The End of Crop Circles?

 

Andy Thomas has written his traditional annual crop circle report in Nexus magazine. It is subtitled "Strange Days, the New Normal". The numbers of crop circles has risen and fallen throughout the years with high seasons and low seasons. Yet after the harvest of 2025 we can no longer kid ourselves, the phenomenon is suffering a long-term decline. Ironically this has coincided with a burgeoning of interest in the circles that has burst the banks of the woo-o-sphere, even with a few minor three-digit news outlets like News Nation and GB News covering them. This season started very late; not until mid May, and there were only nineteen confirmed formations this year which is about average for the decade so far. They tended to be less grand than previous eras and none were confirmed as not being manmade. There were one or two nice ones, such as the "toppled CD stack" from Lyme Regis, Devon and a similar design incorporated into a seven pointed star in Italy. There was a return to traditional roots at Hackpen Hill with a standard quintuplet surrounded by a thick circle. Some fine 3D images appeared such as a German one that looks like a naval mine and a representational spider image at Cerne Abbas, famous for its "rude man". Another representational image was what looked like a clown at Stonehenge. It has been nicknamed "the jester"; and I'm sure the skeptics will get the joke. There were some native spiritual icons like a pentacle and Celtic knot too. Source: https://nexusmagazine.com/?v=79cba1185463.

So, is this the long predicted demise of the crop circle phenomenon? If that's what's going on the skeppers will be gloating of course. The rest of us, including me, will be very sad. I'll miss them terribly and I won't be alone. Crop circles have been a source of wonder and delight for the UFO-paranormal-conspirasphere for several generations. There has not yet been a summer without them since the late 70's. I suppose we've come to take them for granted. I don't know if they will ever end because I don't know why they appear to begin with. What do they mean? If they ever ended it would not only be something that would give us personal grief it might be a bad sign, that the intelligence behind them had abandoned us. Alternatively it could be a good sign. A time might come when whoever, or whatever, gives us this gift decides we no longer need it and they can now leave us to develop by ourselves. It's a bit like in Tolkien with the elves leaving Middle Earth just before the War of the Ring because they know men have evolved to the point where they no longer need the elves to guide them. It's all a part of growing up; children leave home, birds fly the nest etc. That would make it both a sad and happy moment. If the circles ever ended it might mean that we were ready for something even better. We'll see what happens next year, but whatever that is, even if we lose them forever, maybe the only appropriate response is to repeat what the late Michael Glickman used to say: "Thank you... whoever you are... wherever you are!"
See here for background: https://hpanwo-radio.blogspot.com/2024/08/hpanwo-show-560-podcast-andy-thomas.html.
And: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2023/08/ben-goes-on-tor-2023.html.