Crop Circles麦田怪圈

Crop Circles

Livia

20110201152

Crop circles are patterns that appear in fields. The first crop circle photographed in the UK was in 1976, however many farmers report circles in their fields going back considerably further than this date. There is a woodcut dating back to the 1600’s known as the “Mowing Devil” which seems to show some kind of circle pattern in crop field. But whether this can be directly linked to crop circle is still on argument. In 1990, more than 500 circles emerged in Europe. Up to now, approximately 10,000 crop circles have been reported internationally.

The answer of whom or what is creating these crop circles remains unknown. Various theories have been put forth. While human beings still can’t find out how the crop circles are formed, all of them are made by human hoaxers. The most controversial theory is that crop circles are the work of aliens from other planets, though no one can put up the evidence that aliens really exist, I still think it is possible because crop circle is too big for human beings to make. The average size of the crop circles is around 200-300 feet in diameter, how could hoaxers make such big patterns and people can not discover them? But it makes sense if the aliens land here and bury something below several kilometers, then they need to make a sign to recognize these places. Besides, others theories such as winds, aircrafts, earth energies are on the table too.

More and more crop circles have been found out from locations such as the UK, Japan, the US and Canada. Over 2000 different shapes of the patterns have appeared

and some even incorporating mathematical and scientific characteristics. And more people join in the research team study them try to figure out the truth.