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Boxley, near Maidstone, Kent. Reported 17th July.
Map Ref: TQ767583
Updated Thursday 21st July 2005
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Image Andrew King Copyright 2005
Image Mike Mahoney Copyright 2005
Images Graham Tucker Copyright 2005
Just to confirm there's a superb new circle in
wheat at Boxley, near Maidstone, Kent. Reported to us
at 7am this morning (Sunday 17th July). We were in the area last
evening & don't think it was there at 9 pm.
Graham Tucker
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This new circle may be
glimpsed from the M20, travelling eastbound, just past junction 6. It
lies just outside the small village of Boxley, nestled amongst a
hillside copse, known locally as Park Wood, alongside Grange Lane and
the new stretch of the Boxley Road. There's a public footpath running
right across the bottom of the field from the Boxley Road, where a
good view of the formation can be found. It's also only a few hundred
yards from the channel tunnel rail link, which actually runs through a
tunnel beneath the field.
It's laid out in wheat
spanning 3 tramlines and is approximately 180 - 200 feet across in the
shape of a complex trefoil . Whilst it isn't the neatest of
formations, it boasts one of the most interesting floor-lays we've
seen for a while, this side of Wilts! It comes complete with a
standing tuft in the very centre of the formation, that "The
Circlemakers" have somehow managed to turn the top leaves of the stems
into a spikey top (very cool!)
The formation lies
less than half a mile away from the idyllic ruins of Boxley Abbey.
All that really remains of this 13th - 14th century "guesthouse" for
pilgrims is a barn, whilst the remains of a chapel are enclosed in a
walled garden.
What interests us here
though is that I've discovered that the abbey is part of an
alignment which this formation rests upon. From the abbey it heads
straight for The Countless Stones (Little Kits Coty) near Burham.
These are a group of fallen megaliths, believed to be the ruined
burial chamber of a long barrow.
After acknowledging
the Pilgrims Way, it then crosses the river Medway where it slices
through the remains of a Bishops Palace, before finally ending up at
the old church at Halling.
Graham Tucker
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Reconstruction of the
2005 Boxley formation
By Zef Damen
Ball of Light sighting over Medway,
Saturday July 16th.
Click on thumbnail to enlarge
Images Andy Fowlds Copyright 2005
At around 2pm on a beautiful, hot sunny afternoon in
the Medway Valley in Kent I tracked what appeared to be a ball of light
in the sky for about 10 minutes – it seemed quite high up in the sky,
quite distant but very distinct. It moved slowly coming from the north
heading south and then it altered its course and headed south
eastwards, over the Medway towns towards Bluebell Hill and across the
Medway Valley area. At times whilst tracking the object, it shone
brilliantly like a star, after a few minutes of watching this thing I
knew I wasn’t looking at an aeroplane or a helicopter or balloon – in
truth I had absolutely no-idea what I was observing…. It seemed to
“shake” as it moved, it was incredible. I managed to grab my camera and
take a few shots of it – it was difficult to get a real close up as it
was high up in the sky, however from some of the photos that did come
out you can clearly see a white spherical object – in one photo there
appears to be a faint greyish cigar-shaped object that appeared next to
the ball of light. I was naturally quite excited about what I had
witnessed, and after reporting my sighting to Graham Tucker of Medway
CC research, we both felt there could be another crop circle arriving
immanently – at 7am the next morning a beautiful crop circle was
reported near Boxley, in the vicinity of where my sighting took place.
Andy Fowlds |
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Click on Thumbnails to enlarge.
Images Andy Fowlds Copyright 2005
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