Police in eastern Switzerland were left scratching their heads on Thursday as a new set of crop circles appeared in a wheat field near Schaffhausen.

Read the full article: Police baffled by Swiss crop circles

I want to believe.

But I'm afraid it was the wind.

What's with the screenshot of the youtube video?

And why would the police in Eastern Switzerland be scratching their heads about crop circles in Schaffhausen? Maybe they were scratching their heads thinking "why haven't we got crop circles to scratch our heads about in our canton?"

why would they be baffled when it takes 30 seconds to google how crop circles are made.

actually why would it even concern the police in the first place

Because it's criminal damage by some loony.

Maybe some aliens came to visit, parked on a farmer's field when they were immediately accosted by some cranky swiss woman yelling at them that they parked in an illegal spot and they should leave before she called the police.....

Is this another one to report to the American Embassy or the CIA? It could have global repercussions ...

Personally, I think some farmer might have had a few shandies too many at lunch before starting on a warm afternoon's tractoring and he fell asleep at the wheel.

Alternatively, you know this is a fake, made by some Swiss locals. Aliens would never make a circle so perfectly...err....circular.

And the Local believes crop circles appeared in Schaffhausen as a result of policemen in the east of CH scratching their heads?

Maybe new mountains will appear in another canton if the editors of the Local scratch their arse a bit more.

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Ah yes, Friday afternoon.

I can see the headlines now:

"Aliens fly across universe to indulge in recreational topiary. Then leave."

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The picture above is not the actual crop circle. Here it is for those who are interested.

http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/i...ERLAND2012.htm

Having visited many crop circles over the years I think it is import to keep an open mind about this phenomenon. Shame that its quite far away from Zurich or I would have gone to check it out

I do have an open mind about this phenomenon. I am still undecided if they are created by loonies, conspiracy theorists or just vandals.

One thing I know for sure, they are not created by aliens. One visited me on our farm last night and he assured me that their intelligence is so far advanced that they would not do anything so basic as drawing silly images in fields by mowing or flattening crops.

Apparently, they try to communicate with us by posting messages on English Forum.

Who said they were created by Aliens? That would be crazy. If a civilisation was so advanced that they could travel across interstellar space then why would they not just come down and communicate with us in a more conventional way?

So they are indeed created by loonies.

I don't really believe in aliens ... but who ever created this, it's a real nice job, really beautiful.

Some are created by bored students who really need to get a girlfriend, others are made by coordinated teams of individuals who exploit the crop circle phenomenon to make money out of the associated tourism and souvenirs, books, videos etc... The rest are made by something with an intricate understanding of ancient civilisation, astronomy and sacred geometry amongst other things and these are the ones that deserve further investigation in my opinion.

I agree....