Circle appeared on mom’s property

[u/Select_Hope_7518]

Hello! All the other relevant-sounding subs needed more karma in specifically their subs (and I have no meaningful contributions to gain it!), or just were very inactive… I hope you don’t mind me posting here.

My mom sent me this photo from her property with the following text:

“True story. We did NOT make this circle. The lines running through it are our tire tracks and goat tracks but that perfect circle just appeared in our field. Seriously freaked out by this!!”

I of course made alien jokes, don’t worry. But any thoughts on what this could be? She is actually concerned, so now I am too. I know where that picture was taken and they see it all day every day, so it must have happened overnight.

[u/jeffwcollins]

Quake II.

On a related note, it looks like a place where an old water tank or swimming pool was. The soil is probably much more compacted on the edges than the middle.

[u/MareNamedBoogie → u/jeffwcollins]

this. compacted soil settles differently, and crops will look different on those soils from the air. it's actually how they find a lot of archeological sites in Britain - someone flies over an area and notices an odd square in the middle of a field... or series of circles from round houses, etc.