The original cropcircles were exactly that - basic circular patterns of flattened crops - often
created in mysterious circumstances overnight. During the last 20 years, crop
circles have evolved into complex geometric shapes, like the DNA double helix
or the nautilus shell. Whatever creates them has become rapidly more advanced
in just a period of a few decades.
The first crop circle
was recorded in 1966, when an Australian sugar cane farmer claimed to see a
saucer-shaped spaceship rise up from a swamp before flying away. When he looked
at the landing site, he said he found the reeds intricately woven in a
clockwise direction on top of the water. Over the years there have been many
other anecdotal accounts of crop circles appearing in alien UFO literature,
where sometimes the crops were burnt, otherwise flattened.
As unexplained
mysteries go, this one has been debunked by numerous experts, who have provided
ample evidence that crop circles are a giant man-made hoax...
In 1991, two men from
Southampton, England, admitted they had been creating hoax crop circles for 15
years. They could make intricate patterns using planks, rope, hats and wire -
and could create a 40-foot circle in 15 minutes. The only reason they came
clean was because one of the men was running up considerable mileage on his car
and had to convince his wife he wasn't having an affair. He still publicly
demonstrates the art today.
Further studies have
dismissed claims that alien saucers have been leaving excessive nitrate
deposits at crop circle locations. The trace deposits are explained by the
nitrate-based fertilizers used by farmers to grow their crops.
Other paranormal fans
claim that there is a mysterious energy left behind within crop circles and
people go there to mentally make contact with an extra-terrestrial energy. What
could possibly create such a widespread psychological effect?
Science refers to
this as The Placebo Effect - where the mind can produce powerful effects on the
body simply because the person expects it to. Indeed, the mind
is so powerful (and science fully accepts this) that it can sometimes heal
the body just as well as medicine when that medicine is replaced by a sugar
pill.
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