Crop Circles: From Simple Rings to Complex Pictograms — and the Hoax Revealed
Beginning in the mid-1970s in the English countryside, particularly Wiltshire and Hampshire, simple flattened circles began appearing overnight in fields of wheat, barley, oats, and rapeseed.
Narration
Overnight in Wiltshire's wheat fields, a vast geometric formation appeared from nowhere.
From the air above Wiltshire, the scale of these formations became undeniable.
Cerealogist researchers crouched at formation edges, measuring bent stalks and claiming magnetic anomalies.
The Alton Barnes pictogram — eighty metres of precision — became a national sensation overnight.
On September 9, 1991, Doug Bower and Dave Chorley confessed — plank, rope, wire device.
Even after the confession, lone believers returned to the fields — the mystery refused to die.