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    "I Touched A Crop-Circle-Making UFO," Says Investigator

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    Image of alphanumeric1971 alphanumeric1971
    07/31/09

    In reply to "I Touched A Crop-Circle-Making UFO," Says Investigator
    Okay, to everyone harping on why they're not touting the latest in fancy schmancy photographic and scientific equipment, it's because they can't afford it due to their 7-11 night shift jobs.

    Happy now!?
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    Image of Roklimber Roklimber
    07/31/09

    In reply to "I Touched A Crop-Circle-Making UFO," Says Investigator
    I thought I had posted this before, but apparently not...

    Call me when it's the UFO that does the touching.
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    Image of Roklimber Roklimber
    07/31/09

    @Roklimber: Wait.... I just realized that that doesn't sound good. I don't want to imply that I want to be touched by an UFO.

    Unless, of course, it's in the shape of a beautiful female. Then I won't mind.
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    Image of Killa_Charlie Killa_Charlie
    07/31/09

    @Roklimber: Bow-chica bow-wow.
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    Image of Sheogorath Sheogorath
    07/31/09

    In reply to "I Touched A Crop-Circle-Making UFO," Says Investigator
    Cue low resolution, tiny, grainy pictures.

    You would think in this day and age of photoshop and decent CGI that people would at least TRY.
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    Image of BadUncle BadUncle
    07/31/09

    In reply to "I Touched A Crop-Circle-Making UFO," Says Investigator
    I look forward to their confessional memoirs, like these:

    http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=crop-circle-confession

    http://www.manchester.com/features/crop.php
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    Image of CmdrHunt (aka Clarence Colton) CmdrHunt (aka Clarence Colton)
    07/31/09

    In reply to "I Touched A Crop-Circle-Making UFO," Says Investigator
    Alright, I call bollocks!

    Actually, he probably touched the TARDIS. And then it disappeared...
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    Annalee Newitz promoted this comment CmdrHunt (aka Clarence Colton) was starred CmdrHunt (aka Clarence Colton) was unstarred
    Image of Annalee Newitz Annalee Newitz
    07/31/09

    @CmdrHunt: Sounds just as plausible.
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    Image of reddingofish reddingofish
    07/31/09

    @CmdrHunt: Why didn't the guy that went out to the orb take the camera? Or why didn't the guy with the camera get closer?
    IMHO crop circles are works of art, nothing more.
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    Image of David Bullaro David Bullaro
    07/31/09

    In reply to "I Touched A Crop-Circle-Making UFO," Says Investigator
    Good job, they can put that up on the flickr account along with the one of them holding up the Tower of Pisa and the one where they crushed someone's head with just their thumb and index finger.
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    Image of Annalee Newitz Annalee Newitz
    07/31/09

    @David Bullaro: I also like the "wavy arm" effect they threw in there. Obviously caused by the "energy field."
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    Image of TheBirthOfCool TheBirthOfCool
    07/31/09

    In reply to "I Touched A Crop-Circle-Making UFO," Says Investigator
    The guy in pic number 4 has no legs and uses a strange, alien energy source to float over the fields.

    This asswhipe is clearly a government plant, whose task it is to make sure UFO investigators appear to be beer-hatted fricktards.
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    Image of Alasdair5000 Alasdair5000
    07/31/09

    In reply to "I Touched A Crop-Circle-Making UFO," Says Investigator
    Why didn't the others get out of the car?

    Why did they only have one camera?

    Did they have any instruments with them
    to measure any changes in voltage?

    And if I'm being really cynical, why is there such a drastic light change between 1 and 2 and 3 and 4?

    Still, could be worse. Could be that jellyfish shaped crop cricle predicitng solar doom again:)
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    Image of Mecharine Mecharine
    07/31/09

    In reply to "I Touched A Crop-Circle-Making UFO," Says Investigator
    You would think for people who call themselves "investigators", they would have DSLR's with long-range lenses. But instead,they use 3 megapixel camerphones instead.
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    Image of darkminstrel darkminstrel
    07/31/09

    In reply to "I Touched A Crop-Circle-Making UFO," Says Investigator
    Holy gods! The Red Lectroids are he...oh. Farce.
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    Image of AEchinoderm AEchinoderm
    07/31/09

    In reply to "I Touched A Crop-Circle-Making UFO," Says Investigator
    "I don't think I touched anything solid"

    Me neither!

    "But why couldn't I see it where I was, while Paul could not only see it, he videotaped it for another fifteen minutes?"

    Because it was far away from you, you dimwit?
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    Alasdair5000 promoted this comment Edited by AEchinoderm at 07/31/09 8:02 AM AEchinoderm was starred AEchinoderm was unstarred
    Image of AEchinoderm AEchinoderm
    07/31/09

    In reply to "I Touched A Crop-Circle-Making UFO," Says Investigator
    Oh noes! The guy's being attacked by Lost's black smoke!
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    Image of t3knomanser t3knomanser
    07/31/09

    In reply to "I Touched A Crop-Circle-Making UFO," Says Investigator
    That really looks like forced perspective. And it looks like a mylar blimp, although I don't think a mylar blimp could hold station very well out of doors. Regardless, this isn't exactly "compelling".

    Someone should put together a photography guide for UFO hunters, with helpful tips, like, "A monopod gives stability without sacrificing mobility," and "use a decent DSLR, and practice taking off the cuff shots with it in bad lighting conditions so when you actually see a UFO, you know what the hell you should be doing."
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    Image of FrankN.Stein FrankN.Stein
    07/31/09

    In reply to "I Touched A Crop-Circle-Making UFO," Says Investigator
    ok - just .. why is every single UFO photo blurry and absolutly uselsess? Must be some kind of conspiracy there .....
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    t3knomanser promoted this comment FrankN.Stein was starred FrankN.Stein was unstarred
    Image of t3knomanser t3knomanser
    07/31/09

    @FrankN.Stein: Someone once suggested that maybe UFOs were blurry, and the pictures were perfectly in focus.
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    Image of Arryma Arryma
    07/31/09

    In reply to "I Touched A Crop-Circle-Making UFO," Says Investigator
    I'd love to see the reaction this would elicit from that baseball cap/sunglasses whack job on UFO Hunters.
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