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Cherhill, Nr Calne, Wiltshire. Reported 21st June.
Image Copyright Colin Andrews CPRI 1989
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 2nd of June 1989 the very first formation in the shape of a crucifix was found on Ministry Of Defence land at Heytesbury in Wiltshire. A senior army officer was dispatched to investigate and also CPR visited the site. The following day another appeared at Calstone Wellington, also in Wiltshire. Then during the early hours of the 21st of June this third one was found below the Cherhill White Horse. It turned out to be one of the most significant ever seen.
Andrews/Delgado/Meaden/Wingfield and Taylor were on site
within a few hours, having also seen the other designs days before. Magnetic anomalies
were detected as one of the most baffling features was discovered. Numerous banded
clusters of plants within the areas surrounding satellite circles were laying flattened to
the ground. These plants would have been missed by the casual observer as they lay hidden
within the apparently unaffected surroundings. These clusters were also laying and
spiralled in sympathy with the closest satellite to each band. Some bands were extremely
narrow. It was not possible for them to be formed or even approached, without damaging
other upright plants. To this day, this rare feature remains not only a mystery but
absolute evidence of a non conventional cause. After Andrews contacted colleagues in Japan
who were by this time looking into the strange magnetic effects being experienced, a
report came from a house owner overlooking the Cherhill field. It was now winter and she
looked into her garden to see (and photograph) one of the "oddest things" she
had ever seen. A narrow column of ice had grown out of the centre of her bird bath.
The stone bath was shaped exactly as a Celtic cross and from the centre rose the long
shaft of ice.
Andrews and his Japanese university scientist colleagues discovered (since proven) that
ice forms and grows faster in strong electric fields. Was Cherhill located near an unusual
magnetic vortex field ? It was this site where the controversial 'magnetic filings' were
discovered in a circle during 1993. Experience has shown that nothing excites western
government agencies more than discoveries which involve magnetic anomalies. What do they
know, that they appear to fear we will stumble on? Remember, this was also the same site
where Roy Lucas witnessed the several spinning inverted columns of mist one day. The same
day as circles formed on the farm.
This site will be covered in a future book and CD-ROM by Colin Andrews.
Two more crucifix designs arrived on the 13th of July 1993 and the 29th of July 1996.
Cherhill is an important site.
Reported Colin Andrews
An enigmatic Crucifix formation appeared near the ancient Hill Fort Cherhill near the town of Calne. It was almost pointing towards the White Horse positioned below the fort, and was thought to have some significance with this feature. The outer satellite which made the stem of the Crucifix was offset from the cross feature.
