The Mystery And Beauty Of The Crop Circles (Video And Photos)

(N.Morgan) The phenomenon known as crop circles has been a point of intrigue for many researchers and those who look to the stars for other forms of life. Their beauty and symmetry are unmatched by anything we’ve seen before and they keep getting more elaborate and stunning with each incident. In the video below, The Third Milenium reports from Wiltshire Museum about the exhibition about crop circle phenomenon. In Wiltshire Museum presented an exhibition around Crop Circles one of the first instances of this phenomenon has come to museums.

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. The documented cases have substantially increased from the 1970s to current times, and many self-styled experts alleged an alien origin. However, in 1991, two hoaxers, Bower and Chorley, claimed authorship of many circles throughout England, after one of their circles was certified as impossible to be made by a man by a notable circle investigator in front of journalists.

Circles in the United Kingdom are not spread randomly across the landscape, but they appear near roads, areas of medium to dense population, and cultural heritage monuments, such as Stonehenge or Avebury, and always in areas of easy access. Archeological remains can cause cropmarks in the fields in the shapes of circles and squares, but they do not appear overnight, and they are always in the same places every year.

The scientific consensus is that most or all crop circles are man-made, with a few possible exceptions due to meteorological or other natural phenomena.

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