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Although these are not the actual crops them selves, but just an outline of what the crops look like.

If you look at the one on the left that is a message that we sent to aliens like 27 years ago that showed out DNA makeup, our height, body weight, and how we talk. And just recently got back a message (on the right) that explains all about there species and you can see some of the difference in te middle section how their DNA strands are different from ours. This is one of the biggest evidence that people use to support their claims that alien's are the reason behind crop circles.

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To me this looks like it was made by pranksters, or by someone who just thought it would be funny to make a marijuana plant as a crop circle. I think this also a good way to advertise things, and if this was a hamburger or fries I feel like people would most likely go out and buy hamburger and fries because they constantly see the image.

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This Crop circle to scientists and people represents the Flower of life, explaining the different stages of mitoses.
I personally believe that a different force created this particular crop circle, and it wasn't some prankster creating a hoax. Due to the size and the design it seem impossible for human's to create something this big and beautiful

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The first half of the website talks about how crop circles are not made by alien's but are made by humans. The second half of the website is an actual sighting that a cop witnessed. He said that he came across 3 tall beings in the field, and as he approached them he began to hear static has he got closer to them and then they all started to run away. According to the officer it was the fastest he has ever seen anyone run.
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Suppression by authorities:Since the police officer was off duty the police station refuses to make a comment because they don't want people to think that their police officers believe in something that fools a lot of people

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To many people, crop circles are usually thought to be the work of hoaxers, and every year, more and more elaborate designs appear throughout not only the United Kingdom, but also all over the World. However, over the past month or so, there are 3 formations that begs the question: 'Could these elaborate crop formations really be created by man?'.

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This website is all about a different explanation of why crop circle appears. The author talks about how its possible that the crop circles could be little alien children drawing on their "chalkboard" that produce M-Rays(mitogenetic radiation). And that they could also be little alien's doing graffiti on the "chalkboard". To me this claim is completely wrong. First off we do not know if alien's truly exist, or if its our ideology setting up possible ideas so you can make sense of the crop circles.

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This website that I found suggests many different theories and has evidence to back the claims. In this website the author mentions that one possibility could be the woodcut who was a folklore, and was also know as the mowing devil. This claim may make sense to people since they can form an emotional connections with the idea. They might of been told the folklore when they were younger by their parents and that folklore might mean a lot to them so they want to believe that it's real. when you read on on the article you can see that apparently two men confessed that they had created the patterns for decades as a prank to make people think UFOs had landed. A lot of these claims come from the unexplained, and not matter how bad the reason sounds were most likely to believe it.
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Proof by verbosity: These two guys may of read some news stories and gathered a lot of information about the crop circles, and were trying to get people to buy in that they created them. I think they wanted to see if they could be come local celebrities.
Confirmation bias: Since crop circles used to happen a lot, people would always focus on ones that they believe have relation to something that they know and would forget about the other 10 which weren't anything special to them.

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This massive 780-foot (238 meters) crop circle appeared in 2001 in the remote area of Milk Hill in Wiltshire, England. The elaborate design is composed of 409 circles that form a pattern called a double, or six-sided, triskelion, which is a motif consisting of three interlocking spirals.

Credit: Handy Marks | public domain

Crop circles - strange patterns that appear mysteriously overnight in farmers' fields-provoke puzzlement, delight and intrigue among the press and public alike. The circles are mostly found in the United Kingdom, but have spread to dozens of countries around the world in past decades. The mystery has inspired countless books, blogs, fan groups, researchers (dubbed "cereologists") and even Hollywood films.

Despite having been studied for decades, the question remains: Who - or what - is making them?

Many people believe that crop circles have been reported for centuries, a claim repeated in many books and websites devoted to the mystery. Their primary piece of evidence is a woodcut from 1678 that appears to show a field of oat stalks laid out in a circle. Some take this to be a first-hand eyewitness account of a crop circle, but a little historical investigation shows otherwise.

A woodcut pamphlet that some claim represents an early crop circle.

The woodcut actually illustrates what in folklore is called a "mowing devil" legend, in which an English farmer told a worker with whom he was feuding that he "would rather pay the Devil himself" to cut his oat field than pay the fee demanded. The source of the harvesting is not unknown or mysterious; it is indeed Satan himself, who - complete with signature horns and a tail - can be seen in the woodcut holding a scythe.

Some claim that the first crop circles (though they were not called that at the time) appeared near the small town of Tully, Australia. In 1966, a farmer said he saw a flying saucer rise up from a swampy area and fly away; when he went to investigate he saw a roughly circular area of debris and apparently flattened reeds and grass, which he assumed had been made by the alien spacecraft (but which police investigators said was likely caused by a natural phenomena such as a dust devil or waterspout). Referred in the press as "flying saucer nests," this story is more a UFO report than a crop circle report.

As in the 1678 mowing devil legend, the case for it being linked to crop circles is especially weak when we consider that the impression or formation was not made in a crop of any kind but instead in ordinary grass. A round impression in a lawn or grassy area is not necessarily mysterious (as anyone with a kiddie pool in the back yard knows). Indeed, mysterious circles have appeared in grass throughout the world that are sometimes attributed to fairies but instead caused by disease.

In fact, the first real crop circles didn't appear until the 1970s, when simple circles began appearing in the English countryside. The number and complexity of the circles increased dramatically, reaching a peak in the 1980s and 1990s when increasingly elaborate circles were produced, including those illustrating complex mathematical equations.

In July 1996, one of the world's most complex and spectacular crop circles appeared in England, across a highway from the mysterious and world-famous Stonehenge monument in the Wiltshire countryside. It was astonishing fractal pattern called a Julia Set, and while some simple or rough circles might be explained away as the result of a strange weather phenomenon, this one unmistakably demonstrated intelligence. The only question was whether that intelligence was terrestrial or extra-terrestrial.

Making the design all the more mysterious, it was claimed that the circle appeared in less than an hour and during the daytime - which, if true, would be virtually impossible for hoaxers to accomplish. The circle became one of the most famous and important crop circles in history.

It was later revealed that the circle had in fact been made in about three hours (by three hoaxers) very early that morning. It simply hadn't been noticed until the following afternoon when spotted from an airplane overhead.

People inspect crop circles within a golden wheat field in Switzerland. The photo was taken on July 29, 2007.

Credit: Jabberocky public domain

Unlike other mysterious phenomenon such as psychic powers, ghosts, or Bigfoot, there is no doubt that crop circles are "real." The evidence that they exist is clear and overwhelming. The real question is instead what creates them - and there are ways to investigate that question.

We can look at both internal and external evidence to evaluate crop circles. Internal information includes the content and meaning of the designs (is there anything that indicates that any information contained in the "messages" is of extraterrestrial origin?), and external information, including the physical construction of the crop designs themselves (is there anything that indicates that the designs were created by anything other than humans?)

Crop circle enthusiasts have come up with many theories about what create the patterns, ranging from the plausible to the absurd. One explanation in vogue in the early 1980s was that the mysterious circle patterns were accidentally produced by the especially vigorous sexual activity of horny hedgehogs. Some people have suggested that the circles are somehow created by localized and precise wind patterns, or by scientifically undetectable Earth energy fields and meridians called ley lines.

Others, such as molecular biologist Horace Drew, suggest that the answer lies instead in time travel or alien life. He theorizes that the patterns could be made by human time travelers from the distant future to help them navigate our planet. Drew, working on the assumption that the designs are intended as messages, believes he has decoded crop circle symbols and that they contain messages such as "Believe," "There is good out there," "Beware the bearers of false gifts and their broken promises," and "We oppose deception" (all, presumably, in English).

However, these odd, pseudo-biblical messages undermine the credibility of the crop circles, or at least the meaning read into them. Of all the information that an extraterrestrial intelligence might choose to convey to humanity - ranging from how to contact them to engineering secrets of faster-than-light travel - these aliens chose to impart intentionally cryptic messages about false gifts, broken promises, and hope for mankind (along with what seems to be a reference to a popular "The X-Files" slogan).

Many who favor an extraterrestrial explanation claim that aliens physically make the patterns themselves from spaceships; others suggest that they do it using invisible energy beams from space, saving them the trip down here. Still others believe that it is human, not extraterrestrial, thought and intelligence that is behind the patterns - not in the form of hoaxers but some sort of global psychic power that manifests itself in wheat and other crops.

Another triskelion crop circle. The symbol can be used to represent cycles, progress or competition.

Credit: Thomas J. Sutter, Jr. public domain

While there are countless theories, the only known, proven cause of crop circles is humans. Their origin remained a mystery until September 1991, when two men confessed that they had created the patterns for decades as a prank to make people think UFOs had landed (they had been inspired by the 1966 Tully UFO report). They never claimed to have made all the circles - many were copycat pranks done by others - but their hoax launched the crop circle phenomena.

Most crop circle researchers admit that the vast majority of crop circles are created by hoaxers. But, they claim, there's a remaining tiny percentage that they can't explain. The real problem is that (despite unproven claims by a few researchers that stalks found inside "real" crop circles show unusual characteristics), there is no reliable scientific way to distinguish "real" crop circles from man-made ones.

While there are always a few exceptions, virtually all crop circles share a set of common characteristics.

Circles. Crop circles, as the name implies, almost always involve circles - rarely triangles, rectangles, or squares, though some designs contain straight or curved lines. Perhaps not coincidentally, a circle is the easiest pattern for hoaxers to create.

This design of three flying birds was created on Aug. 3, 2003, in the county of Wiltshire in southern England. The birds, which resemble swallows, have ever-diminishing circles trailing behind their wing tips.

Credit: public domain

Nocturnal creation. Crop circles are formed overnight, often sighted by farmers or passersby the next morning. Though there seems no logical reason for extraterrestrials or earth energies to only create patterns at night, it is obviously a great advantage for hoaxers to create the designs under the cover of darkness; full moon nights are especially popular.

Camera shyness. Crop circles have never been recorded being made (except, of course, for those created by hoaxers). This is a very suspicious trait; after all, if mysterious earthly forces or aliens are at work, there's no reason to think that they wouldn't happen when cameras are recording.

Access to roads. Crop circles usually appear in fields that provide reasonably easy public access, close to roads and highways. They rarely appear in remote, inaccessible areas. Because of this, the patterns are usually noticed within a day or two of their creation by passing motorists.

There are many theories about what creates crop circles, including aliens, mysterious vortices, time travelers and wind patterns, but they all lack one important element: good evidence. The only known cause of crop circles is humans. Perhaps one day a mysterious, unknown source will be discovered for crop circles, but until the perhaps they are best thought of as collective public art.

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Crop circles - strange patterns that appear mysteriously overnight in farmers' fields-provoke puzzlement, delight and intrigue among the press and public alike. The circles are mostly found in the United Kingdom, but have spread to dozens of countries around the world in past decades.

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Unmasked - Secrets of Deception - Crop Circles (video)

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Unmasked - Secrets of Deception - Crop Circles (video)

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This video is part of a TV show that did a special on crop circles. The video basically explains that human's are behind the creation of crop circles, and shows us how it is done.
While watching this video some of the points they were making, make a lot of sense. The main problem of the video is crop circles are man made and not by aliens. But why would someone go through all of the work in creating things, and not taking credit for it. If I created something that big and people were amazed at it, I would totally take credit for it. Watching the video i had no clue who these guys were that were showing us how making a crop circle is easy. I think they really only wanted to be part of the show so more people would recognize them and they would get money. Since crop circles have been appearing people are beginning to create emotional thoughts with the circles, and because people really want to believe that aliens are behind it they don't listen to anyone only other believers. I can see where people might think they are man made, but it also is possible that aliens are behind the creation of crop circles. I think it's safe to say that some crop circles are man made, but the really complex ones are definitely made by a different force.

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Unmasked - Secrets of Deception - Crop Circles

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This US show employs the talents of a London based team of circlemakers to create a demonstration circle in New Zealand.

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This video is about a guy who claims that he has the ability to decode crop circles, and is able to communicate with aliens. Over the past two years he has experienced extraterrestrial contact with a group of hyper dimensional beings.
Reason for belief
One big reason why I believe aliens are behind creating crop circles is by patternicity. If you look at some crop circles you can see that they match a mathematical concept. There is one crop circle that represent the symbolic flower of life pattern that is consider the creation of all life's existence. Perception/observation is based on what we perceive and witness, the crop circles in this video match with the mathematical concept and makes me believe in them more.
Flaws
To me no doubt crop circles are real and aliens could be trying to speak with us, but I find it hard to believe that the guy speaking in the video has a way of receiving messages from extraterrestrial beings. In the video he uses another video that someone posted online about seeing bright things in the sky when it could of been made up. All of his assumptions that he made during the video didn't really have any credit behind it. He also only talked about certain crop circles and not all the other ones, that are out there.

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✦ CROP CIRCLES DECODED ✦- Positive Alien Messages, Truth of universe within crop designs

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Thinking that we are alone is rather pathological. Crop circles are beautiful messages created through the high frequency resonating fields of electromagnetic technology. These messages are direct forms of evidence that we are not alone.. and that there are intelligent beings who want us to awaken into greater forms of consciousness.

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Aliens make crop circles, best evidence (video)

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Aliens make crop circles, best evidence (video)

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This video talks about how aliens are behind crop circles and shows strong evidence. There is a recording of  how a crop circle was made in 7 minutes and is 1033 feet long and 500 feet wide.
Applying critical thinking in 6 steps
Step 1. Problem: Are aliens behind the creations of crop circles?
Step 2. Ask questions:
Question: How do you know Aliens exist?
Answer: There is physical, and servalance proof
Question: Why would aliens be trying to contact us?
Answer: To warn us about something bad that may happen in the future, and to let us know that they can communicate with us using crop circles
Question: What makes the video real, What credentials does the source have?
Answer: No credentials he is a YouTube guy who posts claims and finds support to back him up.
Question: Do you believe that aliens are behind crop circles?
Answer: Yes because of the video that shows exactly how the crop was made, and you can see two flying disks in the air.
Step 3. Evaluate the evidence:
There is physical proof that crop circles are real, but no strong evidence, only a blurry video along with stories and opinions.
Step 4: Recognize assumptions, emotions, and biases:
Since we has humans need a reason why everything happens. That we get lost in the truth because we try to match our assumptions with what other people say, and that causes us to be biased because we want our assumption to be right. Also if we connect emotionally with aliens, then we are going to believe that aliens are behind the creation of crop circles
Step 5: Identify alternative positions, synthesize evidence and assumptions, emotions, biases:
Since the crop circles are very big and normally happen over night, I think that it is quite possible that aliens are behind the creation of them. If you think about how many people you would need in order to create such a big circle and not break any of the stalk that was in the corn field, just bent it. I can see how people think it was aliens.
Step 6: Select the best alternative:
After reviewing all my work and questions I truly believe that aliens are the creators of crop circle because even though it's humanly possible to make your own, it would be pretty hard to make the giant ones that show up in the morning. Also there is no other claims that support the reason why crop circles pop up.

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ALIENS MAKE CROP CIRCLES, BEST EVIDENCE EVER - Cosmic Wakening

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Crop circles are one of the things no one can really explain, the government say there hoaxes but that explanation cannot be used for some of the crop circles out there.

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