What's the best procedure for making Crop Circles?

Answer 1

Crop circles appear to be very intricate formations, with many geometric shapes linked in sophisticated patterns. But the basics of crop-circle creation and the tools involved are actually fairly simple.
In general, circlemakers follow the following steps:

Choose a location.
Create a diagram of the design (although some circlemakers decide to come up with an idea spontaneously when they arrive at their intended site).
Once they arrive at the field, they use ropes and poles to measure out the circle.
One circlemaker stands in the middle of the proposed circle and turns on one foot while pushing the crop down with the other foot to make a center.
The team makes the radius of the circle using a long piece of rope tied at both ends to an approximately 4-foot-long (1.2-meter) board called a stalk stomper (a garden roller can also be used). One member of the team stands at the center of the circle while the other walks around the edge of the circle, putting one foot in the middle of the board to stomp down the circle's outline.

Answer 2

Crop Circles cannot be faked.

Unfortunately it's fashionable for both the press and academia to play dodo - dodo with the truth. The Doug and Dave (board and rope) broke the stems.

But a Crop Circle's stems are not broken. The roots, and nodes have been physically altered by electrical currents such that the crop stem lays down like this, ( ~ )! Alternate swathes lay down in a cross-hatch pattern like this ///\\\///\\\.

Nothing is broken or bent. But you have to slip your arm under one swath to get at the next one. Sometimes small animals have been caught when the electrical field passed, and they were crushed to death as the crop went down.

A six year old could go into a field and identify a Doug and Dave circle.
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Answer 3

I saw a documentary on it. All you need is boards and rope. I got these instructions from http://aliens.monstrous.com/circlemakers.htm

"Anybody can make a crop circle with simple tools. The only tools you need are rope, boards or metal pipes and a willing crew. Here is a common way of making crop circles.

1 A stake is hammered into the field at the center of the area where the circle will be created.

2 A rope is tied to the stake and stretched to the edge of the circle.

3 A crew member at the end of the rope makes a perimeter by walking in a circle around the stake.

4 Boards or heavy pipes are then dragged over the crop to flatten plants within the space.

5 Outside the new circle, rings can be made by leaving sections of the crop undamaged. "

This guy tries to show us something about the geometry of crop circles, but is only slightly useful as a guide for designing your own: http://www.coolmath.com/geometry-of-crop-circles.html

That guy uses a computer program, but commonsense tells me that you should use one thing and one thing only when designing your crop circles: A compass. (the kind that draws circles.) This is because your method for making the crop circles will involve compass-like motions of circling a stake at the fixed distance of the rope. If you try to do freehand stuff, your resulting crop circle will look not-smooth, nongeometrical. For your first few circles, make things you can do with just regular circles. Then you can start experimenting with spiral effects created by wrapping the rope around two stakes as you move, etc.

Finally, http://science.howstuffworks.com/crop-circle5.htm gives some good advice on not getting caught:

"Circlemakers avoid getting caught by working under cover of night and by hiding their tracks in existing tractor-tire ruts."

The footprints thing is important not only for avoiding getting caught, but for the impact of your circle. What would people think if they saw this amazing crop circle, then discovered footprints all around it? Obviously a hoax!

Actually, you should make an effort to find someone who will give you permission to use their field. At certain times during the season, it might be harmless to press down areas of the crop, and the farmer might let you do it if you ask really nicely. You also might be able to get support for your project by making it part of a school club's activity or FUNDRAISER. Get a club of students together at school, then go to the local businesses and newspapers to turn the crop-circle-making event into some kind of fundraiser. Raise money for a nonprofit organization, and make the climax of your event the production of a crop circle that the newspapers can photograph and print a nice story on.

Answer 4

Well, if you want to make small ones - you can actually use your feet. I've tried it, and it actually works. You need long grass though, and you need to keep walking in circles with your feet to the ground the whole time (don't lift you feet up). Eventually the grass does start to flatten in the pattern you walk in.

Larger crops, such as corn/wheat...etc need a large plank of wood tied on both ends with a piece of rope... might help if you had people to help though. By yourself could takes ages.

Answer 5

You need a 25 foot piece of rope, a wooden stake, and a 8 inch by 2 inch by 6 foot plank with a hole in it. Tie the rope to the plank, the other end to the stake. put the stake in the ground, use the board to lay down the wheat in a circle.

Answer 6

1. Get on an alien friendfinder website.
2. Flirt with at least 1,000 aliens until you find the commander of a ship
3. Elope with her and make her do a crop circle on earth for your honeymoon present.

Answer 7

A board attached to a rope. Then push the rope with your foot at the bottom of the crop. . .

Answer 8

Park your flying saucer in a wheat field or corn field.

Answer 9

lock the steering wheel slightly off center and have a happy harvest

Answer 10

If you can get a team of aliens that's the best way.