UFO / UAP
Crop circle
Crop circle is tracked by MysteryAtlas as a source-backed mystery case for evidence inspection, explanation review, and conservative assessment. Published from grouped source-backed raw items.
Case identity
4 reports / 4 evidence blocks / updated Jun 15, 2026Date
Date unknown
Location
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Category
UFO / UAP
Status
Open Case
30-Second Summary
What happened?
Crop circle is tracked by MysteryAtlas as a source-backed mystery case for evidence inspection, explanation review, and conservative assessment.
What is documented?
Published from grouped source-backed raw items.
Current consensus?
The case has enough independent source material to inspect, while stronger claims remain provisional pending better primary records and technical analysis.
64Signal
Overall investigation significance score.
66Reality
How strongly evidence supports that the event occurred.
42Debunk
How strongly conventional explanations explain the event.
46Residue
How much unexplained material remains.
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Primary source / Archive / Date unknown
Crop circle - Wikipedia
Wikipedia
A crop circle, crop formation, or corn circle is a pattern created by flattening a crop, usually a cereal. The term was coined in the early 1980s. Crop circles have been described as all falling "within the range of the…
#2 / Report / Date unknown
Crop Circle Confession
How to get the wheat down in the dead of night
#3 / Archive / Date unknown
Farmer embarrassed by crop circle hoax
If you want to stay on Calvin Michel
#4 / Report / Date unknown
The bizarre revival of crop circles - and advice on how to make your own
John Vidal on the bizarre revival of crop circles - and advice on how to make your own
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What happened?
Crop circle is tracked by MysteryAtlas as a source-backed mystery case for evidence inspection, explanation review, and conservative assessment.
What the file contains
Published from grouped source-backed raw items. This is a developing case page; additional primary sources, media, and debunk material should be attached over time.
Current read
The case has enough independent source material to inspect, while stronger claims remain provisional pending better primary records and technical analysis.
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Why the signal is high
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Case Verdict
Best current interpretation
Strongly supported
A crop circle, crop formation, or corn circle is a pattern created by flattening a crop, usually a cereal. The term was coined in the early 1980s. Crop circles have been described as all falling "within the range of the sort of thing done in hoaxes" by Taner Edis, professor of physics at Truman State University. Althou
Likely explained
The case remains open to conventional explanations, source limitations, media framing, and later reinterpretation.
Still unresolved
Which source is closest to the original report or record?
The case has enough independent source material to inspect, while stronger claims remain provisional pending better primary records and technical analysis.
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