Update Saturday 10th August 1996
Diagram by Dr Eltjo H. Haselhoff. Copyright 1996.
Discovered July 30th 1996, and probably created in the night before. Three smaller circles (5-6 m) attached with bars to one large circle (12 m). When I visited this formation, the crop was already harvested. The farmer's family however told me how surprisingly flat and smooth the crop formation was. They had never seen anything like it before, and they were convinced that the formation was not man-made. (Surprisingly, most farmers I speak with have the same opinion). The farmer's son is a dowser, and told how the divining rod would respond very clearly as soon as he entered the formation. Several 'psychic' people were attracted and claimed to feel 'energy'. One other dowser, a lady, had her divining rod fly out of her hand when she approached the centre of the large circle. Note: this is what the farmer's family told me, and these hard working, down-to-the-soil people understood very well that I might not believe their story, which was perhaps even more unbelievable for themselves as they thought it would be for me (they did not know anything about crop circles and also did not know that I was a crop circle investigator). I have no reason at all not to believe their stories. One interesting detail: from a little irrigation canal two traces went to and came from the crop formation. They had been there since the first time the farmer found the crop circles in his field. The 15 cm wide paths were slightly irregular, and looked like man-made traces at a first sight, but: 1. inside, the stalks were bent just like in the crop circles, i.e. straight and flat against the soil, pointed towards the crop formation in one path, and away from it in the other - as if it indicated direction, 2: the divining rod of the farmer's son responded clearly to these two traces as well! Furthermore: why would a hoaxer leave two traces, one to get in and one to get out? Perhaps an early visitor caused them, but the entrance point was not at all logical, and to me the paths did not seem to be man-made, because of the perfectly flattened corn. Hypothesis: could crop circles be made by a relatively small thing that draws them roughly like a computer controlled x-y pen writer does, and does that 'thing' usually enter from above but this time from beside? Actually, the crop circle in Landgraaf had one bar in which the stalks were bent in two opposite directions at the left and right, as if this 'thing' went up and down to make this bar. Who can tell me something about this hypothesis (which is probably false, as usual with hypotheses about crop circles)? Please e-mail me at: ehaselho@best.ms.philips.com
