Field Report
 
At the top end of the field, where the smaller circle-pattern vanishes, beyond the barbed wire fence, I searched for a continuation in the wild shrub-land where nature has control. There were none - not that I could see. To re-enter the formation without damaging the wheat field meant walking along the top rough edge, next to the fence, until I arrived at the larger, incomplete circle within the formation. (See aerial pictures). It was here that I spotted something rather remarkable.  
Sitting by the side of an 'opening' that joined one crop circle to this larger one - was a 'wreath' of 'chickweed' (the fine, hairy stuff that gets between garden plants & feels rather sticky when pulled to uproot.  Not sure of chickweed is it's real name!)
 
This 'wreath' was approx 15 inches diameter. It was very lightweight & fragile looking. I took a photo before drawing the attention of other visitors who were nearby. 

In it I guess some may not find this extraordinary.......but for me it indicated that something had swirled it.........within the wild plant area beyond the field - then it had 'flown', courtesy of today's gusty weather, over the fence to join the main crop formation? Of course, it is always possible that someone could have made this & laid it where I found it..........but being a keen gardener, I don't think I could have achieved it - but hey........miracles do happen!

For botanists among us - it wasn't chickweed.  It was Goosegrass, otherwise known as Cleavers, Everlasting Friendship,  Sticky Willy & Catchweed.  Part of the Rudiaceae family.
 
Penny Thornton (Updated Sunday 26th July)

This looked amazing from aerial shots so I arrived full of expectation. This is a vast formation, with a wonderful energy to it. While aerial photographs tend to show the geometrical and aesthetic qualities we can sometimes simplify it all and assume that it’s easy to create a circle and then add another, then another etc.  However, what isn’t clear from the air is the undulating gradient of the field. This field is quite undulating and not only that, but it has quite a ‘dip’, in it. For it to appear so perfect from above surely some compensation has to be made in terms of its’ measurements when it is created by the ‘circle makers’, whoever or whatever they may be? Perhaps someone in the areas of surveying would be able to add more on this. There have been countless formations in very undulating fields but still they appear perfect from the air. Maybe the ‘circle makers’ under compensated here? Maybe not?

The first feature I wanted to check out was where the formation went to the end of the field and stopped. As can be seen from the aerial photographs, this occurs twice. I checked very carefully where it stopped. It stops just before a barbed wire fence. The grass growing there is totally unaffected as is the grass the other side of the fence. I couldn’t find anything to suggest that an ‘energy’ of some kind had continued past the formation. Maybe dowsing would reveal more?

Although, I visited this formation fairly soon it has had quite a few visitors and there was lots of breakage. It is also worth taking into account that it has rained a lot since it appeared. The crop was very flat throughout the formation and the lay was always in a clockwise direction. The circles were perfectly formed and the ‘energy’ seemed very fast flowing. The lay was very neat. The circles felt and looked stunning!

In terms of nodal anomalies, personally I couldn’t find any but I did speak to others who said they had found elongated nodes. No expulsion cavities could be found. I found the white ‘chip marks’ often in parallel to each other.

From the air, there are places where the tram lines appear wobbly. This is caused due to the clockwise direction of the lay in the circles. The crop was greener along this area and one side of the circle the crop went one way and the other side it went the opposite, creating the ‘wobbly’ effect.

This formation felt awesome. Geometrically, it is ‘out of this world’. Can you imagine drawing it on paper? That in itself would be a major achievement but to create it in a field (an undulating one at that!) is something else. If there was a Museum of Modern Art for crop formations then surely this would be in it!

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