While some believe they are man-made hoaxes, others believe aliens are responsible for it. We throw in a few more outlandish theories to the mix in an attempt to add to the considerable body of non-knowledge on crop circles
Large intricate beautiful patterns in crop fields that look like a handmade wooden block print in the hands of Giants. Not the New York ones, of course – they can barely make it through the 360-by-160foot field with grace.
Crop circles have frustrated people for years. They are basically aerial designs that are apparently created by starving alien artists (three redundancies, you might say, but let’s keep that aside). That is, up until 1991, when two pranksters Doug Bower and Dave Chorley came forward and claimed they had created the crop circles, and demonstrated how they did it, using nothing more than an anchor, a piece of rope, and a large wooden plank. They’d also brought along an expert on crop circles, who had earlier declared them supernatural.
(Bafflingly, the study of crop circles is called cereology. Just saying, it cannot sound so normal.)
The alien theory still holds ground. Just because humans can make it does not mean that aliens cannot, say alien inclusionists. For folks not satisfied with either theory, the sky is the limit for new ones.
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