2026 was a crop circle season that will be remembered for all of the wrong reasons. Perhaps the worst of them was the network that facilitated and knowingly promoted known, publicly claimed hoaxes through social media. We saw ‘names’ plead ignorance as to the origin of these hoaxes, and even get snotty when we called them out over it. None, however, is as remarkable as our Top of the Croppies 2025 winner, who has even managed to detract from the glory sought by his hoaxing buddies to make each and every pattern that appeared in the fields all about him. This is what social media has done to crop circles.

If you missed part one of Top of the Croppies 2025 then click here to catch up.

You have to be a very certain kind of special to pick up the Top of the Croppies title for two successive years. Only one person has managed it before, following a very public string of outrageous, unhinged meltdowns. In an unwilling and unwelcome way that individual provided entertainment, whereas Mark ‘Billy’ Breen has done nothing but draw attention to himself through his association with hoaxers and his subsequent, lame attempts to mumble and bluff his way out of things, plead ignorance and tell everyone he’s such a ‘nice guy’. 

If you’re someone who visits crop circles then you’ll almost certainly have come across Breen. Up at the crack of dawn to accidentally discover new hoaxed pseudo-circles, he makes it his mission to visit each and every pattern that appears. Hanging around in the circle until he has made his daily quota of new friends, he puts his drone up above the field and makes himself a very visible part of his footage. He’s quite the influencer, but he should have been more careful at the season opening hoax at Wimborne in Dorset. Not only was the pseudo-circle in a field where nobody without prior knowledge or an aircraft going to know it was there, his video included Team Ten Watt colleagues Deiniol ‘Dan’ Davies and Dene Hine brazenly lingering at the edge of the field. That’s one good way to piss off farmers, and didn’t we learn so much about that at The Croppie during the 2025 season.

In June Breen further exposed his links to Team Ten Watt, getting to the Normanton Down hoax near Stonehenge and publicising the location. Fine, but the only outlet previously made aware was the Crop Circle Connector after they had been contacted by the hoaxers and refused to play along. As Nick Bull of the Connector subsequently noted, ‘We are wondering … how dippy Billy knew where the wonky long horn C[rop]C[ircle] was as it was reported to the CCC and we never gave out the location until today … wonder how you knew it was there?’

Someone, possibly a farmer, chipped in and started to ask some questions that produced some bullshit responses from Breen, including this one where he flailed around pointing the finger of blame anywhere except at himself:

Then there was this touchy exchange with the same individual where he seemed to suggest the farmer was a circle maker:

Has Breen become so confused that he thinks a farmer would tip him off about a crop circle that may or may not have been on his land? (Then again, Breen was claiming he’d been given inside information by one circle maker as to a ‘four part series’ of circles. As if.) Is he so daft that he thinks a farmer is part of what we can only assume to be a crop circle making ‘team’? It’s total paranoia on Breen’s behalf and it’s something that would follow him online across the remainder of the season. A crop circle maker seems to be living rent-free inside his head. Take these two examples:

Comparing the maker to ‘the devil’? Wow.

Breen is seeing this individual here, there and everywhere, later accusing them of trolling his social media accounts under different identities. Perhaps this was the reason why he called the circle at Sutton Veny a ‘hoax’, even though it was one of a small number of circles that went unclaimed. 

Clearly, this circle maker in question has completely messed with Breen’s mind and tied those synapses up in knots. It also shows Breen has no idea who made what in the fields beyond his mates.

Anyhow, had Breen’s misadventure at Normanton Down made him reconsider how he conducts himself, it really didn’t show. He made his way to another hoax at Kingdon (Ilchester), Somerset, and released his sunset video of the pseudo-circle. Only problem was this was another example of the video being out before the location of the circle was made public. Ten Watt must be delighted to have such a useful idiot willing to make himself look completely guilty.

A paranormal believer may feel we are being harsh by suggesting Breen is complicit in the Team Ten Watt charade. Perhaps Breen possesses the gift of foresight. This wasn’t the first time he had made such discoveries and had always denied his involvement, despite all of the evidence on the table. However, don’t put him up for psychic testing just yet. Breen signed off at the end of the 2024 season with a prediction that 2025 will see a ‘massive increase’ in circles numbers because ‘there is definitely something going down at the moment’. What went down was the number of genuine crop circles to an all time low. Great work, fool.

At least Breen was partly-honest when he said he’d received a tip-off to a hoax at the Glastonbury Festival.

What he didn’t say was that his ‘friend’ was his Team Ten Watt swamp dweller Deiniol Davies.

Fortunately for Breen, he was nowhere to be seen when the dim bulbs descended on Cerne Abbas in Dorset to produce a lopsided spider in a wheat field. However, he couldn’t hold his tongue and produced an astonishing prediction for the following weeks: ‘Yes busy season is about to begin. Tours are about to start. Made to order crop circles are going to arrive.’ 

Made to order crop circles, Billy? Just how many appeared in the fields after you made this bold prediction? Two. The first, a precise but small and uninteresting pagan symbol at Ludwell. The second, an equally small pair of footprints well out of the way in East Sussex. That nobody really got in either, and the former was cut out, shows what a load of nonsense Breen was spewing. His talk of circles being made on demand is the type of rubbish that was endlessly repeated by Andrew Pyrka. It was bullshit a decade ago and it’s equally as nonsensical these days. Who is organising these tours? Billy, are you suggesting the certain people are paying circle makers to get out into the fields to make things illegally? If so, perhaps you should be asking the same questions within your own camp when it comes to the likes of Normanton Down? 

Sadly for Mr Breen, the crop circle season has to come to an end each and every year. He reflected on it by suggesting that it was the season that would be remembered for its basketweave effect in some of the hoaxes. He couldn’t even get that right as 2014, 2018 and 2019 possessed an equal number. If you want to get picky, these three years all beat 2025 for possessing basketweave inside genuine crop circles. 

Mark ‘Billy’ Breen. We know you will read this. No matter what field you’re currently droning in the hope of seeing a ‘ghost’, just have a think about why certain people are on to you and your Ten Watt buddies. It is nothing to do with this website or other crop circle makers. It is how you and your friends shout about your every move to the entire world on social media. Are you all so stupid to think that nobody in the wider world, including those with a real interest in protecting their livelihoods, are not watching? In the meantime, reflect on why you are Top of the Croppies once again and think of the closing words shared by John Macnish in Cropcircle Apocalypse:

‘Next time don’t be so bloody stupid!’