Updated Tuesday 6th August 1996.
An aerial shot by Steve Alexander. Copyright 1996.
Sounds like an extremely bold statement to make, but after the experience I had tonight I feel 100% certain. It was a humbling, yet fulfilling visit to the second Cambridge formation that occurred since late last week (Sat night?) directly across the M11 motorway from the first formation to appear in the UK this season. It falls on the same ley line according to dowser & researcher Michael Newark. In addition, it has a similar shape to it... almost circular with a crescent inside with one of the edges touching the outer rim. Then a "tail" shoots off with 3 other minor tails. I will work on a computer drawing tomorrow & try to get an aerial shot on Monday. Others photos have been taken already. The formation is approx. 100' (E/W) x 107' (N/S) and the tail is ~158'. It has sharper ends than the formation across the way, but almost appears to be the male counterpart. Which is interesting to note that Michael dowsed two major yang (masculine) lines that interested directly in the middle of the formation!
Now for the interesting stuff... how can I be so sure it wasn't hoaxed? Two of the most indicative characteristics were 1) the "magic bend" caused by exploding nodes that cause the stalks to bend at an almost 90 degree angle actually occurred 1/3 from the top of the stalk (~55" from the base) and 2) there was a clearly audible crackling noise in the air. This formation was still alive. There is even a firsthand report of a bright ball of light in that field on Saturday night. I have many pictures of the exploded nodes that I will scan onto the web as soon as they're developed. It was an amazing, fluffy sea of flowing barley that crunched with every step (I hated to walk on it!). The base of the stalks seemed almost dehydrated and most of the ones I observed were buckled (causing a crease similar to hoaxed formations). But the magic bend towards the top of the stalk resulted in the head pointing straight up in the air & gave a rippled effect everywhere. No human can alter plant stalks so dramatically & on such a large scale!!
The lay of the crop was very complex and I'll put that on the diagram as well as the ley lines dowsed by Michael Newark. These two formations are going to need extensive analysis and hopefully indicate that the Earth's energy grid in the Cambridge area is in for some interesting changes this year.
UPDATE
This photo was taken by me around 9:00pm on a cloudy June evening (19/6). I was using a flash with 35mm 200ASA film inside the second Cambridge formation. This was the same formation that I could audibly hear a "crackling" noise coming from within the formation (Michael Newark was a witness to this also). There is a second photo that is taken from a slightly different location, but shot in the same direction. You can see a ball of light in that, but much fainter. Due to the cloudy conditions, it couldn't have been a star. In addition, I know there wasn't anything visible to the eye there at the time b/c I was looking closely. 19th June 1996.
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Image by Diahann Krishna. Copyright 1996.
Date of Visit - 18.6.96
Date of formation - 11.6.96
Crop Type - Barley
Crop Height - unknown
Circle diameter - 104ft
This formation in Barley is on the opposite side of the M11 Junction 14 to the Girton Oilseed Rape formation.
Some buckles at stem bases, not many snaps, crop is quite flexible still.
Buckles were visible at other points on the stems, but at no particular (uniform) height.
Effects on the nodes were many. Many nodes appeared visibly darkened - brown in colour. Nodal bending was also visible. Elongation of the nodes was also observed consistently throughout formation, as were spilt nodes. Nodal bending was also observed on plants under the lay of the formation. Some swollen nodes were found.
Approx. 20 standing stems in the entire formation. Also observed were two clumps of standing stems with 20-30 stems. No particular shape to these standing clumps.
The seed heads of the crop were now drooping, and the crop was just beginning to dry out, and turn golden. The crop was recovering minimally. This was probably due to the fact that the crop was no longer growing, and was different in comparison to formations of this age in young green Barley: which would be recovering vigorously at this stage.
After one week it was obvious to see the different recovery characteristics of maturing barley. As the crop begins to dry out, the plants make much less of an attempt to recover, presumably because the plant at this stage had stopped growing. There would be also probably be less resistance from the plants to the flattening force, and with the plants not yet being fully dried out, less snaps would occur to stem bases as the plants would still be quite supple.
Nodal effects were interesting in this formation, particularly the darkening of many nodes. I have never seen so many in one formation. It seems as though whatever attempts at recovery had been made, i.e. bending upwards of some nodes, this had not been enough to lift the plant effectively. Again this could be because of the stage of maturity. Perhaps this stunted attempt to recover had caused various nodal deformities. The darkening, however, remains a mystery. It would have been most interesting see 8if any of these effects on the nodes had been present immediately after the formation occurred, as after a week or so it is difficult to say whether these effects had been wholly caused by environmental factors - i.e. high heat from the sun and phototropism attempts or something more unorthodox.
