The process was explained to me as follows by circle maker Dene Hine: "Circle makers make a formation; drone pilot flies the formation; [they then use] social media platforms to spam all the pages with videos.
Social media is not just a marketplace for the crop circle business. It is a battleground for the toxic, parasitic relationship between the croppies and the hoaxers: conjoined twins who profess to hate one another yet feed on the other for their existence.
To the sceptical mind, after all, there would be no crop circles without the hoaxers. Yet, without the mystique and intrigue generated by the croppies, it's hard to imagine the hoaxers would bother at all. Nevertheless, barbs are exchanged, and not just virtually; more than one croppie told me they had been physically threatened by hoaxers and photographers. It's been hijacked by ego. There is much that remains enigmatic about crop circles, even to farmers like Carson, who has tired of the whole thing and now deters visitors by cutting out any formations as soon as they appear.
He spoke of watches stopping inside circles and recording equipment inexplicably failing during a visit from the BBC's Newsround in He has allowed companies including Nissan to build corporate crop circles in his fields for use in advertising, but claims that just a basic design took professionals 12 hours of daylight to produce, in contrast to the suggestion that hoaxers produce circles quickly in the dead of night.
That would take hours and hours to do by hand. What, then, to make of crop circles? Are they the work of human hands, driven by some emergent cosmic subconsciousness; aliens; hoaxers? Does it matter? You're standing in it. Hidden Britain is a BBC Travel series that uncovers the most wonderful and curious of what Britain has to offer, by exploring quirky customs, feasting on unusual foods and unearthing mysteries from the past and present.
If you liked this story, sign up for the weekly bbc. England's crop circle controversy. Share using Email. By Daniel Stables 23rd August Why should supposedly intelligent aliens travel huge cosmic distances across the galaxy just to doodle in our grain fields?
What an absurd idea! Usually there aren't even any ufo sightings associated with the circles, except for those reported after the fact by people with overactive imaginations. Surely intelligent aliens have better things to do. The true origin of crop circle designs may be nearer to home.
The whole thing begins to make sense once we realize that the earth is flat. We live on the backside of a huge flat blackboard whiteboard, scratch paper, or whatever used by aliens in their schools and universities. There are many of these in the universe. The flat disk of the earth is thin enough that student doodles made in alien art and math classes "bleed through" to our side.
This happens because their writing instruments emit mitogenetic radiation M-rays that are well known to affect some living plants, especially wheat, barley, oats and corn.
So the crop circles in grain fields are nothing more than the reverse pattern of alien students' diagrams made in geometry class. Look carefully at photos of crop circles in books and on the internet, and a striking fact emerges. Crop circle designs are constructed from circular arcs and straight lines.
All crop circles can be constructed using the standard methods of Euclidean geometry. This should tell us something. The aliens making these drawings must be using ungraduated rulers and compases. It's true that a few designs have straight lines and curves that seem at first to be more complex than circles.
But we must remember that straight lines are simply circles of infinite radius. Any complex curves can be constructed approximately from circular arc segments of different radius. Did they use a ruler? There's good evidence that aliens have been defacing the earth's surface with geological grafitti for a very long time.
The curious lines and drawings on the Nazca plain in Peru likely have the same cause. The real question is instead what creates them — and there are ways to investigate that question. We can look at both internal and external evidence to evaluate crop circles. Internal information includes the content and meaning of the designs is there anything that indicates that any information contained in the "messages" is of extraterrestrial origin?
Crop circle enthusiasts have come up with many theories about what create the patterns, ranging from the plausible to the absurd. One explanation in vogue in the early s was that the mysterious circle patterns were accidentally produced by the especially vigorous sexual activity of horny hedgehogs.
Some people have suggested that the circles are somehow created by localized and precise wind patterns, or by scientifically undetectable Earth energy fields and meridians called ley lines. Others, such as molecular biologist Horace Drew, suggest that the answer lies instead in time travel or alien life. He theorizes that the patterns could be made by human time travelers from the distant future to help them navigate our planet. Drew, working on the assumption that the designs are intended as messages, believes he has decoded crop circle symbols and that they contain messages such as "Believe," "There is good out there," "Beware the bearers of false gifts and their broken promises," and "We oppose deception" all, presumably, in English.
However, these odd, pseudo-biblical messages undermine the credibility of the crop circles, or at least the meaning read into them. Of all the information that an extraterrestrial intelligence might choose to convey to humanity — ranging from how to contact them to engineering secrets of faster-than-light travel — these aliens chose to impart intentionally cryptic messages about false gifts, broken promises, and hope for mankind along with what seems to be a reference to a popular "The X-Files" slogan.
Many who favor an extraterrestrial explanation claim that aliens physically make the patterns themselves from spaceships; others suggest that they do it using invisible energy beams from space, saving them the trip down here. Still others believe that it is human, not extraterrestrial, thought and intelligence that is behind the patterns — not in the form of hoaxers but some sort of global psychic power that manifests itself in wheat and other crops.
While there are countless theories, the only known, proven cause of crop circles is humans. Their origin remained a mystery until September , when two men confessed that they had created the patterns for decades as a prank to make people think UFOs had landed they had been inspired by the Tully UFO report.
They never claimed to have made all the circles — many were copycat pranks done by others — but their hoax launched the crop circle phenomena. Most crop circle researchers admit that the vast majority of crop circles are created by hoaxers. But, they claim, there's a remaining tiny percentage that they can't explain. The real problem is that despite unproven claims by a few researchers that stalks found inside "real" crop circles show unusual characteristics , there is no reliable scientific way to distinguish "real" crop circles from man-made ones.
While there are always a few exceptions, virtually all crop circles share a set of common characteristics.
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