Update Tuesday 20th August 1996
Discovered around July 25th
The first one I reported (The "Coffee Pot"),. Shot taken from the highway.
Video Capture by Eltjo Haselhoff. Copyright 1996.
Diagram by Dr Eltjo H. Haselhoff. Copyright 1996.
Consisted of a circle with 14 m diameter, with two straight bars at two opposing sides (17 m and 19 m) and a smaller bar (10 m) perpendicularly to those two, plus a little 'ear'. All bars had a width of 2 m. The two long bars were not sharing the same axis of symmetry, in fact the long bar was aligned with the circle's centre, while the short bar aligned one meter below the circle's centre. The wheat in both long bars run North, in the short bars it run West. In the circle it was swirled in a very complicated way: an outer ring with width of 2.7 m rotated clockwise, the inner circle rotated counter clockwise, but there were many local knots and swirls that which were impossible for me to draw. My conclusion: no way to do this with "a rope and a pole". The stalks made a nice and smoothly flattened impression though. I was not the first one to enter the pattern, but it was still relatively 'clean'. I did not look for footprints, nevertheless the soil underneath the stalks was not crisp like the soil where the wheat was still standing up, but almost everywhere very dense with many imprints of the stalks. It had rained some days before - perhaps people walking on the muddy ground have caused this.
Is it a hoax? If it is - it is a very good one...
Dr Eltjo H. Haselhoff.
