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Yatesbury, near Avebury Trusloe, Wiltshire. Reported 16th June, 1988.
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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The circumstances and details surrounding this crop circle, could be said to represent most of the reasons why any serious researcher of the subject should want to see the investigation beyond the obvious and less obvious man made circles. Why ?
This precisely contoured circle was found at Yatesbury, near Avebury Trusloe, Wiltshire on the 16th June, 1988.
1. It was found immediately following very credible eye witnessed series of bizarre phenomenon (More later).
2. It was immaculate, virgin without any signs of human contact and it was not the only pristine example present, ten in all were spread out over the farm
3. None could be seen without walking into each field, because the land was flat.
4.The impressive patterns created by the flattened plants took on most of the swirl designs seen to that data. Some had "S" type swirls, others radically laying plants and others very tight swirls. None of the plants were broken and not as much as a single piece of soil or chalk stone had been moved or broken.
Today the media might write them off as creations by hippies or beer mates, then they were prepared to consider alternatives. The facts were looked at with more care and tolerance primarily because they spent the time to check out some of those facts themselves. This was one such case.
When Colin Andrews made his first telephone call to the farmer, he was met with an excited Mr. Roger Partridge who told him about a strange series of events which were witnessed the day the first circles were found. It was in barley and with nine others around the farm were found on the 16th of June 1988.
He told of his farm hand, Roy Lucas driving a tractor around the farm tracks, cutting grass verges at 8.15 am that day. It was a dull overcast and rather chilly morning with light wind blowing. He reached a point near the large barn (Ex Aircraft hanger) when to his right he witnessed some "white smoke" coming up from a small spot in one of the cereal fields. He could not imagine why someone should be in the field making a bonfire.
It suddenly became evident that this was not a fire or indeed smoke, but a white vapour which quickly took on the well defined form of an inverted cone. The white vapor was spinning at a fast rate but remained positioned in the same spot, as if anchored, even though a light wind was blowing. Roy was stunned and had never seen anything like this during all his years working on the farm. Without notice there was another development. The cone exploded as if a shell had been fired from a cannon. A cloud puffed violently out of the centre and in an upwards direction, and within moments the whole structure had disintegrated and had gone.
Just a couple of minutes later with Roy only a few more yards further down the track, an identical thing happened, but in an adjacent field. He reported these strange happenings to Mr. Partridge at lunch time. This was before it became evident that Saturday in the fields around these events were nine crop circles.
The CPR team of Andrews, Delgado, Meaden and Taylor were joined by Richard Andrews and a TV crew from T.V.S. in Southampton who met with Roy Lucas and Roger Partridge for an interview.
Roy explained how he could see through the cones, except for the more dense grey central cores.
These circles presented some of the best opportunities for research. They were new and had not been entered by anybody and were all growing in thickly sown fields where tracks would have to be made by people entering or leaving - there were none. The researchers and television crew were impressed with what they saw and with the witness. Memories though tend to be short in the media.
A single circle was found on the farm during 1987 and numerous since 1988.
Report by Colin Andrews.
