crop circle

noun

1. any of various patterns, usually wholly or partly consisting of ring shapes, formed by the unexplained flattening of cereals growing in a field

Example Sentences

In his search to learn about folklore in the BBC series Charlie Cooper's Myth Country, the star went to community events to talk about Black Shuck sightings, joined a metal detector group looking for ancient relics and even made his own crop circle.

From BBC

Last month Nines released album Crop Circle 3 which peaked at number two in the UK album charts.

From BBC

“It’s like a crop circle. Who made it? Where did it come from?”

From New York Times

These strange markings in a farm district called Conholt, near the border of Hampshire and Wiltshire counties, are a crop circle, a rare current example of the mysterious patterns that regularly intrigued people around the world in the 1980s and ’90s, prompting speculation about alien visitors, ancient spiritual forces, weather anomalies, secret weapons tests and other theories.

From Seattle Times

Three decades after the height of the crop circle craze, the phenomenon has taken on a new significance as a reminder that even before the era of social media and the internet, hoaxes were able to spread virally around the world and true believers could cling stubbornly to conspiracy theories despite a lack of evidence — or even the existence of evidence to the contrary.

From Seattle Times