Pictures of 2009: mysteries

[snopes]

Crop circles, UFO sightings, ghosts and unexplained phenomena.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/pict...phenomena.html

[RCIAG]

Those crop circles are awesome! Do I believe they originated from aliens? No, but they are awesome art!

Can they really even be called circles anymore since they seem to come in all shapes & sizes now?

[TripleAAA]

Maybe it's just me...but in that last picture I saw nothing that looked even remotely like it could be a ghost, let alone Michael Jackson.

[Steve]

Here's the full video:

[Singing in the Drizzle]

It looks like MJs ghost extends back toward the cameraman. Could it be a shadow of someone walking in front of a bright light? I guess that I'm asking really stupid questions.

[Twankydillo]

2, 3 and 4 are most likely chinese lanterns.

About 100 of them went over head between midnight and 1:00 tonight and they looked the same. I didn't know if what I saw were lanterns, but that's the obvious guess! They startled everybody who were out in the street to look at the fireworks anyway, and one neighbour was saying how they were UFOs, before pointing at the moon and shouting that it's the mothership . I looked it up and they seem to have been very popular this year with people setting them off all over the place at various stages of the year. Particularly in the NW.

[Zorro]

I especially love the music in the MJ video.

My favorite is Darth Vader in the Kit-Kat.

Jesus-in-the-rusty-iron is a close second - 'But honey, God is telling me not to do the ironing!"

I think the face in the glacier looks more like Michael Jackson than the 'ghost' (which does look like a shadow cast by the photographer).

[mizzie]

The iron one looks more like Weird Al then Jesus to me! And does anyone see the "Jesus" in the cement in number 8? I've looked and looked and I don't see anything even remotely human there. What am I missing?

And don't you love how every vaguely human-looking image is either *Jesus if male looking or Mary if female? I mean, we are programed to see "faces" when we look at things. I can see one now on the door to my office, but that doesn't mean it's a message from Jesus, it's just the grain of the wood.

And yes, the crop circles are beautiful!

*Lol, ok. I just got to the Tommy Cooper one and oddly, that one is the best likeness I've ever seen in one of these things.

[diddy]

Originally Posted by mizzie

I mean, we are programed to see "faces" when we look at things. I can see one now on the door to my office, but that doesn't mean it's a message from Jesus, it's just the grain of the wood.

That’s the thing - people do not understand what paradolia is since they see no advantage to it. You combine that with people needing to see reason and logic in everything and refusing to acknowledge randomness leads people to assume it *has* to be a face and it’s a miracle - and you know who was big on miracles right?

[Eddylizard]

Originally Posted by RCIAG

Those crop circles are awesome! Do I believe they originated from aliens? No, but they are awesome art!

Piffle. Clearly it's a touring exhibition of alien art.

"Dragonfly" by Qxzapadunk. Currently on loan to a field in Wiltshire.

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And I can't see anything in the cement slab.

Originally Posted by mizzie

The iron one looks more like Weird Al then Jesus to me! And does anyone see the "Jesus" in the cement in number 8? I've looked and looked and I don't see anything even remotely human there. What am I missing?

Weird Al is telling her not to do the ironing? Okay, that works, too.

I think it's an outline of the Madonna and Child in the cement.

[TrishDaDish]

Originally Posted by diddy

That’s the thing - people do not understand what paradolia is since they see no advantage to it. You combine that with people needing to see reason and logic in everything and refusing to acknowledge randomness leads people to assume it *has* to be a face and it’s a miracle - and you know who was big on miracles right?

Jefferson Airplane?

[Ali Infree]

Originally Posted by TrishDaDish

Jefferson Airplane?

Errr, Jefferson Starship, the Airplane was big on hookah smoking caterpillars.

The crop circles are amazing. Since the early hoaxsters on this were British and signed them, I keep looking for signatures. And I am a bit envious that there were no American crop circles.

And I think it is a miracle that the iron actually ironed anything--it is burned and bent.

Ali "is that irony?" Infree

[TrishDaDish]

My bad, I thought it was during the "Airplane" years. I stand corrected with an annoying earworm now.

[BoKu]

Originally Posted by TrishDaDish

Jefferson Airplane?

I'll take Marty Balin for a thousand, Alex!

[diddy]

Originally Posted by TrishDaDish

Jefferson Airplane?

I dunno, was “miracles” some kind of illicit substance?

did “The Doobie Brothers did sing ‘Jesus is Just Allright’” dy