Crop circle at Bluebell Hill, Nr Maidstone, Kent. Reported 2nd July.

Kent's second formation lies within the Medway Valley, close to the Pilgrims Way at the foot of Bluebell Hill and can be clearly seen from the picnic area. This tri-armed formation appears to be lightly swept in a field of young barley, and through binoculars, it appears to be springing up quite rapidly. We check this field out regularly because it's close to Kits Coty, a megalithic dolmen, which is considered to be older than Stonehenge and it definitely wasn't there yesterday afternoon!

We desperately need a fly-over on this one, because the field is quite inaccessible. We have not established who the farmer is yet, but access could be restricted under FMD as there are livestock in the adjacent field. The diagram is only a preliminary one and may not be entirely accurate at this stage

Reported by Graham Tucker (Medway Crop Circle)

We have a second formation in Kent. It is situated at the bottom of Blue Bell Hill near Burham (just off the A229) and can be seen very clearly from the Blue Bell Hill picnic area. It arrived 2nd July and consists of one big circle with three arms of diminishing circles. It also contains some sort of spiralling effect inside (It is difficult to make out from the hill). Resting in Barley it is six tramlines across and was found by Kent Kaos

Reported by Ann Pedersen ( Medway Crop Circle)

UPDATE BLUEBELL HILL - 2 JULY

After obtaining the farmer's kind permission, we entered the formation on Sunday 8 July, just six days after its arrival. Six days though, is a long time as far as this formation is concerned, because by now, it's barely discernible from ground level, and can hardly be made out even from the nearby hillside. Dowsable energies, however, were still quite detectable inside the formation.

Take a look at my diagram of the main circle marked A B C. On day 1, only the small ovals, marked C were standing. The outer ring marked A was laid firm to the ground, whilst the large area marked B was very gently laid over to give a chaotic choppy-wave effect. Obviously area B sprang back very quickly and has now fully recovered. It shows no sign of damage, apart from what may have been caused earlier on, (day 1- 2) when it was possible to walk through it. However, the outer ring marked A is still flattened to the ground, with a number of stalks crushed, creased and broken etc, and with their bloom naturally disturbed. Given that area B sprang quickly up, visitors would have used ring A, and they alone could have caused the damage. On the other hand, this damage could be easily accounted for by pranksters, or as the farmer suggested by someone going round and round on a motorbike! ... But hang on a minute, who was it that very gently laid over the virtually undamaged crop that's now recovering? - Plank wielding corn-crunchers on Harleys? Do we really have to thank these 'easy riders' for a magnetic soil anomaly (which a researcher discovered) and the beautiful dowsing display they left behind?

It's unfortunate that we don't have an aerial of this formation, for the floor display may have revealed something interesting when viewed from above. However, because of its swift recovery, it's believed it would have been too indistinct to photograph even after the first day or so.

Graham Tucker Medway Crop Circle)

Joyce Galley and I visited the Bluebell Hill Crop Circle yesterday but were unimpressed. There were many crushed and scraped stems where the outer edges of the circles had been demarcated and the centres were not swirled but trodden down. The barley was stunted at 1-1.5 ft tall and the ground very dry. The circles were barely discernable at ground level, although the formation may have looked quite good when fresh from the much frequented picnic spot directly above it on top of the chalk scarp. No aerial photos were taken, although I did take a couple from the picnic spot. While not accessible from the scarp, the field lies on the side of a marked public access footpath going to the road below, about half a mile away.

Report by Andrew King.