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    Crop Circles
    Crop Circles
    Crop Circles
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    Crop Circles

    By Annette Gulati

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    For years, mysterious symbols and patterns have been appearing in many fields. What created them and what could they possibly mean? Are they the work of beings from another world or simply the works of dedicated hoaxers? Using the scientific method and available information, this book attempts to find out!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCapstone Young Readers
    Release dateJul 1, 2014
    ISBN9781410969170
    Crop Circles
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    Annette Gulati

    Jane Bingham is an experienced writer for young adults. She has written over 100 nonfiction books on a variety of topics. Jane has a first class degree in English Literature and an M. Phil in History of Art and is currently a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Oxford Brookes University. She has two sons and three stepsons and lives in Oxford, England.

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      Book preview

      Crop Circles - Annette Gulati

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      Contents

      What Are Crop Circles?

      Spirals at Stonehenge

      Flying Saucers?

      The Face in the Field

      Investigating Crop Circles

      Mist and Lights

      Whirling Winds

      Mysterious Microwaves?

      Unusual Effects

      Messages and Meanings?

      Hoaxers and Circle-Makers

      Can the Mystery Be Solved?

      Timeline

      Summing Up the Science

      Glossary

      Find Out More

      Index

      What Are Crop Circles?

      For centuries, people have been amazed and puzzled by crop circles. All over the world, circles and other patterns have suddenly appeared in fields of crops. Some crop circles are simple, circular shapes. Others are incredibly elaborate. These complex crop formations can take the form of patterns, diagrams, or pictures drawn on the ground. But whatever shape they take, nobody has completely explained how or why they are formed.

      Where and when?

      Crop formations have appeared in the United States, Canada, Australia, Japan, India, and other parts of the world, but they are most often found in southern England. The earliest report of a crop circle dates from the 1600s, and there have been reports ever since. However, sightings of circles increased dramatically in the 1970s, especially in southern England. This made some people suspect that the circles were the work of hoaxers (people who created the circles as a joke).

      Eyewitness accounts?

      Most crop circles are discovered fully formed, leaving people to wonder how they could have been made. But in a few remarkable cases, there is an eyewitness. These witnesses describe the chilling experience of watching a pattern form in front of their eyes. Other people have questioned whether these accounts can be trusted, but the witnesses have stuck to their stories.

      Can the mystery be solved?

      In the first part of this book, you can read about people’s strange experiences with crop circles. The second part takes a careful look at the theories behind the mystery and asks some questions. Do the theories really make sense? Have the so-called experts approached the problem in a scientific way? And can science solve the mystery of crop circles?

      Solving the mystery

      How are crop circles formed, and what do their patterns mean? People have come up with many explanations, but the mystery has never really been solved.

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      Crop formations

      Crop circles are often known as crop formations. Crop formations can take the form of a

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