I don't doubt most of these intricate patterns are man-made hoax's - but maybe not all.

One thing that puzzles me is, if we walked through a field of corn to get to a certain part, (or to get out again), we'd leave trodden down corn tracks. Why aren't there any here?
Also, whoever, or whatever draws these patterns, where do they disappear to for the rest of the year, why do they only come when the corn is ripening?

I've been in some , the man made crop is always broken at the nodes, the 'real' ones have the nodes microwaved and the nodes never broken. many years ago a bi plane flew regularly over a set path opposite stone henge , the pilot flew over fields during the daytime on return 3/4 hour later below him in the field was a massive crop circle which was not there on his flight .

at at crop circle convention a chap had filmed a ball of energy flying fast over hedges , it was on his mobile phone , shown to us all in the audience , in the background was a farmer on his tractor ploughing his field , unknown to him this energy ball was a few hundred feet from him , seen very clearly in the video . it was suggested this possibly could be something to do with the circles . of course we don't know the answers .

One thing that puzzles me is, if we walked through a field of corn to get to a certain part, (or to get out again), we'd leave trodden down corn tracks. Why aren't there any here?

Also, whoever, or whatever draws these patterns, where do they disappear to for the rest of the year, why do they only come when the corn is ripening?

If there was some kind of `life/force` out there that could travel astronomical distances and had the spare energy to do it -then why waste time playing around with crops?