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developments do start to activate, will anyone even have the time to notice them gone? Will the circles become just a quaint puzzle of the past, or will they give way to something even more spectacular and mystifying to take their place? As ever, only time will tell. ext year, with the eyes of the world on England in high summer (the peak of a usual circle season) courtesy of the Olympics, it will be interesting to see if the phenomenon has a last special trick up its sleeve before embarking on whatever the next era may bring... But the crop circles won't be entirely forgotten, either way. The UK media were largely quiet on them in 2011, with just a few press articles here and there, but there was a brief flurry of interest around an article by Richard Taylor in the August edition of Physics World which declared that people are probably now making the formations with microwave-emitting magnetrons—which at least was something beyond the usual media obsession with planks and ropes. However, a sharp reminder that the circles have now indelibly woven their way into the fabric of everyone's lives was given when that most massive of past and current British television successes—Doctor Who—gave its first- ever nod to the circle phenomenon in the opening episode of the new series in late August. For some children, the sight of the time-and-space- ravelling TARDIS sitting in the middle of a crop circle ironically, the subject of a bestselling joke postcard for some years) might be the very thing that sets a whole new generation of cropwatchers on an exploratory journey all of their own, as imaginations and belief- envelopes are stretched and stimulated, as they have been so many times before. Indeed, it is those journeys that can never be taken away, no matter where the circles or the thinking around hem goes from here. There remains, therefore, every reason to celebrate their continued existence, to this day at least. oo East Kennett, near Avebury, Wiltshire. Reported 22 July. Image: www.cropcircleconnector.com Etchilhampton, near Devizes, Wiltshire. Reported 25 July. Image: www.cropcircleconnector.com Overton Down, near Avebury, Wiltshire. Reported 18 July. Image: www.cropcircleconnector.com About the Author: Andy Thomas is one of the world’s leading mysteries researchers and is the author of the acclaimed book The Truth Agenda: Making Sense of Unexplained Mysteries, Global Cover-Ups and Prophecies For Our Times (Vital Signs Publishing, 2009-2011), which was republished in a brand new edition this year and has been widely described as one of the best available overviews of its subjects. Andy is also author of five books on the crop circle phenomenon, including Vital Signs, considered by many to be the definitive guide. He widely lectures around Britain and the world and has often been a guest on mainstream TV and radio programs. For more information about Andy Thomas and his work, visit his websites: http://www.truthagenda. org; http://www. vitalsignspublishing. co.uk; and http://www.glastonbury symposium.co.uk. Andy can be contacted by email at info@vitalsigns publishing.co.uk. 64 * NEXUS OCTOBER - NOVEMBER 20I1 www.nexusmagazine.com