The Mystery of Underwater Crop Circles, Explained

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By Lisa Raffensperger
Aug 15, 2013 7:39 PMOct 24, 2019 7:35 PM

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They’ve been called the crop circles of the ocean floor—seven-foot diameter patterned circles that were first spotted in 1995 off the coast of southern Japan. But their origin was an enigma, and local divers termed them “mystery circles.”

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