STRANGE CONTINENT

CROP CIRCLES

here were fewer crop circles on the Continent than in previous years. On 24 June, the Hallo München website published a photo from Google Maps, which showed a crop circle near Planegg, Bavaria. It consisted of an equilateral triangle intersected by three circles whose centre was at the triangles’ points, all surrounded by one big circle. It was not clear when the aerial images had been taken, and no circle was to be found at the site. Google has replaced the pictures now, and no crop marks can be seen. Even the neighbours did not recall any circles in their fields, so one of the options was a photoshopped image. However, Munich computer expert Robert Helling found the photo was from July 2015 and that later downloads on the map website showed the circles becoming increasingly undefined until they were no longer visible on 29 September 2015. Helling rules out any