Crop Circles Continue to Mystify Mezőkomárom

If you're driving through southern Fejér County and see locals wearing aluminum foil helmets, it's not the weather they are protecting themselves against. Last week a pair of crop circles, one about 14 to 18 meters in diameter, and another roughly twice that size, appeared in a field somewhere between Mezőkomárom and Lajoskomárom.

According to szinesbulvarlap.hu, noted Hungarian crop circle researcher (!) Zoltán Jankó said that anyone could make the bigger circle in two hours, and Endre Kriston, the head of the Hungarian UFO Research Center is similarly skeptical, because the circles are overlapping, meaning that whoever - or whatever - made them only had to touch down once.

As inclined as we are to defer to the country's UFO experts and "crop circles researchers" on these matters, it strikes us that a few mystery-cheese-like questions remain. Since we have no idea why aliens might be going around the Earth making big circles in wheat fields, why would we automatically assume that they should be spread around, rather than grouped together like some letter or number? More to the point, which strikes you as the likelier scenario: that some aliens decided to send humanity a signal in a field near Mezőkomárom, or that some yokels from Fejér County decided to waste a few precious hours away from the pub making a big figure eight out of their best crops? On the other hand, maybe the aliens came bearing gifts.