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Image Steve Alexander Copyright 2000

Video images by Peter Sorensen. Copyright 2000 Click here to link to Peter's Homepage and see more of his crop circle pictures.

Due to popular demand ;-) here is my shot of the Hopi Moiré before I radically reconstructed it with Photoshop. 

I am infamous for removing the tramlines and walk lines from my images, but I have never significantly altered the geometry of a circle before. In this case I felt moved to perfect its symmetry, by replacing some (to me) obvious "transmission" errors -- in particular, the number of rays on one of the outside motifs which was (I'm sure) flattened where it should have been standing, and simply unharmonious. 

As I've said many times, I feel the tramlines and other marks in the crop are very distracting from my enjoyment of the geometry of the crop circles -- and there are many people who appreciate my removing this noise from my aerial pictures. Of course, a lot of others are quite unhappy about it! But since none of the other photographers are removing even the tramlines from their pictures, researchers who require aerials, with warts and all, have no difficulty getting the shots they require. 

However, since I am sometimes lucky enough to be the first to obtain aerial shots, in the future I will provide the Crop Circle Connector with both "before & after" images, so everyone will be happy. (I will still remove the walk lines, though.)

Peter Sorensen

FIELD REPORT

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Video Images Stuart Dike Copyright 2000

We have all heard of the saying "Lighting never strikes twice in the same place" Well, this can't be used with regard to placement of crop circles.  This latest design, has positioned itself in the exactly the same place in  the field, as the 1999 Escher Cube. There can only be a difference of a few  feet from the formation last year, but the 2000 formation I feel is far more  articulate, but not without some transmission errors!

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Images Stuart Dike Copyright 2000

This year, we have experienced a formation on the slopes of Clifford Hill,  which is extremely powerful with regard to its archetypal central design.  The jury is still out on what this pattern actually represents, but is one  of those shapes you say "I know this shape, but I can't quite remember where  from" On first appearance it had an ancient tribal quality, but it could be  possibly Egyptian? More research is needed.

From the aerial shots, you can clearly see there is an error within one side  of the design. On each side there are four sunrays, but only three on one  section. Of course, it may have been intended to be that way, but there was  a space where the fourth ray should be? Something which I noticed while  walking around the formation, was the amount of stones between the crop. This  may have hindered the transmission process, which could have caused that  particular portion of the formation to be missed out.

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Images Stuart Dike Copyright 2000

Positioned just behind the formation, are the slopes of Cliffords Hill.  Located at the back of the hill is Rybury hill fort, which is iron age in  origin. I once had the chance to walk this range of hills, and what a  wonderful spot it was! Very calm and peaceful, which is the exact feeling  you have within this latest formation. In fact may people started to stop  and meditate. This was clearly due to the atmosphere here, situated well  away from the road, and habitation. In fact, it is so quiet along these  range of hills, that you almost capture what it must have been like in  ancient times to settle here.

Report by Stuart Dike