Jan 27, 2022 06:29 PM
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Why is Harvard University astrophysicist Avi Loeb working with ardent UFO believers?
https://www.science.org/content/article/...-ufo-buffs
The crop circle mystery: a closer look
https://www.livescience.com/26540-crop-circles.html
EXCERPTS: Many people believe that crop circles have been reported for centuries, according to The Smithsonian Magazine...
[...] Unlike other mysterious phenomenon such as psychic powers, ghosts, or Bigfoot, there is no doubt that crop circles are "real." The evidence that they exist is clear and overwhelming. The real question is instead what creates them — and there are ways to investigate that question.
We can look at both internal and external evidence to evaluate crop circles. Internal information includes the content and meaning of the designs (is there anything that indicates that any information contained in the "messages" is of extraterrestrial origin?), and external information, including the physical construction of the crop designs themselves (is there anything that indicates that the designs were created by anything other than humans?)
According to National Geographic, Crop circle enthusiasts have come up with many theories about what creates the patterns, ranging from the plausible to the absurd. One explanation in vogue in the early 1980s was that the mysterious circle patterns were accidentally produced by the especially vigorous sexual activity of horny hedgehogs, according to the Washington Post. Some people have suggested that the circles are somehow created by localized and precise wind patterns, or by scientifically undetectable Earth energy fields and meridians called ley lines, according to Kent Heberling.
Others, such as molecular biologist Horace Drew, suggest that the answer lies instead in time travel or alien life, according to The New Zealand Herald [...] Many who favor an extraterrestrial explanation claim that aliens physically make the patterns themselves, according to Lockhaven University. Still others believe that it is human, not extraterrestrial, thought and intelligence that is behind the patterns — not in the form of hoaxers but some sort of act of God, according to the BBC.
While there are countless theories, the only known, proven cause of crop circles is humans. Their origin remained a mystery until September 1991, when two men confessed that they had created the patterns for decades as a prank to make people think UFOs had landed, according to an article by the LA Times. Supposedly, according to the Australian Geographic, they had been inspired by the 1966 Tully UFO report. They never claimed to have made all the circles — many were copycat pranks done by others — but their hoax launched the crop circle phenomena.
Whilst most crop circles are now attributed to hoaxers, crop circle researchers still search for those which cannot be explained, "genuine crop circles" according to The Smithsonian Magazine... (MORE - missing details)
https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/N56gcmEMyRk
https://www.science.org/content/article/...-ufo-buffs
The crop circle mystery: a closer look
https://www.livescience.com/26540-crop-circles.html
EXCERPTS: Many people believe that crop circles have been reported for centuries, according to The Smithsonian Magazine...
[...] Unlike other mysterious phenomenon such as psychic powers, ghosts, or Bigfoot, there is no doubt that crop circles are "real." The evidence that they exist is clear and overwhelming. The real question is instead what creates them — and there are ways to investigate that question.
We can look at both internal and external evidence to evaluate crop circles. Internal information includes the content and meaning of the designs (is there anything that indicates that any information contained in the "messages" is of extraterrestrial origin?), and external information, including the physical construction of the crop designs themselves (is there anything that indicates that the designs were created by anything other than humans?)
According to National Geographic, Crop circle enthusiasts have come up with many theories about what creates the patterns, ranging from the plausible to the absurd. One explanation in vogue in the early 1980s was that the mysterious circle patterns were accidentally produced by the especially vigorous sexual activity of horny hedgehogs, according to the Washington Post. Some people have suggested that the circles are somehow created by localized and precise wind patterns, or by scientifically undetectable Earth energy fields and meridians called ley lines, according to Kent Heberling.
Others, such as molecular biologist Horace Drew, suggest that the answer lies instead in time travel or alien life, according to The New Zealand Herald [...] Many who favor an extraterrestrial explanation claim that aliens physically make the patterns themselves, according to Lockhaven University. Still others believe that it is human, not extraterrestrial, thought and intelligence that is behind the patterns — not in the form of hoaxers but some sort of act of God, according to the BBC.
While there are countless theories, the only known, proven cause of crop circles is humans. Their origin remained a mystery until September 1991, when two men confessed that they had created the patterns for decades as a prank to make people think UFOs had landed, according to an article by the LA Times. Supposedly, according to the Australian Geographic, they had been inspired by the 1966 Tully UFO report. They never claimed to have made all the circles — many were copycat pranks done by others — but their hoax launched the crop circle phenomena.
Whilst most crop circles are now attributed to hoaxers, crop circle researchers still search for those which cannot be explained, "genuine crop circles" according to The Smithsonian Magazine... (MORE - missing details)
