CROP CIRCLES IN 1999

Pole shots by Stuart Dike Copyright 1999

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The Love Cabbage

Returning after a rather hectic weekend in Wiltshire, fresh from the amazing sights in East Field, we received a very late report of another local formation on our doorstep.

As you can imagine, excitement took hold once again, and it was entirely justified!

What we actually have on the opposite side of the road from our very first official formation of the season, is a simpler design to the Julia Sets that appeared in the year of 1996. This time, we have just diminishing circles without their accompanying circles on either side, creating a cleaner form of this popular pattern. Indeed, it has the classic spiral seen on previous formations, which probably spanned to over 160ft in length.

One aspect to the floor pattern that was very noticeable was the underlying pathway running out from the smallest circle spiralled around the main centre circle, and ending at the very end circle. This feature was also present on the larger designs back in 1996, at Stonehenge and Windmill Mill. But this feature is fundamental in producing a set of circles to increase in size, on such a spiral.

It was located in a field yet to see a crop circle until now, and many of the field around the area, have been used by the phenomenon from previous years. This was Hue Gay’s farmland, who was a little upset his crop had been flattened, but was very reasonable with us and allowed us entry. There are seventeen circles in total, but the overall floor pattern wasn’t the best we had seen, but as I have stated before, very young Wheat can produce irregular floor constructions, which can unfairly condemn a formation to be man-made. This particular design had a mixture of quality to its floor lay; the best we had felt were on the tail of the spiral, especially the larger circles. The overall design was very impressive though, and demonstrated once again a return of previous designs, which is quite in keeping with the events that took place in East Field of the weekend.

We have to ask ourselves if we witnessing a gigantic picture show of seasons past in 1999, to bring home the power of the formations that have graced our fields since 1990. Is this our prelude to the new millennium, our we on the brink of a transition stage to take us into the year 2000? Maybe its too early to tell at this stage, but we have now seen a mixture of the early nineties pictograms in East Field, and now at Newton St Loe, we have a return of the Julia Set of the mid nineties. Indeed, the nested crescents design could also be included into the equation, as they have been seen before in the mid nineties. Lets us see what the following weeks have in store?

Report by Stuart Dike.

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