DUTCH author and photographer Janet Ossebaard, in Wiltshire for her research from June to August every year, has thanked Mysterious West “for having the guts to break the silence surrounding crop circles”.

She told me: “Thank you for your courage and your open mind.

“In this time of governments opening up their top-secret files about UFOs, astronauts breaking the silence about what they really encountered 'out there', and breathtaking patterns appearing in our fields in a blink of an eye – I have witnessed it myself on three different occasions – you are one of the first journalists to approach this subject in an intelligent an open-minded manner.” Janet began studying crop circles 15 years ago, first from a scientific viewpoint.

“But after having been presented with abundant and overwhelming scientific evidence for the majority (94 per cent) of the formations not being man-made, I now focus more on the question: who are the circle-makers then, if indeed they are not human?” she said.

“A difficult question to answer, especially since it confronts you with your own limitations and biases.

Maybe that's what it's all about: to think outside the box and stop being so judgmental and arrogant, thinking we know it all and if we don't know or understand it, it must be a hoax…”