Yeah.....We have the same problem here. It's impossible to separate the real
sightings from those of the "kooks", so you never know what to believe. Many
years ago, I used to get the GB publication, "New Scientist" through
Stanford University, where I worked. In one issue back in the 70's or early
80's there was an article about two Brits who were stomping out crop circles
as a joke, and getting their midnight art published in the local newspapers.
When the British government announced that they were going to spend 50
thousand Pounds investigating the phenomenon, these guys turned themselves
in, so their government wouldn't waste the money. "We did it" they said. "It
was just a big joke, so don't waste any money investigating it."
   Well, I sure wish I had saved that issue, because I have been hearing
about crop circles ever since. Nobody cares that it was just a hoax
perpetrated by those two Brits, they want to believe in crop circles, and by
God, they are going to believe in them no matter what! Tens of thousands of
acres of corn and wheat fields have been stomped out here in the US since
that article was published, and the cult of people who believe that it was
all done by aliens from outer space is so large that they even have their
own lobbies in congress to get the money appropriated to them to investigate
the phenomenon.  The two British guys who started it all were worried about
their government wasting money on it, and there are tens of thousands of
guys here in the AUS who are gleefully laughing at the prospect of their
government spending millions investigating it. - I guess that pretty well
illustrates the difference between the way British subjects and Americans
think.....