Field formations
Overnight patterns pressed into fields of wheat and barley. Some were made by two men with a plank. Some people swear others were not. Here are the famous ones, the story so far, and the ones our members have found.
Our own diagrams, drawn from aerial photos. Not to scale.
Southern England · 1976–1991
In 1991 Doug Bower and Dave Chorley told a newspaper they had been making circles since 1976 with a plank, a length of rope and a wire sight on a cap. Simple rings and satellite circles like these were their signature.
Opposite Stonehenge, Wiltshire · July 1996
A spiral of 151 circles shrinking out from one big one, seen beside the busy A303. Some witnesses said the field was empty that afternoon. Skeptics say it was made the night before and simply spotted late.
Milk Hill, Wiltshire · August 2001
Six curving arms of 409 circles, roughly 240 metres across, on a steep hillside. Still one of the biggest and most complex formations ever recorded.
Chilbolton, Hampshire · August 2001
Next to the Chilbolton radio telescope, a block of pixels that looked like the 1974 Arecibo radio message sent to space, but with the details changed, as if someone was answering it.
Crabwood, near Winchester · August 2002
A grey alien face holding a disc. Read as 8-bit binary, the spiral on the disc spelled out a warning about "bearers of false gifts" and "broken promises".
Barbury Castle, Wiltshire · June 2008
A ratcheting spiral of ten steps. An astrophysicist noticed the step sizes encode the first ten digits of pi, with a small dot for the decimal point.
Read more: Crop circle and The Mowing-Devil on Wikipedia.
Found one? Ground shots, drone shots and close-ups of the bent stalks are all welcome. Like every file here, your originals are sealed and keep their full camera data.
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