´óÏó´«Ã½

Features

You are in: Wiltshire > About Wiltshire > Features > Crop circle creation on film

Crop circle creation on film

It's 23 acres big and according to UFO hunters took less then 2 hours to form plus it's all on film...

As early as the middle of April, this year, crop circles have been cropping up (or crops down) all over Wiltshire.

Beacon Hill at Oliver's Castle North of Devizes

First crop circle at Beacon Hill, Oliver's Castle

In fact, to date, there have been 37 crop formations making their mark on wheat, barley and oilseed rape fields up and down the county.

Wiltshire's bumper crop circle year

The first of the season, a massive 333ft wide striped ball effect circle, manifested itself in the middle of April in oilseed rape on top of Beacon Hill at Oliver's Castle North of Devizes

Crop circle from Pewsey Vale walk â€“ Bernard Binns

Since than a starfish-shaped formation has made an appearance in a barley field near Furze Knoll, a 200ft wide four-fold geometrical design has flattened yet more barley near Wexcombe Down, a series of co-centric circles has squashed more barley at Winterbourne Monkton and the last, but by no means least elaborate, string of beads design has been found near Avebury and that was just May.

In June the crop of crop circles hit 11 and that's not counting the formation that mysteriously appeared overnight in a field between Beckhampton and Cherhill that bore more then a passing resemblance to the disability charity Scope's logo. And, uncannily, appeared just in time for Scope's Time to Get Equal Week.

Scope Crop Circle

However in July, despite conditions being less then crop friendly, Wiltshire has seen a bumper crop of crop circles... 14 at the last count.Ìý The most interesting though has to be an elaborate formation that 'sucked down' crops on both sides of a hill in the enormous East Field, near Alton Barnes.

Crop circle creation on film

Over 1,000 ft long and 520 ft wide, and boasting over 90 separate circles within the formation and 60 without, the mega crop formation, made its appearance in pitch darkness in the early hours of the windy, damp and overcast Saturday morning of 7/7/07.

Dedicated UFO hunter and cameraman Winston Keech takes up the story:

"This is the most spectacular formation to have occurred in Wiltshire for many years.Ìý It's flattened area is over 95,000 sq ft or roughly 2,25 acres.

"But what is most remarkable is that it is absolutely known to have been formed within 1 hour 45 minutes and that it was filmed forming by five separate cameras (including infra red CCTV) and in the presence of three witnesses which is unprecedented.

"To the naked eye, observers saw only a white flash similar to sheet lightning at 3:13am. But the ultra low light CCTV camera, pointed at the field, saw considerably more.

"Viewing the lighting enhanced video, over the following seven minutes, the circle would seem (even allowing for changing lighting conditions over that period) to develop into the full formation in front of the camera."

Watch exclusive footage

So was the circle, as Win suggests, "not present before the flash"? well you can make up your own mind...

Check out the exclusive extract of Win's one minute per second frame grab animation below:

last updated: 19/09/07

Have Your Say

me
no you cant see peopole you plonker, and as for mz Molly did you even READ the who of the above article or did you just drop in at the bottom...wheres the conformity test agin?How dya get thru to these people?

Molly Olivia
I think its a shame that crop circles seem to be made completely by mankind nowadays...people who believe in extraterestrials, like me, are being fooled. Doesn't anybody else want to believe in other intelligent beings in the universe? Has mankind become that vain?

Anonymous
how can we conclude that the crop circle which are fascinating and far more complicated for humans intelligence is made by human. if it was made by human than how is it possible to complete in one night? by the way no human crop creator has been able to explain their creations, hard work has usually has something to say, may be they just come to media for publicity..

Vehementi
Abbey, perhaps you should research into them before making such rediculous assumptions.They've predicted cosmic events such as exploding meteors, they use ancient symbols, such as the one with the two lines in the circles, Mayan for 10. They contain messages in ASCII, the list of things that are too complex for a human to've done is phonominal. References to ancient sun-venus calendars, "feathered serpents", star charts, you get the idea.

Brian Johnson
Although I have never seen a crop circle I have witnessed sevral other related events, All these events should be shown on National TV!

richard gillard
i live in salisbury and was looking north on Sat evening. I saw what I thought was an aeroplane with vapour trail.it was decending rapidly. it had a trial but did not leave a mark in the sky. I estimate that it was about 10 miles north east of Salisbury. It then lost its tail and became stationery. I filmed the dot of light with my camera.

Anonymous
Why arent you providing the original 7 minute video instead of that flash animation?

steve
When you watch the lower left hand corner of the frame - you can see what look like people using the tracks to get to the shapes.

Crystal
Just what's going on??

Henry
Well, you can see it being made in each frame.

latissa kiill3n
h3y peopl3 they ar3 fantastic xxx

Abbey
All done by people........

Russ Kellett
Nice One mate

C K Charles..Australia
Great formation and footage. I took a picture of a swollen node feom one of the formation stalks.Good stuff.

Local ´óÏó´«Ã½ Sites

Neighbouring Sites

Related ´óÏó´«Ã½ Sites

Features