EXPLAINEDTHE MAKERS
The Avebury Cubes
1999 · Waden Hill, beside the Avebury stone circle · Wiltshire · England
NO FREE IMAGE · EXAMINE IT AT THE SOURCE
OPEN THE SOURCE ↗WHAT IT IS
A 300 ft field of shaded cubes that seem to stand up out of the wheat, made overnight within sight of the Avebury stones to test the experts.
THE ALIEN READING
Researchers nearby said they had seen no one in the field that night; Linda Moulton Howe and Whitley Strieber called the newspaper's account 'patently false'.
WHAT THE RECORD SAYS
Rod Dickinson, John Lundberg, Wil Russell and four friends made it under a full moon in under six hours, with the farmer's paid permission and a Daily Mail reporter and photographer beside them, and published the plan afterwards.
WHERE IT STANDS
Explained. Made by people: its makers are known, or have shown how it was done.
STATUS IS OUR CURRENT ASSESSMENT, NOT A VERDICT · REVIEWED 5 OCT 2026
THE RECORD
- DATE
- 1999
- PLACE
- Waden Hill, beside the Avebury stone circle · Wiltshire · England
- MADE BY
- The Circlemakers, for the Daily Mail
- TYPE
- The makers
- TECHNICAL
- Wheat · 3D optical-illusion formation about 300 ft across · night of 27–28 July 1999
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