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Burghasungen near Kassel in Hessen, Germany. Reported 1st May.
Updated Monday 12th June 2000
Image Frank Laumen Copyright 2000
Aerial image by Wolfgang Schoeppe Copyright 2000
On May 1, 2000, Germany's first formation of the new
year/millennium was discovered at 6.00am in a field of oilseed rape at Burghasungen
near Kassel in Hessen.
Basically it was a dumbbell-shape but with a curved connection path and a nearby grapeshot.
It is of interest, that at least since 1998, each year formations appeared in this area during
night April 30/may 1 ( Beltaine ). This was the reason for some local and international researchers
such as Frank Laumen, Bert Janssen, Janet Ossebaard and active FGK-members such as Wolfgang Ring,
Jens Berkmann and others to gather for a week-end-watch. During the night the formation appeared at
about 3.00am the former open sky became more and more covered with clouds and a strong mist covered
the fields - there is also the rumour of a power cut at the nearby villages that caused even more
darkness in the area and led to some discussion if there was a connection to the appeared
formation.
One team was not more than 2km from the field away but on the opposite side of the nearby motorway
and with no direct view to the place were the formation was formed.
The formation was first entered short after it's discovery and provided some nice details such as a
very clean and precise lay. No muddy foot-print were present in the virgin formation that normally
could not have bee avoided by entering the formation via the tramlines and compared with the later
caused huge amount of damage to the plants, those were undamaged in the first seconds, as the
following pictures taken at that time show. Later visitors brought the usual mud
and damage to the formation as later taken pictures do clearly show.
One circle showed a standing off-set centre and the nearby grapeshot showed one single standing
centre plant.
The Overall length was about 25m but more detailed survey data to follow.
Update Burghasungen 01.05.2000
Survey Data
Big circle: 8m diameter - clockwise
Connecting path 7m long
Small circle:6m diameter - clockwise
A new aerial reconnaissance showed two further grapeshots in a distance of about 100m within the
same field.
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Click on thumbnails to enlarge
Special thanks to Jens Berkmann and the FGK for providing first information and the included
pictures (www.fgk.org)
Report by
Andreas Mueller
'ICCA - The International Crop Circle Archive'
mueller@invisiblecircle.de
independent community for the exploration of the crop circle phenomenon
invisible ( circle
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Images Frank Laumen Copyright 2000
Please check on Thumbnails to Enlarge.
Mysterious Blackness in Germany Precedes Crop Formation
2000 by Linda Moulton Howe.
"It was like we were in a pitch black universe floating or something. It was really weird! Like
something I've never seen before."
Janet Ossebaard, Writer and Photographer, Gieten, The Netherlands
May 21, 2000 Burghasungen, Germany - For the past several years in a beautiful farm valley between
Kassel and Zierenberg, Germany, a crop formation has been discovered the same day of each year on
May 1st. Anticipating the possibility of watching whatever light or energy or unknown process makes
the crop glyphs, a group of about twenty people gathered on the hill tops around the valley on April
30, 2000 to watch all night. Among the various scattered groups were Bert Janssen and Janet
Ossebaard from Gieten, Holland and Frank Laumen from Germany. The three have known each other for a
long time in their shared passion to try to understand the crop circle mystery and the forces and
intelligence behind it. What happened for all of them on that night from April 30 to May 1, 2000 was
so strange that Janet Ossebaard, a professional writer and photographer, told me the experience was
unlike any other in her life.
Interview
Janet Ossebaard, Crop Circle Researcher, Writer and Photographer, Gieten, The Netherlands: "At 2 AM,
all of a sudden, it became extremely dark and it was so weird that it was not like anything I have
ever experienced before. The situation was that we were sitting in the car on the front seat
over watching this area, this valley which is really pretty. And of course it was dark because it was
in the middle of the night. But, you could see the villages. You could see the orange street lights
and car lights. There was a motorway running behind us and it curved to our left so you could see
the cars there. So there were constant lights. There were no stars or moon because it was very cloudy. Dry, but
cloudy. However, you could see many lights because of those villages.
Now, all of a sudden at 2 AM, those lights diminished. They became very dim, but gradually. It was
not like they were switched off. It was not an electricity failure. But bit by bit, they became less
visible. This took a second, a matter of seconds.
And Bert said to me, "Hey, look at that!" And I noticed. I said, "Yeah, what's happening?!" And it
was really weird. And bit by bit it became more and more dark. And all of a sudden, it was
completely pitch black like I've never seen before. And at the same time, there was no sound left.
No sound whatsoever. Normally you can hear the night sounds which is wind in the trees, a bird, an
owl or whatever. You can hear many sounds at night. But there was no sound whatsoever. And it was
like we were sitting on a big black blanket or something, you know? Or one of those glass bulbs over
cheese to keep it fresh?
LIKE SOME KIND OF CONTAINER, OR LID, CAME DOWN OVER YOU.
DID YOU GUYS GET OUT OF THE CAR TO SEE WHAT IT FELT LIKE OUTSIDE?
No, we didn't. We just stayed in. We had the windows open, so we could feel the atmosphere and there
was no difference in atmosphere. We talked to each other and we were sort of whispering because it
was so overwhelming. We had no idea what it was.
But the street lights were gone, the villages were gone, the sound was gone, the cars on the
motorway. There was no motorway anymore as far as we knew at that time. It was absolutely we were
completely isolated from the rest of the world. And it felt really nice. We had a very nice
protected feeling, very nice. We had a very nice protected feeling, very isolated, protected warm
feeling. But there was nothing else that we sensed. There was no difference in our voice. It didn't
look like a mist though. There was no mist because at a certain moment, there was a car driving
right beneath where we were standing. We were standing on a bit of a hill. And the car looked pretty
close to us. And we could see it very clearly. And Bert said, "Hey, look at that. That is weird!"
All of a sudden we see this car, but there is no fog. Look at the headlights. We realized there was
no fog. But yet, we couldn't see anywhere. As soon as the car was gone, everything was gone. It was
like we were in a pitch black universe floating.
DID THE OTHER GERMANS SEE THAT FRANK LAUMEN AND THE OTHERS?
Yes, everybody. The next morning, we talked to each other about this. Everybody noticed it.
This happened from 2 AM to 2:15 AM. So for about a quarter of an hour it was pitch black. Then it
lifted. And it was like it came from above because you could see the lights that were lowest in the
valley became clear first and then it came up and up and up until the highest lights on the top of
the hill. So, it was a big blanket coming down from above. Not like a mist. Like something else I've
never seen before.
This lasted for about 15 minutes and then the sound was back, the cars were back, the motorway, the
villages, it was back to normal. And we said to each other, "Wow, if there is a crop formation in
the morning, this is the time it happened now."
Then it happened again at 3 AM, exactly 3 AM it happened again until 3:15 AM. And it was even more
intense than the first time. Really, really intense. And at 3:15 AM it lifted again and I became
very tired. And I really had the feeling. It happened. It is there. It's there. There is nothing we
can do. We didn't see it. There was no sound, no balls of light. This is it. So I can go to sleep
now.
AT FIRST LIGHT, DID YOU GUYS WAKE UP?
Yes, we all woke up. We gathered, the Germans and us. Everybody had noticed it and everybody was
convinced there was a formation. So we started driving around to look for it. And we couldn't find
it. And we were surprised. And we looked and looked and looked and drove for miles through the area.
And there was nothing. And we couldn't find the Germans anymore. They had gone home or disappeared
or whatever. So, eventually disappointed, we decided to go home. We drove back to Holland which is
about 6 hours drive and we got there and Frank gave us a call. "Hey, there's a formation."
We said, "What! Where?" And he said, "Just behind us."
BEHIND.
We said, "No, this can't be!" Like I said, the motorway was running behind us and just on the other
side of the motorway was a beautiful formation. Two circles connected by a pathway, not very
complex. But this is it. He went to visit it a few days later and he called us and said, "It's
gorgeous. So pretty." And he took photos. Beautiful with pole shots. And he took a pole shot from 80
meters, which is a big distance. His camera did not work. And he has an EN-1, A Canon professional
camera. It costs a lot, really expensive. And his professional camera failed and he said, "My camera
has NEVER failed. I can throw this camera on the ground and it will survive. It will not be harmed."
