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| − | A '''Crop Circle''' is a geometric pattern. They appear in fields, usually wheat, grass or oats fields | + | A '''Crop Circle''' is a geometric pattern. They appear in fields, usually wheat, grass or oats fields. |
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It's only flattened corn... Doug Bower, 1991. | It's only flattened corn... Doug Bower, 1991. | ||
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Some believe that the crop designs are messages from alien spacecraft. Some maintain that the aliens are trying to communicate with us using ancient Sumerian symbols or symbolic representations of alien DNA. Those who engage in such serious study and theorizing about crop circles are known as ''cerealogists'' (after Ceres, the Roman goddess of agriculture and fertility) or croppies. <ref> [http://www.skepdic.com/cropcirc.html crop "circle"] </ref> | Some believe that the crop designs are messages from alien spacecraft. Some maintain that the aliens are trying to communicate with us using ancient Sumerian symbols or symbolic representations of alien DNA. Those who engage in such serious study and theorizing about crop circles are known as ''cerealogists'' (after Ceres, the Roman goddess of agriculture and fertility) or croppies. <ref> [http://www.skepdic.com/cropcirc.html crop "circle"] </ref> | ||
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== See also == | == See also == | ||
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*[[Geometry]] | *[[Geometry]] | ||
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A Crop Circle is a geometric pattern. They appear in fields, usually wheat, grass or oats fields.
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It's only flattened corn... Doug Bower, 1991. |
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Some believe that the crop designs are messages from alien spacecraft. Some maintain that the aliens are trying to communicate with us using ancient Sumerian symbols or symbolic representations of alien DNA. Those who engage in such serious study and theorizing about crop circles are known as cerealogists (after Ceres, the Roman goddess of agriculture and fertility) or croppies. [1]