The Canadian Crop Circle Research Network (CCCRN) has been investigating the crop circle phenomenon in the prairies and across the country since 1995. Creating a unique liason with farmers and scientists, with volunteer research teams from coast to coast, it is the first and only research group of its kind in Canada.
Formerly known as Circles Phenomenon Research Canada, an affiliate of Circles Phenomenon Research International (CPRI), CCCRN was founded by Paul Scott Anderson. With the later closure of the international CPRI offices, the organization was refounded in 2001 as CCCRN, an independent group with the main office in North Vancouver, British Columbia and provincial branches across the country. CCCRN does not have a general paid membership, "membership" is made up entirely of volunteer research assistants.
CCCRN works with numerous other research groups, in Canada and other countries, including the BLT Research Team Inc., which has been conducting scientific laboratory studies of plant and soil samples from crop formations worldwide for the past decade with a growing number of mainstream scientists and laboratories. The primary focus of CCCRN is on-site investigations of formations and documenting the available scientific evidence, also with the assistance of its own scientific consultants in various disciplines.
CCCRN maintains the only complete archives of all known crop circle formation reports in Canada, currently with 249 reports from at least 1925 to 2006, as well as reports of other possibly related circular phenomena (ie. ice circles and "burned circles"), currently with 54 reports from 1880 to 2006.
The work of CCCRN and the phenomenon in Canada in general has been covered extensively by both mainstream and alternative media in Canada and the US, including newspapers, magazines, radio, television and documentary films, as well as featured in regular presentations, from small community groups to large conferences, in Canada, the US and England.
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