Dear Stuart , I would be more than happy for you to publish my picture on your site simply because I believe i have witnessed something "unique" quite by accident and not in the context of me going out to monitor crop circles. Indeed while I find there complexity and size fascinating I have always kept an open mind as to there origin.

But clearly they are not all made by plankers or whatever the term is. Anyone with my career background  can see that we are looking at a pheromone not of man made origins. However it is not my remit to research so I will go back to the point. 

In answer to your questions.

1.I did not see them leave as after three or four minutes of observing them in the field I rode off on my normal circuit. This may sound odd but believe me I wrestled with the situation I found myself in. To qualify...... I come from a professional art, engineering, and pattern making background. I am lucky to be multi skilled and  with many years spent on the engineering and design side of racing cars and aircraft. Its because of this that I know 100% that the craft I was looking at were not man made. 

As I sat there on my mountain bike I watched fascinated, and considered the possibilities quickly trying to rationalise what they were and explain to myself that they were of known construction and purpose. When I ran out of options, hoaxers, field test equipment, farmers doing god knows what, the strangest feeling came over me. I wanted to walk up the side of the field which would of been easy and get close to craft number 1. I also had my mobile phone in my pocket and ran through the thought process of getting this out and calling for a friend close by to witness the same. However an over whelming feeling came over me that said no. I have a cast iron will when I need it and I to this day cannot explain why I did not do these things and eventually rode off. I had already accepted that I was looking at unknown UFO craft and I like anyone would of wanted to get the defining picture that said here they are and also they are bending the wheat down in trails they are making!!!  What happened to me at that moment was one of two things (I keep an open mind for good reason).  1. I went into an instinctive self preservation process based on the fact that on walking up to within 6 feet of craft number one would of left me dealing with an experience I may not of been able to cope with for months or years afterwards.

The other, and I have to say more worrying, as this is exactly how it felt at the time , is that there was an outside influence on my decision making and  regardless of my every effort to get up that field and take some pictures that influence changed the decisions that I was making at the time.
 
Two days later when someone said have I seen the latest crop circle at Lockeridge when I was riding past, the whole experience came back in a rush and here's me a man of 45, of sound and rational mind feeling physically sick as I take on board for the second time events of that evening. Serious stuff you may agree. I did not see that crop circle being made and I cannot relate the two although  it seems more than coincidence that the two were only a few hundred yards apart. You can see trail 4 in one of your photos on your site.

 

I have got a box of field samples that I collected and packaged under the guidance of a biophysicist. 

I don't believe the craft originated from the woods, when I first saw them they were several yards into the wheat from the top of the field where the crop starts after the set aside land. They were also strung out along the top line of the field with varying gaps between them. After I rode off I looked back and saw what I thought was craft 3 or 4 had moved no further down the slope. Then when I got to the top of a hill going to East Kennet I looked back again over to the field and West woods. I have considered this moment a lot since and I would prefer not to make any further comment as I cannot understand the frame of mind I was in by this time, despite being absolutely clear about events before and what I was looking at. It really is perplexing and defies further comment with regard to the "effect on decision making"

 
I was however , before I left, very conscious of the fact that the craft were moving down the slope through the top of the wheat and stopped . The feeling I had at the time was that both "they" and me had become accurately aware of each others presence. That is exactly how it felt. The trails were no further progressed down the slope when I rode off to when I returned to take the photos attached.

 

I cannot comment on the circle and design in that field as I have no knowledge of the study or form of them and in fact the first time I ever walked into one was when i went to collect the samples from the trails.

 

Attached are two of my pictures of trail 1 and 2.

My car in the background looks further away than in reality because the camera has a fixed wide angle lens. I will try to email you my original account written just after the 21st, sometimes documents I have don't mail for some reason although I could post it to you.

 

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