We hope to reconstruct this formation in a digital form
from this ghost image after the farmer harvested it out.

UPDATE #2

Joyce Galley and I explored the Borstal formation this afternoon. Although of the 'old' style it is arguably the most impressive formation I have seen this year - perhaps even any year! The lay of the many circles and semicircles was immaculate, crisp and quite superb! The nearest description of its would be a matrix of 3 Verham Dean - type formations, but having a lay that was orders of magnitude neater. Having said all that the downside is that it was far too windy to take off in a plane to get any aerials ( the airfield is less that half a mile away! - although at a long shot it may just be possible tomorrow morning - but then we go off to Glastonbury till Sunday. The corn is very ripe so harvest is imminent. Thirdly the farmer - or his rep - was so incredibly unpleasant not to be true - he abused Joyce - twice his age - in a most uncivil and threatening way that it shook her very badly - and all that after we had spent an hour or so with enquiries to try to find out whom the land belonged to - in vain as it turned out. No damage had been done as the formation is just 50 yards from the road with no hedge and tramlines straight to it. At the time I had gone off to try and get some distance shots but they are very oblique. I also have some ground shots but none from a pole. So there you have it.

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Reported by Andrew King (CCCS)

We've been asking for a crop formation here in Wouldham all year and just as the crops are being cut down here it is!! We spotted it today, 27 July, at 6.30am. It is off the Burham Road on the right hand side as you come towards Borstal Village (Rochester) and can be clearly seen from the Borstal end of Wouldham Road. The design is a set of circles interlinked with curved channels and appeared to resemble the DNA structure, although you'll appreciate it is hard to tell from the ground. It is right on the tramlines so we were able to go into the formation, and the lay was beautiful with three strands left standing in each circle and tapering to the edges. The nodes of the flattened crop were swollen.

A few yards away was a small separate circle with a smaller circle inside. We did not go into this as it was not on a tramline and there was no way to get into it without spoiling the completeness of the rings. We have reported this to the CCCS in the hope that investigations will show it not to be man-made, as we have been looking at this field all year hoping for our own crop circle! We'd like to add how much we like your site, it is very easy to move around it, the pictures are great, and its very informative.

Reported Chrissie and Garry Peters