Acoording to this guy 'croppies' are retiring and there should be less circles next year-there were 10, 000 reported worldwide, 9000 in England. So we shall see if crop circles are really a hoax. Of course if there are just as many the excuse will be that newbies are making them.
The way things are going, there won’t be any crop circles next year. This would be a pity, for they have become part of the English summer. Of the 10,000 or so crop circles reported round the world in the past generation, 9,000 were in England.
Rather than the Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy, this is the art of the people (even if some say they are little green people from outer space). But there’s no money in crop circles, and farmers are understandably not keen on sightseers trampling their fields to view them.
According to a veteran crop-circler, Matthew Williams: “The best croppies have retired or gone on to something new.” Croppies? The word may to him possess comfortable connotations, like crusties, tankies or crumblies. But on the Ulster side of the North Channel he’d better not boast of his croppy friends, for in those parts it only summons up the words of that old song sung to the sound of the fife:
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I can certainly see where farmers are less than thrilled with people trampling through their crops....I am sure a lot of the circles are indeed human crafted....and like any fad sometimes they lose interest. The whole crop circle thing is pretty illusive and the verdict for me is still out....I also think that extraterrestrials have a hand in many of them....there are many indications of that as well. I could be wrong, but the whole thing has always fascinated me anyway...