Large Jellyfish Crop Circle Forms in UK

Experts say the world's first jellyfish crop circle appeared in a barley field in Kingstone Coombes, Oxfordshire in the UK last week.

The 600-foot pattern is being studied by crop circle theorists. "It is absolutely huge -- roughly three times the size of most crop patterns and extremely interesting," crop circle expert Karen Alexander said in the Telegraph . People have been aghast at the size of it. It is a complete monster."

The owners of the land, Sally Ann Spence and her husband Bill, reported hundreds of visitors who have come to see the formation, but they just want to be left alone. The Spences estimate the damages to the crops to be around $970.

"People can get a better view from the air," Sally Ann told the BBC .

Crop circles have long fascinated the public, and theories run rampant as to whether or not the forms are created by UFOs or other natural phenomena. But experts acknowledge that they can be easily created by an artist.

The earliest recorded image of a crop circle was depicted in a 17th-century English woodcut called " Mowing Devil ." The image shows the devil with a scythe mowing a circular design in a field of oats. As the story goes, a farmer was upset at one of his workers for demanding a higher wage to mow his field and said that he would rather have the Devil perform the task. The next day the circular pattern mysteriously appeared in his field.

Watch a video about the jellyfish crop circle.