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Sightseers visit an incorporated oversized crop circle in a cornfield, not far from the small community of Mammendorf near Munich, southern Germany, on August 3, 2016. The owner of the field and the villagers weren't sure where the formation appeared from.
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Bower (l) and Chorley, seen here in 1991, demonstrated their technique to a journalist. Self-proclaimed cereologist (one well-versed in crop circles and their otherworldly associations) Pat Delgado even thought their work was real before they came out with the truth.
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This crop circle was the first to appear in Wiltshire in 2012. The formation is called a 'Polar clock,' which displays the time and date 19:43:53 (7:43:53) on 08/04/2012.
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Since their debunking, crop circles have received more praise for their art. This Stonehenge formation appeared in Wiltshire in 1996.
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One of the most well-known crop circles in the history of their rampant sightings was the Eastfield Pictogram formation in the village of Alton Barnes in England in 1990. An interest in crop circles was revived, and people were determined to make connections to alien activity. Man-made crop circles, however, was what a lot of people were looking at. Thanks to materials like rope and wood, creating crop circles was possible.
Crop circles and their connection to life on other planets have been a worldwide obsession for decades, but like many paranormal spectacles, many formations have been debunked as man-made.
