Crop Circles

Aliens? Supernatural forces? Or just two guys called Doug and Dave ‘aving a laff? Crop Circles - huge, intricate, geometric patterns in the ground that many insist cannot possibly be made by humans - have been appearing in random fields throughout history. But where exactly do they come from, and are they proof of extraterrestrial life? DO YOU BELIEVE?

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We give you Just The Gist, but if you want more, there’s this:

Watch this fairly balanced 2001 documentary, made at the peak of the crop circle frenzy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jq3MjnCr30k

Watch this very unbalanced documentary from 1991

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBz1UCQnQWc

Read this article from Time Magazine about Doug and Dave’s revelation in 1991

https://www2.nau.edu/~gaud/bio372/class/readings/circ.htm

Watch their appearance on Dutch TV from the same year

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpVks_FMcLo

Spend a while exploring this website to get the latest Croppie gossip as well as some history

https://thecroppie.co.uk/

See photos of the latest crop circles as they appear

https://cropcircles.lucypringle.co.uk/

Get all the detail, videos and articles, about Operation Blackbird

http://thecroppie.co.uk/2016/02/05/operation-blackbird/

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