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Crop circles are circles of crop. Wait, there is more. The crop (grass, wheat, whatever) is lying down as if some circular object (or several circular or other shaped objects) has rested on it. The believers in this sort of thing (and writers for supermarket tabloids) claim that an alien space ship, perhaps with circular landing gear, landed in this field and flattened down the crop.
Sorry I don't have any pictures for you. After I looked at quite a few of the pictures from the tabloids, the obvious question was, "Why don't people see that these are obvious hoaxes?" And the answer to that question is, "People want to believe in UFOs, and people (even intelligent people) are gullible."
For that matter, people don't see why other people would perpetrate a hoax. Why hoax? Well, to gain fame, for a moment. To put one over on the public. To show (at least to one's self) that other people are not so smart. Hey, it is a practical joke, one that is better than most other practical jokes. Nobody gets hurt.
I am not presenting any evidence here. Go elsewhere for that. But just look at the photos, sometime. Don't the crop circles look like fakes.