In the summer of 1980, in Wiltshire, southern England, a group of
three swirled circular patterns mysteriously appeared in farmer
John Scull's fields of wheat and oats. Scull blamed Army
helicopters. UFO enthusiasts credited flying saucers. A local
meteorologist attributed them to whirlwinds. Each year thereafter,
the circles continued to appear, in Wiltshire, Hampshire, Sussex,
Oxfordshire - increasing in mystery and complexity as a social,
religious, and scientific turmoil grew around them. Now manifesting
in enormous and ornate "pictograms," the phenomenon continues to
draw crowds of the curious and the faithful, not only to
circles-prone fields of southern England, but to unsuspecting
fields in such places as Germany, France, Belgium, Spain, Romania,
Australia, Japan, Canada, and the United States. North American
enthusiasts are now in the forefront of circles research - or
"cerealogy" as it has come to be known - and every summer we spend
tens of thousands of dollars and many hours in scientific and
spiritual evaluation of circles here and abroad.
Science writer Jim Schnabel ventured into Wiltshire in search of
the circles and an answer to their annual mystery. He soon became
entranced, not merely by the odd swirled shapes in the fields, but
by the human beings who flocked to them: plasma physicists and
ritual magicians, dowsers and UFOlogists, New Age tourists and
garrulous mediums, and the devoted "cereal" artists whose work lay
behind it all.
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