DISPUTEDFRACTALS & GEOMETRY
The Diessenhofen Swirl
2008 · Diessenhofen, on the Rhine · Thurgau · Switzerland
WHAT IT IS
Six long curling arms sweep out from a tight vortex in ripe wheat on the Rhine flats, like something seen spinning from above.
WHERE IT STANDS
Disputed. No maker has claimed it. Sceptics say people made it; proponents point to what they say people could not do.
STATUS IS OUR CURRENT ASSESSMENT, NOT A VERDICT · REVIEWED 5 OCT 2026
THE RECORD
- DATE
- 2008
- PLACE
- Diessenhofen, on the Rhine · Thurgau · Switzerland
- MADE BY
- Unclaimed
- TYPE
- Fractals & geometry
- TECHNICAL
- Wheat · six-armed swirl · logged 21 June 2008 by the Swiss Crop Circle Center (one source); photographed from the air 15 July 2008 · no maker, no press coverage found
