Golden Ball Hill, nr Alton Barnes, Wiltshire. Reported 26th July.

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The Dolphin Formation  

On Monday 26th I visited the Golden Ball Hill Dolphin formation, which had been reported earlier that morning. I approached the field at around 15:30 from Knap hill. The crunching of the crop underfoot made it feel like I was among the first to walk inside the formation. The lay was just as Allan Brown described at the Glastonbury Symposium, like a freeze frame of water splashing against the ground. There seemed to be very little damage and it had a fluid and natural feel. One aspect of the construction I noted was an axis, roughly 15cm wide, of downed crop coming from the centre of the circle in each direction. These lines were at odds to the lay of the teardrops/dolphins which travelled over them. Lifting up the top layer, you could see the crop below travelling at points in a completely different direction. Was this the initial markings of crop hoaxers or a fascinating aspect of a genuine construction? Unfortunately the farm manager arrived and chased us all out of the field. According to him it had been made by “vandals” and the damage had cost him thousands of pounds. 

I was disappointed to read on Crop Circle Connector that this formation had been declared a hoax, having been so genuinely impressed with it at the time. I don’t doubt Bearclouds story, but his account is by no means proof that this is a man-made formation. The “men in black” could have simply been the first to see  it. Surely, the phenomenon has reached a stage where hoaxes must be proven with the same credible evidence that genuine circles are defended with. 

Alex Munslow


This is a man-made formation, several witnesses spotted several men in black entering and leaving the exact location where the crop circle was discovered this morning.

QUOTE FROM FORUM:- Like Andreas Muller said at the Circlechasers evening: becoming more and more critical at things takes us not further away, but closer to the truth.


Golden Ball Hiill glyph Appears to be a Hoax

I was compelled to be at Golden Ball Hill at 4:30 AM or 26-7-04 for a night watch.  The timely manner I believe as no mistake.  As I was walking down the path, first I saw a gentlemen standing out side leaning against his car as if waiting for something.  It struck me as odd.  A minute or so later I passed 8 to 10 people quickly walking up the path returning to their cars.  I almost ran into them as they were wearing black, carrying things slung over their shoulders.  Although silent they felt very intense and it put me off even going onto Golden Ball Hill.  I returned to my car as the people in black loaded the cars with the thing they were carrying and jumped in quickly leaving.  There was 3 or 4 cars or so it seemed.  Not really thinking much about them, I drove to the opposite corner of East Filed and parked.  I decide to walk down to a small plot of land where at this same time last year, 26 of July, 2003 I witnessed a UFO taking off.  It was an event in which I recently completed a video.  As I was returning form this spot it was getting light, I turned and looked back behind me when my eyes caught a geometric design on a field.  Surprised, I took a course that lead me to the field and as I entered the design I realized that it was from this direction that I saw the shady characters where returning to their cars.  I realized at that moment that I was more than likely witnessing a hoax.  Much to my dismay, I walked around the field carefully looking at its structure which seemed to me to be well done.  There were a few things that led me to believe someone might had created it.  I decided to take a path to see if I could find their path to the car park.  Sure enough, I found a direct path with a lightly worn foot path leading into the direction of the field where a sign had been posted which said 'private access'.  When I walked up the path it lead me to the exact location of where I had seen them returning to their cars.

At my presentation at the Glastonbury Symposium I explained how important it was to not jump to a conclusion that formations were man made as there were many tricks to make it appear so.  It was my belief and I maintain that it should always remain an anomaly until proven a hoax or man made which would require more than someone's word of having created it or someone's suspicion of the lay or geometry.  Concerned peoples critical nature for the truth can push one into a decision of claiming formations a hoax when it may in fact, not be accurate.  Concern may persuade one to listen to someone who would only be seeking the lime light or bolstering their ego who claim to have made a field drawing.  One should be equally cautious about rejecting the suggestion of a man made field drawing because it was well done or because they like it, especially when there is evidence their claim was accurate.  In this case I feel as though the creators were caught red handed as there was to much evidence to simple dismiss.  With much disappointment and regret I write this note.

 
 
Many Blessing
Wah-we-nah
Bearcloud

UPDATE ARTICLE by Bearcloud

What do we do with the Star Glyphs?


Normalizing what hoaxers do.

In treating hoaxed formations as being significant -- even of equal significance to what is or could be produced by an intelligence that isn't us -- we are reducing ourselves to the limitations of being human, as distinguished from being in a universe where contact is being made with something of genius that's not ourselves.  There is a vast difference is cosmology in these two worldviews.   

In speaking to the beauty that hoaxers deliver, we are applauding the work of people whose m.o. is to deceive, and who cause financial damages akin to what thieves do when they steal someone's property.  And we are treated to disturbing rationalizations by hoaxers that farmers could harvest their crop but for the fact that people come into the formations and trample them -- i.e. since tramplers are the cause of the farmers losing income, hoaxers have no responsibility for the damage that results.  

Please, friends of the circles who are starting to normalize the work of the hoaxers, this is not operating in the name of love, which is your intent.  Let's keep our wits about us as we deal with hoaxers, and don't  lose our discrimination and condone what is  reprehensible no matter how peaceful and loving we wish

everything to be.
 
Suzanne Taylor

The Wonderful Attributes of this Apparently Man Made Circle. 

The craftsmanship and ecological message that radiates from this formation is really wonderful. I am drawn to the fact that when I enter a magnificent Medieval Cathedral, look at the Pyramids, the ruins of Delphi, or Stonehenge, I do not ask myself is this man made! Instead I am overwhelmed by the presence of something eternal which is at this moment beyond our present understanding. A Universal truth perhaps? One has to analyse the motives of such a man made event. In this case, I personally feel this is indeed the modern day equivalent of the work of Medieval Master Masons. 

A personal view by Julian Gibsone- Director/Cameraman ‘Circle Chasers 2004’


Location: New formation spotted below knapp Hill Alton Barnes early this morning.
Map:  
Crop: Wheat
Description: Looks like dolphin design
Discovery:

Monday 26th July

Name: Steve Amor
Status: .

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