History Main / CropCircles

* In a [[ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse Duck comic]], Donald Duck and Daisy visit Ireland and discover crop circles are created by dancing fairies.
* One of ''Series/TheXFiles'' comics (Published in ''Magazine/TVGuide'') has Mulder and Scully go to a Crop Circle in progress, discovering a kid with a board and a flashlight flattening the stalks. The kid gets away, but advises that the farmer is "A sick old freak". [[spoiler: The crop circles on the farmer's land are around graves of people he killed. The boy making the circles was a ghost of one of his victims.]]
* In ''ComicBook/WildsEnd'' the survivors wander into a gigantic circular crop circle.

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* The BBC One ident "Lawn Mowers" (one of the Circles series) has some StepfordSuburbia housewives mowing their lawns; an overhead shot shows they've created an alien symbol in the grass. Interestingly, it was one of the idents interrupted by the Doctor in pre-publicity for "[[Recap/DoctorWho50thASTheDayOfTheDoctor The Day of the Doctor]]", and the symbol does look vaguely Gallifreyan.

* In the episode "Vanished" of ''Series/{{NCIS}}'' the team investigates crop circles and discovers one was caused by a helicopter and the others by the murderers attempting to cover up their crime.
* ''Series/TheNeighbors'': Everyone in Hidden Hills, a perfect suburban community, is an alien. Jackie makes one of these Crop Circles things in a field when she is upset.
* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' "[[Recap/SupernaturalS06E09ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve Clap Your Hands If You Believe...]]": Sam and Dean investigate a series of people disappearing in flashes of light and while examining a crop circle left at one of the abduction sites, Dean himself is taken. [[spoiler: TheFairFolk are behind the abductions and are encouraging the idea of aliens to divert suspicion from themselves.]]
* ''Series/TheXFiles'':
** In episode "[[Recap/TheXFilesS01E14GenderBender Genderbender]]", there were [[HumanAliens human-looking aliens]] residing on Earth in a community that resembled Amish lifestyle with sect-like vibe. When they leave at the end of the episode, Mulder and Scully come to a large Crop Circle in the field. It's implied it's a print of their spaceship.
** "[[Recap/TheXFilesS07E17AllThings all things]]": Agent Mulder plans a trip to England to investigate a case of highly complex formations of Crop Circles that keep appearing in a pattern. Agent Scully is of course not interested in tracking down some sneaky farmers who happened to ace geometry in high school.

* Appear in an episode of ''Series/MidsomerMurders'', with the murder victims found with blackened fingers and wounds around their kidneys. [[spoiler:The circles were made by the local UFO believer who also dumped an accidentally-electrocuted thief in the middle, starting the episode. He just wanted other people to accept the existence of aliens (didn't stop him from ending up in one as a corpse).]]

* ''Series/ThirdRockFromTheSun'', episode Fun with Dick and Janet: Part 2, has Tommy cover for the alien landing spot, by confessing to a crop circle prank where he ran laps with a flaming 2x4 behind him.
* One episode of ''Series/Kingdom2007'' features a very elaborate crop circle appearing in a Norfolk field, which draws attention from local sci-fi fans who hold an impromptu sci-fi con on the spot. [[spoiler: It was drawn by one fan's son with a golf cart in an attempt to get his father's attention near the anniversary of his mother's death, and the farmer drew a second one to keep the con going.]]

* On ''Series/ResidentAlien'', crop circles are alien emojis. When Harry Vanderspeigle believes that the Alpha Draconians are on Earth, he sends them rude messages using crop circles until TheGreys set him straight that they're the ones who are on Earth.
* ''Series/BeyondParadise2023'': Episode four of season one starts with lights in the sky and a man's body discovered at the centre of a newly created crop circle. [[spoiler:A local farmer is deliberately creating them to draw tourists. The light in the sky was his drone.]]
* ''Series/MidsomerMurders'': Feature prominently in "[[Recap/MidsomerMurdersS4E3 Electric Vendetta]]", with three bodies being found in crop circles.

* {{Music/Korn}}'s "concert video", ''The Happening'', (included in the deluxe version of ''The Path Of Totality'') has the band performing live in a crop circle in the middle of a field. They did it as a homage to Music/PinkFloyd's ''Live At Pompeii'', as they are playing live but there is no audience.

* ''Crop Circles: Escape From Planet 3'' is about a flying saucer creating crop circles and [[AliensStealCattle stealing cattle]].
* In ''{{VideoGame/Spore}}'', during the Space Stage, you can use Crop Circles to "communicate" with more primitive (meaning "not in space yet") species. There doesn't seem to be any real game effect, but they look cool.

* Appears as an Easter egg in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4GunsOfThePatriots''.
* In ''Videogame/TheFeebleFiles'' creating crop circles is the job of the protagonist at the beginning of the story.
* In ''VideoGame/TheSimpsonsHitAndRun'', a crop circle designed like Bart Simpson can be found in a tomato field in levels 4 and 7. In a cutscene, Abe also describes seeing a crop circle shaped like a planet with an antenna, and Marge came to the conclusion that the planet with an antenna matches the design of Buzz Cola.
* In ''Franchise/TouhouProject'', crop circles (or sunflower circles as the case may be) serves as meeting spots for the fairies high council during emergencies.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Stellaris}}'', crop circles really are of alien origin. They are also a prank. As in, bored Observation Teams watching from orbit can decide to mess with the primitives.
* Very simplistic crop circles (a big circle connected to a little one by a stick) connote landing pads for Crypto's FlyingSaucer in ''VideoGame/DestroyAllHumans.'' They only appear in one or two maps.

* The {{WesternAnimation/Pixar Short|s}} "Unidentified Flying Mater" has Mater create crop circles shaped like tires.

* ''WesternAnimation/GerryAndersonsNewCaptainScarlet'' had some of these show up in one episode, apparently as a side effect of some Mysteron technology. Complete with some visual effects for their spontaneous creation.
* ''WesternAnimation/InsideJob2021'': Cognito Inc. makes these for unclear purposes (''they'' might not even know). In the second episode, JR declares that due to budget cuts, they're rolling back from the artsy patterns to just easy circles.
* ''WesternAnimation/BigCityGreens'': After Cricket destroys the garden after another one of his shenanigans, he lies about destroying it, saying that it was a crop circle set up by aliens. Alice and Tilly are on board with the theory, but [[OnlySaneMan Bill]] is still rather skeptical, and spends the rest of the episode trying to prove that Cricket is the one who laid it there.

* ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'':
** In the episode "Sandy's Rocket", one of the points Spongebob brings up about the existence of aliens is "Those mysterious circles that pop up in kelp fields overnight" and then freaks out when he notices a circle in the sand (which he made while pacing around Sandy) "AHH! There's one now!"

* Appears as an Easter egg in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4''.

* Crop circles are usually made by farmers or others out to prank people. They take a board with a string, and stand on the board, moving it by the string, so that it flattens the cornstalks without breaking them. Or something like that. Note that crop circles' frequency of appearance closely follows the change in value of the crops. They have also caused several major law suits when the circle creator was not the farmer-these things frequently destroy tens of thousands of dollars worth of crops per glyph.

* In a commercial for Bush's Baked Beans, Jay Bush and his dog Duke are walking through a cornfield. Jay gives his usual spiel about the secret family recipe and how he's only shared it with Duke, but Duke would never tell. They then come upon a crop circle. "You don't think... [=UFOs=]?" wonders Jay as the camera zooms out to reveal that the "crop circles" actually form the message "SECRET FAMILY RECIPE FOR SALE CONTACT DUKE". "Yeah. That's it. [=UFOs=]," [[TalkingAnimal agrees Duke]].