[Ilander]

I'm saying that google didn't fake it...that some local yokels wrote an explicit message to the "aliens" who sent them a message with the nearby crop circle.

I'm also saying the letters are in NEGATIVE, or, to use the more proper art-term, RELIEF. Thus, the shadows would point in the right direction (NW), as they are shadows of the rims of the letters.

Look a little more carefully, Felix...