It must have been about 1990 when my brother and a friend went to see one of the crop circles that seemed to be suddenly springing up. It wasn’t the one at Alton Barnes that made the news, it was closer, to where we live, possibly near Liddington. They brought back a handful of the wheat within the circle.
So I had a look at it and these nodes circled in red, all of them were burst, looked as if they had exploded from the inside although were not broken off. The wheat was bent there, in both places. I’ve never been to see one myself so I can’t say if every one of them is the same in that respect.
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