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Events surrounding the appearance of Pewsey White Horse
formation, July 19/20 2004
Charles R Mallett
The Dinner Party
On the evening of
July 19 2004 a dinner party was held at
Avebury, hosted by members of the “Norwegian Crop Circle Group”, headed
by Eva Marie
Brekkesto. Also in attendance was circle researcher Charles R
Mallett and farmers, James and Ellie Strong, owners of the farm land in
the region of the white horse at Pewsey in Wiltshire, where the above
formation now resides.
On the menu for this evening social event was a sumptuous traditional
Norwegian four course supper and the inevitable copious helpings of
animated discussion regarding the manifestation of crop circle events,
their apparent effects on people, the science and indeed the whole range
of anomalous phenomena that permeate this enduring enigma.
Mr and Mrs Strong have in
previous years received a number of formations on their land and approach
the subject with open minds, laced with a hearty dose of understandable
scepticism. This approach however took a substantial jolt in July 2002
when their field of wheat directly below the white horse was visited by a
most impressive and sophisticated crop glyph, “The Nautilus”, leaving the
farm owners and serious researchers alike struck with awe as the
inexplicable event presented itself under extremely bizarre localized
circumstances.
Our mutually informative and
cordial evening ended at midnight with several of the party exclaiming
“how amazing it would be if the farm was once again the venue for a
serious crop circle event” in the light of the evenings conversations.
With this on our collective minds we said our goodbyes and parted
company.
The Shock
At 0800 hrs on the 20th of July Eva Marie received a
telephone call from a rather shaken Mrs Strong. Incredibly there was
indeed a new formation on the Strong’s land, not only that, it was
directly below the white horse in their fast maturing wheat, just a very
short distance from where the 2002 event had manifest almost exactly two
years earlier. Permission was granted immediately for the
dinner party group of circle researchers to enter the new event as soon
as possible and conduct serious objective examination of the enigmatic
new arrival. With great haste and excitement that was palpable the
researchers gathered all necessary equipment and made the short dash to
the Strong’s farm.
The Circle
Walking up the tramlines at (approx) 0900 hrs we could clearly see that
the new crop circle was spanning just fewer than three tramlines and
measured in at a modest (approx) 180 ft diameter. As we made our approach
all defining edges to the event looked sharp to the point of cookie
cutter perfection. The pace quickened as we took the final steps to the
edge of the formation. From here the whole event was more or less
visible, spread out before us like the “female of ages” Even though in
terms of size and shape it was not particularly sophisticated, its
balance, poise and simplicity gave it an instant quality of its very own.
From our vantage point we were able to discern a very slick and
smooth laid crop area that seemed to extend throughout the entire
formation in a seamless water-like flow, rippling and banking as the laid
down crop curved in and out of the perimeter cantors of the little
glyph.
Close Up Impressions
For the next two hours or so the formation received close
quarters examination to determine the validity of the glyph as a genuine
paranormal event.
It very quickly
became apparent that we were not the first people to have entered the
formation. Evidence was suggesting that a small number of visitors had
indeed been in the formation. These earlier visitors had left a number of
rather crude impressions in the otherwise perfect laid crop areas
including a very clumsy and obvious path through the standing crop
leading to one of the four outer detached circles. Also in some central
areas of the formation severe plant crushing had occurred leaving one
with the impression that hapless visitors had taken absolutely no care in
how they had conducted themselves whilst in this formation.
It is noteworthy to separate the type of damage to the
wheat plants detailed above from the much more subtle hoaxer marks and
activity occasionally found in circles of a more suspect nature. All the
damage that was found can be attributed to a few visitors who had
happened across the circle.
Aside from the
specified damage the glyph was clean and neat with no traces of organized
human activity that would suggest that the formation was a fake;
therefore it was the conclusion of all those present that this crop
circle formation represents a genuine and unexplained happening.
Subsequent examination by other experienced researchers has drawn the
same conclusions and at the time of writing this one goes in the category
of genuine crop circles, with no definite explanation pending.
The Black Helicopter
Less than
ten minutes into the examination of the formation the situation in the
local airspace took a rather odd turn. From behind the hill and white
horse came a rather sinister black helicopter, no decals, numbers or ID
markings were to be seen on the aircraft at all. The Chopper purposely
approached the new glyph and spent several minutes circling very low,
occasionally hovering, as if taking photographs of the formation,
allowing all present to get a very close look at the thing. The Chopper
then flew away, only to return twice more over the course of the next
fifteen minutes. Each time it returned it carried out similar manoeuvres
in the immediate area where the formation had just some hours earlier
arrived.
My main question now is why do Norwegian’s not cook their fish before
serving it to dinner guests?!
Many thanks to James and Ellie Strong for their generous
hospitality and for allowing us to enter their field and evaluate the
above crop circle event.
To be updated with additional information and close ground
photography.
Mr and Mrs Strong would very much appreciate it if no further
persons visit this field without prior permission.
Charles R Mallett
22 07 2004 Silent Circle ©
It is felt with good grounds that the production of the large “ACME Crop
Glyph”, (July 22) next to the earlier cross event is completely unrelated
to the manifesting of the earlier, and genuinely mysterious, event of
July 20.
Charles R Mallett |
