Crop Circles: A Mystery Solved

Crop Circles: A Mystery Solved examines the British crop-circle phenomenon, beginning with the appearance of formations and the mythology that grew around them. Jenny Randles considers reports from fields in southern England, including Wiltshire and Hampshire, alongside photographs, eyewitness testimony, farmers’ observations and investigations of flattened crops.

The book weighs competing explanations for the formations, including UFO activity, extraterrestrial claims, deliberate hoaxes and natural processes. It discusses circle-makers and human fabrication, while also considering meteorological ideas involving whirlwinds, atmospheric vortices, rotating forces and related effects. Accounts of complex designs, rings, spirals and other patterns are set against the evidence gathered by researchers, presenting the mystery as a disputed subject requiring comparison between witness reports, field observations and proposed physical causes.