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A crop circle, sometimes called crop circle or crop circle is a design created in a field of wheat or other grain by bending the ears to represent various geometric shapes. These forms can range from a simple circle of a few meters in diameter at the composition of several hundred meters involving multiple sections. The origin of crop circles is subject to numerous controversies involving either a human achievement from plans on paper and various ways to carry on the ground, ropes, stakes, HF, bed sheets and rolls for the stems, or UFO events and manifestations of energy, or the U.S. Star Wars project, the use of powerful lasers, and several plots, for example, the HAARP project.
Etymology
Crop circle is a neologism, translation of the word crop circle which is sometimes used in French.
Hypothesis of human intervention
The English papers of the seventeenth century would be the oldest representation of a crop circle. It contains a testimony of August 22, 1678 describing the work of the devil who "disdained to mow oats as is usual, and a cut in circles round and placed each straw with such accuracy that it would have had more than one at any Age vitille to run he did that night. " (Source precisely this image)
The first crop circles have appeared in southern England (Hampshire, Wiltshire and surrounding regions) in the mid 1970s. Over time, along with the number of crop circles grew, the patterns became more complex (the first crop circles are simple discs, while some of those appeared in the 1990 and 2000 near Auxerre the A6, were elaborate: verbal messages, iconic signs, drawings of manufactured goods). Changes also the geographical distribution, the phenomenon out of its native range. All these changes clearly suggest that the role of newspaper articles and television reports on the subject, which have multiplied in the late 1980s, was important in the creation of the phenomenon.
The first known crop circles were created by two farmers in Wiltshire (England): Doug Bower and Dave Chorley. In the region of Avebury, Marlborough District, you can hear two sides of the story about these characters: some believe that these two farmers went out at night, armed with ropes and planks, to trace these strange circles in wheat fields, linen or colza.Une other segment of the population likes to claim that Doug and Dave were only two illuminated worn on the drink, claiming as their phenomena without being able to prove - and she likes to claim that "the mystery remains unsolved" . One of the main problems is that their method does not allow them to sleep would be the most fragile plants without breaking them. However, one of the characteristics of crop circles is precisely that no rod is broken.
Some farmers, "victims" of a crop circle, shouted again and scream to vandalism, sometimes to vandalize their own crops to prevent tourists to set foot in their fields. Others, however, decided to charge for access to their sites, and visitors willing to crack a book or two.
There are several arts groups creating crop circles and giving evidence that they are the perpetrators as well as explanations on how they are created.
Moreover, the media, highly publicized, have make many crop circles on their own or other reasons:
* The Sun commanded a giant crop circle circular advertising the London Olympics in 2012 decorated with the traditional five interlocking rings, the spice of this pub has to have been carried out on French soil, in broad daylight by a team six "makers of circles" in Britain. Term of realization: seven hours followed by their return to London before sunset;
* The British television channel Sky One did make a giant sudoku in a pasture with white tarpaulins and plastic sheeting (not a real crop circle). Sky One has proposed to the public to solve the game and the winner received an award in the chain of 5,000 pounds (€ 9,000). From the perspective of the process, it is a production comparable to the graffiti wall.
There is also evidence of crop circles prior to 1978. By the 1960s, crop circles would also emerged in Australia. In Canada, a farmer in Duhamel, Alberta, found crop circles August 5, 1967, during the previous weeks, several people had said they had seen UFOs. The Department of National Defence, the issue remains "unresolved." There are also stories of strange shapes in the fields in Holland or England in the seventeenth century, as the representation of a "devil mower" in an English newspaper of the time (specific source). This unique testimony is not as convincing as it may seem at first: the word "reaper" seems to show that the wheat was "cut", not "down" (it would be in the presence of a simple robbery, not a crop circle, whether artistic or occult).
We note that there is a site specializing in the creation of crop circles, with a manual: circlemakers. The site of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (CSI) also posts articles on the agropglyphes.
Alternative hypotheses
Some people believe that crop circles, or at least some, can not be of human manufacture. Thus, the most complex designs can not, from their point of view, have been made in secret and in the duration of a single night by a single group of pranksters, even organized, in addition, some debris caused by radiation as they would be very difficult to reproduce. They also try to argue for the antiquity of crop circles. In addition, on some crop circles, as pointed out Nancy Talbott, the plants would suffer strange modifications: seeds have not germinated would grow five times faster, other plants would be sterilized.
Several theories to explain the non-human origin (natural, supernatural, extraterrestrial) of these crop circles have been advanced since the 1960s. At the beginning of the phenomenon, two hypotheses competed: the "natural assumption" and "UFO hypothesis of a cause." Many marginalized groups offer their own explanation of the phenomenon, according to their beliefs, most without any real methodology or analytical rigor (see external links). Indeed??, Only a rigorous scientific approach (like a police investigation at the scene of a crime), not only on the record evidence physico-chemical field and particularly on common indicators a large number of crop circles, but also the geographical inventory, and time, the phenomena identified. Only such a methodology could be used to rule in favor of one of the four hypotheses to date (human, natural, supernatural, extraterrestrial). The placement of surveillance cameras in the areas most affected by these phenomena (such as Wiltshire, England) should also make progress in this investigation. The fact is that almost all of these crop circles are somehow diagrams referring to the field of electricity, mechanics or physics / chemistry or even all three combined. They are phenomena known or partially known, such as energy production on the dissolution of a particle of water into two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen, the production of microwave or even the influence of magnetism in various technological fields. Many crop circles to it.
(Cf: http://www.informantnews.com/starshipgamma/crop/index.html - in English
or:
http://photovni.free.fr/cropcircles2/crop2.html - for the French translation)
There is still a theory that some crop circles have a human experience through military technology-based emission of microwaves. The source of these technologies could in turn be of aliénogène or human, in this case result of research to be conducted in secret by government agencies.
Natural phenomenon
Several theories have been issued granting the crop circles a natural (whirlwinds, "ball lightning" plasma vortexes, etc.).. It is thought to include magnetic fields. This hypothesis has been advanced for several reasons people may not feel a crop circle, having headaches or nausea. In addition, some electronic devices are failing. Finally, we also measured on some crop circles magnetic fields higher than normal. However this hypothesis - it also obscures the nature and mode of action of the mysterious forces at work?? - Loses all likelihood with respect to the perfection and complexity of geometric shapes produced by the phenomenon??, Which is characterized by both circular or elliptical, usually multiple and symmetrical patterns by radial or angular, sometimes symmetrical sometimes asymmetrical.
Finally discovered through tests with fine sand and the sound vibrations could be the advancement of this understanding of crop circles. This would imply that the land would then be connected by sound vibrations from elsewhere in space, forming symbols for messages. Some crop circles relate the calendar from the Maya.
Extraterrestrial
Among the groups who study these phenomena, the BLT Research Team, named after its three founders, John Burke (New York businessman), Wm.C. Levengood (Michigan biophysicist) and Nancy Talbott (music producer also works at the University of Maryland and Harvard College). {{Refnec | Researchers in this group claim to have discovered radioactive isotopes rare in crop circles, they have also found profound structural changes in the nodes of plants woven (not just lying). The work of Wm.C. Levengood & co. have been widely disputed by skeptics, especially in terms of methodology, such as Joe Nickell in his article "Levengood's Crop-Circle Plant Research." Moreover, skeptics explain in prose the crop circles with braided plants (see for example the article by Jean-Marc Donnadieu braided crop circles, on the subject).
It may also establish a rapprochement with the works found in South America the land of pre-Columbian civilizations. These works, depicting geometric shapes in some cases, for other animals (a bird of prey to one of them), consist solely of tracing the ground, in the land thanks to the disposal of stones, and are established over very large areas. It is now thought that the civilizations of the time would have great difficulty in the form due to their size, since they can be seen that from heaven [ref. needed]. Some people speculate landing strips for alien arrivals. This is the realm of hypothesis. These drawings have survived time and are still visible today. Some people interpret the crop circles of unknown origin (natural, alien etc ...) as a mandala, which shows a movement of energy.
Balls of light
WC Levengood and NP Talbott defended the hypothesis that the crop circles are made by "balls of light" (in English Balls of light), which are also to be linked with the phenomena of Foo Fighters. According to them, such balls of light emit microwaves which would achieve the form in the wheat. The origin of these balls is not precisely defined.
In a 1999 article, Levengood and Talbott argue that the wheat has been irradiated. Haselhoff EH (2001) In its wake a physical model explaining.
Joe Nickell, a member of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, questioned the reliability of these results: the analysis was not done double-blind, and it appears that the laboratory can not distinguish the wheat coming from the Crop circles of those who do not come if we do not give them the information before any analysis. In addition, the model Haselhoff (2001) does not explain how microwaves flattening the ears of corn and how they traced the shape of the crop circle in the field, but only a possible difference in length between the ears.
