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　　At first , people thought that some kids were making them as a joke , or that farmers were making them to attract tourists .(In fact , in 1991 , two men said they made the circles themselves , but many scientists don’t believe them .) People tried to copy them : They tried to make circles exactly like the ones the farmers had found . They couldn’t do it. They couldn’t enter a field of wheat without leaving tracks, and they couldn’t flatten the wheat without breaking it .

　　Several times people reported seeing stranger objects near the fields where crop circles later appeared. Many people believe that these crop circles are the messages sent by living things from outer space(外层空间)or the marks left by their spaceships .

　　Scientists who have studied the crop circles try to find out what causes them. In the summer of 1990 some scientists spent three weeks in the part of England where many circles have appeared. They had all the latest high-tech equipment(最新高科技设备). The equipment—worth 1.8 million dollars—got nothing. But one night, as the scientists were watching a field , crop circles formed in the field behind them , which were quite different from the others . The scientists had neither seen nor heard anything.

　　When Steven discovered the crop circles on his land in 1978, he said , “It was just like something that had landed in the field from the air and gone back up again . I don’t know what to make of these things.