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Crop circles have fascinated us for ages... what are they and where do they come from? Are they Alien invention or the work of extremely clever artists..? Read on to see if the mysteries of these fabulous fairy designs in the fields can be unveiled...
By and large, it's thought that the crop circles we see are 'man-made', but wouldn't it make life that much more interesting if even only one could be proven to be of 'exceptional origin'?
Imagine these formations as they spring up over night like acne spots on a youthful face. Envisage where they come from and how they got there. Are they indeed extra terrestrial road maps - directions to (or from) the 'points of origin'? Maybe they are dial-up codes for the stars at the Inter Stellar Exchange? Or, perhaps they are bugs having a beef with us over environmental issues whilst doing their best to annoy the farmers - who can say? But think, even if these are made by very clever people with their planks and strings when no one's looking, WHAT on Earth drove them to it and what inspired the designs?
"I don't know what they are but not people, clever or otherwise. Possibly
some of the basic ones are but isn't it funny that no-one has ever caught
them at it?
The mathematics behind some of them is so complex that it would be difficult
if not impossible to work out beforehand with our level of skills. I read a
mathematical analysis of one once and the mathematician said he could work
out the maths given the design but could not have created the design from
scratch.
And what about that face in the square grid some years ago? Men with planks?
I think not.
Or the one that seemed to respond to messages sent out by radio signal? Or
DNA representations?
Intrigue.
And even if we don't know how - we know even less why?"
The term 'crop circle' was first coined by researcher Colin Andrews in the early 80s, being entered in the Oxford Dictionary in 1997.
This name came about because many of the earlier sightings of this phenomenon were circles, or made up of simple circular patterns. Their repeated presence each year has generated such interest it has given rise to the new term of 'cerealogy', which is... the study of crop circles! However crop circles go back a lot further than most people think, as rather than just being a modern thing, there have been much older recordings of similar circular symbols appearing in the fields.
West Kennet, Wiltshire 2009 - Roll your cursor over the pik... the take a look at our crop circle gallery!
The earliest recorded sighting of anything remotely like today's crop circles was something etched for a woodcut (circa 1700s) print of the Devil (or similar unearthly figure) scything a field of oats, which happened to be done in a circular pattern (shown right)... it was (not surprisingly) called 'The Mowing Devil'. The story has it that this eerie event apparently came about when a farmer got somewhat irate over the fees a mower wanted to charge to harvest his crop, and he was supposed to have insisted that he would rather have "the devil himself" perform the task... then, overnight, a circle had appeared in his field... It's interesting to note that the 'Devil' in the picture is cutting the crop in a clockwise direction.
Now...imps and demons aside, imagine these formations as they spring up over night like acne spots on a youthful face. Envisage where they come from and how they got there. Are they indeed extra terrestrial road maps - directions to (or from) the 'points of origin'? Maybe they are dial-up codes for the stars at the Inter Stellar Exchange? Or, perhaps they are bugs having a beef with us over environmental issues whilst doing their best to annoy the farmers - who can say?
Click on the pik for a closer view
But think, even if these are made by very clever people with their planks and strings when no one's looking, WHAT on Earth drove them to it and what inspired the designs? Moving on to more modern beliefs, there are those who feel that the crop circle formations are due more to the weather and weather anomalies, like ball lightning and freak tornado style winds (or even 'dust devils' - if this country were not no soggy that is...), than devils and other oddball entities... Quite often crop circle appearances have been linked to these storms and such like with the winds and the rain rushing around like devils themselves, creating these peculiar circular patterns as a result....
One such Crop circle was said to have formed after a storm where the lightning reached out and... well lo and behold, there be crop circles! But that's not the only Paranormal 'Fringe' theory on the formation of these works...
There is of course the hypothesis that they are in fact communications from extra terrestrials... where UFO sightings have 'coincided' with their appearance, being manifested by the storms that also seem to accompany them...
In the formation, overlooked by the White Horse, at Cherhill Down, Wiltshire 2008
Often crops have been flattened and burnt to form these designs which many feel are simply 'too perfect' for us mere terrestrial mortals to create, so implying the theories of UFOs and of course, ET's invitations to his mates (check out the film “Signs”*...) to come here.
Where there have been 'witnesses' who have claimed to have seen balls of light (orbs?) flying over the circles, one such witness in Australia was to have said that said he observed a saucer-shaped craft rise 30 or 40 feet 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 woven in a clockwise fashion on top of the water. The woven reeds could hold the weight of 10 men.... Curiouser and curiouser....
*The film 'Signs' (directed by M. Knight Shayamalan and starring Mel Gibson and Joachim Phoenix) touches on this and infers that they are maps and guidance notes or directions for an alien invasion). You have to admit that some of these designs would certainly be able to suspend disbelief just enough for that idea to be acceptable to the majority...
UFO's and Extra Terrestrials aside, there have been many crop circles forming near ancient and sacred sites, giving rise to a more spiritual aspect to their design... They have become places where people have gone to meditate, pray and commune with the spirits and spiritual presences that they feel are around, manifesting themselves in the fields... or, maybe they are 'feeling' the background radiation that's said to accompany the formation of a crop circle (c/o ET?)?
Having said that it is worth remembering that there is a fair amount of natural back ground radiation around and about from the Earth itself...
Cherhill Downs, Wiltshire
There have been many pranksters and hoaxers creating crop circles using all sorts of things to help make the perfect pattern from ropes and stakes, boards or planks (to flatten the crops), PVC piping, trestles, ladders etc... even a garden roller! However, these always seem to leave tell-tale signs for human activity - like stake holes (covered up or not) for instance. Some of these circles can be so cleverly made that they can even fool the 'experts' into thinking that they were created by some other hand rather than a human one. Methods to create a crop circle are now well-documented on the Internet
In 1999 - 2000, a survey was commissioned to ascertain which crop circles were man-made and which ones were not... Andrew Collins was the man for the job here and he concluded that around 80% of the 1000s of crop circles he had investigated were indeed made by human hand... So what of the other 20%? On these he was unable to find signs of human activity. After the findings of this survey were made known, critics crawled out of the corn fields to comment on the results. This was mainly because, in spite of the intense and expert scrutinies, it has been deemed there are insufficient grounds for Collins' 20% conclusion to be met as no official standard exists for determining the nature of any crop circle...
Isn't RED TAPE wonderful!!! (not!)
All in all, whatever you feel or believe in, crop circles are a pretty spectacular occurrence... being both mysterious and marvelous!
Be they man-made by clever crafty people, insect initiated, ET's phone book dial-up or weathered wonders, crop circles are undoubtedly hard to ignore.... They have a different meaning and effect on each of us -as if individually tailored even to one's specific needs or desires...
In short, it seems that they are whatever you want them to be, or what you want to believe them to be...
And may be this is the plan the Aliens had for us all along! The truth is out there... Man... It's WA-'AA'-AY out there!
And now for something 'completely different...'
A 'crop circle' for the light of heart...
Or is it a message from 'beyond' (i.e. beyond the boardroom and bonus packet) to British Rail Bosses to remember to put trains on the tracks and not to keep canceling them???
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