Crop Circles

Crop Circle in England (Believably Wiltshire)

Beginning in Southern England roughly in the 1970’s a strange phenomenon began to occur. Crop circles. Large fields were often used as a canvas for some creator to design beautiful patterns or perhaps to convey messages? Throughout the towns of Wiltshire, Oxfordshire, Somerset, and Gloucestershire people began investigating these new works being created among their own fields of cereals. Through this investigation some breakthroughs were discovered: for starters, the crop circles were generally created at night by someone or something and that in most cases, the plants were still mostly intact and just laid over – not damaged or destroyed (Helstrom, 2011).

Speculations began discussing who was creating these crop circles, or what, and how they were being created. Scientists flocked from across the globe to try and break this phenomenon down and figure out what was causing all the circles and why. Until 1991 when two men from Southampton, England, stepped forward and claimed to have been creating “more than 200 crop circles…” Shortly after the knowledge of their existence became more well known, more and more began to appear and people generally backed down and accepted them to be the work of humans.

According to Andrea Pelleschi, author of Crop Circles, crop circles are “still appearing all over the world” and that while they are beautiful works of art, most would agree that they are still just done by humans.

Crop circles have not only physically impacted the world but also have culturally impacted us, specifically in the movie Signs from 2002. When it first debuted, it made over 330 million USD in profit (IMDb) and became an iconic movie for alien culture and specifically alien culture involving crop circles and what they mean and who is sending them.

Crop circles will continue to appall certain people and whether you believe they are the work of aliens attempting to communicate with us or just humans showing beautiful sights and works, they are quite marvelous and intriguing.

Works Cited

Helstrom, Kraig. Crop Circles. Bellwether Media, Inc, 2011. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=454939&site=eds-live.

Pelleschi, Andrea. Crop Circles. Abdo Publishing, 2012. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=432610&site=eds-live