Origin Theories

The Deep Dive series takes a closer look at the strongest crop formations and the questions around them. Each video covers one theme, from the hydrogen signature to the cover-up debate. All the videos are also on the videos page. Challenging the narrative

Contact Through Crops sets out the evidence that some crop circles come from a higher intelligence. This is a summary of its main points. Early history Reports of patterns in crops go back centuries. The best known is the Mowing Devil pamphlet of 1678, which blamed a circle in a field of oats on the […]

The Crop Signals book, Contact Through Crops, is out now. It asks whether crop circles are art, hoaxes or messages from a higher intelligence. It looks closely at the strongest formations, including the hydrogen signature, the Arecibo response, the DNA disc and the device series. The book argues that there are two kinds of formation. […]

Photo by Ben Sasson There are two main explanations for crop circles. One says they are messages from a higher intelligence. The other says people make them, as art or as pranks. This post sets out the case for each and where the Crop Signals Project stands. The case for a higher intelligence The weakness […]

Many people accept that every crop circle is made by people. Some certainly are. Here are five reasons to doubt that all of them are. 1. Strange events in and around the formations Light orbs, odd fogs and patterns that return faintly in the same field the following year. Crops are bent at the growth […]

Crop circles, also known as agrograms, have puzzled people for decades. Sceptics say they are pranks. Those who take them seriously have several theories. Here they are, from most likely to least likely in our view. 1. Messages from beings elsewhere The designs are deliberate messages from an advanced civilisation. Their complexity and precision point […]