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One of the interesting problems in assessing how far back in time the crop circle phen­omenon stretches is that there is no substantial body of similar tales to be found before 1980. Over the years, a small body of recollection and testimony has been gathered, but it was extremely limited. Some of that earlier material has evaporated upon closer inspection. Take, for instance, what is seen as the earliest crop circle on record, the one supposedly found near the city of Assen, in the Nether­lands. I first read about this in Jenny Randles’s and Peter Hough’s Encyclopedia Of The Unexplained, published in 1995, where it is mentioned on p26.