The Science of Crop Circles

The Science of Crop Circles

The science of crop circles begins where the folklore ends. Two retired men confessed in 1991 to making the patterns with planks and rope. A meteorologist named Terence Meaden floated a plasma vortex hypothesis, then watched it fail. A biophysicist named W.C. Levengood claimed plant nodes told a different story, and a generation of skeptics […]