Crop circle - last of the season
This is a follow-up shot to the one i posted 3 weeks ago of the same circle, taken just 2 days after the other one. I wanted to give a bit of context to its location, but was surprised to see in that time that the "aliens" (or what/whoever) had been back and added a series of diminshing circles on the outside of the design - zoomed in, there are no obvious signs on many of these additions how they were created, with no foot marks or track obvious.
While i was definitely pleased to be able to catch the picture again, the circle had literally only another hour or so to "live" as the combine harvesters moved in and started to clear the field even as i watched
For those unfamiliar with crop circles, they are patterns created by flattening a crop usually a cereal. The term was first coined in the early 1980s. Although obscure natural causes or alien origins of crop circles have been suggested by fringe theorists, there is no scientific evidence for such explanations, and all crop circles are consistent with human-made items (although with the more elaborate ones, its not always possible to see how!)
Although such formations have appeared worldwide, south-west England is considered without doubt to be the “world capital” of crop circles. They are particularly concentrated in the county of Wiltshire, where a treasure trove of ancient history includes the Neolithic sites of Stonehenge and Avebury – both crop circle hotspots. There have been 380 crop circles recorded in the county alone since 2005
Crop circle - last of the season
This is a follow-up shot to the one i posted 3 weeks ago of the same circle, taken just 2 days after the other one. I wanted to give a bit of context to its location, but was surprised to see in that time that the "aliens" (or what/whoever) had been back and added a series of diminshing circles on the outside of the design - zoomed in, there are no obvious signs on many of these additions how they were created, with no foot marks or track obvious.
While i was definitely pleased to be able to catch the picture again, the circle had literally only another hour or so to "live" as the combine harvesters moved in and started to clear the field even as i watched
For those unfamiliar with crop circles, they are patterns created by flattening a crop usually a cereal. The term was first coined in the early 1980s. Although obscure natural causes or alien origins of crop circles have been suggested by fringe theorists, there is no scientific evidence for such explanations, and all crop circles are consistent with human-made items (although with the more elaborate ones, its not always possible to see how!)
Although such formations have appeared worldwide, south-west England is considered without doubt to be the “world capital” of crop circles. They are particularly concentrated in the county of Wiltshire, where a treasure trove of ancient history includes the Neolithic sites of Stonehenge and Avebury – both crop circle hotspots. There have been 380 crop circles recorded in the county alone since 2005