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Crop circle
A crop circle is a sizable pattern created by
the flattening of a crop such as wheat,
barley, rye, maize, or rapeseed. Crop circles
are also referred to as crop formations,
because they are not always circular in
shape. While the exact date crop circles
began to appear is unknown, the
documented cases have substantially
increased from the 1970s to current times.
Twenty-six countries reported
approximately ten thousand crop circles in
the last third of the 20th century. Ninety
percent of those were located in southern
England.[1] Many of the formations
appearing in that area are positioned near A 780ft (240m) crop circle in the form of a double (six-sided) triskelion
ancient monuments, such as Stonehenge. composed of 409 circles. Milk Hill, England, 2001

According to one study, nearly half of all

circles found in the UK in 2003 were located within a 15km (9.3 miles) radius of Avebury.[2]

History
The earliest recorded image resembling a crop circle is depicted in a 17th century
English woodcut called the Mowing-Devil. The image depicts the Devil with a
scythe mowing (cutting)[3] a circular design in a field of oats. The pamphlet
containing the image states that the farmer, disgusted at the wage his mower was
demanding for his work, insisted that he would rather have "the devil himself"
perform the task.

A historical report of crop circles, republished (from Nature, 1880)[4] [5] in

January 2000 Journal of Meteorology[6] describes the 1880 investigations by
amateur scientist John Rand Capron:
The storms about this part of Surrey have been lately local and
violent, and the effects produced in some instances curious. Visiting
a neighbour's farm on Wednesday evening (21st), we found a field 1678 pamphlet on the
of standing wheat considerably knocked about, not as an entirety, "Mowing-Devil".
but in patches forming, as viewed from a distance, circular spots....I
could not trace locally any circumstances accounting for the peculiar forms of the patches in the field,
nor indicating whether it was wind or rain, or both combined, which had caused them, beyond the
general evidence everywhere of heavy rainfall. They were suggestive to me of some cyclonic wind
action ...[7]

Most historical accounts of crop circles are anecdotal, in some cases describing crops being cut or burnt rather than
flattened.[8] [9] [10] One report given in 1966 from the town of Tully, Queensland, Australia, came from a sugar cane
farmer who said he witnessed a saucer-shaped craft rise 30 or 40 feet (12m) up from a swamp and then fly away.
When he went to investigate the location where he thought the saucer had landed, he found the reeds intricately
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woven in a clockwise fashion on top of the water. Reportedly, the woven reeds are said to have been able to hold the
weight of 10 men.[11] [12]
Public attention in crop circles arose the late 1970s as many circles began appearing throughout the English
countryside. This phenomenon became widely known in the late 1980s, after the media started to report crop circles
in Hampshire and Wiltshire. To date, approximately 10,000 crop circles have been reported internationally, from
locations such as the former Soviet Union, the UK, Japan, the U.S. and Canada. Skeptics note a correlation between
crop circles, recent media coverage, and the absence of fencing and/or anti-trespassing legislation.[13]
Although farmers have expressed concern at the damage caused to their crops, local response to the appearance of
crop circles can be enthusiastic, with locals taking advantage of the increase of tourism and visits from scientists,
crop circle researchers, and individuals seeking spiritual experiences.[14] The market for crop-circle interest has
consequently generated bus or helicopter tours of circle sites, walking tours, T-shirts and book sales.
The last decade has witnessed crop formations with increased size and complexity of form, some featuring as many
as 2000 different shapes,[15] and some incorporating complex mathematical and scientific characteristics.[16] [17] [18]

Bower and Chorley

In 1991, self-professed pranksters Doug Bower and Dave Chorley made headlines claiming it was they who started
the phenomenon in 1978 with the use of simple tools consisting of a plank of wood, rope, and a baseball cap fitted
with a loop of wire to help them walk in a straight line. Inspired by Australian crop circle accounts from 1966, Doug
and Dave reportedly made more than 200 crop circles from 19781991 and claimed to be responsible for most if not
all circles made prior to 1987.[19] [20] [21] After their announcement, the two men demonstrated making a crop circle
.[22] Despite general acceptance of their story, crop circle researchers remain skeptical of many of their claims.[21]
[23] [24]
Since their revelation, crop formations have continued to appear each year, often in greater number, size, and
complexity.

Art and business

Since the early 1990s the UK arts collective founded by artists Rod Dickinson and John Lundberg (and subsequently
includes artists Wil Russell and Rob Irving), named the Circlemakers, have been creating some crop circles in the
UK and around the world both as part of their art practice and for commercial clients.[25] [26]
On the night of July 1112, 1992, a crop-circle making competition, for a prize of several thousand UK pounds
(partly funded by the Arthur Koestler Foundation), was held in Berkshire. The winning entry was produced by three
Westland Helicopters engineers, using rope, PVC pipe, a trestle and a ladder. Another competitor used a small
garden roller, a plank and some rope.
In 2002, Discovery Channel commissioned five aeronautics and astronautics graduate students from MIT to create
crop circles of their own, aiming to duplicate some of the features claimed to distinguish "real" crop circles from the
known fakes such as those created by Bower and Chorley. The creation of the circle was recorded and used in the
Discovery Channel documentary Crop Circles: Mysteries in the Fields.[27]

Legal implications
In 1992 Hungarian youths Gbor Takcs and Rbert Dallos, both then 17, were the first people to face legal action
after creating a crop circle. Takcs and Dallos, of the St. Stephen Agricultural Technicum, a high school in Hungary
specializing in agriculture, created a 36-metre (118ft) diameter crop circle in a wheat field near Szkesfehrvr, 43
miles (69km) southwest of Budapest, on June 8, 1992. On September 3, the pair appeared on Hungarian TV and
exposed the circle as a hoax, showing photos of the field before and after the circle was made. As a result,
Aranykalsz Co., the owners of the land, sued the youngsters for 630,000Ft (approximately US$3,000) in damages.
The presiding judge ruled that the students were only responsible for the damage caused in the circle itself,
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amounting to about 6,000Ft (approximately US$30), and that 99% of the damage to the crops was caused by the
thousands of visitors who flocked to Szkesfehrvr following the media's promotion of the circle. The fine was
eventually paid by the TV show, as were the students' legal fees.
In 2000, Matthew Williams became the first man in the UK to be arrested for causing criminal damage after making
a crop circle near Devizes.[28]

Explanations
Formations usually are made overnight, but have also been made during the day. While it is not known how all crop
circles are formed, various theories have been put forth ranging from natural phenomenon and man-made hoaxes, to
the paranormal and even animals.[29] [30] [31] [32]

Man-made
The most widely known method for a person or group to construct a crop formation is to tie one end of a rope to an
anchor point, and the other end to a board which is used to crush the plants. Some crop formations are paid for by
companies who use them as advertising.[33] As an explanation of some of the more complex formations, physicists
have suggested the use of GPS, lasers, and portable microwave generators.[34] [35]

Weather
Some have suggested crop circles are the result of extraordinary meteorological phenomena ranging from freak
tornadoes to ball lightning.[36] The first known published reference to the possibility of crop formations being the
result of natural phenomena dates back to 1880 in which investigator and amateur scientist John Rand Capron
theorized the formations may have been the product of "cyclonic wind action..." [6] [7] Physicist Stephen Hawking
expressed the opinion in 1992 that, "Corn circles are either hoaxes or formed by vortex movement of air".[37] [38]

Paranormal
Since appearing in the media in the 1970s, crop circles have become
the subject of speculation by various paranormal, ufological, and
anomalistic investigators ranging from proposals that they were created
by bizarre meteorological phenomena to messages from extraterrestrial
beings.[36] [39] [40] [41]
Many crop circles have been found near ancient sites such as
Stonehenge, a prehistoric monument located in the English county of
Wiltshire. They have also been found near mounds of earth and stones
Sketch of a 'spaceship' creating crop circles, sent
raised over a grave or graves, also known as tumuli barrows, or
to UK Ministry of Defence circa 1998.
barrows and chalk horses, or trenches dug and filled with rubble made
from brighter material than the natural bedrock, often chalk. There has
also been speculation that crop circles have a relation to ley lines.[39] [42] [43]
Many New Age groups incorporate
crop circles into their belief systems.

Some have related crop circles to the Gaia hypothesis, alleging that "Gaia", the earth, is actually alive and that crop
circles are messages or responses to stimuli such as global warming and human pollution. It asserts that the earth
may be modeled as if a single super-organism, in that earthly components (e.g. biota, climate, temperature, sunlight,
etc.) influence each other and are organized to function and develop as a whole.[44]
The main criticism of alleged non-human creation of crop circles is that while evidence of these origins, besides
eyewitness testimonies, is essentially absent, some are definitely known to be the work of human pranksters and
others can be adequately explained as such. There have been cases in which researchers declared crop circles to be
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"the real thing", only to be confronted with the people who created the circle and documented the fraud.[45] In his
1997 book The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, Carl Sagan discussed alien-based theories
of crop circle formation. Sagan concluded that no empirical evidence existed to link UFOs with crop circles.[46]
Many others have demonstrated how complex crop circles can be created.[47] [48] Scientific American published an
article by Matt Ridley,[49] who started making crop circles in northern England in 1991. He wrote about how easy it
is to develop techniques using simple tools that can easily fool later observers. He reported on "expert" sources such
as the Wall Street Journal who had been easily fooled and mused about why people want to believe supernatural
explanations for phenomena that are not yet explained. Methods of creating a crop circle are now well documented
on the Internet.[47]
Among others, paranormal enthusiasts, ufologists, and anomalistic investigators have offered hypothetical
explanations that have been criticized as pseudoscientific by skeptical groups like the Committee for Skeptical
Inquiry.[50] [51] [52] [53]
Responding to local beliefs that "extraterrestrial beings" in UFOs were responsible for crop circles appearing in
Indonesia, the government and the National Aeronautics and Space Agency (Lapan) described them as "man-made".
Thomas Djamaluddin, research professor of astronomy and astrophysics at Lapan stated: "We have come to agree
that this 'thing' cannot be scientifically proven. Scientists have put UFOs in the category of pseudoscience."[54]

Animal activity
In 2009, the attorney general for the island state of Tasmania stated that Australian wallabies had been found
creating crop circles in fields of opium poppies, which are grown legally for medicinal use, after consuming some of
the opiate-laden poppies and running in circles.[55]

A crop circle in Switzerland. Aerial view of crop formation in A crop circle in the form of a triskelion
Diessenhofen, Switzerland, July
2008

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Further reading
The Field Guide: The Art, History and Philosophy of Crop Circle Making by Rob Irving and John Lundberg,
edited by Mark Pilkington, 2006, Strange Attractor Press, ISBN 0-9548054-2-9.
Jim Schnabel, Round in Circles: Physicists, Poltergeists, Pranksters, and the Secret History of the Cropwatchers
(Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1993), ISBN 0-14-017952-6.
Eltjo H. Haselhoff, The Deepening Complexity of Crop Circles: Scientific Research and Urban Legends, ISBN
0-285-63625-1.
Carl Sagan, 1996. The Demon-Haunted world: Science as a Candle in the Dark; "Aliens" pp 73ff.
Noyes, Ralph (editor) The Crop Circle Enigma: Grounding the Phenomenon in Science, Culture and Metaphysics
(Bath, Gateway Books, 1990), ISBN 0-946551-66-9.
Silva, Freddy, Secrets in the Fields: The Science and Mysticism of Crop Circles (Charlottesville, VA, Hampton
Roads Publishing, 2002), ISBN 978-1-57174-322-0.
Glickman, Michael, "CROP CIRCLES: The Bones of God" (Frog Books, 2009) ISBN 978-1583942284
Taylor, Suzanne, "What On Earth? Inside the Crop Circle Mystery" 2011 DVD 81-minute feature UBC
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