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| The public has refused to accept the hoax explanation due to the fact that the hoaxers have not disclosed their methods sufficiently to explain the anomaly that when such a circle appears in crops mature-enough that they carry seeds, seed-pods are unbroken, whereas trampling causes seed-pod breakage. | The public has refused to accept the hoax explanation due to the fact that the hoaxers have not disclosed their methods sufficiently to explain the anomaly that when such a circle appears in crops mature-enough that they carry seeds, seed-pods are unbroken, whereas trampling causes seed-pod breakage. | ||
| Early examples of this phenomenon were usually simple circular patterns of various sizes, which led researchers to believe it could be a natural phenomenon, but in recent years complex geometric patterns have emerged, and some appear to be codified messages and are most certainly of intelligent origin. | |||
| ], the author and director of ] and ] is filming ], a movie about crop circles, reputed to lean toward a supernatural explanation. | ], the author and director of ] and ] is filming ], a movie about crop circles, reputed to lean toward a supernatural explanation. | ||
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Crop circles began appearing in England, apparently created by flying saucers landing in a farmer's field and destroying a neat circle of the crop. After about a decade of intense speculation as to their origin, they were revealed to be a hoax by the people who did it. It turns out a small group of people can trample a sizeable area of crops in a single night.
To do: find the pair's names; describe reaction of public after hoax was revealed, such as refusing to accept the hoax explanation.
The public has refused to accept the hoax explanation due to the fact that the hoaxers have not disclosed their methods sufficiently to explain the anomaly that when such a circle appears in crops mature-enough that they carry seeds, seed-pods are unbroken, whereas trampling causes seed-pod breakage.
Early examples of this phenomenon were usually simple circular patterns of various sizes, which led researchers to believe it could be a natural phenomenon, but in recent years complex geometric patterns have emerged, and some appear to be codified messages and are most certainly of intelligent origin.
M. Night Shyamalan, the author and director of Sixth Sense and Unbreakable is filming Signs, a movie about crop circles, reputed to lean toward a supernatural explanation.