The whole crop circle phenomenon has been the focus of many paranormal investigators. The com ufo's are somehow leaving these designs in crop fields around the world. This, of course, doesn't pmon explanation isass the old debunker sniff test. If you're gonna travel across millions of light years to do a doughnut in a corn field as an attempt to communicate, one would think the message would be a little clearer. Yet in one case, at least, an inter-planetary skid mark would certainly hold more logic than the actual explanation.

It seems that in Australia, some crop circles may have been created by some wallabies that were high on heroin. It seems that the creatures got into the legaly grown poppy fields in tassmania, chow down, and then hop around in circles till they pass out.

Tasmania Attorney-General Lara Giddings told a budget hearing Wednesday that she had recently read about the kangaroo-like marsupials' antics in a brief on the state's large poppy industry. Tasmania is the world's largest producer of legally grown opium for the pharmaceutical market.

"We have a problem with wallabies entering poppy fields, getting as high as a kite and going around in circles," The Mercury newspaper quoted Giddings as telling the hearing. "Then they crash. We see crop circles in the poppy industry from wallabies that are high."

Calls to Giddings' office were not immediately returned Thursday, and The Associated Press was unable to obtain a copy of the brief she cited.

A manager for one of two Tasmanian companies licensed to take medicinal products from poppy straw told the newspaper that wildlife and livestock — including deer and sheep — that eat the poppies are known to "act weird."

"There have been many stories about sheep that have eaten some of the poppies after harvesting and they all walk around in circles," Tasmanian Alkaloids field operations manager Rick Rockliff said.

Others in the local poppy industry could not be reached for comment.

Tasmania supplies about 50 percent of the world's raw material for morphine and related opiates. About 500 farmers grow the crop on 49,420 acres (20,000 hectares) of land.

On rare occasion, I am forced to say I was wrong, and this is one of them. Not that I had ever debunked the notiont that it was high wallabies. It's just that I would have mocked anyone that suggested it. Yet here is the proof. Little green men? No. High wallabies. Case closed.