CIRCLE FROM THE STARS
MYSTERY CIRCLE, ITS ORIGIN AND ART
WOO JANG YOON
These theories explain that mysterious circles have been created by the hands
of men, the weather, or animals. In fact, it is scientifically agreed that most or all
mysterious circles have been made by men as pranks. Constructing mysterious
circles is actually quite simpler than it seems: tie one end of a rope to an anchor
point and the other end to a board used to crush plants. When all the crops placed
at an equal distance from the anchor point are flattened, you'll have made a
beautiful piece of work. Interestingly, two British men -Doug Bower and Dave
Chorley- confessed in 1991 that they had made their own first mysterious circles
in South England. However, the mysterious circles they made eventually turned
out to be a hoax.
Cereologists(those who study crop circles) supporting the weather theory have
claimed that mysterious circles have been created as a result of extraordinary
meteorological phenomena ranging from tornadoes to ball lightening. Also, in
2009, the attorney general of the island state of Tasmania said that Australian
Mysterious Circle, its fields of opium poppies. Unfortunately,
wallabies had created mysterious circles inOrigin and Art
there is no evidence supporting any of these explanations.
Circle from the Stars?
Go to Wiltshire, England. Drive 2 miles west of Amesbury and 8 miles north of
Salisbury. You'll arrive at Stonehenge, a UNESCO World Heritage, which is the
vestige of a ring of standing stones. But before you get all excited, look around for a
second. Hold your breath. What do you see? You'll see a giant, magnificent, intricate
pattern of circles. You got it right. You're looking into the mysterious circle.
The mysterious circle, originally named the "crop circle," is an enormous pattern
created by the flattening of crops such as wheat or barley which are usually created
overnight. The mysterious circle has been around Earth for a while. It is known to
have first appeared in 1686, when a British scientist named Robert Plot reported
"fairy rings" in his The Natural History of Stafford-Shire. Surprisingly, these
mysterious circles are still appearing nowadays; actually, the reported cases have
substantially increased since the 1970s.
The mysterious circle is named "mysterious" because the patterns appear so
elaborate that we can only believe it has been artificially made. Well, it hasn't. Since
the middle ages, there have been many theories explaining the origin of these circles.
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After the report that men created non-fiction from all over the
world initiated the same actions. As a result, many mysterious circles found since
1991 have mostly been formed by humans. The spread of these trends have made
creating mysterious circles a part of art. People now make and view mysterious
circles as the elaborate artwork of humans. The circles are even used for various
advertising purposes.
There are numerous theories explaining the origin of the mysterious circle, but
none has yet been scientifically proven. Magical phenomena like the mysterious
circles make us flashback to our childhood, a naïve time when we wondered if
there really were creatures that lived on another planet. Are these mysterious
circles the work of men, or are they simply uncanny natural phenomena? I’ll
leave that to your imagination.
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