The Croppies S01E05 - "Balls of light" - Full Episode (deutsch/english) - VIDEO

Monique Klinkenbergh has devoted herself to the crop circles entirely. The successful dutch businesswoman sold her company to fly over Englands wheat fields during the crop circle season,
make pictures of the newest formations and announce them. Sometimes she gets into strange situations with the farmers that doesn't share her enthusiasm. Foeke Kotje also comes from the Netherlands and visits South England every year with his camcorder. He made his own movie about the strange balls of light that he filmed during his trips. Are these light phenomena behind the crop circles?

The series is a lot different than the movie "New Swirled Order" which is available for for free on YouTube. While often experts are in the focus of the movie and scientific anomalies were connected to the crop circles Hoefer and Fleischer choosed the format of an entertaining series.

In eight episodes the viewer accompanies the eight headed film crew of the Croppies to the fascinating wheat formations in the english county of Wiltshire, the world wide epicentre of crop circles. Since their first movie from 2008 both filmmakers learned a view things. Except eatherproofed clothes and gumboots they also took two drones with attached cameras were brought to the United Kingdom. During their research they got the help of UFO researchers with professional surveillance equipment and crop circle researchers on the ground.

"Actually the series is more about a crazy film crew that is trying to make a movie about crop circles." Frank Höfer says. The format was picked by purpose. "We hope to reach a whole new audience that never heard of the phenomenon and doesn't enjoy a pure documentary." On the other side there were pragmatic reasons why the shooting of the movie was in the foreground.
"These formations Spontaneously emerge over night in all kinds of places" says Robert Fleischer. "It was very hard to plan the shooting in the first place and also to create a red line to follow."

Im Silent Circle Cafe verbringt des Drehteam den neuen Morgen und wartet auf die neuesten Kornkreisnachrichten. Das Warten wird verkürzt durch die Bekanntschaft mit dem holländischen Ufo-Forscher Foeke Kotje, der uns einen exklusiven Einblick in seine Videoaufnahmen von fliegenden Lichtbällen gewährt. Ob es sich dabei nicht auch um Insekten handeln könne, die über die Kameralinse grabbeln, fragt Robert kritisch und bekommt als Antwort eine ganz neue Inspiration...