Anecdotal Evidence
When I was a child, my mother relayed an incident some of her relatives told her. My mother, now deceased, grew up on a farm in Nebraska. Her relatives were driving home at night when they spotted a light in a corn field. They pulled over and stopped the car beside the road, turned off their car lights and watched the object. When an oncoming car approached they thought the passengers would notice also, but the light dimmed so the other car continued on without stopping. They stayed for awhile and then went home.The next day they returned and went to the farmer, who owned the field. They told the story of what they saw. They all went to the field together, and found the crops flattened in a circle. I cannot recall specifically how my mother described the scene, all the other parts of the story are easy to relate to. I cannot recall for certain whether she described the scene as "charred" or "scorched." I heard this story long before I ever learned about the crop circle phenomena. The dimming effect could be an optical illusion. When we see headlights at night our visual acuity deteriorates and we need time to readjust to darkness after the light is gone.
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