Updated Monday 2nd March 1998
Image by Joop van Houdt, Copyright 1997
The Crop Circle Connector would like to Thank Joop for permission to use his image.
A Julia set like the Windmill Hill formation consisting of 21 circles, and 7 circles each spiral is found. The middle circle has a diameter of 23 meters. The total formation covers more than 100 meter. It is found in Nieuwerkerk, island of Schouwen Duiveland, province of Zeeland. Details will follow. Don't know the exact location, but is can be seen from the dyke I heard from Herman hegge. The circlemakers here are doing there very best to imitate the English ones ! Bye !
The farmer is asking for an entrance fee
UPDATE ON NIEUWERKERK
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How to get there: Take the N59 to Zierikzee. At
Nieuwerkerk turn right at the traffic lights. Follow the road direction Dreischor. About
one kilometre further left a cheese farm and then turn left on the dyke. After about 100
meter you will see the formation on the right hand side. The farmer and his wife welcome everybody to visit this BEAUTIFUL formation. The entrance fee is f2,50 pp and f1,50 per child. They sell a colour picture of the formation for f5,- too. My advise to all Dutch circle minded people is: try to visit this formation ! It is absolutely worth travelling to Zeeland. Just came back from visiting the formation in Niuewerkerk. It is FANTASTIC ! Reported by Anneco. The Crop Circle Connector Special Friend in the Netherlands.. |
My name is Remco van Schellen and I am living in the Netherlands, in the province of Zeeland. Today I visited a new crop circle, existing of 21 circles. From the air you can see three "bows" existing of seven circles each. The three bows are 'in to each other" (sorry I can't describe it better). The circles are in a field on the isle of Schouwen Duiveland, near the villages of Nieuwerkerk and Dreischor, both in Zeeland, the Netherlands. Maybe you can do something with this information.
Reported by Remco van Schellen
Nieuwerkerk hoax?
Last weekend I spoke with the Nieuwerkerk guys. Here is a short report.
- I am convinced they did the hoax. I did NOT see the lawyer's document (only on TV, looked real) but the many photographs of their meetings, their array of hand-made tools, their computer work, and also their open and friendly way of speaking about their work convinced me more than the document could have done. If all of this is the result of a misinformation/cover-up campaign, then it must be a million Dutch guilders version - which is hard to believe.
- Their method will remain unknown to third parties. I promised this. All I can say, is that it was NOT planks and ropes, but more efficient. "We could never have finished this thing in time with planks and ropes" they told me.
- I arrived on site two days after the creation. I did not check the lay carefully (lack of time). But it looked very good at first sight, although phototropism had started already (stalks popping up again, not a perfect 'flat bed', but I don't know what it looked like directly after the creation). Any traces or footprints could have been those of the hoaxers, or those of early visitors. No apparent damage to the plants. The lay was simple though - just concentric circles and not a single 'swirl'.
- The hoaxers are alright. They believe in a real phenomenon, and offered us assistance during future field research.
- This team of six guys was physically strong, very disciplined, very motivated, "worked in perfect synergy", had access to modern tools (computers, headsets, agricultural tools), and worked with permission of the farmer. In their press release they state that they needed 36 man-hours to set out the formation with markers and 36 man-hours to lay down the crop. Plus more than 200 man-hours preparation time.
- Three anomalies occurred, which I can not explain.
1. A squeezed rabbit between the flattened stalks, apparently dehydrated? Not done by the hoaxers.
2. Dozens of 45 degree burnt stalks in one of the circles, all apparently cut in a single horizontal sweep. Not done by the hoaxers. 3. Node lengthening, significantly more than Levengood found in his hand-made formations, with indications that this is NOT a phototrophic effect, and also indications of spill-over - i.e. the node lengthening seems to expand somewhat beyond the physical imprint. Although (as always) more samples would have been necessary so as to back this up with solid statistics, the node measurements results show things that you really would not expect.
A mere shot in the dark which could possibly explain these anomalies: the formation has been visited by the 'real' circle makers, with their balls-of-light which burnt the stems and perhaps heated the formation which caused the node lengthening.
I attach a larger diagram. Check: 100 m width (Nieuwerkerk) against 1000 feet = 300 m width (Windmill Hill).
Eltjo Copyright 1997
Additional information on the formation.
