Could Plasma Vortices Explain Some Crop Circles?

Recently, Australian researcher Greg Jefferys has received media attention for his discovery of images depicting “Crop circles” from the 1940s via Google Earth overlays. But one controversial aspect of his research that gets less attention is his idea that a correlation could exist between ionized plasma vortices (otherwise known as ball lightning) and these apparent circle phenomena.

With Google Earth, one can presently view up to 35% of England’s open country side. It was in viewing archived Google aerial images that Jefferys discovered a series of photos that, arguably, portray a series of what are recognized in modern times as crop circles. Despite how a majority of the formations, beginning in the late 70s, were accounted for by admitted hoaxers Doug Bower and Dave Chorley, Jefferys argues that the 1945 images may point to evidence of how these strange formations were occurring much longer ago (also see Eltjo H. Haselhoff’s The Deepening Complexity of Crop Circles, where the author asserts that both crop circle and “ball of light” phenomenon associated with the formations may date back as far as 1678).

But even looking back several decades or more, could humans still be held accountable for some of these anomalous formations as well?

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