SUBJECT: CROP CIRCLES IN NORTH AMERICA FILE: UFO1231 The NAICCR
Report: Crop Circles in North America North American Crop
Circles and Related Physical Traces in 1990 by Chris Rutkowski
et al. Released February 1991 by the North American Institute
for Crop Circle Research. 40 pp. Reviewed by Michael Chorost
Published June 1991 Early in 1991, Chris Rutkowski and his
colleagues set out to produce the kind of report cereologists
have been aching to see: a tabular list of 1990 crop circles.
They also wanted to search the data for patterns, and locate the
methodological challenges of doing so. They were confronted with
several difficulties from the outset. One was the problem of
cobbling together usable data from diverse sources of varying
completeness and reliability. Another was the challenge of
deciding how to organize it, since no one knows which data
structure will best bring buried truths to the surface. Still
another was the sheer unprecedentedness of what they were doing,
since there were no successful anal