• We now know, that crop circles appeared around Alton Barnes already in the 40s and 50s. This means nearly 40 years before the first examples of the ‘modern phenomenon’ were discovered here for the first time and made headlines world-wide.
  • We also see a geometrical evolution between the two examples described by Mrs. Carson: Already a ring (with no flattened centre) resembles a higher order in geometrical complexity, but the addition of a second concentric ring of the same width but flattened in opposite directions even takes it another step further.
  • It is of further note that ‘Doug & Dave’, the two pensioners famous for their questionable claim to have invented the phenomenon in the late 1970s and that they were “responsible for all crop circles” until their coming-out in 1991, never claimed to have worked in the Pewsey Valley at all. They also claimed that they had been inspired by so-called “saucer nests” discovered in the 1960s in Australia but not from early examples in the UK.
  • Carson’s memory puts their claims for inventing the British crop circle phenomenon again in major question.