1990 October–December,New Scientist, volume128, London: New Science Publications,→ISSN,→OCLC, page61:
[…] the array of experts who have collaborated to found the Centre for Crop Circle Studies and co-authorThe Crop Circle Enigma, the parents ofcereology[…]
1991, “Editorial notes”, inThe Cereologist: The Journal for Crop Circles Studies, Shepton Mallet, Somerset: The Cereologist,OCLC877349523, page 5; quoted inGordon Stein, “Crop Circles”, inThe Encyclopedia of the Paranormal, Amherst, N.Y.:Prometheus Books, 1996,ISBN978-1-57392-021-6, page 185, column 1:
The result of all this has been to throw the world ofcereology into a state of total confusion. All its previous certainties have been demolished.
1991 September 23,Leon Jaroff, “It happens in the best circles”, inTime[1], archived fromthe original on11 November 2016:
Saucer enthusiasts argued that the cropland patterns marked the landing spots of UFOs bearing visitors from space. Believers in the paranormal claimed the circles radiated mysterious energy forces. The patterns spawned a kind of intellectual cottage industry: no fewer than 35 Britons claim to be experts on the phenomenon. A new scientific discipline,cereology, emerged. It is practiced by members of the Circles Effect Research Unit, a privately funded group headed by Wiltshire-based physicist Terence Meaden.
2003, Colin Andrews, Stephen J. Spignesi, “The Path”, inCrop Circles: Signs of Contact, Franklin Lakes, N.J.: New Page Books,→ISBN, page 29, column 1:
The world needed to be educated about the mysteries ofcereology, and that knowledge base had not been disseminated widely enough for my more "unusual" theories to be accepted, or at least considered, with reason and open-mindedness.
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