When I saw the Salinas/Chualar, California formation I was, like many of us, impressed. Out of nowhere the word “culmination” attached itself and stayed. The date seemed important; the crop circle phenomenon is aware of our calendar and has often made use of it. A huge and elaborate formation at the very end of 2013 and the insistence of culmination led me to believe that this was a powerful signal of an ending, a symbolic conclusion to the...
Read MoreOn 31st July there was a remarkable public relations coup, though for whom and by whom is questionable. Three national daily newspapers, the Times the Telegraph, and the Mail ran virtually identical articles on the crop circles. The most interesting feature was an interview with the ever-imaginative Matthew Williams (a vociferous though fast-fading hoax claimant) who stated that the dearth of formations up to then was due entirely to the fact...
Read MoreThe weather here lurches from high summer to dramatic wind and rainstorms. At least the water table is a little recharged. The farmers will be pleased. The Manton formation is the first in barley. The first barley formation is often portentous; it sometimes carries a hint of the quality we might expect during the season. This reassures me. Manton was confident, beautifully made and quite large. First barley also signals goodbye to Oilseed Rape....
Read MoreThe Czech Republic formation at Uhřice (14th May 2012) seemed to me to be of great significance. It picks up the theme of nested arcs (particularly in Rape) demonstrated repeatedly over recent seasons. In 2010, on the 5th May, we had the complex Old Sarum formation which had six nested arcs. As Allan Brown was later to show, Old Sarum contained some remarkable number references. Then, on 16th May 2010 at Yarnbury, an enigmatic and exquisitely...
Read MoreIn September 2000 I received a remarkable book from Germany. It was a beautifully laid out volume about the crop circles written and compiled by Bertold Zugelder, a graphic design student, as his graduation submission. He was to be awarded an A+ for the work, but much more important for us was the fact that this lovely book foretold Bertold’s initiation of cropcircle-archive.com (which is now cropcirclecenter.com) the most assiduous and...
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