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If you’ve seen pictures of bizarre “crop-circle-like” patterns in a Japanese forest, it’s not computer-generated imagery, but rather a real place you can visit. They can be seen on Google Earth and are actually the result of experiments by the Japanese government conducted more than 50 years ago. That’s right, a 1973 document from the Japanese Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries, states that researchers started a project designed to examine tree spacing and its effect on growth, and the result was this “experimental forest” near Nichinan City.
One of those experiments had researchers planting cedar trees spaced in 10° increments to eventually form ten concentric circles. This appears to have been completed at least twice, and more than half a century later, resulted in a fanning pattern that can be seen from above. Officials were also planning to harvest the trees in five years but, given the public interest, they said they’re now reconsidering the plan.
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