From 9th July until 28th August 1992, the Centre for Crop Circle Studies (CCCS) and the United States research group North American Circle, jointly initiated Project Argus – an Instrumental Study of the Crop Circle Phenomena. International funding was obtained, together with generous support from private donors. The project was jointly steered by Michael Chorost, Director of North American Circle, and Montague Keen, convenor of CCCS’s Crop and Soil Effectes research panel.

Project Argus was followed up in 1993 with Project Relate.

“ARGUS did good science. It did what good scientists must always do – test, test and test again, following whatever hints Nature may have given, searching for evidence rather than fantasy, and always remaining ready to find that Nature is rarely as straightforward as she looks.”