The Croppies S01E03 - "Facts, Lies and Hypothesis" - Full Episode (deutsch/english) - VIDEO

The strange feelings that visitors often experience in crop circles won't get out of Robert's mind. With the help of other croppies he is looking for the energy centre of the formation. Frank however is still sceptic. During the annual crop circle conference both are using the opportunity to ask researchers and authors about the phenomena. Very soon they discover that there are not just interesting facts in the world of crop circles but also lies and hypotheses.

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."

Nach der Besichtigung weiterer Kornkreise beschließen Frank und Robert den alljährlich stattfindenden "Summer Lectures" einen Besuch abzustatten. Dabei treffen sie auf alte Bekannte wie den Fotografen Steve Alexander oder die Kornkreis-Begeisterte Marianne Krüll. Aufmerksam wird Robert auf ein Buch mit dem Titel "Fakten, Lügen und Hypothesen" der Autorin Elisabeth Zollinger, der wir auch gleich die Frage stellen, mit wem sie sich in diesem Buch anlegt.