1997

My thanks to Lucy Pringle for the photo .

Crop circle in oilseed rape below Barbury Castle. Very similar to last year's Littlebury Green, Essex, formation: ringed circle with six half-crescents (clockwise direction) fanning out to outline. Overall diameter is c. 160'. Central circle 18-20', diameter of standing ring 48-50', diameters of seven rings which form basis of design 78-80'. There is also a 3-4' grapeshot nearby. (Report by John Sayer)

This formation demonstrates Ptolemy's theorem of 150 AD, a prehistoric landmark, because it is the foundation of trigonometry.

While helping Prof. Gerald Hawkins figure out possible Euclidean geometry and diatonic ratios in the first crop circle at Barbury castle I uncovered, through the geometric construction lines, that it contains the exact crop circle that appeared two weeks later at Stretall in Essex. You can see the overlay of the latter crop circle in yellow.

It is interesting to note that several people gifted in the area of channeling have stated that the Circlemakers this year will be concentrating on designs which have a predictive quality: that they can be predicted in advance by position and shape.

Below, I've also included the full- if rough- construction used to create the Barbury Castle 'Six Moons', which is derived from the 'Three Moons' design last year at Littlebury Green (right).

Diagrams © Freddy Silva. Left photo is optically corrected from original © Lucy Pringle, right © Russell Stannard.

My thanks to Russell Stannard for the photo.

Huge 360 ft formation in flowering oil seed rape. Note that the center for the small ring is in untouched standing crop and therefore very hard to hoax. Additionally, if one had made this, the weight of a rope or wire 180 ft in radius would have scraped the tops of the delicate yellow flowers, yet as the picture shows, no damage was evident.

In Native American philosophy, this symbol means 'awakening and connecting to the nature of things'.

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