Miguel Mendonca & Philippe Ullens: The Mystery and Beauty of Crop Circles

Earth Ancients

Cliff Dunning

Social Sciences, Society & Culture, Science

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🗓️ 27 August 2022

⏱️ 107 minutes

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Summary

A crop circle, crop formation, or corn circle is a pattern created by flattening a crop, usually a cereal. The term was first coined in the early 1980s by Colin Andrews. Crop circles have been described as all falling "within the range of the sort of thing done in hoaxes" by Taner Edis, professor of physics at Truman State University.[3] Although obscure natural causes or alien origins of crop circles are suggested by fringe theorists,[4] there is no scientific evidence for such explanations, and all crop circles are consistent with human causation.

The number of reports of crop circles has substantially increased since the 1970s. There has been scant scientific study of them. Circles in the United Kingdom are not distributed randomly across the landscape but appear near roads, areas of medium to dense population and cultural heritage monuments, such as Stonehenge or Avebury. In 1991, two hoaxers, Doug Bower and Dave Chorley, took credit for having created many circles throughout England after one of their circles was described by an investigator as impossible for human beings to make.

Formations are usually created overnight, although some are reported to have appeared during the day. In contrast to crop circles or crop formations, archaeological remains can cause cropmarks in the fields in the shapes of circles and squares, but they do not appear overnight, and they are always in the same places every year. Nearly half of all crop circles found in the UK in 2003 were located within a 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) radius of the Avebury stone circles.

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0:00.0	The phenomenon of crop circles are the topic of discussion this week on Earth
0:05.7	Ancients, and we're going to actually head to England and speak with two research
0:10.5	investigators who have been studying the phenomenon for many many years. In
0:15.4	fact, one of the guests is a photographer who actually flies in unique
0:21.3	planes, allowing him to take up close and personal photos that are used in a
0:28.8	wide variety of publications. This week, crop circles, how they are developed,
0:35.2	where are the source of the energy that creates them comes from, and what makes
0:40.4	them so compelling, not only the great size and shape that they are formulated
0:47.4	in, but what the message is, what's the decode on these? This week, crop circles,
0:54.5	all this and more on Earth Ancients.
1:24.5	For Saturday, August 27th, 2022, this is Earth Ancients. I'm your host Cliff Dunning.
1:44.1	Hello, how are you? How are you doing today? I hope you're doing well. We got an
1:54.1	interesting topic this week and really provocative guests. We're going to
2:00.1	England and speaking to two people who are collaborating on crop circles.
2:07.8	We've had people on the show that have spoken to us who have analyzed crop
2:12.8	circles, but you really can't analyze something that is so far out of the
2:19.1	norm. There's no definition. There's no great understanding. There's a lot of,
2:26.1	well, there was, a group that were making fake crop circles, but there's a
2:32.3	enough body of evidence that reveals that somehow some form of consciousness is
2:41.5	creating these massive crop circles throughout England every harvest season,
2:49.1	July through August. Unfortunately, all the crop circles are gone. I was
2:55.3	still planning to be in England in mid-November of this year, and I was
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