Crop Circles

  

    

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    The history of crop circles is very well known and very rarely publicized.    You may have known or noticed that crop circles first appeared in the 1970's, yet UFO sightings go back to the early 20th century.  Curious?  Crop Circles were first conceived of by Dave Chorley and Doug Bower of Southampton, England in 1976.  They thought it would be fun to play on the UFO craze and get some media attention.  They claim that they made dozens of crop circles that were never found before farmers started finding them and alerting the media.  At first, they used a metal bar from Dave's framing store, but they quickly move to a large plan tied at both ends with rope.  In 1991 they confessed to the media that they had come up with the idea and created hundreds of crop circles over the years.  They even demonstrated the process in daylight for a BBC documentary.  The paranormal explainations died down, but many people refused their confessions and still believe that crop circles are evidence of spacecraft visitations. 
    Critics of Doug and Dave's confession point out that it would have been impossible for the pair to have single-handedly created all the crop circles since the 1970's.  Obviously.  There are probably a hundred different groups that have made crop circles over the years.  The process is not complicated, and a piece of wood tied to a rope is not exactly advanced technology.  If you search for webpages on crop circles you will find hundreds of sites still professing crop circles to be the work of ET and even giving ridiculous explainations for how they are formed such as a "plasma vortex", eddies in the earth's magnetic field, ley lines, and of course UFO landing sites.  But of all of these complicated phenomena, isn't it much simpler to accept that two men thought of this joke in a pub in Winchester, Hampshire?  Especially, since the process has been demonstrated in the daylight many times.  Do you really think a natural phenomena or ET is responsible for this:


    It is very easy to make your own crop circles.  There are famous groups such as CircleMakers that make very intricate designs as an art and also do commercial work.  A group of one or two people can make a simple circle in less than an hour, and as you get better at surveying you can make more elaborate designs.  Please don't make a crop circle without a farmer's permission, you are damaging their property and it is against the law.  Here are severl guides on how to make crop circles:

How Do You Make a Crop Circle