Category: The Golden Age

An Unrecorded Crop Circle?

by The Croppie | Jul 1, 2026 | The Golden Age | 0 |

An Unrecorded Crop Circle? All photographs on this page by Crissdee. Reproduced with permission....

Operation Blackbird

by The Croppie | Nov 1, 2024 | The Golden Age | 0 |

Operation Blackbird is deservedly renowned as one of the most genuinely iconic events in crop circle history. It enthralled the British public, massively dented the reputation of cerealogist Colin Andrews and, to this day, nobody believable has come forward to claim responsibility for one of the biggest yarns in the cerealogical record books.

Operation White Crow

by The Croppie | May 13, 2022 | The Golden Age | 0 |

Operation White Crow FollowFollowFollowFollow WATCHING THE PUNCHBOWL During June 1989 cerealogist...

Saucer Circles: How Ufology Gave Us The Crop Circle Phenomenon

by The Croppie | May 18, 2020 | The Golden Age | 0 |

In the adjoining wheatfields were other features, taking the form of circular or elliptical areas...

Old Crop Circles – Is There A Case For Their Existence?

by The Croppie | Dec 4, 2019 | The Golden Age | 0 |

Nobody is truly certain where and when the very first crop circle was discovered. Whatever...

The UFO Connection

by The Croppie | May 21, 2019 | The Golden Age | 1 |

Of all the name cerealogists from the past, Colin Andrews and Pat Delgado adopted the most...

Did Crop Circles Down A Warplane?

by The Croppie | May 19, 2019 | The Golden Age | 3 |

Flying Saucer Review is the gift that keeps on giving when it comes to stories from the archives....

The Doug & Dave Conspiracy

by The Croppie | Apr 1, 2019 | The Golden Age | 2 |

After Doug Bower (above) and Dave Chorley lay claim to having been the original circle makers, the...

The Operation Blackbird Conspiracy

by The Croppie | Mar 29, 2019 | The Golden Age | 0 |

When Colin Andrews and Pat Delgado took on the roles of being the public face of 1990’s...

Doug & Dave: Addressing Inconsistencies

by The Croppie | Mar 26, 2019 | The Golden Age, Video | 8 |

When Doug Bower and Dave Chorley, in Autumn 1991, claimed to having made the first crop circles, they were proclaimed by TODAY newspaper to be the ‘Men Who Conned the World’. Since then their word has been accepted as the truth...

Doug Bower: 25 June 1924 – 21 July 2018

by The Croppie | Jul 23, 2018 | 2018 season, The Golden Age | 5 |

The Croppie is greatly saddened to learn of the passing of Doug Bower. Bower earned infamy in 1991 when, with his friend Dave Chorley, he confessed to TODAY newspaper that he had started the modern crop circle phenomenon in the...

Crop Circle Hauntology

by The Croppie | Jun 6, 2018 | The Golden Age | 0 |

Croppies who lived through the eighties and into the early 1990s may well remember how basic the...

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Croppie:
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A person with an interest in the crop circle phenomenon. Such individuals may be of varying belief, sanity and intelligence.

The Croppie:
The Croppie was established in 2015 to cover all aspects of the crop circle phenomenon in Britain. This includes new formations, circles history, conspiracies and related culture.