Crop Circle Hoax was a Hoax

In June some very large crop circles appeared in California and a group of teens admitted to having created the hoax. Now, after months of study, Psi Applications has concluded that the young people couldn't possibly have done it after all - no, only huge balls of energy could explain the phenomenon.

Fox Reno reports:

"We've concluded that it's highly unlikely that four teenage boys could have made the large, complex crop circle that appeared on June 28 in Larry Balestra's field. The scientific data, and our ongoing investigation, tend to point towards some other, perhaps anomalous, unknown source," founder and director Moreno said on Psi Applications' Web site. "The physical changes in the wheat stalks can't be duplicated. It's a phenomenon," Moreno said Tuesday evening. He suggested a form of energy, possibly plasma energy, caused the crop circle formations.

It's a "phenomenon"? Well... yeah. Of course it's a phenomenon. The question is, do we have a rather mundane phenomenon here created by human hands, or it is something more? Steven Moreno thinks that it's "something more," but the evidence for that is decidedly lacking. I'd like to see Psi Applications submit their data and conclusions for peer review, but I doubt that they will do it.

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