Klinkenbergh's life changed in when she saw a picture of an ornate geometric crop circle. Credible people were witnessing incredible things. Reports of cameras suddenly breaking and car engines turning themselves on in the vicinity of crop circles are common.
According to locals, these lights and strange objects have been witnessed for centuries. Then there are the sceptics. As long ago as the 19th Century, scientist John Rand Capron described basic flattened circles in crops and suggested they could be caused by "cyclonic wind", a theory later echoed by Stephen Hawking , but this does not explain the complex formations more common today.
Foremost among the hoaxers are Doug Bower and Dave Chorley, who in claimed to have created hundreds of circles using ropes to measure the formations and wooden planks to flatten the crops. They demonstrated this technique for waiting television crews — but not everyone is convinced by their evidence. How would you know the other person's doing the same thing you are? Carson is more qualified than most to comment, having seen hundreds of crop circles appear in his fields — ravaging thousands of pounds worth of crops in the process.
It all began in , when a famous formation known as the Eastfield Pictogram appeared overnight in one of Carson's fields. It caught the attention of the world's press, and a photograph of the crop circle was even used as cover art by Led Zeppelin. It became probably our most profitable quarter of an acre ever.
To some, this supports the theory that crop circles are nothing more than a money-making enterprise between the hoaxers, farmers and photographers. The process was explained to me as follows by circle maker Dene Hine: "Circle makers make a formation; drone pilot flies the formation; [they then use] social media platforms to spam all the pages with videos. Social media is not just a marketplace for the crop circle business. It is a battleground for the toxic, parasitic relationship between the croppies and the hoaxers: conjoined twins who profess to hate one another yet feed on the other for their existence.
To the sceptical mind, after all, there would be no crop circles without the hoaxers. Yet, without the mystique and intrigue generated by the croppies, it's hard to imagine the hoaxers would bother at all. Nevertheless, barbs are exchanged, and not just virtually; more than one croppie told me they had been physically threatened by hoaxers and photographers.
They often appear during the spring and summer, from April to September. For decades, there have always been a number of appearances or discoveries on June 21, and Tuesday was no different. Klinkenbergh said a new formation was spotted Tuesday morning near Chillcomb Down, a parish in Hampshire, England. Still, there are far more circles in Wiltshire and the surrounding country for just Doug and Dave. And for Muller and Klinkenbergh, circumstances are everything.
To actually investigate a circle, they have to be the first ones ont the scene. Muller says he has special techniques and tests he uses to determine if human beings were responsible for the circle. When he finishes investigating a circle, he classifies it as a clear man-made case, a possible hoax, or, in the best circumstances, a formation in which he cannot see any sign of human activity, suggesting the general phenomenon at work.
For Muller and Klinkenbergh, the moment when skepticism fades is what makes it all worth it — the early morning flights, the travel costs to England, the derision of skeptics online. He was struck by its shape and eventually concluded that it was a coded image representing the first ten digits of Pi 3. There has been extensive scientific exploration into the affect the circles have on nearby wildlife. Flowers and soils inside crop circles are dramatically altered, Blake explains. Pringle observed in a experiment that seed samples taken from inside a crop circle had 40 per cent higher protein levels than those taken from outside it.
Another interesting element is the nature of the soil on which the circles appear. Pringle says that She says the significance may be connected to underground springs called aquifers commonly found in chalk: "It is thought that the originating force probably originates in the ionosphere an area of atmospheric electricity.
The force then spirals to earth in the form of a vortical plasma and hits the ground with some of 's of volts per metre for just a nano second only, else the crop would be burnt. Occasionally we do see evidence of scorched flattened crop inside certain circles. The electromagnetic fields of both the underground springs and the descending force work in harmony or conjunction with each other. Blake also remarks on the significance of the chalk, which she says the ancients often built their monuments on - an observation which the existence of Neolithic sites like Stonehenge and Avebury attest.
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