Crop Circles and Corn Fields: Photos from Above
Man-made or alien creations? When they look this awesome, who cares?
Some of these are mazes meticulously grown by humans. Others are gigantic works of art planted in the middle or corn fields. And some are mysterious circles, carved out of wheat fields by who knows what (so they say). All are mesmerizing. Here are 30 photos of crops looking stunning from above.
A "Chinese phoenix" pattern at a rapeseed field in China in 2018.
An aerial view shows people strolling through a crop circle on a field in Germany in 2016. The pattern has a diameter of 180 meters.
Crop formations surround the house of UFO maniac Robbie Williams. This photo is taken near his mansion in 2010.
This corn maze of President Barack Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney holding an American flag was cut on a 14 acre plot of land in 2012.
Crop circles decorate wheat fields in 2009 near Wiltshire, England.
Wavy crop patterns appear in fields in England in 2008.
More crop circles in England, these photographed in 2009.
The world's biggest image of a Dalek from Dr. Who was created in an 18-acre field of over one million living maize plants by a Doctor Who fan in England in 2013.
A satellite image of crop circlers in Kansas in 2005.
A crop circle design of a snowflake in England in 1997.
Fully blossomed flowers forming a shape of Taiji graph, from which the idea of Yin and Yang originate, at the foot of Mount Qiyun in China in 2017.
A geometric crop circle design in England in 1999.
A ringed crop circle in England in 1998.
An ariel shot captures green crop circles resulting from irrigation systems in Colorado in 2016.
The portrait of Harry Potter is cut into a maze in England.
Crop circles in a field near Salisbury, U.K. in 1990.
The false-color image is displayed in near-infrared, red and green bands to make a crop's characteristics more easily visible to the naked eye. The red areas in this image depict the healthiest vegetation. This high-resolution satellite image was collected by Space Imaging's IKONOS satellite in 2002 over Kentucky.
"The Big Papi Maze" honoring David Ortiz #34 of the Boston Red Sox is seen at the Davis Mega Maze in 2016.
People walk through crop circles shaped into a cornfield near in Germany in 2014. According to media reports, a balloonist had discovered the circle some days before. It is unclear who did create the pattern.
The Department of Defense seal is etched into a maze.
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