Boards and strings is not "just a theory". It's been demonstrated for the cameras multiple times, including by the guys who created most of the earlier circles, some of them extremely elaborate, in the UK.

You're making this much more complicated than it really is. No surveying equipment, GPS, or aliens are involved.

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