During the recent years there was an increase in freaked out farmers calling the police because their fields had been vandalized. The state agencies were also wondering about all of these mysterious crop circles. The media freaked out, while the governments wanted to keep everything under the lid.
Was an alien invasion imminent?
Were they coming?
NASA had no clue, until one day the astronauts on the ISS decoded a strange transmission from outer space: "Geez, Trshchw, how often have I told you to stop dicking around, man! The hyper lasers are not for doodling dongs on planets, got it?"