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climate — they quickly multiplied in appearance in Europe and on the American continent. At the moment there is insufficient data from other parts of the world. The film Signs starring Mel Gibson that came out in 2003 centered on this phenomenon. It is perhaps unfortunate that the producer’s version of the truth was actually way off. These crop circles'® are the most tangible sign left behind by ETs. They are measurable, sustainable, repetitive (annual), didactic and macroscopic. That is why it is important to examine them more closely. Some crop circles are man-made. They are the work of discrete artists or university students who, unlike most, do not sign their work, or very rarely. This form of modesty may seem virtuous, but is actually just another misinformation method. As some kind of hoax, or in a deliberate attempt to cover cosmological tracks, crop makers such as Dave and Doug, two English septuagenarians nicknamed the “grandpa hoaxers,” are the typical agents of anti- UFO propaganda. Their instru- ment is simple: a sufficiently heavy plank pulled by ropes to flatten the wheat. Needless to say, although this method is silent, it still takes con- siderable time to cover the area of some of the achievements that are out there. Have you ever been in the middle of a field of wheat ready to be harvested? You will be at least hip-deep in wheat. You will have to crush all the stems in your path to achieve an artistic pattern. This inevitably leaves behind tracks that cannot be seen in numerous real formations. While you are on the ground, instead of at a certain altitude, your mental projection of the complex shape to draw will lead to count- less inaccuracies and inevitable angular deviations. Many crop circles occur at night. You will have to use spotlights to work, thus reducing the odds of remaining anonymous, unless you wear night vision infrared goggles. In that case you may risk permanent eye damage if the tenfold intensity of blindingly bright headlights of a vehicle passing in the early morning happens to hit the rods of your retina. Even for a group of people it is impossible to create a crop circle in a time span as short as measured in some cases, in no more than a few minutes. In addition, what about the complex pattern of stems woven in counter flow to each other found in genuine crop circles? It is impos- sible to copy such patterns with a simple plank. Because of the tools used, the human artworks can be distinguished from authentic crop circles by the inaccuracy of the measurements, the absence of microwave radiation and the absence of entanglements, of anomalies to the nodes of the stems or of abnormal growth of the seed heads. Some have tried to explain these agroglyphs'” by the intervention of highly sophisticated military technologies. Indeed, the hypothesis of