How Mark ‘Billy’ Breen Looked For Circle Making Fields

Just days after we covered the ridiculous, pathetic and head shakingly reckless story about the creation of the hoaxed crop circle at Stonehenge Visitors Centre, we are onto our second update.

Before going on, read up on what you’ve missed in full by clicking here.

In brief, the arrival of the circle was preceded by conversation between ‘professional circle maker’ Dan Davies and croppies Enzo Brabazon and Dawn Tottle. The appearance and location of the circle, in turn, suited the latter pair. Brabazon had a similar-ish design whilst Tottle was due to take a private flight over Stonehenge. Davies’ regular circle making partner then made a post on the Facebook wall of a former circle maker who recently passed, implying the hoaxed formation was some kind of tribute.

Photograph by Kris Malford

The most interesting player in all of this though is the photographer, Mark Breen (also known as Billy Breen) who got the first footage of the hoax. He apparently got lucky, seeing the circle from the roadside whilst droning the sunrise at Stonehenge. Sounds reasonable doesn’t it … but three things throw a spanner in the works:

• The circle isn’t visible from the roadside. 
• It was overcast, misty and raining at sunrise and this had been forecast. Hell, even Breen’s footage makes this very clear.
• Breen was a mile from the stones themselves, at the Visitors Centre. With a DJI Mini 4, Pro model or otherwise, you’re not going to get good drone footage from that distance … just a faint dot.

In other words, we’re calling out Billy Bullshitter for exactly what he is.

However, since we published our original article we’ve encountered a few people who have accused us of talking slanderous nonsense, as if they are desperate to be seen to be defending Breen’s honour. Fair enough, with the 2024 season to date containing nothing but very slim pickings, we get why certain people will cling to any old rubbish. The difference is that we aren’t making any income of any kind at all through this website. We haven’t built up our repuation through passing off lies that we think our readers want to see. We aren’t desperate to remain relevant. We aren’t desperate to be collecting money for the farmer and for visitors to the circle to be impressed by what a clever, knowledgeable soul we are. We aren’t desperate to cling to any last piece of cognitive dissonance our minds may allow. 

Anyhow, the usual excuse from Breen apologists is that he is a ‘man of integrity’. Maybe he is, but almost certainly not when it comes to the specific matter of his role in the Stonehenge Visitors Centre hoax. To those defenders, we raise them these screenshots taken  from Breen’s Facebook profile today. His initial post was made on Saturday 28 June, less than 24 hours before the appearance of the circle. The person he is conversing with just happens to be Davies’s circle making colleague … the same individual mentioned earlier. You know, the one who says he retired in 2019 but hasn’t at all:

Now, if Breen is such a ‘man of integrity’, why is he conversing with one half of Britain’s most reckless and vocal circle making duo? Why is Breen telling him ‘I’ll see what I can find on my way home [from Dorset]’, when ‘what’ clearly means ‘nice ready fields’?  

Isn’t a coincidence that less than 24 hours later, on a route between Dorset and Bristol, which could have easily taken in the Stonehenge Visitors Centre, Breen is suddenly on the scene to discover an extremely ugly, small crop circle with a withered appendage?

We noted at the time that this crop circle was made in a field of rye. When was the last time that happened? You’d expect the ‘professional circle maker’ and his clan to know the crop they were working in. How would such experienced, almost celestially blessed artists not know the difference between waist high wheat and shoulder high rye? Maybe if they were given duff infomation from someone new on the scene who had no idea what they were talking about? Just a thought.

Note the withered appendage at 6 o’clock. Original photo by Kris Malford

Someone needs to tell Mark Breen that he’s fooling nobody but he’s blocked us on social media. Why would he feel the need to do this? Did we come too close to the truth? Indeed, since our original piece was published, he, Tottle, Davies and Brabazon have gone remarkably quiet in the chimps’ enclosure where they normally reside. Clearly it is yet another strange coincidence.