Germany's crop circle season 2008

Crop circles, known as Kornkreise in German, are patterns created by the flattening of crops such as wheat and barley. In the 1980s it was only simple circles that would mysteriously appear in fields overnight. Since 1990 the patterns have evolved into more complex geometries. The cause of the circles is unknown. Theories include:

• tracks left by UFO landings,
• earth energies and ley lines,
• Gaia,
• drunk farmers,
• GM crops,
• mating badgers,
• and wizards.

The first recorded incident of a crop circle was in 1678 in Hartfordshire, England. That was attributed to the Mowing-Devil. Nowadays the world's number one hotspot for crop circles is Wiltshire, England. Every summer over 100 circles appear in the area around Salisbury, Marlborough, and Stonehenge.

In recent years the phenomenon has also been occurring more regularly in Germany. As the 2008 season draws to a close there have so far been 15 reported "events". The majority of these, 11 of them, appeared in Lower Saxony around the Göttingen area. There were also single isolated events in each of Bavaria, NRW, Hessen, and Baden-Württemberg.



The circle pictured above left is known as the feathered serpent. It was discovered in Edendorf, Lower Saxony, on June 23. The photo above right is a close up of a circle found on July 25 in nearby Hann-Münden.

The Bavarian formation appeard in Alling, Oberbayern. Click to see a German-language YouTube video of it. The circle is thought to represent the Solar eclipse of August 1, 2008. The black and white circles around the central "sun" represent the nine days and nine nights between the dates the circle was formed and the eclipse.

Krebeck of July 4 showed a monthly lunar calendar for 29 days from July 3 (new Moon) to August 1 (new Moon and a solar eclipse). A similar pattern appeared in Yatesbury, UK in May 2007.

The Horb-Bildechengen crop circle in Baden Wurttemberg included the sign )+( which is the identification of the Ummo Planet. The Ummo affair was subject to much mainstream attention in France and Spain during the 1960s and 1970s.

The image below shows an outline of all patterns appearing in German fields this year:



Further reading:

• Crop circle (Wikipedia)
• German crop circles 2008 (Kornkreise Forum)
• Germany 2008 (Crop Circle Connector)
• TT chat topic on crop circles, from summer 2005

I don't see 'made by hippies' in the list of creators.

Could they be created naturally (e.g. by wind/moisture), I wonder? Snowflakes are pretty fancy, yet no-one claims that aliens are responsible for them.

Aren't hippies too spaced out to do stuff as complicated as this?

Who was responsible for Woodstock?

I always thought they were created naturally - typically by some guy called for example Dave and his mate from the pub.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crop_circle#C...of_crop_circles

Investors and music execs.

The Anglo-Saxons probably, though the Duke of Marlborough's commissioned building work during the 17th C. was mostly responsible for how it looks today.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodstock,_Oxfordshire

I remember seeing a documentary on the guys that make these once, think it was on Discovery. A lot of effort if you ask me!

These circles are all made by horizontal organisational infomediaries working exclusively on a one-to-one alliance and closely monitored by a systematic wide area network which generally assists horitontal object-oriented process improvement within the confines of a strict reactive instruction set. A right-sized multitasking archive is also used to upgrade the systemised regional LAN which attenuates the retro modular matrices and reduces the functional zero defect moratorium. Easy, innit?

garibaldi, yeah, like tell us something we don't know already.

well..I, for one, support the mating badgers theory... I can't WAIT to see the national geographic special on that one!

Belle

Randy Badgers

You never know, do you?

You are not being serious are you?

A friend of mine had his own business years ago and contacted a group that make these things. He got them to make a rather complicated one in the local farmer's field late at night in complete darkness with planks of wood to flatten the crops. He then took a photo from a plane and used it for marketing on his website (as it had similarities to his company logo).

He had to promise not to give their details out or tell people how it was done...

Thankfully, one doesn't see any forest swastikas around these parts anymore.

[Already feeling the flames].

The Japanese tried something like this in Seoul during their occupation, building their administrative building in the shape of the first character for "Japan" which could only be seen from the air. The Koreans wisely dynamited it in 1998.

That, my friend, is what happens when the index of the retro modular matrices is set too low.