We’ve entered crop circle season & if you read my last novel, The Time Collector, you understand my fascination. I researched the phenomenon for the book and became hooked with the mystery.
Crop circles appear every year like clockwork, generally between late May through August when the crops in fields are high enough to show the imprint. This is what is called “the season.” There are 2 kinds of crop circles – manmade ones using stomp boards, which damage the crops and are imperfect designs… then there are the other ones, which show geometric perfection that mathematicians can gleam theories and equations. The crops inside those circles are folded over at perfect uniform angles and not harmed.
Here is a good example of a crop circle from 2008 with a mathematical message. The design is the number Pi in geometric form down to 10 decimal points.
Why geometry? Well, for starters geometry is the language of the Universe. When NASA sends messages up into space, they send math.
So maybe we’ve been getting replies for years. Here is a picture of my all-time favorite crop circle, the Empire State Building of crop circles – a breathtaking design spanning almost 800 feet with 409 circles creating three interlocking spirals. This crop circle appeared in 2001 in the middle of the night with wet and windy weather conditions. And to give you a sense of scale, the lines in the fields are the tractor lines for the farmer. This crop circle is about the size of 5 football fields.
Now here we are in 2020 in the midst of a year we never could have imagined, and crop circles are starting their season once more. We’ve had three crop circles so far. The first one to appear on May 28th was highly unusual.
More details on each circle can be found at my favorite crop circle website, temporarytemples.co.uk. There is also an archive where you can click on a previous year and see all the circles they photographed.
I hope this phenomenon will gain more attention this year. Crop circles are really one of the most fantastical mysteries that we continue to live with and generally ignore. So let’s see what June, July and August will bring. I’ll be sure to share any images on Facebook and Twitter as I find them.
In closing here is a short 3 minute clip on YouTube from Ancient Aliens that touches on some of the highlights & and below is a screenshot where you can see people standing inside a circle. I plan to do that someday.
