Since the 1600’s, crop circles have fascinated millions. Originally from the town of Hertfordshire, UK, the first circle was claimed to be by the “Mowing-Devil”, as found in an English newspaper dated back to 1678. (Gail) The image in the center of the paper depicts a small, devilish creature with a scythe, mowing two rectangular, offset circles. Modern circles form themselves in anything that will take imprint, typically in fields of oats, barley, or corn. (Pringle 5) Since the 1600’s forward, crop circles have dramatically become more complex. Many people believe that they are works of art, while some believe they are an act of vandalism. But who, or what, are forming these beautiful patterns? Some say they are natural, created by the wind, or some strange force beneath the earth’s core¬¬¬. Others believe that they are created as messages for the human race by a species indigenous to earth, namely trolls, gnomes, and fairies, even though there is no real evidence to support this. Contrary to these ideas, however, extraterrestrial life may be the most probable answer.
There is no doubt that somewhere; there is a group of vandals whose sole goal is to destroy farmland to create this “art”. There is even evidence of out there of these vandals with websites such as circlemakers.com. Interestingly enough, it is easy to distinguish a hoaxed circle from a genuine one. To start, all genuine circles have a 90-degree deformation at the stem node of all of the plants in the circle. This creates the “flattened” shape that makes the imprint of the circle; also this effect is only achieved through intense heat applied to the plants, the heat source believed to be plasma, and not through wooden boards. (Burns 22) Many counteract this idea b...
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... of four anomalies none of which were seen whilst the photographs were being taken. The photograph was taken on a 35mm SLR camera using standard 1(00 ASA colour slide film. The exposure was set at 1/125 and 1/250 of a second.“ The images were sent to Ufologist Andy Collins to analyze. (Lundberg) Besides paranormal activity, reasons of no footprints leading to formations, or crushed plants, promote the idea of aerial formation of the circles, aerial formation suggests that the formations are created from above. ¬
Many believe crop circles are recent, but they have existed for hundreds of years, and since then, have transformed to become more creative. Crop formations are an art, and genuine crop circles are, in all likelihood, created by an extraterrestrial source. Although one portion of the mystery is solved, why these beings create them still remains¬¬ a mystery.
I observed a very unique series of photographs by Vik Muniz called Seeing is Believing. Vik Muniz’s images are not simply photography but are pictures of complicated pieces of art he has produced at earlier times. Utilizing an array of unorthodox materials including granulated sugar, chocolate syrup, sewing thread, cotton, wire, and soil Muniz first creates an image, sculpturally manipulates it and then photographs it. Muniz’s pictures include portraits, landscapes, x-rays, and historical images.
Some believe that in 1947 a UFO crashed in Roswell, New Mexico. This crash is believed by many to be the reason for the creations of area 51 and has remained the front and center of all controversies since the inception of area 51, one cannot talk about area 51 without mentioning the crash in Roswell. Some local’s from Roswell claim they witnessed the removal of debris and suspect that it was a flying saucer. Adding to this suspicion, the Army Air Corps initially announce that the wreckage was that of a “flying saucer”, only to later retract their statement, and instead c...
Around June 25th, 1947 a pilot, Ken Arnold had reported strange objects in the sky while flying near Mt. Rainer, Washington. He stated that they flew like "saucers being skipped over water." This was where the term "Flying Saucers" derived from. The Roswell UFO Incident all started on the evening of July 3, 1947, Dan Wilmot and his wife were sitting on their front porch when they saw the distinct shape of a saucer flying through the sky. A few days prior to this sighting, military radar in the area was tracking an Unidentified Flying Object for four days. On Independence Day the radar indicated that the object had gone down about 30-40 miles Northwest of Roswell. A few days after the actual sighting from the Wilmot's, W.W. Brazel, the Foreman of the J.B. Foster Ranch went to check on his sheep after some intense thunderstorms the night prior. He happened to discover a very large amount of debris of an unknown metallic substance scattered throughout the field. It was also stated that he stumbled across a shallow trench in the ground that stretched hundreds of feet. Brazel would gather some of this debris to show family and friends. A few days after he would contact sheriff Wilcox of Chaves County. Once Wilcox had the information he needed, he contacted the Roswell Army Air Force Base, where Major Jessie Marcel was briefed to look int...
Crop circles have been a mystery ever since they first appeared. In today’s world, people merely glance at an article about them. They simply brush it off to the side saying that “it has to be fake” or “it can’t be real”. Pat Delgado, a former NASA engineer, said, “It is perfectly natural to ask if crop circles are hoaxes, but very difficult to explain why they cannot be hoaxed satisfactorily” (Silva “Crop Circles”). Crop circles are very mysterious and interesting in many ways. A way this can be shown is through the first person accounts of the people who saw one being made.
With the finding of the crashed debris, the government discovered that there were extraterrestrial creatures with it. The government began doing tests to re-enact the Roswell incident to test it. The government began doing things such as “dummy drops” and saying it was in practice for the Air Force to test ways for pilots to survive falls from high altitudes. These experiments consisted with dropping bandaged, featureless, dummies with latex “skin” and aluminum “bones”. The dummies looked a lot like how people imagined space aliens to look. The military would drop these dummies then quickly sent out military vehicles to retrieve the dummies before anyone could get to them and see them. The government was really using extraterrestrial creatures that were being kidnapped and experimented on by the government scientists as their
Many people who do not believe that anything other than military weapons testing is going on inside Area 51 think that all of the UFO sightings are really just military aircraft. They have proven that often the light patterns people report being on the bottom side of the UFO matches the light patterns of certain military aircraft. Jeffrey Richelson, who works at the National Security Archives, studied declassified documents that were released in August 2013 and came to the conclusion that during the 1950’s and 1960’s the military was heavily testing the U-2 spyplane, wh...
“Circles” begins by starting small and describing the circles of the eye, then gradually moves to the circles in the universe, explaining that the circles in the universe are never ending. For example, Emerson himself explains “around every circle another can be drawn” (Emerson 123). This is the understanding portion. However, there is one caveat. Emerson explains that the circles eventually go on to reach God, who is both the circumference and the center of the circle. If God serves as both the circumference and the center of the great chain of circles, it means there is no clearly defined beginning or end. Nevertheless, like many things in nature, the presence of God as a figure of the circumference of circles symbolizes his elusively. If one circle can be drawn after the other, and God is the circumference of the circle, it symbolizes the beauty and elusively of nature. This is the reason port...
The Navajo Sand Paintings is an example of a sacred symbolic object commonly misinterpreted as nothing more than an artistic piece of primitive art. In actuality, the beauty is being overseen because Navajo sand paintings have more significance. This so called `piece of art' serves as a major device, but in a...
Aliens everyone thought they were not real.A family living on a farm finds mysterious crop circles in their fields and didn't know what did it.Then they start looking for clues to what had happened to their crops. Graham brother Merrill had a record in baseball for hitting the farthest baseball in the world.
The Idols of the Tribe represent the illusions of human nature: it refers to the idea that our everyday problems arise simply because we are humans. For example, it is human nature to think that there is more order in the world than there really is, to accept things as they are without question, and to not rest until we discover the truth about a certain subject. Humans tend to believe what they want to believe, even if there is evidence for the opposing theory; this is due to human free will as well as our emotional needs and responses. A prime illustration of these characteristics is that of the earth moving around the sun. At one point in time, many humans thought that the earth was the center of the universe and all things revolved around it (the earth). Though many philosophers and astronomers proposed alternate theories, the popular opinion stood. Even when evidence was presented in favor of the sun being the primary object the planets circled around, a great number of people stubbornly stuck with the old ways of thought.
...ct. Other lines form concentric circles converging with or emanating from a promontory. Other prints have formed “roads” like geometric plans and appear to have been occupied by large groups of the populations. Some of these lines can even be landing areas for planes or even spaceships. No one knows for sure.
The painting Olive Trees, now at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, is one of a series of ten or twelve paintings of olive orchards, which Van Gogh painted in 1889 while living at the asylum of Saint-Remy. This painting is a landscape accomplished in bright, complementary colors, with Van Gogh’s characteristically brisk brushwork. The image is divided roughly into thirds, with the middle zone, the trees, being highly capricious. The brushstrokes describe the lay of the land, the movement of the wind in the trees, and the rays of the sun. The sun itself is hugely misrepresented in size, and highlighted also by an outline of orange. It dominates the picture and takes on perhaps a “supernatural” aspect, possibly representing deity or faith. The curved trees all lean, even quiver, away from the center of the painting. They cast violet shadows which shouldn’t be possible, given the placement of the sun: Realism is sacrificed for the content. The most prominent of these shadows is at the center of the foreground, and is not associated with any one tree. One could see this central shadow as the thing from which the trees are bending. The base of each tree is painted with red lines that ambiguously outline where the shadows would fall if the sun were directly overhead. Both the ground and the trees have a singularly wave appearance, while the sun is more stable, and the distant mountains are still.
A traditional interpretation of what has become known as the Assyrian Sacred Tree conceives of it as the date palm. Consisting of a series of nodes and interlacing vines, the depiction of the “tree” contradicts the morphological appearance of a date palm seems at best to be a highly abstracted consolidation of various botanical characteristics from separate distinct species. Despite recent proposals by several art historians and botanists to conclusively determine its proper classification, indubitable evidence unlocking the enigma behind this timeless symbol—a sacred fountainhead for many western religions originating in the Near East—has yet to uproot the deep seeded academic insistence on the date palm.
Crop circles are have been a mystery for a very long time and multiple movies and documentaries have been made by famous directors about this phenomenon. The most famous movie about this unique phenomenon starred Mel Gibson and was called Signs. Crop circles are designs that have been found in fields. A crop circle could be anything from a regular circle to a very challenging design called a pictogram. People believe that it could be anything from just pranks to aliens to a natural disaster. The possibilities are endless and people get very suspicious because it has not been solved.
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