East Field (2), nr Alton Barnes, Wiltshire. Reported 12th June.

Sarah Dennis has adopted the Sun Serpent and shares her feelings for this formation.

I would like to "Adopt" the Sun Serpent formation from the East Field. The design is similar to one I was hoping would happen this year, and it was a bonus to see it the day after it had formed. When out "circle-hunting" I am always surprised how many people will come up and start talking about the formations, and swap information. As well as meeting new people, it is nice to get out-and-about to parts of the country I might not have visited otherwise.

Sarah website address is for the Wildlife Centre in Southampton.

We thought the picture bleow looks very similar to the Sun Serpent, what do you think?

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This formation is placed some six tramlines towards Woodborough Hill, further down East Field, and is of a completely different design to the pictogram. Furthermore, it has a floor pattern that is completely different in nature to the longer pictogram. The design is very similar in appearance to the Barton St Clay formation back in 1996, with snaking pathways, and an arrow head, strangely pointing toward the pictogram. It's interpretation is the Sun Serpent from South American culture. The serpent's floor pattern was extremely interesting, placed at the very top of the design, it had wild grass growing within the crop, which was partially effected, partially standing. It is separated the top head section, from the first snaking pathway. Overall, it had an impressive floor lay, with a wonderful fluidity, and some very nice splayed sunburst centres, placed at each intersections. There are two major directional flows involved in the overall creation of the formation, which intersect down the main axis.

Report by Stuart Dike.

SERPENT FORMATION, EAST FIELD, ALTON BARNES

We crossed over to the serpent formation. We found the lay interesting as it was in a lot of different directions but it was messy, as if it was made in a rush. It also didn't look as spectacular from a distance as the 1024ft one we were in. As we walked through we discussed the unusual lay and we got the impression that it was faked. However, when we reached the head of the serpent I got a strong headache and we all got an electrified, excited feeling, like we found at the Sompting formation. We noticed that that lay was much better at this point and we noticed birds' feathers which strangely seem to be scattered among most crop circles. My theory is that the serpent formation is faked apart from the head which I felt was real. I feel that the head was there first and then hoaxers added the tail later to discredit it. In a study of it, I feel that we need to look at the design of the head itself rather than the body. It would be interesting to take a Geiger counter to the formations to see whether there is any truth in the fact that they are supposedly radioactive.

We walked along the tramlines back to the car as it was now dark, and we noticed en route the similarities between crop that had been damaged by wind and the smooth lay of it, and the lay in the real crop circles. As we walked back we did not see anyone else around, which discredits the presumption by the hoaxers' site www.circlemakers.com, that if you hang around East Field at night in July you can join in the hoaxing with the farmer. I am naturally suspicious of the hoaxers anyway as they have little evidence to show how they make the formations so geometric and stunning in such a short space of time. The Circlemakers site is also conspicuous by the absence of showing which patterns the hoaxers claimed to have faked, instead showing the new ones without any details of whether it was hoaxed or not.

SUMMARY POINTS:

1) Lay was messy and in varying directions.
2) The head of the serpent felt as if it was real as I experienced a headache and an electric feeling which I didn't feel in the rest of the formation.
3) I feel that the head of the serpent was there first and the rest added later by hoaxers to discredit it. There was a difference in neatness and pattern in the head which was much improved from the rest of the formation.

Report by Benjamin Compson.