How are crop circles formed?

According to the BLT Research Team crop circles are formed due to a plasma vortex that originates in the higher atmosphere (ionosphere). You can think of a plasma vortex as a swirling column of ionized (electrically charged) air. In physics and meteorology plasma vortices are a common phenomenon. They cannot be seen with the naked eye, yet they can be measured (because of the electrical charge in the air). The plasma vortex comes rushing towards the earth like a twister, highly electrical and magnetic in nature and radiating a kind of energy very similar to microwave energy. The moment the plasma vortex hits the earth, a crop formation is formed.

Naturally this theory evokes many questions. How do we know the vortex originates in the ionosphere? How do we know it is electrically charged and magnetic and emits microwave-like energy? And why does all this create such complex patterns? We don't know all the answers, but I'll try and explain the ones we do know.

Tiny magnetite spheres

We know that the vortex originates in the ionosphere, because on many occassions unusually high concentrations of magnetite were found in the soil of crop circles. Magnetite is magnetic iron; the form in which it is found in crop cirles is identical to meteorite dust. This is our first indication towards the ionosphere. The second indication is the electrical charge of the vortex; the air in the ionosphere is electrically charged. This electrical charge leaves traces in the soil. You can read more about this on the next page... (And if you would like to know more about magnetite, click here).