Crop Circles On California Farm In Salinas Valley

[zorgon]

Z, I assume that your "aliens leaving their mark" means or includes their defecating in big circles when they want or need to, and maybe even emptying their on-board Porta-A-Pottys same??

If they did THAT we would haz a TON of DNA evidence

[Elvis Hendrix]

Yea crop circles hmm.
Excuse my cynicism, but i always imagine a hoard of stoned facepainters, Giggling and whispering about thier chakras and microbiotic diets. Then panic ensues  when one of them spots a "black Helicopter" in the distance, which is actually the 19.23 to bristol, full of people who actually work for a living.

[Amaterasu]

What about this huge one in the desert? Aliens?

I think that was photoshopped.

[PLAYSWITHMACHINES]

i was at the Barge Inn in 2011 and saw the very next circle that happened.

The thing that struck me as suspicious was that it took 2 days to make

A simple design appeared, and the next day it had been added to.

The generally accepted theory is that 'real' circles appear in seconds, flattened by a small drone using some gavity-wave beam in combination with microwaves.

Many 'real' circles are also faintly radioactive, and have no human prints or broken stalks, and are geometrically perfect.

The one i saw in Wiltshire that day was definitely faked, IMO because it failed all of these tests. It was a pretty one though

As for the paranormal activity, it could be the farmers getting their own back, LOL

I think Z may be right, ET isnt talking to us anymore

I still believe there are real ones, put down in seconds, but there is virtually no evidence for this, just the one film, which is very bad quality & could easily have been faked.....

[PLAYSWITHMACHINES]

Heres one for Robopuff

[zorgon]

I think that was photoshopped.

Oy....   


Desert Breath

[ArMaP]

Oy....   


Desert Breath

Just posting the name is not enough, copying that text and doing a search looks too much like work, you have to give a link to it, or even better, a video with no comments. 

[zorgon]

Just posting the name is not enough,

It was for YOU

[ArMaP]

It was for YOU

For me? Thanks, but I don't need it.

[sky otter]

and the rest of the story...wonder how many of these have been solved but not reported and just left a mystery....



http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2014/01/06/22200995-confirmed-crop-circle-caused-by-a-tech-company?lite

Confirmed! Crop circle caused by ... a tech company

This photo provided by NVIDIA shows a 310-foot "crop circle" in a California barley field that mystified locals this week was explained Sunday: it was a publicity stunt by Nvidia Corp., a maker of chips for PCs and smartphones.

By Scott Budman, NBC Bay Area
Turns out, it wasn't an alien creation.

We now know the source of the mysterious crop circle that turned up in the small town of Chualar, about two hours south of San Francisco. And it turns out a lot of the speculation about what the viral photo might be was correct.

NBC Bay Area was originally tipped off by an anonymous source, who said Silicon Valley chipmaker Nvidia was behind the crop circle that was first spotted toward the end of 2013 by a photographer named Julie Belanger. We now have confirmation from the inside.

The company plowed through the farm to (eventually) get publicity for their new mobile chip. Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang detailed how the company came to create the circle that got so much attention press conference Sunday night at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, saying he had told his marketing department to find a way to generate buzz about the chip on a shoe-string budget.

Nvidia says that all those theorists who said they saw the numbers one, nine and two in the crop circle were correct. The company said it incorporated the number 192 in the design in Braille to represent the number of cores (192) in the company's new mobile chip, which was also introduced Sunday night at CES.

"We've bridged the gap — we've brought mobile computing to the same level as desktop computing," Huang said of the chip. As for the crop circle, it arrived, and then, like a Snapchat, it disappeared, a viral move that generated huge coverage for the company and got a lot of people talking.

[WarToad]

To add to Sky Otter -

http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_24853325/monterey-county-crop-circle-publicity-stunt-nvidia

A 310-foot "crop circle" in a Monterey County barley field that mystified locals this week was explained Sunday: it was a publicity stunt by Nvidia, a maker of chips for PCs and smartphones.

The crop circle near Chualar, six miles south of Salinas, contained a stylized image of a computer chip and the number "192" in Braille. On Sunday, the company announced the Tegra K1, a new chip for tablets and smartphones that contains 192 computing "cores," or mini-computers, for graphics applications.

Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang said at a press conference in Las Vegas, ahead of the International Consumer Electronics Show, that he had given his marketing department the mission to promote the chip on a shoe-string budget. The crop circle received wide attention. Rumors of Santa Clara-based Nvidia's involvement appeared Sunday before the press conference.

[rdunk]

Well good, case closed!

At least two of us said it looked very similar to other cpu on-board designs!!!!

I guess we should assume that the farmer was in on ot too? Otherwise, he would have firm grounds for legal action against the Tech company for various grievances. That is probably why the farmer seemed to not have much to say about it during the interviews.

A rather stupid stunt I think. This crop circle did not really "promote their cpu" in the news at all. The news on the crop circle was all about "what is it"??  Now the company "comes out of the closet" to confess "they did it". In my view, that is no better than if they had simply made a news release on the new cpu to begin with, which is the customary practice for "no cost" marketing for new products.

[astr0144]

Missed last few replies..You Guys beat me to it...

Yahoo slow to acknowledge it as a hoax considering I came across the initial post on this thread from them ! 

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/crop-circle-publicity-stunt-why-39-experts-39-162721357.html?vp=1