The World’s Most Stunning Crop Circles
by Crop circles have always been an exciting phenomenon. While some people believe that they are formed by UFOs because they’re too perfect to be from this world, others are convinced that they’re the creation of talented men and women who go out in the middle of the night and secretly produce these artistic displays.
Of course there is also that well publicised event of 2 men (Doug Bower and Dave Chorley) from Southampton in England who confessed in 1991 that they created a few of them as a prank.
Whatever your belief, crop circles are undoubtedly one of the most fascinating and stunningly beautiful patterns made without the stroke of a paint brush. Most of these circles are found in England, and the patterns are made by flattening crops like wheat, rapeseed, barley, corn and rye, but not to the point of breaking them entirely, thus the crops then go on to grow normally.
Cambridgeshire, 2001
Wiltshire, 2004
The earliest crop circle seems to have been in the 17th century in England. This image showed the Devil cutting a round design in a field of oats.
This is a very unusual one found in Payerne in Switzerland in 2007.
In the late 1980s the English countryside became alive with regular occurrences of crop circles. They shot up literally overnight and made quite an impact both to tourists and locals alike. In 1996 a farmer on whose land a crop circle appeared, charged a fee to the vast number of people who were flooding into the tiny village to see it. He eventually pocketed £30,000 in four weeks, when the value of his crop if it had been harvested, would’ve been worth around £150.00
To date there have been more than 12,000 crop circles discovered around the world. As well as in England they have occurred in Russia, Japan, Canada and the US.
Here is a fabulous, but rare one from Tennessee in America.
Crop circles have even made their mark in popular media. In an episode of Seinfeld, Jerry tells a woman that he’s responsible for crop circles just so she’d be interested in him. The X-Files is a favourite show of mine, and in the episode called “All Things,” Mulder travels to England to investigate these mysterious artworks.
Here are some more unusual ones from England for you to enjoy.
I’ve never actually seen a crop circle in real life, even though one of the “hot spots” seems to be near to where I live. However, if one does occur, man-made or not, like those people in 1996 in Wiltshire, I would certainly be one of the first handing over my money to the farmer, to catch a glimpse of this fantastic occurrence.
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Post CommentIcyCucky
On June 10, 2008 at 5:33 am
Fantastic article, and wonderful pictures, I like it!
louie jerome
On June 10, 2008 at 6:41 am
Great pictures.
valli
On June 10, 2008 at 7:00 am
Great article and pictures.
nobert soloria bermosa
On June 10, 2008 at 7:08 am
wonderful pictures,fascinating as well
treasurenut
On June 10, 2008 at 10:51 am
This is great!!! Thanks for posting!
Obvious man
On June 10, 2008 at 11:26 am
Step 1: Go to “hot spot” Set up orwellian style camera system.
Step 2: Catch one being made on film.
Step 3: ??????
Step 4: Profit
Hellman
On June 10, 2008 at 11:52 am
“man-made or not” ?? Haha, of course they are man-made. Interesting to look at for sure, but definitely not signs of aliens.
anon
On June 10, 2008 at 12:55 pm
@hellman
and you know this how? not to say that this is definite work of man or extra terrestrial, but without any proof of either and certainly the possibility that it is done by both, you can’t simply state that it is not ‘alien’ on empty presumptions.
Cyn Bagley
On June 10, 2008 at 1:32 pm
Very nice article and I loved the pics.
john tyler
On June 10, 2008 at 1:49 pm
I understand that these are not alien in origin but how do you see what your doing while your doing it?
Velio
On June 10, 2008 at 3:04 pm
@ Milander,
(S)he’s just saying – don’t discard the possibility that they are of alien origin. Of course the mistake is to presume that the likelihood of each option is 50-50. I’d say they’re very much more likely to be man-made than not.
Rookie Expert
On June 10, 2008 at 3:17 pm
I had never heard about crop circles till today, amazing article. Im going to google and see if anybody knows how they appear overnight!
quiet voice
On June 10, 2008 at 3:52 pm
…Hi, these are beautiful, I would
really like to know where they come from,
such a mystery. Great article and pictures.
whadawino
On June 10, 2008 at 8:01 pm
It is the handiwork of Sasquatch, I’m sure of this. I read about it on a blog somewhere, so all my questions are answered.
Eddie Starr
On June 10, 2008 at 10:37 pm
Bizzare! Loves it.
excellentvision
On June 11, 2008 at 1:38 am
Nice pictures!!
See the aliens that might have done those…
http://www.socyberty.com/Paranormal/Be-Afraid-Look-at-This-Alien.62617
Ronald Marbles
On June 11, 2008 at 3:19 am
Great article and I am glad you wrote it. This topic always messed with my brains. Some say it is man made, some say it is not possible. Which one to believe? Some of these designs look way too complex to be man made. But then again (forgot the name) there was someone in the USA who did a portrait of the Mona Lisa in his field.
DD Gunz
On June 11, 2008 at 11:09 am
You folks who doubt the extra terrestrial origin of these are blind. These are made by something beyond Human, maybe even God himself so that we will seek his mystery.
-Have you ever seen one that was messed up? I know humans usually need to practice things before they get them right
-The crops are kept alive and continue to grow and bear fruit even after they are affected.
-Have you ever seen them up close? they are woven intricately. Some Firefox geeks tried to make one that wasn’t nearly so complex and huge it took them literally all night and all day, and there were several involved and these were smart folks.
In conclusion those who think this is of human origin are lying to themselves because they are clearly afraid of learning something.
Kevin
On June 11, 2008 at 3:24 pm
i like the thought of crop circles being real but i just can’t really believe that actual aliens would spend time “cutting our grass” when they could be doing things much better unless this is just a relaxing thing to do and watch us act franticly while trying to wrap our feeble minds about the concious truth we don’t yet understand
shar
On June 11, 2008 at 8:32 pm
of course these were made by aliens.open your eyes people! even when they leave us a sign,you still don’t believe! Those 2 guys that professed to manmake the crop circles were hired by the govenment so people would not believe in ufos. I can`t believe you think a human could make these.Gee,do you think those 2 guys can travel all over the world and make thousands of them. also,those 2 guys weren`t around 100 yrs ago.this has been going on for centuries!
PR Mace
On June 11, 2008 at 10:05 pm
Great work. Wonderful pictures. I would love to see one but just not to close to my home. I sit on the fence post about how they are made. I too loved the X-Files. Thanks for a interesting piece.
Nona Saile
On June 11, 2008 at 11:17 pm
Great read, great photos! I love it too.
Liane Schmidt
On June 13, 2008 at 6:45 pm
Whoa, whoa, whoa, and… whoa!! Incredible pictures! Great article!
Best wishes.
Sincerely,
-Liane Schmidt.
Anne Lyken-Garner
On June 14, 2008 at 10:26 am
Thanks for your comments everyone.
Alexa Gates
On June 14, 2008 at 6:42 pm
those are pretty sweet!
Roo
On June 14, 2008 at 9:42 pm
… anyone who cast doubt on the construction of these circles as being anything less than from a non human form is living in alot of fear … there is way too much evidence available to form an opinion that these are created with an intent to carry a message … maybe too many people who shun the idea still haven’t gotten over the dissapointment of the Santa Claus letdown … this isn’t Santa Claus …
Judy Sheldon
On June 14, 2008 at 9:58 pm
I never heard of these before. The intricate design and imagination is amazing. Hmmm….
wow
On June 15, 2008 at 2:45 am
what i can’t believe is that there are 2 people on here who never heard of crop circles.
where have you been since…oh i don’t know…television and camaras were invented? these things are everywhere and always reported on.
Josh
On June 16, 2008 at 11:32 am
Very interesting article, I’ve never really fully appreciated and apprehended the beauty of crop circles before.
Fakeer
On June 19, 2008 at 1:53 am
i think these were done by a rigged-up version of a roomba. all paths/patterns can be programmed and a fair sized pattern can be hashed out in a matter of few hours. that’s why the patterns have also evolved in complexity with software/hardware capabilities. think about it – from dumb circles, to connected dots to weaves to fractals to startrek and now to 3-D. cmon let’s give popart a big hand.
if there was a divine element to it, i would have expected to see a few patterns that are based on some inconceivable mathematics (unless we are just done with math and know everything). Julian and manderbrot sets? i’m sure aliens who can burn holes in earthly farms are not really up-to-date with the latest trends in popular psychedelic patterns on earth.
fakeer at pobox dot com
ethereality
On June 24, 2008 at 12:13 am
so beautiful they are! all the naysayers are ignorant. read up and you will soon see they are not man-made. not necessarily ‘alien’ made, but maybe the earth’s enrgies are telling us something…or the sun?
Anne Lyken-Garner
On July 3, 2008 at 12:39 am
Thanks for visiting and for leaving your comments everyone.
Yaki Han
On July 9, 2008 at 4:47 pm
These are some amazing pictures. Im sure they are made by humans overnight tho.
Autumn Hannah
On July 20, 2008 at 11:44 pm
Is this real? I mean are these crop cirles real at all? If they are they are very romantic in my own kind of ccrazy way!!!!!
purnomosidhi
On July 22, 2008 at 10:57 pm
Wow, great art
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On July 27, 2008 at 5:00 pm
Worst photoshop ive ever seen
Tyler James
On August 4, 2008 at 11:40 pm
Very well done. This piece relly gives you something to ponder upon. I have not givin it much thought so I cannot say for certain what i am to believe at the moment, but i am a bit curious on where you stand on the subject Anne.
Anne Lyken-Garner
On August 5, 2008 at 3:40 am
Tyler I’m afraid I have to say that I really do not know. I know this is a boring answer, but it is the truthful one. I was hoping someone could offer a convincing argument for something substantial.
Cliff Dwyer
On September 24, 2008 at 12:50 am
The sheer intricacy of these suggest to me that they are far beyond what a couple (or even a couple of dozen!) humans could accomplish in a matter of one night! I further believe that there IS a message in the patterns of them. Perhaps they need to analized a a group, rather than individually: like differently shaped letter of the alphabet combining to make a message?
Just a thought.
Bob Z
On February 22, 2009 at 4:33 am
Crop circles are beautiful. I have a degree in graphic design and have spent many hours in adobe Illustrator, Photoshop and other graphic programs. I know how many hours it takes to draw one of these designs on paper, let alone build one on a crop field. I have been looking at pictures of circles for years, and there is so much evidence with the node expulsions, precision lines, inter woven crops, some taking up to close to 1500 ft with 400 circles (Milk Hill 2001), there is no way people make all of them. Sure some are made by men, but you can tell by the photos that they have evident flaws of how the crop lays and how lame the design is. The intricate ones are the ones that are the ones with overwhelming evidence they are not made by a group of guys who are being funny or trying to make a buck. There are very complex hints going on in the pictures, hopefully we can decipher them to help us into a bet future.
papaleng
On February 24, 2009 at 11:59 am
a very interesting articles and great pictures too. I believe they are not fashioned out by aliens.
tiffany
On May 29, 2009 at 5:40 pm
all of this crop circles are cool
Debra.
On May 31, 2009 at 5:21 am
I have always been fascinated by crop circles and other mysterious formations. Love the article and the pictures are a very nice touch.
TK
On September 28, 2010 at 9:51 pm
Listen, You never see [an authentic crop circle] partially done and then abandoned. You never see one that has errors. You never see one in progress. You won’t find any tracks or evidence. As an engineer I can tell you the mathmatical application of laying down ovals, spirals and arches on this scale are highly unlikely by man. Take your compass and try to draw a perfect oval or spiral on a piece of paper and you’ll see what I am saying. And that is on a piece of paper, on your desk, at your leisure.