Due to work, life and all sorts of other amazing and concerning things going on in the world that need attention, Swirled News isn't currently active as a news service. However, it is a very valuable source of archive information - hence the site remains up here! - and readers are encouraged to explore our rich back catalogue of crop circle information and discussion. Check out all our sections for lots of stuff still very relevant and worth reading... and enjoy.

With the earliest start to a UK crop circle season for several years, and a wide range of cereal masterpieces, there was a feeling of energy and ambition at work in the fields in 2007, as ANDY THOMAS reports...

Though very late to begin, and down in numbers, the 2006 crop circles arrived nonetheless, and still brought surprises and intrigues of their own. ANDY THOMAS looks back at a curious summer…

Although certainly not the only crop circle gathering each year, the Glastonbury Symposium is the longest-established, and as such makes for a good place to ‘test the temperature’ of where the collective philosophy of the crop circle mindset – and increasingly far beyond - is at. In amongst all the cerealogical presentations at the sixteenth annual Glastonbury Symposium, wider concerns emerged. BARBARA WADDELL shares her personal reflections on the event…

A new book by Daniel Pinchbeck ‘2012 – The Return of Quetzalcoatl’ (though soon to be renamed for the forthcoming paperback version) takes a broad look at the alternative world, focussing on the 2012 phenomenon and crop circles in particular. GEOFF STRAY, author of ‘Beyond 2012’ and webmaster of the ‘Diagnosis 2012’ website, considers its pros and cons…