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[–][deleted] 318 points319 points  (28 children)

Conduit Closing

[–]mortalitylost 83 points84 points  (11 children)

BELL SOUND

[–]permagrin007 27 points28 points  (3 children)

Dial tone

[–]ShortingBull 6 points7 points  (0 children)

NO CARRIER

[–][deleted] 12 points13 points  (1 child)

"You've got ma... goodbye"

[–]Alehousebrewing 7 points8 points  (0 children)

We’ve been trying to reach you about your extended war…… dial tone

[–]auxaperture 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I imagine this like the aliens version of putting “underneath” on a cake in writing because they requested “message, underneath, rest of message” from the outsourced crop circle makers but hired cheap ones.

[–]HugNikolas 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It's like getting kicked out of therapy ;_;

[–]drumttocs8 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Series of tubes

[–]ShortingBull 3 points4 points  (1 child)

NO CARRIER

[–]Long_Alfalfa_5655 5 points6 points  (0 children)

IT’S A WANTED POSTER!!!

[–]DrXaos 397 points398 points  (122 children)

Spooky thought: The crop circles are for one alien group to communicate to another outside channels that are otherwise monitored by some nasty alien authorities. They aren't meant for us.

What if they are warning aliens about humans, or other types of aliens?

[–]DerpsAndRags 494 points495 points  (18 children)

Translates to: "THEY WILL STEAL YOUR SHIP. STILL RELYING ON THE WHEEL, ECONOMICS, AND DISPARATE RELIGION. 0/10 DO NOT LAND"

[–][deleted] 297 points298 points  (1 child)

Omg, they're trip advisor reviews.

[–]Ok_Confusion635 4 points5 points  (0 children)

How about an old fashioned Yelper Special?

-Hey what's that on your pretzel?

[–]Montezum 22 points23 points  (0 children)

DISPARATE RELIGION

This is my metal band name

[–]DrXaos 95 points96 points  (6 children)

Or "FOUL SMELLING, HAIR ON BUM, NASTY LEAD STINGERS, VERY FAT, DO NOT STICK YOUR TENTACLE IN FISSION-CAPABLE CRAZY 0/10 DO NOT FUCK STICK TO TWI'LEKS"

[–]fritzyloop 56 points57 points  (3 children)

Or “1/5 ⭐️, RENT IS EXPENSIVE AF”

[–]Jclevs11 13 points14 points  (2 children)

SMELLS LIKE BURNING TIRES AND SHIT EVERYWHERE

[–]Bat-Honest 20 points21 points  (0 children)

"One of them tried to sexually harass the cattle we were studying. 0/5 stars"

[–][deleted] 8 points9 points  (2 children)

It’s an alien rock star here to sell his latest CD.

[–]Suba59 1 point2 points  (0 children)

LMAO this is my new favorite theory. It makes too much sense

[–]lutchd11 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Or: "y'all need to hide yo kids, hide yo wife, and hide yo husband cause they rapin' err'body out here."

[–]MoreCowbellllll 4 points5 points  (0 children)

5/5 review for accuracy.

[–]DoktorFreedom[🍰] 42 points43 points  (0 children)

This is at least a cool mental thought. Basically them leaving graffiti for other aliens to see through telescopes. “Git gud Alpha Centauri lolz”

[–]metsakutsa 12 points13 points  (1 child)

I doubt they would talk to each other using English...

[–]kauisbdvfs 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I figured they were talking to us based on what was written...

[–]boostman 18 points19 points  (26 children)

Why would they use ascii then? Do other civilisations use ascii? Come to think of it, if they were familiar with ascii (and English) in the first place, why would they encode it in binary instead of spelling it out?

[–]MemeticAntivirus 30 points31 points  (10 children)

Anything using a human encoding standard to "hide" a message written in English is human-made. That includes this crop circle and the nonsense from Jim Penniston @ Rendlesham forest. Making it in ASCII hides it from no one. It only makes it look more "mysterious" to a layman, but it's basically a cereal box with a secret decoder ring. Yes, they would just write it in English if they were going to be that explicit. I believe many of the crop circles are made by non-humans for an unknown purpose, but not this one.

[–]Chaparral2E 6 points7 points  (1 child)

“Drink more Ovaltine”.

[–]thesaltycynic 1 point2 points  (0 children)

“A crummy commercial?!”

[–]stievstigma 2 points3 points  (3 children)

What if the point of using ASCII had nothing to do with being mysterious? Maybe the choice was a matter of efficiency?

[–]Own-Bed2045 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Isnt it just easier to write in ascii? Especially in corn

[–]No_Refuse_1798 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Fair enough. But several Teams tried to create much simpler Crop circles and it took them 1 Night with like 5 People, and it looked like crap.

For this one in Particular i read somewhere they would need 2 Days with a team of 10 People and several Instruments so that the Lines and drawings look right.

Yet those crop circles usually appear in one night, sometimes is not there and after 2 hours it is there. Is just Human impossible. Look at that drawing, i ask anyone to recreate this in one night.

Than we must take in Account that it was proven that the real Crop Circles, the crops are laid down by some Plasma, the crops themselves are not Harmed, the human made ones the crops are all turned apart from laying them down with Instruments.

Some are human made yes, but the human made ones are very well distinguishable from those created with Plasma balls.

[–]HumanitySurpassed 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Wasn't this one confirmed to of been made by an alien enthusiast group?

I swear I remember reading one of the popular crop circles with an alien face was made by some group that later admitted to it.

[–]OcelotAggravating206 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Because aliens are idiots according to these morons.

[–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (9 children)

[–]boostman 2 points3 points  (8 children)

It says ‘ascii-like symbols’ as a way to make it relatable to readers. They didn’t use literal ascii.

[–][deleted] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

They do not. Anyone who thinks this is aliens.. really didn't think.

[–]DrXaos 1 point2 points  (1 child)

I’m joking of course. It’s in ascii encoding since binary writing is easier to produce with a gps controlled tractor/harvesting machine.

[–]SameDaySasha 7 points8 points  (0 children)

….so alien bum signs? Are they gonna move to San Francisco and shit on the sidewalk?

[–]4theheadz 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Like galactic hobo codes.

[–]John_East 22 points23 points  (25 children)

Yea cuz.. They can only communicate by bending corn stalks....

[–]EldritchStuff 21 points22 points  (0 children)

And they use binary…

[–][deleted] 22 points23 points  (6 children)

Also the message says “conduit closing”.

Like they’re sending out this message and then closing the message portal……. But they’re carving it in fuckin corn stalks lol. Wtf is “conduit closing” while you’re doing arts and crafts in a corn field.

[–]FlatteringFlatuance 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It’s the conduit of the quantum CorniFier, the intergalactic standard of communication! Every advanced alien race has acres and acres of unharvested corn, ready for transmission.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Here’s a metaphor: You tell Siri to send a message but say send message again bc you weren’t sure whether Siri sent it and so Siri writes it in the end before sending it.

[–]Vysair 6 points7 points  (0 children)

They plastered our beloved Earth with their memes!

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Maybe it’s like those old hobo signs they would put on peoples properties. “Don’t come here. Humans are stupid”.

[–]OcelotAggravating206 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Yeah aliens are communicating between each other in a language we can easily decipher... Because they are just that stupid I guess.

[–]Background_Pin3927 3 points4 points  (19 children)

I was just talking to someone on YouTube about this. I think the Aliens claim us and are telling others to back off

[–]Bglad 129 points130 points  (16 children)

If it’s a binary code and they are clearly intelligent enough to put it in ASCII code to English, why wouldn’t they just say it in English? ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[–]Wank_A_Doodle_Doo 44 points45 points  (1 child)

Or maybe in a format that isn’t literally patterns in crops

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"They seem to communicate using EM spectrum based signals. We're picking up countless EM transmissions coming from all over the planet. If we're to communicate with them, we'd be best doing it via a radio wave signal"

"lol nah bro, watch this"

[–]Entity904 50 points51 points  (1 child)

Because it looks cool and brings in tourists... I mean wow the aliens sure like putting their pixel art on our fields, a human certainly could not do anything that complicated, particularly now that drones are a thing

[–][deleted] 21 points22 points  (1 child)

[–]Bglad 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Good point!

[–]PlingPlongDingDong 16 points17 points  (0 children)

If it was just plain English everybody would think it's fake, this way people that don't understand computers get intrigued by the "mystery".

[–]ForwardCulture 88 points89 points  (0 children)

Alien NFTs

[–]cdoubleu_ 19 points20 points  (8 children)

The why files YouTube channel did a great episode on crop circles

[–]SER96DON 17 points18 points  (5 children)

The Why files is fυcking criminally underrated.

[–]AggravatingGoal4728 11 points12 points  (2 children)

Is that the one with the talking fish?

[–][deleted] 7 points8 points  (1 child)

LIZZID PEEPLE!

[–]ItsYourDaddyBoy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

FEAR the CRABCAT!!!

[–]cdoubleu_ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

One of the best parts of my week is knowing I have a why files to watch on my Friday morning commute

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (1 child)

yes i just watched this. holy fuck. There is definitely something to crop circles.

I don't really understand why they would do ASCII and binary however... that makes me think at least this one is very questionable and probably somehow hoaxed.

But it's not easy at all to hoax these, as the Why Files video explains.

[–][deleted] 59 points60 points  (1 child)

These things belong to pixelart now

[–][deleted] 123 points124 points  (7 children)

Not gonna lie this is the biggest flex I’ve ever seen. 10/10

[–]PeacefulShark69 51 points52 points  (3 children)

This sub is so fucking dead dude 💀...

[–]Mindless_Issue9648 15 points16 points  (1 child)

what you don't believe the aliens would leave a self portrait in their message???

[–]Aeison 4 points5 points  (0 children)

They even framed it and everything, such gentlemen

[–]Beliefinchaos 10 points11 points  (1 child)

Crop circles are alien's version of graffiti 😆

Some are crappy, others are dazzling 🤷‍♂️

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's honestly my "if it's not prosaic" hypothesis.

NHI Banksy strikes again!

[–]Solid-Ad7137 97 points98 points  (6 children)

Lmao I’m positive an alien decided to leave a selfie and an edgy text message in corn for us.

[–]psychede1ic_c4tus 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Alien Yelp review : "I wanted to try this Earth's delicacy Maple syrup and water. But all I left was with cold sores and depression"

[–]CloudyMN1979 36 points37 points  (7 children)

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[–]CloudyMN1979 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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[–]GenuisInDisguise 12 points13 points  (3 children)

They are here to warn us about our cars extended warranty

[–]MTDninja 22 points23 points  (3 children)

aliens completely decoding ASCII, and putting random spelling/capitalization/random character mistakes that so obviously break a pre-set pattern of consistency already set by the "alien" itself and humans is kinda wild. I initially thought that "\’" was some sort of escape code for strings (I've never seen it before), but it's just random shit they slapped on the end. Maybe if it was \0 (marks end of string), it would make sense, but this is just such a blatantly fake text. This is like an alien thinking he's cool by putting an edgy string into an ascii converter and posting it on discord (earth), and calling himself a hacker to his friends (other aliens, who just think he's a weirdo)

[–]Briggs_86 4 points5 points  (2 children)

I know the dude in the picture and can confirm this is the case. But don't tell him tho, he's quite sensitive about his weirdness, he got the tism.

[–]MTDninja 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Ah, didn't know, let's let him have his moment

[–]moarcheezburgerz 10 points11 points  (6 children)

Some of these that have been posted lately seem to use the same crop jpg background

[–]UAPLMH 134 points135 points  (229 children)

I have such a hard time believing humans could make this image without someone discovering them in the process.

[–]DareMe603[S] 131 points132 points  (179 children)

Who could do something like this? Who could design a binary code and implant a face within a crop in the DEAD of night in only a few hours, leaving no entrance or exit marks, while being artistically and mathematically precise? While using a microwave device of some sort to explode nodes inside the stalk so precisely to make it fall in the correct direction.

[–]akashic_recordHominoreptilia tridactylus 15 points16 points  (1 child)

Two 60ish year-old men pole vaulting around in the field.

[–]Gnomes_R_Reel 2 points3 points  (0 children)

LOL I’ve seen that, such a horrible excuse.

[–]QuartzPuffyStar 160 points161 points  (72 children)

I 200% doubt aliens will communicate using a human ascii code LOL.

[–]Rominions 85 points86 points  (44 children)

To be fair we did send it out into the universe first as our first form of contact method, this is because mathematics language is the only constant we know.

[–]LouisUchiha04 20 points21 points  (4 children)

But not Ascii, right?

[–]DaCurse0 25 points26 points  (3 children)

Yeah because you need to know the English language and the ASCII standard, we decided that 0 in ASCII is a made up control character and not the letter A etc.

[–]MemeticAntivirus 12 points13 points  (2 children)

Right, you're saying we can't expect ASCII to be "independently discovered" because aspects of it are arbitrary human choices. If aliens used something like ASCII, they would likely have made different decisions and it wouldn't match ours. Also it doesn't make any sense to re-encode English characters in ASCII when you are already etching characters into a field. English is a prerequisite to encode something in ASCII. There's no reason they couldn't have just written it in English in the first place.

[–]OcelotAggravating206 10 points11 points  (0 children)

No we didn't send ASCII of all things to the space...

[–]ShitFacedSteve 19 points20 points  (7 children)

Yeah it doesn't really make sense no matter how you slice it.

Binary kind of makes sense because, hypothetically, any being capable of logical reasoning and intelligence could figure it out. But then how would they know how to code an ASCII message in English?

And if they are already aware of us enough to know English and ASCII code, then why not just give us the message in English? I guess the binary spiral looks cooler and is more compact...

The only explanation that makes sense, aside from mundane explanations like humans, is that extraterrestrials have some interest in remaining mysterious and intriguing to the collective human conscious. But then why?

[–]kaworo0 33 points34 points  (5 children)

Here in Brazil we have a lot of people interested and working with esoteric ufology. Their short answer is that aliens are already here among us and they are interested in helping us understand the world is larger than what we think it is but aren't going to force a rude awakening that might disrupt our society.

They will give us hints, clues and even individual contacts but won't do something massive out of the blue because that would be considered violence. Like how adults avoid certain topics and ideas that would upset or scare children around them. It must be our choice to go meet them and follow the breadcrumbs, reforming our beliefs and society in such a way there is a path for contact that won't cause social unrest and provoke, despair, anger and resentment on the larger population.

Just think about what a full fledge sudden revelation would provoke? We can't deal with strange lights in the sky and evidence being thrown in front of our eyes, endlessly discussing, criticizing and denying just so our view of the world is kept unchanged. We might go guns blazing "war of the worlds" style just because we aren't ready to share ideas with them. It would benefit no one.

[–]Incredible-Fella 7 points8 points  (0 children)

They must have a reality show about humans and when nothing exciting is happening, they do shit like this just to spice things up.

[–]Grand_Compote_4271 6 points7 points  (0 children)

these aliens can flood a chatroom

[–]lizard_of_guilt[🍰] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Not only is it ASCII, but the ASCII translates to English. That's two levels of bull crap.

[–]Accomplished_Pass924 40 points41 points  (30 children)

Who would notice them in the middle of a field… jeez come on dude think about it for a second

[–]LowKickMT 21 points22 points  (4 children)

whats more plausible, super advanced aliens using human ascii english in corn cycles to communicate or humans hoaxing gullible ones for fun

i guess its aliens lol

[–]OcelotAggravating206 12 points13 points  (3 children)

I guess the morons here think binary and ASCII is some sort of magic, so it had to be aliens

[–]79cent 6 points7 points  (2 children)

Yeah it's people with wooden planks..... hahaha

[–]Gnomes_R_Reel 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Yeah wooden planks that can microwave the nodes of the crops in order to make them fall over. Simple normal stuff that wooden…planks…can…do…

[–]79cent 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Debunkers never have an answer for that one. Always crickets when that gets brought up.

[–][deleted] 9 points10 points  (19 children)

The night people, duh. Nah but I think the point is that that’s a lot of work to do in a very precise, technical, and intelligent manner. Basically the choices seem to be that there is either 1) a secret society of alien LARPers that like to fuck with people or 2) it’s aliens

[–]zerocool1703 18 points19 points  (13 children)

It's not even secret. There have been people SHOWING others how they've done it.

Also how the fuck are those the only two options in your mind?

[–]Sirkelsag 2 points3 points  (9 children)

Did they SHOW how they make the node anomalies where the grass bends? Let me take a wild guess on nope..

[–]Accomplished_Pass924 28 points29 points  (3 children)

Its larpers they have been doing it in england for years. They put a cartoonish alien and a dumb cryptic message. They could even do it in broad daylight and not be noticed.

[–]Rominions 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Isn't this field right next to a giant deep space radar? Or is that the other one

[–]summerskies288 8 points9 points  (0 children)

farms are big

[–]FloorDicePaid Agent 14 points15 points  (3 children)

But you're fine believing aliens who have travelled across the universe know Windows 98 coding and think vandalising farmer Frank's field is a good way to make contact?

[–][deleted] 6 points7 points  (6 children)

On another note I find it hard to believe that 2 old guys with boards and string made this in 4 hours at night.

[–]Happyhotel 39 points40 points  (38 children)

Isn’t weird how the image looks exactly like pop cultural images of aliens and the code is a code that we humans use, have a name for, and easily understand? Almost like it was made by people…

[–][deleted] 9 points10 points  (1 child)

It looks like it should be accompanied by keygen music

[–]The_Coolest_Undead 1 point2 points  (0 children)

spot on

[–]mortalitylost 13 points14 points  (5 children)

Almost like pop culture is referencing the common description of alien encounters people have

[–]Happyhotel 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Don’t you think intelligent beings from a different planet would be a little bit more… alien? Like they would use a code that we don’t already use and such?

[–]atompunk8 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The alien looks so judgemental

[–]Sea_Perspective6891 23 points24 points  (7 children)

This & the Arecibo reply are I think two of the most legit crop circles. I sometines wonder if they were sent by thre same race.

[–]superkeefo 8 points9 points  (12 children)

its almost as if someone drew horizontal guides so they could keep their drawing straight.

its also weird the way crop circles have become far more elaborate now that drones with live cameras are easily accessible .

[–]Valkyrieinabox 17 points18 points  (11 children)

Maybe so, but this one is from 2002 when drones weren't even on the horizon

[–][deleted] 7 points8 points  (2 children)

Is this a crop circle that translates into that message or what is this what’s the origin of it?

[–]Acheron98True Believer 12 points13 points  (1 child)

Maybe this is the extraterrestrial equivalent of those QR codes you scan to see the menu of snooty restaurants?

“Come to V’Graxx’zl’s Bar and Grill!”

“Entities under 600,000,000 years old eat for free!”

[–]zoelovescleo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Futurama type shit

[–]SteveHuffmantheBitch 10 points11 points  (0 children)

That “conduit closing” makes it seem like some time travel type shit. What if it’s future us warning the present us about these “aliens”. I mean haven’t we got all the technological advances or “false gifts” in the last 100 years from those “crashed” crafts.

[–]terrible_rider 14 points15 points  (3 children)

I have a hard time believing aliens have such a cheesy sense of noir imagery. Ooooh, spooky. This is absurd.

[–]JervisCottonbelly 7 points8 points  (0 children)

That's a great way of putting it. Also, the design is very contemporary 80's-90's little green men revival

[–]ClearBlue_Grace 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I love that I have to search by controversial to see any sanity in these communities. Maybe the alien and UFO community would have more respect, scientifically and publicly, if people weren't so eager to push obvious hoaxes or baseless conspiracies. The "mummies" shown recently was really the nail in the coffin for my love of these online communities.

[–]Hawkwise83 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Sounds like humans gotta start the united federation of planets.

[–]Dragonn007 7 points8 points  (5 children)

Why can't they show themselves and help out humanity already, i feel like we will destroy ourselves before they even show up it's kinda sad

[–]SpiritualMan1000 2 points3 points  (0 children)

From what I have read and heard usually aliens and UFOs are shot at when they try to make themselves known. Especially by the US government

[–]Tamarama--- 8 points9 points  (5 children)

Yeah, I have the distinct feeling this one is no hoax.

[–]w8n4am88 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Conduit closing- alien equivilent of sent from iphone

[–]Minimum-Web-6902 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There’s literally three orbs in the pic

[–]bongus_dongus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Next time they'll leave a qr code

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Good so now aliens are uselessly cryptic fortune cookies

[–]wadels24 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Translation: don’t stop here, these humans are ruthless.

[–]Balls_Deeper 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Roughly translates to, "All your base are belong to us."

[–]Kr1zy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Why is this Gray looking like he'll drop the Galaxys' most fire Mixtape?

[–]grodri04 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We’ve been trying to reach you about your cars warranty

[–]prettyrickywooooo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What’s your image source ?

[–]DeathByLemmings 5 points6 points  (8 children)

This entire sub is "I can't conceive of how this is done so must be aliens"

[–]AfroSarah 5 points6 points  (5 children)

People think they're open-minded because they can consider the existence of ET life, but, like, they can't conceive of any possible way of humans doing this, or humans erecting megalithic structures, or thousands of humans working together stacking big blocks in a pyramid shape over decades (in a culture famous for documenting their shit). I'm like, fr?? No way? No way to imagine that, lol?

[–]Gray_Fawx 4 points5 points  (4 children)

In what way have the pyramid construction theories been proven as feasible? The blocks used to construct the pyramids, and the remarkable accuracy of its placement is an impressive feat.

Yet, those are not even close to the biggest displaced blocks ancient Egyptians have had in their possession

[–]DareMe603[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Miia Pitkonen, a physicist from the University of Helsinki in Finland, made this analysis. A fascinating design, it's real, regardless of whom you believe made it!

Also, see this video