Crop circles - aliens and ufos or people with too much time on their hands?

The whole subject of crop circles is almost a metaphor for my waffling between believer and skeptic over the years. Some crop circles are known to be hoaxes, bozos like Doug Bower, Dave Chorley, and John Lundberg who vandalize farmland without compensating the poor farmer. MIT reportedly was commissioned to recreate the qualities of those crop circles that are of unknown origin. Evidently, 20% of crop circles exhibit unexplained qualities. Of the 3 criterion that appear in unexplainable crop circles, our friends at MIT were able to successfully recreate two, using up to the date technology such as night vision goggles. Oh, and did I mention they were MIT students?

So, once again the skeptics have saved the day and explained it all. It's not aliens or UFOs that are responsible for the worldwide rash of crop circles, ladies and gentlemen. It's a global conspiracy of ultra smart super geeks, make that uber geeks, insomniacs no doubt who need something to do at night. What a great example of the kind of fringe theories that skeptics come up with. Of course, there is also the ball lightning explanation. No one has seen ball lightning make a crop circle, but then the skeptics don't seem to let the facts get in their way either.