Witnessing the creation of a real crop formation_
Witnessing the creation of a real crop
formation.
I have personally known Nikki Saville for many years. Throughout these many
years of friendship she has proven to be an incredibly honest, grounded and
balanced individual whose word, I consider, beyond reproach.
The events detailed below represents, for Nikki and myself and indeed most
other people that meet her, a truly astonishing account of a crop glyph being
formed under most mysterious circumstances. (Charles Mallett)
THE ARRIVAL
My interest in crop formations began about two years before I finally had the
chance to see them for myself. In 1998, I talked my brother into driving me to
Wiltshire. My brother was a true skeptic and thought all formations were man made,
he was soon to be proven very wrong.
We arrived at the famous Barge Inn campsite, in Alton Barns at 11.00pm, 7th August.
After pitching the tent I was ready for some sleep, my brother had problems with
sleeping ever since he was a boy and fell out of a tree cracking several ribs. This
night however, he was asleep in minutes, and slept soundly all night. There seemed
to be a very calming, relaxing feel to this place.
The next morning we meet up with some friends who live in the area, then went to
visit our first formation. The weather was extremely hot, but we went on to visit two
more formations. The heat became too much to handle, so we decided to return to
the campsite for a rest. My brother slept the afternoon away.
Early evening came and we retreated to the Barge Inn, being an ideal place if you
have an interest in crop formations. On the wall was all the information we needed, a
map with all the formations marked, there was also a note saying of the Lunar eclipse
that was happening that night, (so we thought) my brother and I had never seen a
Lunar eclipse before, so we decided to spend the night on Adams grave also known
as Walkers Hill.
We started the walk to the top of Adams Grave as the sun was setting. The view
from the top was stunning. To the right of us approx, 5 miles away was the town of
Devizes, about ten miles to the left the town of Pewsey and ahead the village Alton
Barns, also below us a huge area they call East field and in its centre a beautiful
snowflake crop formation. After taking in the view, we laid out our sleeping bags. The
sun had disappeared from sight; now the full moon was rising in the sky, bringing a cold
wind with it.
The wind was becoming quite hoarse so we climbed into our thermal sleeping bags.
We sat on the hillside watching the moonrise and the stars appear. At around
11.00pm something grabbed my brother's attention. In the distance to the left of us
he saw two red lights just above the horizon, by the time I looked the lights had turned
white, one above the other, very round in shape, brighter around the outside than the
inside, in a second they were gone but they didn't blink out like a light being switched
off, they seemed to disintegrate like bubbles being popped. We were totally amazed
and confused at what we had seen. The night went on, and we waited in hope for
something else to happen. The sky was fantastically clear and the moon was full. I
had never seen a sky so beautiful and so many shooting stars. A short time later a
single ball of light appeared close to where we saw the first two, it travelled at some
speed across the horizon, it stopped just below the horizon line, it then moved down
over the fields and stopped again. Three more lights seemed to come from within the
first single light, not as big as the first ball of light, but just as bright. They moved in a
diagonal line in a south easily direction. The first light seemed to be still in the top left
corner of a field and another in the bottom right corner, we didn't see this fourth light
appear. While watching the lights, two people joined us, a couple early thirties, from a
near by town. We all watched as the three lights that split from the first moved around
the field. The moonlight lit up the ground. We could make out a shape appearing in
the field, it was obvious we were watching the making of a crop formation. We also
noticed lights at equal distance apart. We had a map with us, and it seemed the
lights were in the same place as the pylons leading all the way down to Devizes. At
the time I thought they were warning lights for aircraft.
The next day we checked the
pylons, but found no lights around or above the pylons. While watching the light show
the two strangers left to go home, we both thought that was very odd. We sat on the
hillside until we were sure nothing else was going to happen. At around 5:45am we
began the walk back to the car. It didn't take long to find the fresh formation. We were
in it by 6:00am. Totally incredible was an understatement. The formation created in
wheat contained seven-fold geometry, with 84 outer circles and 84 inner circles, the
whole design spanning 400ft in diameter. It was later said to be the largest and most
complex formation of that year and named the Magnificent Seven. We didn't stay in
the formation very long, which I deeply regret.
Thank you for reading.
©2001Nikki Saville
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