Twenty five years on from the appearance of two striking – and baffling – local crop circles a celebration is being held in Honey Street to mark their appearance, organised by the Crop Circle Visitor Centre & Exhibition. The circles that appeared were the ‘Galaxy’ at Milk Hill, adjacent to Honey Street in Alton Barnes, and the ‘Face & Message’ at Chilbolton.
Crop Circles are big business in this area of Wiltshire. Many come from all areas the world to see what’s new (if any), and view the records of what has appeared at various points in the area across recent decades. Crop Circles are a big tourist draw.
The festival will bring together researchers, local farmers, authors, photographers, artists and visitors from around the world for three days of lectures, workshops, guided tours, night watches under the stars and a festival fair. Speakers include pioneering researchers Lucy Pringle (UK), Andreas Müller (Germany) Prof. Klaas van Egmond (The Netherlands) and Graeme Rendall (UK) who will speak on the latest UFO/UAP developments. To see who will be speaking, where, when and to get tickets – click here.
But what are Crop Circles, how do they appear, from where? An ‘interesting’ topic, a cornucopial range of opinion and vehemently held beliefs. Are they magic, natural phenomena, quantum creations, alien art or communications, military, rural grafitti, or what? Who (or what?) makes them? Beliefs and opinions (depending who you listen to) go from ‘completely natural’, almost some form of magic, through ‘UFO initiated’, created by aliens, made by ‘the military’ (or NASA?) – and if ‘the military’ – who’s? / on what side? Sceptics will talk about green men wearing tin hats, or ‘not so green’ men but still in tin hats, but the likely reality is probably more in the area of maths, geometry, surreal imagination and art.
If, and this is a ‘big if’, they are man-made, then the skills, ingenuity, creativity and practical execution expertise required are of the highest order. Art, without doubt and surreal art. Rural Banksys But it is the mathmatical / geometric designs, and then how those are translated in to practical reality. Apart from the photographic and video records, every Crop Circle is a transient existence, it won’t last long. Combines, balers and mowers will ensure that.
In summary – a festival to celebrate the amazing designs that appeared in two of the local fields twenty five years ago. Crop Circles are a local phenomenon and a real draw for visitors to the area, even if none are present at the time of a visit. The Centre ensures that records of Crop Circles past are there to be seen, marvelled at – and wondered about too.
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