Crop circles are geometric patterns produced by the flattening of crops in a wheat field or other cultivated area by an unknown force. (Many crop circles have been found to be definitely man-made, but some crop circles are patterns so massive that humans cannot make them.)
In these large crop circles, the smoothness with which the plants are crushed and the burn marks at the tops of the plants are things that cannot be achieved by human flattening. MIT students have tried to recreate these crop patterns, using farmers’ tools, but have failed. There is still no explanation in the world that this phenomenon can be achieved by using equipment or methods.
The creation of these crop circles began in Wiltshire, West England, where the famous White Horse Mountain and the prehistoric Stonehenge were located. The earliest record of crop circles dates back to the 1980s, and the exact time and location have not been established. Some commentators say that the earliest record of crop circles is in a 1678 woodblock print called “The Devil” in Hertfordshire, East England.
In 1991, pranksters Doug Bower and Dave Chorley made headlines by claiming to have started the phenomenon in 1978 using simple tools consisting of a piece of wood, a rope and a baseball cap. However, it is very clear that most crop circles cannot be the work of both. Moreover, there are some phenomena among these that cannot be explained by them. For example, the radioactivity of some crop circles is stronger than that of the outer crop circles. Large prize money was announced at the event for someone who could reconstruct certain crop circle patterns, but no one could do it.
Therefore, there are different opinions about the cause of these crop circles. Some people think it was created artificially, some people think it was created by natural cyclones or voltage fields, and some people think it was made by extraterrestrials.
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