CROP CIRCLES IN 1999

Pole shots by Stuart Dike Copyright 1999

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The location of Hackpen Hill, has been a focus for the phenomenon since the early nineties. In 1991 we had a wonderful triple Dumbbell appear below the slopes of the White Horse, and was keenly celebrated by the Crop Circle Community. Its has taken eight years, but the same field has now been visited again by the Circlemakers, but this time by something that surpasses anything that has been seen before below these slopes.

Its appearance close the White Horse, it’s quite simply majestic! The shock of driving down the road early on Sunday morning was enough to swerve on to the curb, as colourful vocabulary of joy came pouring from myself. This was quite extraordinary, and to make it even more intense was the fact that we had been sitting onto of the hill on a night watch on the very night it appeared!

Only hours before, we had decided to drive out to Hackpen, as it’s not a generally popular place to night watch. We parked the car in the Car Park above the White Horse at around midnight, and proceeded to walk along the Ridgeway some 200 yards from the Car. After some minutes of discussing a dark patch in a field directly below us, we noticed some lights that had suddenly appeared to our right, some two fields away from our present location.

Four lights came on at once, and then went off, as soon as they had appeared. Then a huge searchlight started to scan the fields, in what seemed to be cottage grounds as we located it on the map the next morning. The light was searching the field for over twenty minutes, and was not moving from its location. We were all very curious, but unusually not one of us decided to investigate further, we were all quite contented to watch it from a distance. The light disappeared not long before we decided to call it a night, but what would have we discovered if we had investigated further? Now! Many of you will be thinking about the work of people but let me put this question to you all. Why would they be attracting attention to themselves with a powerful searchlight? Could this have been farm security, the Police, or perhaps someone who knew a little more then the rest of us? Many questions, but judging by how dark this night in question was, and the enormous size and complexity of this formation, could anyone have created it? Perhaps the report and images will speak for themselves, we leave it up to you, but at the end of the day, this is an exceptional design, with beauty and outstanding geometry and presence!

The design itself is regarded as a vortex, than as a Galaxy, seen on many formations in 1994. However, the pattern is made of interlocking crescents, which seem to criss-cross each other, swirling round into three main arms. The overall diameter is around 390 ft, making it the largest ever design to appear below Hackpen Hill. Its geometry is something, which I have never experienced, purely because of the shear scale of the formation, and the organisation involved creating such a design. It reminded me in many ways of standing in the Windmill Hill formation in 1996, not only because of its diameter, but also its floor construction, which was equally outstanding. We were luckily enough to be the first people to enter, and could literally bounce on the freshly flattened crop.

On first appearance I could not see any evidence of mud on the stems, but there as a wonderful combing effect throughout the crescents, very similar to what Ilyes has been researching with regard to her Bols theory. The crop seems to be laid in three sections of flattened crop with slightly raised portion between in section. But the overall construction had the feeling that it was very lightly flattened, no heavy pressure was involved with the flattening process. Although the plants are very young, they still crackled when force was applied with each step, which indicated that the seed heads and stems were not effected by the actual event. The central part of the formation had a wonderful centre, creating a feeling that the whole process went down together, not in stages. That is an important point to raise, especially with regard to the overall diameter of the formation.

This formation I’m sure will be regarded as one of the highlights of the season so far!

Report by Stuart Dike

Amazingly the latest major formation that appeared below Hackpen Hill on July 4/5, 1999, is not just new in its never before shown geometry of mixed crescent and fibonacci-styled spirals but again an encoded diagram connected to the phenomenon of the sun-eclipse. It seems to be an artistic version of the so-called ‘Saros-cycle’ 145.

One Saros-cycle takes 1000-1200 years to be completed and is made of about 42 sun-eclipses each 18 years, 10days and 8 hours.

The diagram shows the actual cycle of the ‘zones of totality’ wandering southwards by starting at the North pole and completes at its southern opposite.

The actual cycle had its first eclipse in 1639 and will be completed in 2648 with its latest eclipse over the South pole – and then starts again on North pole.

According to Wolfgang Held, author of a book on the actual eclipse on August 11, 1999, the Saros-cycles can be view as counterparts to sun’s light and heat projection on earth’s surface because those shown eclipses interrupt it regularly.

By comparing the diagram with the actual formation it seems that both fit very precisely also in small details. But we should consider that the formation is not the diagram itself but it’s artistic and aesthetic interpretation.

It makes no difference that the diagram shows a different rotation of the spinning system because this is just question of projection. If the earth would be shown from behind, the spinning direction would fit.

I personally feel that this formation compared with its diagram-twin can be interpreted as a task for science and, what some call ‘esoteric’ or ‘para-science’ to meet again as they did in the past with much better results to important questions as today. I wonder if it was just again one of those coincidences that I had a discussion inside the formation exactly about this question while both of us did not know about the actual look of the formation from above nor about the diagram.

Out of ‘Die Sonnenfinsternis am 11. August 1999’ by Wolfgang Held ( Verlag Freies Geistesleben, Stuttgard ) Page 30.

Actual diagram by J.Schulz: ‘Rhythmen der Sterne’

Andreas Muller
‘I.C.C.A. – The International Crop Circle Archive’

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Patterns of Eclipses.

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