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Hungerford, Berkshire. Reported 7th August
Image Copyright Colin Andrews CPRI 1988
This image is from "Mysteries of the Crop Circles (The Best of the Mystery Circle photo Collection) Mystery-CD-ROM Series Vol.1 1985-1994
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On the 7th of August 1988, this ‘almost’ complete quintuplet set (type 6 - Andrews Catalogue system) appeared on a hill overlooking the ‘shocked’ village of Hungerford, Berkshire, England.
The CPR team spent two days investigating the circles on site. They observed that one satellite was only partly formed. One half was completely missing, leaving a half circle forming the fourth satellite.
They also noticed that a very positively dowsable line was found to point towards the village church, visible from the centre of the formation. This church was where a ‘shocked’ village buried it’s many dead a short while earlier. A young man called Michael Ryon had gone crazy, driving through the small town shooting everybody who came into his path. This mass murder shook the entire country.
The sense of nervousness still remained as the CPR team researched the formation. Richard Andrews and Busty Taylor were dowsing the central circle with Colin Andrews video taping them, when a passing villager, driving along the base of the hill, suddenly turned off the road and drove full speed through the cereal field towards them. He broke down the ripened plants in a wide swathe where his vehicle and speed, stopping close to their feet.
He just wanted to know what they were doing.
Just to worsen the already embarrassing situation, he took a different route back across the field to the highway. We feared the farmer might arrive and think that we had driven our cars directly to the spot, causing this incredible amount of damage.
This crazed act confirmed our feelings that Hungerford was not a good place to be during 1988!!
Full details with CPRI database.
Report by Colin Andrews.
