Aliens landed in Fortenson’s cornfield last June and began creating what the farmer thought would be a “really neat” crop circle, Fortenson said. But after two weeks of working on the crop circle, the aliens got bored with their work, complained that their backs hurt, and abruptly departed–leaving Fortenson’s cornfield severely mutilated, a far cry from a completed crop circle.
“It looks like a guy just got drunk and went nuts with a John Deere out there,” said Fortenson. “If that’s a crop circle, then I’m Liza Minnelli.”
Half-baked crop circles are increasingly becoming a serious nuisance in rural America, says Dr. Phyllis DeVore, who studies half-baked alien phenomena at the University of Minnesota.
“Just because they’re intelligent, that doesn’t mean aliens are intrinsically hard-working or conscientious,” says DeVore. “It’s just as likely that they’re capable of doing a half-baked, slipshod job.”
DeVore said that many other half-baked phenomena in the world today might actually have been the work of lazy aliens, including CBS’s short-lived Bette Midler sitcom and the 2000 Gore campaign.
