Case file · Crop circle
Berbah crop circle
In January 2011 an intricate crop circle appeared in a rice paddy at Berbah, Sleman, near Yogyakarta, drawing crowds and UFO speculation across Indonesia.
2011 CE · -7.80, 110.45 · status: explained
The account
Thousands of visitors came to see the pattern. Researchers from the space agency LAPAN, including Thomas Djamaluddin, concluded it was made by people, probably several of them. Police called it vandalism of a farmer's field.
The sceptical view
No maker was ever publicly identified, but the official scientific conclusion was that it was human-made.