature happening on planet earth to worry about this, so I don't.

But the alignment you refer to sounds more interesting. I'll look into that.

For the latest 2012 de-bunking, here's an article from Slate magazine. 2012 believers be warned, though; it's pretty excoriating.

http://www.slate.com/id/2218841/

It looks entirely consistent with those made by this lot:

http://www.circlemakers.org/

Although it could, of course, be a copycat circle.

The attention avoiding by the farmers didn't seem very convincing did it? To paraphrase: "please don't come and look at our crop circle that you wouldn't know about if we hadn't gone to the press, our farm is right here".

Hello Robert,

Thought you might be dropping in at some point on this one. You may be right, although I would hope that even at your most critical (or should that be cynical ) you'd concede that this is a particularly beautiful "circle", with much thought and effort put into its construction (by whoever or whatever).

This latest one, photographed today, and contained in the link below, is rather less impressive, I think. It resembles a dragonfly. But as it's also of a creature (the previous one was a jellyfish - probably), and was discovered within days of this other one, and in Wiltshire - not a million miles from Oxfordshire - it may be that there is a theme developing here.

As a small-time "croppie" myself (as in interested in looking at them, and in the phenomena generally, definitely NOT making them, because it is vandalism, actually, however pretty they may be) I'm sorry to say that the crop circle "fanatic" quoted in the article doesn't really help the cause by lapsing into 2012-speak (see Slate article above).

Judge for yourself from the photo. But whatever did it, I'd have to say, not his best work. I mean, it's okay, but certainly not a patch on the jellyfish (if that's what it was).

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstop ... shire.html

But there is a phenomenon of Huge Jellyfish taking over the seas

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mt_V7fUckL0

Jelly fish can live in the warmer and more acidic oceans
they are increasing at alarming rates

I do love Cropcircles
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KM5pL5tuuOI

Thanks, lovuian. That's a nicely put together collection of pictures (by you, I see). Some great images.

I'll save the giant jellyfish for later on, I think. Need to be in the right sort of place for that one.

It looks fake to me. Too imperfect. The real ones are far more refined than that.

In regard to the galactic center/solar alignment, it already happened in the 1990s and there was no noticeable effect whatsoever. It's a fallacy that it will take place in 2012. If anything destructive is going to happen at that time, it would have to be something else, like a meteor strike or supervulcano eruption.

I love cropcircles no matter who makes them

I wouldn't use the word 'concede' but of course I agree.

Real ones? D'oh!

Circles in a crop = crop circle.

It is as real as any other crop circle. And was made the same way.

You guys have all the fun
you get beautiful crop circles
and then an Armada of UFOS

http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-49756.html

Onlookers claim they have witnessed up to 50 of the mystery bright beams in Huntingdon.

A former pilot from Hinchingbrooke says that he has photographed some of the lights.

"I noticed three lights floating past our house, probably a couple of kilometres away, and thought nothing of it," the Telegraph quoted Scott Boswell, 37, as saying.

"But then I noticed a big long string of lights coming from the direction of Brampton and heading over the Stukeley Meadows direction. This was about 11.30pm and I got a couple of blurred shots. I'm pretty sure these weren't aircraft

You guys are so lucky

Drive west for two states, then north for one. You'll be in UFO heaven.

and Roswell

I admit it I'm into UFOS


I'm waiting for them to make sand circles in the desert


kinda like the Nazca lines