Unfortunately it is not all that easy to say with absolute certainty whether a formation is genuine or not. Like I said, you can only draw a conclusion about mud traces and broken oil seed rape plants if you are absolutely sure you are the first person in the formation. If you find exploded nodes ('expulsion cavities') you can be certain you're standing in a genuine formation. However, if you do not find any, it doesn't necessarily mean you're standing in a hoax. If the energy with which the formation was formed, was very intense and if the crop was already ripe, then you will quite likely find exploded nodes all over the place. But if the crop was not ripe yet, or if the energy wasn't that intense, you might not find any...
Sometimes there are seed heads without any seeds, sometimes there are large amounts of magnetite, sometimes there are numerous dead flies stucks to the crop circle plants, sometimes the stems have been cut off under an angle, sometimes there are unusual substances. But many times, genuine formations will contain none of the above...
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