Crop Circles A Beginner's Guide - Hugh Manistre-pages

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threw suspicion on the farmer for having orchestrated the whole affair, although they were inclined to accept the circles themselves as genuine. A recent estimate puts the number of circles worldwide at 8,000. Even accepting this as a ‘guesstimate’, it is clear that the circles are an established phenomenon, with no national boundaries, dependent only on a suitable medium to appear in and someone to report their occurrence. References The Canadian circles are detailed in Randles and Fuller's book and The Crop Watcher 21. Information about US circles comes from the Internet. The story of the Hungarian circlemakers is told in The Crop Watcher 14. The saga of the Grasdorf pictogram is told in two articles in The Cerealogist, Nos 12 and 18.