Surprisingly complex ground features for a small crop picture at Knoll Down on June 26, 2012

For a small crop picture in old barley, the new formation at Knoll Down shows some surprisingly complex features on the ground. With the help of Paul Jacobs, who was taking pole photographs at the time, we carefully inspected the detailed characteristics of all six circles as drawn there:

Each circle showed a smooth, overall flow either clockwise or counter-clockwise, with no obvious breakage or mechanical damage to the stems. Circle “4” showed a clockwise flow for a thin outer strip of 150 mm, yet a counter-clockwise flow for its major central part. Between those two flows, there was a thin line of undamaged standing crop!

Table 1. Ground features of six different circles at Knoll Down on June 26, 2012

We also saw a thin line of standing crop in circle “1” where it crossed a double tramline, as if the energy of flattening had somehow been disrupted there. Each of those six circles showed a nicely-swirled standing tuft, which was located in most cases some distance from any overall circle centre.

The last circle (or “tail”) was separated from the previous five by a thin wall of standing crop, which no one had yet walked across. Thus all of the crop within that last region ”6”  was still highly fluffed and intricately swirled, far off the ground.

By careful inspection, we found a thin underlying line which went through most of the overall circle centres, but not through the off-centre standing tufts. It was directed uphill for the lower part of circle “1”, but downhill for all of circles “2”, “3”, “4”, and “5”, while it was completely absent in “tail 6”.

All of these features, when considered as a whole, seem surprisingly complex for a small circle in old barley, and tend to support a paranormal rather than mechanical means of construction.

Red Collie (Dr. Horace R. Drew)