Case file · Crop circle
Milk Hill 'galaxy' formation
A spiral of 409 circles nearly 240 m across appeared on a hillside in Wiltshire in August 2001, one of the largest crop formations ever recorded.
2001 CE · 51.37, -1.85 · status: explained
The account
Its size and precision were cited as proof that no human team could have made it in a night. It appeared in the same summer as the Chilbolton 'Arecibo reply'.
The sceptical view
Teams of human makers, working since Doug Bower and Dave Chorley's 1991 confession, have produced large, precise formations overnight using surveying techniques; nothing about Milk Hill requires another explanation.