By the way, did you know that crop ‘circles’ are almost never circular?
You do now!
Crop circles first became a widely known phenomenon in the 1970s with most discoveries centred around wheat fields in Britain.
Those with a conspiratorial mind are inclined to believe that crop circles are either some sort of mystical communication from aliens or that they are caused by UFOs either landing on or hovering above the wheat.
They may believe that common sense suggestions as to the origin of crop circles are, in fact, an attempt by the government to conceal their real meaning.
HOAXES
In reality, however, virtually every crop circle thus discovered has been confirmed as a hoax.
For instance, in 1991 artistic UFO fans David Chorley and Doug Bower admitted to faking some 250 crop circles in England, including some of the earliest ones from the 1970s.
They explained that they made the crop circles with a combination of their feet, string and a board.
However, there are some crop circles that cannot be so easily dismissed.
In such cases tests have revealed that the biological structure of the crops has been altered and there have been cases of local magnetic fields that have caused malfunctions in equipment.
SCIENCE
Scientists believe that these particular circles may be caused by eddies in the Earth’s magnetic field or concentrations of electrically charged gas.
Do you believe that scientists can explain the non-hoaxed crop circles or do they really have a deeper extra-terrestrial meaning?
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As someone who has researched crop pictures since 2002, I would like to point out that almost all of the skeptical article written above, as well as comments below, remain incognizant of recent well-reported facts.
On July 7, 2007, three researchers (Winston Keech, Gary King and Paula Presdee Jones) set up four sensitive cameras on top of a hill near East Field in Wiltshire, and at 3 AM after a brief flash of “sheet lightning”, caught on camera a new 300-meter crop picture that formed in less than 15 minutes, with no (zero) humans present in the large and open field below.
The Norweigian film-maker, Terje Toftenes, then gave a news conference in Alton Barnes, which was reported by a local paper(www.gazetteandherald.co.uk/news/1559662.the_crop_circle_mystery) and the BBC (www.bbc.co.uk/wiltshire/content/articles/2007/08/14/wilts_crop_circles_2007_feature.shtml).
Thus in summary, the main gist of what was written above seems both unknowlegable and also factually incorrect.
What do you say to the hoaxers who have come forward and confirmed that they created these crop circles then????
Why are most crop circles found in Britain?
Because that’s where the pranksters behind them live!!
Pfffft, some people want to believe in the weirdest of things.
In this particular case I agree.
I think you would have to be quite dimwitted to believe that aliens are responsible for bending some wheat.
I personally don’t believe that crop circles have anything to do with UFOs or aliens either.