Strategically Positioned Crop Circles
Saturday, 4th August 2007 by Alex Turnbull
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.
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Disputed of course, but technically true, Heathrow does have more international passengers than any other airport. ↩︎
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The first symbol says: “WiLL U MArrY ME” The second says: “We’ll be featured on GSS, yeah!”
Heh, I mentioned/marked this one back in February — see Comment #9 on the “previously featured” crop circles post. https://www.googlesightseeing.com/2006/02/20/more-crop-circles/
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.
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 View Placemark (51.41025,-1.6473861)
The second one’s positioning may have something to do with the nearby
Hillside white horse https://www.googlesightseeing.com/maps?p=&c=&t=k&hl=en&ll=51.472268,-1.817486&z=18
Or it could have been this fella having a bit of fun after a few ciders
https://www.googlesightseeing.com/maps?p=&c=&t=k&hl=en&ll=51.475092,-1.809115&z=19
Oi’ve got a bran’ noo combine ‘arvester an al giv you de key…
oooharr, nice combine ‘arvester Mrb!
‘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!!
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
The weird thin
The strategically placed crop circle is actually adjacent to Avebury stone circle , which you will note is only a short distance from the M4 Motorway .It is about 85 miles from Heathrow.
Sincerely Jem