Mysterious circles in Japanese forest is the result of half a century of experiment

In one of the forests of the Prefecture of Miyazaki in the South of the land of the rising sun you can find a group of Japanese cedars, which form two amazing perfectly round. Rows of trees are inclined outward relative to the center of each circle, and a coincidence is, of course, can not be. Obviously nature would not create such "art", more like mysterious characters, and it definitely goes on outside interference. The coordinates of mysterious places: 31°43'50.3"N 131°23'05.0"E

Users of the world wide web multiple times, ran the satellite images depicting the cedars, and have advanced various theories regarding the causes of the alleged anomalies. Some talked about aliens, the other a religious miracle, and others – about the incredible natural phenomenon. In fact the answer was far more prosaic, though also interesting. It turns out that we are talking about unusual and prolonged experiment Japanese.

Almost half a century ago the Japanese Ministry of agriculture, lands, forestry and fisheries made this place the status of the so-called "zone of the experimental forestry". Specialists planted young cedars angle of ten degrees to get in the end, two circles, each of which would have been ten concentric rings. Many years later, a unique formation of trees became clearly visible in satellite photos.

Interestingly, the tree trunks grew convex, curving outward. In addition, the distance between cedars tipped slowly, but continuously increasing, and scientists can't find a rational explanation for this. It is reported that originally planned to cut down cedar trees five years after planting, but then experts and officials realized the originality of the experiment, and it was decided to continue until the trees do not die themselves of old age.

So perhaps the wonders of this amazing "experimental forest" is just ahead, however, to observe and to solve them will have other generation...

Translated by «Yandex.Translator»