Crop Circle

Mystery: Could many of the crop circles be of extraterrestrial origin?

Patterns
A crop circle is a pattern created by the flattening of a crop. The term was first coined in the early 1980s by Colin Andrews. The number of crop circles has substantially increased from the 1970s to current times.

United Kingdom
Circles in the United Kingdom are not distributed randomly across the landscape but appear near roads, areas of medium to dense population and cultural heritage monuments, such as Stonehenge or Avebury. In 1991, two hoaxers, Bower and Chorley, took credit for having created many circles throughout England after one of their circles was described by a circle investigator as impossible to be made by human hand. They appear to always be in the same places every year.