Jack & Jill Windmills, nr Clayton, West Sussex. Reported 22nd August.

Anticipation...

On Aug 21 I was with Lyn Collin and Tibor Adorjan in Sompting, Sussex. We also visited David Russell to see his aerials of the latest Sussex formations he had photographed while flying himself. We had also recently visited the Sompting flower formation, clearly resembling the flower in All Cannings. The atmosphere was exciting as we were exchanging our experiences of the current season. When Brian told he probably wouldn't have another chance to fly in Wiltshire, Lyn expressed our common hope to receive yet another crop circle in the Sussex region.

The next day I was back to my sister's apartment in Burgess Hill. It was a beautiful hot sunny day, so we decided to go out. Marianne suggested to go to see this place called Jack & Jill, which I had never heard of. As we went out, she said maybe it would be better just to walk to the nearby
footpath or something like that, because her little son Danny was with us. But I felt more like going to this place she'd suggested.

So off we went. Approaching the place, I thought I spotted something on the field sloping up towards top of the hill, with the two windmills. When we passed the bushes, there it was - a crop circle, one that I wasn't aware of! I was delighted but at the same time not all that surprised after all,
strange enough. Of course we had to go and see it as soon as we got up the hill with our car. It was located on the golden wheat field north of the windmills, not visible from top of the hill.

Field report

Immediately when entering the formation it was clear to me it was fresh, certainly not older than a couple of days. The crop was flowing in a circular manner around the centers of each circle, softly and slightly elevated above the ground, not tightly flattened. The overall geometry was pretty easy
to figure out; a large central circle, some 35 meters in diameter, embraced symmetrically by 13 smaller circles from about 18 m to 2,5 m in diameter. Most unusually, the flow of the crop in all circles was anti-clockwise.

While the stalks were neatly following the overall direction of the circular flow, the seedheads were randomly pointing in all directions, making the floor pattern seem a bit out of perfect. The centers showed absolutely no damage and in some centers there was a hollow spot of "missing stalks".

All the centers were flattened, swirled neatly, but not particularly impressive. At this first visit I didn't have my dowsing rods with me, but I surely had a very good feeling of this formation, though it wasn't all that impressive geometry-wise. I took all the video footage I thought was necessary (stills to come later).

Yes, like Andy noticed even after harvesting, there were bent nodes and neat arc-curvatures of the stalks on ground level. I spotted and videotaped stalks with bent nodes following the direction of the overall twist, close to a center of one circle. These details were taking away my initial doubts of this possibly have been made by people (since the geometry was so simple to construct).

We returned to the formation the same evening, close to the sunset. Together with me there was Lyn and Tibor with a friend of theirs and both my sisters (the other one had just arrived from Finland for a visit). Marianne had visited just one crop circle before, for Karin this was the first ever. Everybody had a very good feeling about the formation. This time I also had my steel dowsing rods. The energy was very easy to detect for me, but

when my sisters wanted to try it I wasn't sure if they'd notice it. To their surprise the rods twisted in their hands, as living a life of their own. They were amazed to the point of screaming out loud, never having experienced anything of the kind
before.

We stayed well beyond sunset. The feeling was really magical and uplifting. Never before have I felt such joyful gratitude to the Circle Makers. This was absolutely a wonderful formation and for me it really felt like a personal gift, since it arrived so close to me, while I was there to spot it fresh. It was also the 18th crop circle on my 18th day in England and 18 is really the most powerful number in my life (but that's another story). It's just a pity if there isn't an aerial of this
shape.

Numerology and synchronicity

Numerologically there's more to it... Jack and Jill both have the numerological value of 7, making 14 together. The date 22/08/2000 also sums up to 14. And how many circles were in the formation? Fourteen!

On the previous day we had discussed with Tibor the relevancies of such number combinations as 2 and 3, 6-7, 12-13... How for example the circular or linear symmetry of a balanced number such as 6 or 12 could be "fulfilled" with the central circle, transforming it to 7 or 13 (as happens in the flower of life pattern).

In this formation, the mirror symmetry of 12 circles was completed to 13 by the central circle in the middle of the row. But additionally the arc of 13 circles was further completed by bending it around another central circle, taking this "philosophy" one step further; 12->13->14 !

(6+1+6)
+1
=14

Certainly some food for thought. What's the next step? Perhaps there's more work for the brain cells here...Hopefully I'll manage to make a more accurate diagram with the help of one video shot from the road on top of a hill!

More (and better) images to come as soon as I get them digitized from my video camera tape... The light balls in the photos are quite certainly a lens flair effect caused by the digital camera's own flashlight. However they're nice, aren't they? :)

At least this is not yet in your site. A 35 m circle with 13 circles attached to it around, ranging from about 18 m to 2 m in diameter. Wheat, all circles anti-clockwise. The formation is visible from the A273 road from Hassocks towards Brighton. The place is known as "Jack & Jill" (there's a pub with that name near). There's a hill with two windmills on it and the formation is in the field north from the windmills.

This is a preliminary diagram, but it should be pretty close to the truth. We visited the crop circle again and it had very strong dowsable energy (which was also dowsed by first timers).

Reported by Martin Keitel.

Martin Keitel’s report on the formation which appeared here (at the village of Clayton, not nearby Hassocks as previously reported) will probably stand as the most we have on it, as I was away when this pattern arrived and word did not reach my other SCR colleagues. It had already been harvested when I returned.

Inspecting what was left, I noted marked nodal bending creating deliberate curvature in the swirl lay which was most certainly not phototropism (where plants bend back to the light from the node). Nodal swelling and elongation, a la Dr Levengood’s findings, were clearly present across the formation.

Clayton had two previous crop designs back in 1991, and Keymer, which had four circles this year (see separate report), lies just a mile or so north. The two windmills, known as Jack and Jill (hence the name of the nearby pub) are very well-known local landmarks perched on the top of the South Downs and can be seen for miles around.

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