The 2018 Crop circle season has begun!

See all the news of the 2018 crop circle season

Last updated: Wed 9th May 2018

FIRST CIRCLE OF 2018 REPORTED: The crop circle reported in the UK appeared on Tuesday 8th May at Willoughby Hedge, near Mere in Wiltshire. the circle is in oilseed-rape (canola) crop and measures approximately 100-150ft in diameter. You can now see our coverage of this formation here.

Pre -season Information…

We recently visited the Wiltshire countryside (20th April) and drove by some regular crop circle hotspots. The Oilseed rape (canola) was much more advanced than we anticipated with some of it beginning to flower, although it didn’t seem at its full height as yet. The fields and hedgerows looked as if spring was now well underway! See my quick snap of the Alton Barnes White Horse I took while we were there, in the gallery below…

The first circle reported last year (2017) was on April 16th, but in 2016 the first circle did not appear until May 6th. The UK winter has been colder this year, so we might expect the season to start later – but who knows! (see above)

Although it might seem obvious, but crop circles occur only during the crop growing season. In the UK the first circles can start to occur in April and May, reaching their height in late July and August. Crop circles do in fact occur all over the world in many countries and obviously they similarly follow growing seasons in that particular part of the world. In the UK most circles occur in the county of Wiltshire, although circles do happen (in lesser numbers) countrywide. In the early season (April/May) numbers are few but this gradually builds up as the summer moves on, at the height of the season (late July/August) several circles can appear on one night. The season ends with the harvest – and the slate is wiped clean for another year. In the UK the first crop to mature is oilseed rape (canola), then barley, then wheat – the circles seem to follow this maturation process with the first circles appearing in the brilliant yellow of the canola fields and finishing in mature golden wheat. From time to time circles have appeared in other crops – linseed, borage, oats, even beans. There are no hard and fast rules – so anything goes!

Want to be one of the first to know what’s going on? Consider joining our mailing list and following us on social media. We update our mailing list with pictures directly to your inbox and make regular reports via our Facebook page. You can sign up for our newsletter by visiting the homepage and entering your email address on the box at the bottom. There are links to our Facebook Page and Instagram account at the bottom of each page on the website.

In the meantime you might want to plan to visit the circles this summer? We hold our annual Crop Circle Conference in Wiltshire at the height of the season and we have a wonderful line-up of speakers and workshops to get you fully immersed into the crop circle experience. You might find the links below of interest…

About the Crop Circles | Crop Circle Conference 2018 | Visiting the Crop Circles | Shop | About Us 

If you haven’t already, take a look at our Crop Circle Year Books. They are a great way of immersing yourself in crop circle history. We are about to publish our latest edition with images of the 2017 season. Click on the image to find out more…

Finally, if you’re new to the crop circle subject, or just new to our website – welcome! Please have a good look around our website, it packed with beautiful images and information about the circles. We hope you enjoy it and will stay with us as we record the 2018 crop circle season.

Photographic Enlargements: are now available of many of the 2017 crop circles click here to see our fantastic range.

Please Help to keep us Flying in 2018: If you have enjoyed looking at our pictures and information please consider making a small donation to keep us flying. There are so few of us left regularly recording the circles it’s really important that we continue. And while some now use drones to record the circles, it is important that there are still images taken from aircraft where the best quality camera equipment can be used and images that include the broad vista of the landscape can be taken. This kind of photography is expensive and it gets harder with each passing year to raise the funds we need to continue our work, but if everyone who regularly looked at this website made a small donation we would meet the funds we need. You can make a donation here.

Image Licencing

We can supply high resolution images of many of our photographs and the sky is the limit as to what they can be used for! Choose from our extensive library or contact us to commission aerial photography for your project.

Find out more