Crop Circles

The first pictogram - Daz Smith

In July of 1990 one of the most important developments to the enigma known as Crop Circles came and took the world by storm in the form of the Alton Barnes Pictogram - The FIRST Pictogram.

The day after this amazing Circle was reported in the Press I found my way to it and arrived approximately 9.00pm.

We appaorached the strange form in awe as the skies turned dark and day changed to night. Like the others with me I felt that nothing would be the same after seeing this - and we werent far wrong.

We wound our way in and out of the complex forms and crisp edged shapes. The weave was precise and the stalks of the crop could be felt crunching under our every step.

Whilst looking around I took two stalks of crop from the largest circle right from the centre. On the way out of the formation near the top approximately 50ft away I also picked two more stalks and place both sets in sealed bags-where they have been till this day when I scanned them in for this article.

The two stalks from inside the circle still look as fressh today as the day I picked them over 13 years ago. The two comparison stalks from outside of the formation have broken, dead, are a different colour and have a dark patchy fungus on both stalks.

Now I cant say to anyone that Crop Circles are real - but back before organised hoaxers when this formation was created I picked these samples and to me they tell a story. They tell a story of a mystery that we still cant understand, a mystery clouded by man himself, invetigators and hoaxers alike.

The truth is out there - somewhere!

If you have any observations and comments - please let me know.