Crop circles – so named because of their early, strictly circular design – came into public attention in the late 1970’s in southern England. Prior to that time, there had been several reports of strange markings in the crop fields of Australia, the United States, and other European countries. In fact, the earliest recorded crop circle was documented in Holland in 1590. Modern day farmers interviewed by crop circle researchers repeat tales told to them by their parents and grandparents of unexplained markings in the crops on their land.
In earlier times, explanations for this anomaly ranged from whirlwinds, vortices, misapplied pesticides, animal activity, or some sort of demonic activity. An actual engraving from 1678 appears to depict a crop circle being formed, in this case by “The Mowing Devil.” Consistently, farmers tell of leaving their fields by dark, returning at dawn to find a formation seemingly swirled effortlessly into the field, with no traces of entry or exit in the surrounding crop. The plants appear to be subjected to a short and intense burst of heat, which softens the stems to drop just above the ground at a 90-degree angle, where they re-harden into their new and very permanent position without damage. If left untouched, the plants will continue to grow and ripen.
Any crop is a potential target for the phenomenon; wheat, barley, and oilseed rape (canola) are the most common, but crop circles have also been reported in rye, oats, flax, peas, potatoes, corn, and many other mediums, including rice paddy fields in Japan. Formations have been discovered in wild grass and undergrowth and even swirled into the tops of tree canopies.
In the 1980’s, the simple circles gave way to double circles, triple circles, and increasingly larger and more complex circle sets. Rings began to surround the circles, and it became obvious that the phenomenon was evolving.
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In 1990, straight lines began to appear in lengthy pictograms – not unlike petroglyphs found at sacred sites throughout the world – some as long as 450 feet. These startling hieroglyphs caused the phenomenon’s notoriety to dramatically increase, and captured the world’s curiosity and attention. Formations began appearing as many as five per night in southern England, the host to the largest majority of the world’s crop circles. Reports began to pour in from such places as Italy, Germany, Australia, Japan, Peru, Norway, Canada, Siberia and the United States.
As the years passed, the lay of the crop within the formation was evolving as well. In early circles, the plants were lain down in a clockwise direction. Subsequent years have revealed a lay running counter-clockwise and, in some formations, layers of crop are intricately interwoven. Some appear spiraled while others sweep inward or outward from the center. A relatively new effect of “texturing” can be seen in many of the designs. The plant stems sweep in varying directions, causing subtle shadings in the downed grain that catch light and shadow when seen from above, creating differing effects according to the angle of the sun. Equally subtle internal patterns cause some designs to appear three-dimensional, creating the appearance of cubes and pyramids when seen from the sky.
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What is this all about?
I used to hear that Americans are hiding that they have developed UFO technology and these “patterns” appeared in some fields in US. But recently I received an article that showed that this “pattern appearing” is an old phenomena and has appeared almost worldwide.
What do you guys know about this?
so it’s them flying saucers and bigfoot in cahoots with the black ops wing of the US army out to piss off the farmers?