Crop circles

Crop circles are geometric patterns which are created in fields, usually wheat, grass or oats fields.

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It's only flattened corn... Doug Bower, 1991.

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Doug Bower does not believe crop circles have any significance despite their astonishing circular symmetry. In contrast, some people believe that the crop designs are messages from alien spacecraft. Some maintain that the aliens are trying to communicate with us using ancient Sumerian symbols or symbolic representations of alien DNA. Those who engage in such serious study and theorizing about crop circles are known as cereologists (after Ceres, the Roman goddess of agriculture and fertility) or croppies. Crop circles have been found around the world, including the United States, Canada, Australia, and Russia; some believe that also in ancient civilizations like in Aztec fields or in the construction of Stonehenge and Hadrian's wall between England and Scotland. (Stonehenge, geometric pattern.)

Dr. Eltjo Haselhoff has written a comprehensive book on crop circles, including mathematical analysis and field research. He argues that most crop circles, including some reported hundreds of years ago, were almost surely not made by human means, citing a higher design complexity and strange bends in the plants.

See also

• Archaeoastronomy
• Stonehenge
• Hadrian's Wall
• Aztec

External links

• Scientific Research into the Physics and Metaphysics
• Circlemakers
• Reporting a Formation