It was still morning when I entered the crop circle in the South Field at the foot of Woodborough Hill near Alton Barnes on August 8^th 2003. It was hot and it would become even hotter. That was already noticeable earlier that morning when Linda Moulton Howe told me about this new formation. She and Andy Buckley had done a nightwatch on Woodborough Hill the night before. They especially watched the South Field because Andy had the strong feeling that something would happen there. At midnight they left the hill. They had not seen anything, not heard anything and they were sure that there was nothing in the South Field on the moment they left.

And now, together with Andy, Linda and a few others, I had just stepped into this new crop circle in the South Field. I looked and did not know what to think of it. After I had walked around for a while I had figured out that the shape resembled very much the crop circle that had come down in the East Field on August 2. Some sort of Celtic Knot. I had also been in the East Field formation. That crop circle had really looked like a terrible mess, like as if a great violent force had downed the crop. The formation in the South Field looked better but also gave me the impression that a lot of violence had been used to flatten the crop. I also noticed that it lacked a real flow, but I realized at the same time that it was already late in the season and it had been a hot summer. The crop was ripe, perhaps even beyond ripe.

I took out my video camera and made some routine shots. Others present had still cameras with them, like German photographer Frank Laumen. Later on it turned out that nobody had taken any photos, even not Frank Laumen. Seemingly nobody had seen anything worthwhile photographing. In 2002 there had been a “Celtic Knot” crop circle in the South Field that had impressed everybody. Earlier in the 2003 season, on June 7^th, a “Celtic Knot” formation had come down at Windmill Hill and again everybody was impressed. And now this “Celtic Knot” resembling formation had been discovered in the South Field and nobody took photos in the formation!

Not long after I had entered the crop circle, Dirk Moller from Germany, armed with a still camera and pole, stepped into the formation. He walked for several minutes around just murmuring in himself, and then decided to leave again. He never had taken his camera out of its bag. He just had looked around and had left again. His behaviour illustrated exactly how I was feeling.

No, this formation had no magic for me. I only saw violence. This was definitively a crop circle from Mars.

Field Report Bert Janssen