It is a myth that in genuine crop circles the plants aren't broken but bent, just above the ground. This does occur (especially in the 'old' formations of the eighties, and also in oil seed rape formations), but I have seen dozens of genuine formations (as was shown by scientific research), with nothing but broken stems.
Some people think that only the simple formations are genuine, and that the complex ons are hoaxes. This however was proven incorrect a long time ago. A good example was the Juliaset at Stonehenge (UK) in 1996; biophysic research showed that the Juliaset was covered with anomalies which can only be found in genuine formations.
There are also people who think that only the complex formations are genuine, and that the simple ones are hoaxes. This too is a myth. Many simple patterns were examined scientifically and turned out to be genuine.
And of course it is very tempting to think that a squiggly formation is a hoax, but this too has turned out not always to be true.
And, also tempting but incorrect: many formations that looked 'human' (like the ones on the photographs below) also turned out to be genuine. For instance the formation at Stadskanaal (NL) in 2002 (middle photo) was covered with exloded nodes and other anomalies...
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In other words: one has to be careful when judging a formation. There is nothing about this phenomenon that is simple or obvious. And although it may sound woolly, the best advice I can give you is this: follow your intuition...
Does the formation in which you stand 'feel good'? Do you feel good? Does it make you happy? Does something deep down happen to you when you look at the aerial? Does your heart make a leap, so to speak? If so, the formation is likely to be genuine. I do realise that this may sound rather vague, but over the last ten years that I have been studying this extraordinary phenomenon, this turned out to be the best guideline...
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