Crop Circles are causing a stir today. Find out where they've cropped up in England this year
A crop circle in a field in Wiltshire, one of many there this year. Photograph: PIN/PIN
Crop Circles have been around for many years. They range from simple circles to complex mathematical designs. It is still open to dispute whether some are caused by natural phenomena or all created by human hand.
Google has caused a bit of a stir with today's crop circle doodle. Crop circles are increasingly used for advertising, like this one for Nike which appeared in Italy in 2005.
Using the Crop Circle Archive we've compiled a list of all the crop circle incidents in England this year. Wiltshire is definitely the crop circle hotspot of the UK, with 78 of the 93 appearing there and nine in Milk Hill alone. We've also added the coordinates so you can map them. What can you do with it?
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Google Crop Circles doodle mystery: Coordinates clue
Coordinates posted to Google's Twitter account could provide clues to the meaning of the company's new Crop Circles logo
The return of the UFOs and Crop Circles on Google:
A clue was given in coordinates posted to Google's Twitter page: http://twitter.com/google/status/3997519669 - The Twitter message simply reads: "51.327629, -0.5616088", and links to an image of the Crop Circles logo on the Google homepage, showing the letter "L" being abducted by a flying saucer.
This has to be the largest, greatest and most profound Crop Circles (apprx 530 Meters x 450 Meters) since “The Galaxy” formation that appeared at Milk Hill, Wiltshire on 12 August 2001 (The largest crop pattern of all time, 800 feet across, consisting of 409 circles).
It depicts human metamorphosis and transformation! It appeared near a town in southern Netherlands called Goes, on August 7th 2009, but it has gone unreported in the major Crop Circle websites.
A group in the Netherlands called XL D-sign claim that they did it overnight with a team of 60 people. XL D-sign website: http://www.xld-sign.com
I would love to see pictures and a proper video of them creating it.
Aerial view video:
Here is the “proof” they’ve provided that they made it. Convincing… you decide?
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