Crop circles: they’re not all hoaxes

These complex geometric patterns that appear in the fields overnight have given rise to two main camps: those who believe that crop circles are elaborate hoaxes and those who claim that they are messages from extraterrestrial or other supernatural sources. Let’s delve into the history, different stories and scientific research surrounding this phenomenon. The Origins and Early Observations The first recorded crop circles date back to the 17th century with the “Mowing Devil” legend, depicting a fiendishly precise mowing of crops in England. In the year 1678, a wealthy farmer in the town of Hertfordshire in England asks his poor neighbor for his…