That tones that are sounded create complex geometric shapes is fascinating in itself, but this blog post, sent to me by arty photographer extraordinaire Scott Hess, has more. There are crop circles designs here that had to have been “created either by sand on plates or liquids that are subjected to certain sound.”

The site says, “Maybe these crop circles are just accidents of nature in that they form from some invisible sound source.” (That’s followed by this imaginative thought: “Or perhaps they are not accidents but are being made by other than human intelligences to give humanity a key to their own existence.”)

I had to do some thinking about this.

Crop circles definitely aren’t accidents of nature. Many things about the phenomenon indicate intention. Just look at their placement. They never cross a field, as accidental landings would. Some are aimed, like at the precise center of an ancient artifacts, like a Stonehenge. Look at this, where the formation is fitted between three tumuli:

Well, why wouldn’t the circlemakers get patterns to use this way? It could be another way of helping us realize the circles are coming from an intelligence source — they often feed our symbols back to us, as if to say, “We recognize you.” As I say in my film, “I can picture them scratching whatever passes for their heads,” befuddled at how we don’t get it that they are signaling to us.