The Science of Crop Circles

The Science of Crop Circles

By Marcus Halloway · Published May 8, 2026 · Updated May 13, 2026 The science of crop circles begins where the folklore ends. Two retired men confessed in 1991 to making the patterns with planks and rope. A meteorologist named Terence Meaden floated a plasma vortex hypothesis, then watched it fail. A biophysicist named W.C. […]