Subject: is there any scientific research being done on crop circles

In light of the recent cropcircles at milk hill (409 perfect circles covering 
21 acres of irregular terrain)and Chilbolton(Arecibo glyph and face in the 
style of a newspaper halftone),I was wondering where the scientific community 
has gone?As of yet, no one has laid claim to these remarkable formations nor 
claimed that they could replicate them.I have seen only one piece of peer 
reviewed literature on a phenomenom that has been taking place for hundreds of 
years.Mainstream science seems to be sitting quietly on the sidelines only to 
jump up now and then and yell 'what a load of rubbish'.If they are all being 
created by drunken engineeering students surely some or all would have been 
caught during the hoof and mouth crisis,but the circles kept showing up.If they 
aren't,then we have a mystery that begs an answer. 

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