‘Vital Signs’, the book which has been widely described as the definitive guide to the crop circle phenomenon, authored by Swirled News editor Andy Thomas, has just been republished in a substantially revised and updated edition, and can be ordered online. Click the new button in the left-hand column to take you straight to its new website or read on for more details here…

With the Mel Gibson crop circle movie ‘Signs’ arriving in the US, the publicity bonanza in the media has gone into predictable overdrive - to good and bad effect, as ANDY THOMAS reports…

The world’s largest annual international crop circle conference, ‘The Glastonbury Symposium: Investigating Crop Circles and Signs of our Times’, took place in July to great success and hundreds of attenders in its new larger and classier venue at Glastonbury Town Hall. BARBARA WADDELL looks at the themes and threads which bound the weekend together…

The extraordinary crop formations which appeared at Chilbolton, Wiltshire, last year (one a humanoid face and the other a seeming response to a message Mankind sent into deep space in 1974) are still making waves a year on from their appearance. Now renowned author and geometer John Michell has added his own thoughts into the equation, courtesy of his new booklet ‘The FACE & the MESSAGE’, as reviewed by MICHAEL GLICKMAN…

At last, after years of public exposure to tantalising extracts and snippets of information on biological anomalies and other strange effects in crop formations, the BLT Research group’s work with W C Levengood and now other scientists has become available to access online with the launch of the new BLT website, as ANDY THOMAS reports…