Crop Circles Google Earth

Do you know what Crop Circles are? I’ve watched these in Discovery channel sometime ago and today I noticed Crop Circles are the trend for Google searches. Crop Circles are those patterns or designs on fields created by flattening the crops such as corns, rye, barley, wheat, etc. The term Crop Circle was coined by researcher Colin Andrews in the early 80s and entered the Oxford Dictionary in 1997. It was believed that Crop Circles were anything but man made. Some says it was made by aliens and some says its paranormal.

So I logged in Google Earth  and tried to check some areas where I thought  I can find Crop Circles. It’s a little hard at first so I needed to search for places in Google where Crop Circles has been seen.  The only time you can see Crop Circles before was when you are flying, like in an airplane or hot air balloon  Now if you want to see a crop circle, all you need to do is fire up your Google Earth (well search for places first) and be ready for an display of crop circles. Here are some of the coolest crop circles I’ve found on the internet:

Based on Wiki, since appearing in the media in the 1970s, crop circles have become the subject of various paranormal and fringe beliefs, ranging from the hypothesis that they are created by freak meteorological phenomena to the belief that they represent messages from extraterrestrials.

In 1991, Two men, Doug Bower and Dave Chorley from England, announced that they had conceived the idea as a prank  during an evening in 1976. Inspired by the 1966 Tully Saucer Nests, they made their crop circles using planks, rope, hats and wire as their only tools and easily created circles eight feet in diameter. The two men were able to make a 40-foot (12 m) circle in just 15 minutes.

The pair became frustrated when their work did not receive significant publicity, so in 1981, they created another circle in Matterley Bowl, an area surrounded by roads from which a clear view of the field is available to drivers passing by. Their designs were at first simple circles. When newspapers claimed that the circles could easily be explained by natural phenomena, Bower and Chorley made more complex patterns. A simple wire with a loop, hanging down from a cap—the loop positioned over one eye—could be used to focus on a landmark to aid in the creation of straight lines. Later designs of crop circles became increasingly complicated.

Bower’s wife had become suspicious of him, noticing high levels of mileage in their car. Eventually, fearing that his wife suspected him of having another girl, Bower confessed to her, and subsequently, he and Chorley informed a national newspaper. Chorley died in 1996, and Doug Bower has made crop circles as recently as 2004. Bower has said that, had it not been for his wife’s suspicions, he would have taken the secret to his deathbed, never revealing that it was a hoax.

Do you think crop circles are paranormal or an imprint from extraterrestrials beings. Or it was all man made since the beginning?

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  1. fedhz says:

    I admire these crop circles. I dunno. But I believe something great did this, either a person or another form. ^^
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  2. When I was a kid, i used to believe that these crop circles were created by aliens.
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  3. TigerTom from Loans Bad Credit says:

    I don’t see the interest in these. Why would an advanced alien civilisation doodle in corn crops, anyway? Bit of a sickener for the farmer, also.

  4. Christopher says:

    That is a great collection of photos. I never even thought about getting onto Google Earth and checking them out.
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  5. Jim Michels from Indianapolis Painters says:

    Neat collection of pics! Google is so cool. I wonder how long it takes people to make these things.
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  6. Jill from walk in tubs says:

    I didn’t realize that Firefox was alien technology! Good thing one of those crop circles was able to confirm that for use.

  7. VoiceData24 says:

    Aliens!!!!

  8. kim from clean up credit history says:

    When I was a kid I had great fascination towards the history of earth and the assumptions of lives outside earth. I read about these patches but I had not seen them. Thanks for the post very clear pictures.

  9. Mike says:

    I enjoyed reading this post about Crop Circles Google Earth « Nothing But Random. Really interesting. I will come back to visit this blog again.

  10. Selurus says:

    I believe the crop circles are made by humans, its simple enough if you don’t get disoriented or lose your point of reference.

  11. Dylan from Micro Cap Stock Picks says:

    In my opinion, there’s a fair bit of mystery behind but I had seen another documentary on National Geographic some days back on Crop Circles, they based their documentary on people believing that there are aliens and may have mated with the women of Earth and on the other side saying that it’s mere a creation of humans and it’s possible to draw crop circles like that. There’s also a huge lines in somewhere I forgot the name, which the experts say are not possible to draw even today.

    It’s a mystery which I deeply want to get an answer of :) It’s fun to know about our past.

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  13. Karen from Blazing Minds says:

    Crop circles are created by aliens from afar, or as we commonly know them as TV show home designers that have nothing better to do with their spare time :lol: only joking, they do look rather amazing and it doesn’t matter who or what creates them they are fascinating ;)
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  14. Bill from Policeman Costumes says:

    The photos of the crop circles youve got displayed above are really impressive. Its amazing how people (or aliens) can make these with such precision. People get in serious trouble when they are caught making these things… Thanks for sharing these :-)
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  15. Robert Satre says:

    Pay Attention…U just might learn something…Crop Circles are made by Other Intelligent Life Forms..
    “They” are attempting to communicate with a few chosen “fire ants” in their own backyard ..”planet Earth”
    …This is a Test…”They” really need to know if any of us are capable of wiping our own a_ _!!

  16. Sara from Karate Costumes says:

    Where I come from we have had instances of several crop circles. It interesting to hear farmers talk about these as they are the ones losing their crops. There were hundreds of angry farmers out in force about 18 months ago when several crop circles were made right before harvest…
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  17. used tires says:

    That’s awesome ZXT, never thought about using Google Earth to find some Crop Circles, this gives me an idea to use Google Earth to find and visit locations I’ve never been to before! You know what would be super impressive? If Google could get their Google Earth program to do live views! Though I am sure that would take a massive under taking to achieve such a feat.

    Oh.. and yeah Crop circles are definitely all man made.

    Till then,

    Jean
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  18. iva says:

    It really be done by a man and for me it is impossible that it is work by some kind of alien. Well thanks for this post that you have explain it further that it is man made and not due to any paranormal activities. :-) I really like the images and it is amazing on how man had done it…

  19. PulseUniform says:

    It is indeed a man made crop circles and not some kind of an alien works. It is amazing how wonderful man create those cool crop circles. Amazing images you got their.

  20. Ryan from chandelier says:

    It absolutely amazes me that people are this creative and can produce a piece of art like this in the dark. I have kind of had a small obsession with crop circles and the people who make them

  21. Renz says:

    Humans really are creative. Being able to design perfect crop circles really need lots of patience, talent and guts. Imagine, destroying someone else’s crops… hahaha.
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