Crop Circles
By Spooky | December 21, 2007
Crop circle is a generic term used to describe the flattening of crops in a particular pattern. They range between a simple circle, to complex and intricate patterns.
First observed in the 1970’s, crop circles became a hot topic generating much debate over the various paranormal and naturalistic causes. In late 1991 Doug Bower and Dave Chorley announced that they had been constructing crop circles since 1970. Circlemakers.org, a UK-based arts collective, have creating complex crop circles since the early 1990s.
Crop circles are constructed using simple tools such as wooden planks, rope, and wire. Using a four-foot-long plank attached to a rope, they can easily create circles eight feet in diameter.
After the public admission of the original creators, crop circle activity skyrocketed. Each new design sought to be more complex than earlier designs. Today crop circle designs have increased in complexity to the point where they have become an art form in and of themselves.
In an interview with Mark Pilkington, crop circle maker John Lundberg spoke about this change in crop circle designs,
“I am rather envious of circlemakers in other countries. Expectations about the size and complexity of formations that appear in the UK are now very high, whereas the rather shabby looking Russian formation made the national news. Even Vasily Belchenko, deputy secretary of the Russian Security Council, was on site gushing about its origin: ‘There is no doubt that it was not man-made… an unknown object definitely landed there.’ If the same formation appeared in the UK it would undoubtedly be virtually ignored by researchers and the media alike.”
Because the majority circles occur in the Avebury close to ancient sites such as earth barrows or mounds, white horses carved in the chalk hills, and stone circles, it has been hypothesised that crop circles are of paranormal origin. Some of the alternative theories that were bounced around include alien spacecraft landings, UFO’s, mini tornadoes, ball lightning, and “plasma vortices”.
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