The media has given next to zero coverage of this year's patterns which usually appear overnight in fields the world over.

Each one needs to be studied to attempt a determination of how it was made, by whom, and why.

What follows are 10 pictures of crop cirlces that have appeared this summer in England. There have been many more found than just these 10.

While some crop cirlces are known to be man-made, most arrive with no certainty to their authorship.

More info:

http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/2004/2004.html

http://www.cropcircleresearch.com/database/index.html

I bet they were created by... artists.

Formidables ! Les agroglyphes surprennent. Puisqu'ils apparaissent de génération en génération depuis la nuit des temps, ils ne peuvent être d'origine terrestre. Il faut une intelligence extraterrestre pour signaler autant de messages de la sorte, et très artistiques en plus ! Un début de contact semble évident entre la civilisation terrestre et la civilisation cosmique. Qu'on le veuille ou non.

There are man made crop circles, and then there are naturally occuring ones. The mystique surrounding the natural ones gets "legendized" by those created by man.

I guess they are attractive either way.