sacred geometry, radioactive soil

I don't know what to think of crop circles, other than to say anyone who tells you they're all made by people using ropes and wooden planks hasn't ever looked into the physical analyses performed on the plants and soil of the truly puzzling examples.

In fact, the physical evidence repeatedly suggests similar causes in the cases where it is most laughably difficult to accept the "rope and plank" hypothesis. Heat and radiation are commonly evidenced to have been associated with--and by implication, caused--the patterned collapse of the crops. And one of the only scientific articles ever to be published on the subject argues that balls of light, which are frequently claimed to be seen "making" the circles, actually work as a candidate for their construction; by measuring the distribution of a particular physical effect on the crops over their distance from the center of the circle, the author found that it "perfectly matched the temperature distribution that would be caused by a small ball of light, hanging in the air above the centre of the circles, emitting intense heat."

But once you've established that a small ball of light emitting electromagnetic radiation is in fact the best scientific explanation for how these "real" crop circles are made, you have a whole new problem: why are there balls of light hovering in the air over our fields, and why are they zapping sacred geometrical patterns and mathematical concepts into them? Whose ball of light is that? And...and, how did you get it to do that?