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Strategically Positioned Crop Circles

Saturday, 4th August 2007 by Alex

Here’s a nice new crop circle we haven’t seen before, south of Leeds, England, and handily for drivers who might be fans of crop art, this is right next to the M1 motorway. Funnily enough, the M1 seems to be a bit of a hotspot for crop circles, as we’ve previously featured several others just 11 miles south, beside exactly the same road. Strange huh?

Just south of Swindon, there’s another crop circle we haven’t seen before, but this time it’s a pretty cool-looking spiral shaped one. But as there’s clearly no motorway, why put one here?

Yup, you guessed it. This is directly west of “the world’s busiest international airport”1, Heathrow.

If only we knew what these symbols were trying to tell us, eh?

Thanks to JT, AWDfury and GEarth Hacks. Read more about crop circles at wikipedia.


  1. Disputed of course, but technically true, Heathrow does have more international passengers than any other airport. 

10 Responses to 'Strategically Positioned Crop Circles'

  1. 1. Nico says:

    The first symbol says: “WiLL U MArrY ME”
    The second says: “We’ll be featured on GSS, yeah!”

  2. 2. glenn says:

    Heh, I mentioned/marked this one back in February — see Comment #9 on the “previously featured” crop circles post. http://googlesightseeing.com/2006/02/20/more-crop-circles/

  3. 3. russ says:

    some ancient civilisation millions of light years away _obviously_ evolved a system of communication using flattened cereal crops. we’re just too different - we’ll never be able to communicate.

  4. 4. ajho says:

    I reckon you’d be hard put to see the second one from a plane heading to Heathrow. But while we’re in the area, any suggestions what these might be Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth

  5. 5. Mrb says:

    The second one’s positioning may have something to do with the nearby

    Hillside white horse
    Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth

  6. 6. Mrb says:

    Or it could have been this fella having a bit of fun after a few ciders

    Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth

    Oi’ve got a bran’ noo combine ‘arvester an al giv you de key…

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    7. Alex says:

    oooharr, nice combine ‘arvester Mrb!

  8. 8. Mrb says:

    ‘at isnae tay bad fur a Scotsman Alex.

    Don’t you just love Whoohoo I couldn’t have managed this translation without it. Also a handy tool for GSSers from around the world to understand what the hell us Brits are on about!!

  9. 9. Patrick says:

    I go back and forth on these things. Man-made? Genuine unknowns? Then I read something like the following and I lean very, very heavily towards the unknowns. This field was under observation overnight, lots of cameras trained on the area, nothing untowards seen. Then, a flash of light and voila, a HUGE freaking pattern.

    http://www.earthfiles.com/news.php?ID=1288&category=Environment

  10. 10. Fireshadow66 says:

    The weird thin

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