Are Crop Circles Man-Made?

Crop circles have been a source of wonder and mystery for people all across the world since the 1500s. But, they haven’t appeared very frequently until the 1960s. Nowadays, most of the world’s crop circles are found in southern England.

So many aspects of crop circles are bewildering and it really makes you wonder how these elaborate field sculptures are made. Take for instance, the fact that the crops are not damaged during the making of these intricate pictures. Or, that they are only able to be seen properly from an aerial view and that many crop circles have both counter and clockwise circles. And, many of them follow an exact and precise mathematical formula.

Other explainable events include a group of women attending a crop circle right outside of Stonehenge, called the Julia Set. Some of the women in the group who were post-menopausal began menstruating directly after standing in the circles. This unexplainable event makes you ponder as to what kind of force or energy these crop circles have. Furthermore, it makes you stop and ask, just who makes these thousands of crop circles?

Scientists and researchers who study crop circles are called cereologists after the roman goddess of agriculture, who was named Ceres. They have come up with 6 possible sources for these eerie and beautiful crop circles. Let’s explore these theories, one by one.

Man-Made

In 1991, a two man team known as Doug and Dave released the information that they had personally created hundreds of crop circles since 1978 and to prove it they filmed a video of their process. However, this does not explain the thousands of other crop circles around the world. For this reason, people who think crop circles are man-made often also concede that perhaps not all of them originated from human hands and the ones that did are merely a hoax.

Aliens or UFOs

In the cerelogist community, most people believe that crop circles are messages from outer space. They think that aliens create these patterns as a sort of alien text message for us here on Earth. Witnesses reporting bright lights and space crafts near crop circles cemented this belief for many crop circle enthusiasts.

Light Beams

Two eye witnesses in 2001 agreed that they saw columns of white light coming from the sky onto a field. Afterwards, this bean field was then found to contain an ornate crop circle.

Radiation

Electromagnetic radiation is a popular theory among scientists, mostly because in 1990 a test revealed a high level of radiation in crop circles. People have also said they feel a tingling sensation while in these circles.

Wind

The Plasma Vortex Theory is based on dust devils of wind spinning crops into these specific patterns. These wind vortexes are very commonplace in southern Europe.