| Avebury, UK And Surrounding Area: Crop Circles | | | | the edges seemed to have perfect cutoffs. From |
| are weird things you can quite easily experience | | | | the ground it appeared to be one circle with |
| for yourself. A friend and I recently went on a | | | | concentric circles crossing it. While we were |
| trip to Avebury, Wiltshire, to sample these visual | | | | admiring the view, we noticed another Crop Circle |
| delights and to get first hand experience of the | | | | which was in the distance, appearing to be just |
| phenomena. We actually stayed in a tent at the | | | | under the White Horse.We saw two more Crop |
| back of a pub called The Woodbridge Inn, in North | | | | Circles that day which were just as impressive (If |
| Newnton, about three miles south of Pewsey. | | | | I can get any ariel photos of these circles then I'll |
| The trip lasted four days and was well worth the | | | | add them to this page). It's strange, but after |
| journey.Even before we reached The Woodbridge | | | | having never seen a Crop Circle first hand and |
| Inn we found our first crop circle. We had | | | | then seeing four in the space of twenty four |
| stopped at the car park near Avebury across the | | | | hours, it was amazing.Not A Natural Random |
| fields from Silbury Hill, to get our bearing. While we | | | | Creation?Observations |
| checked the map we saw a Crop Circle across | | | | Crop Circles seem to 80% be created either |
| the field towards Silbury Hill! It was quite difficult | | | | using a tramline as the central axis, or tramlines |
| at first to see and we would probably have | | | | as boundary markers, judging by the photo's I've |
| missed it if we didn't have a clue that it was | | | | seen. |
| there. This was exciting because before this | | | | They seem to have progressively gotten more |
| event I had never seen a Crop Circle first hand. | | | | complicated as time has gone by. Possibly |
| We set off towards it. crossing the road, heading | | | | because whoever is creating them is 'introducing' |
| through a gate into the field and down one of the | | | | us to their message in steps, or maybe because |
| tramlines. As we got closer it was quite strange | | | | the 'hoaxers' are getting better. |
| seeing the Crop Circle getting larger and taking | | | | I think that some people are defining the term |
| shape, with Silbury Hill in the background.We | | | | hoax or fake Crop Circles wrongly. OK, people |
| entered the Crop Circle and looked around. To be | | | | think they could be created by vortices of air |
| honest it was a bit unimpressive seeing it from | | | | compressing the crop, ufos landing and leaving a |
| ground level, and a bit strange. To appreciate the | | | | mark or maybe humans. The latter is termed a |
| complexity of a Crop Circle they have to be | | | | hoax. In my view this is incorrect. Just because |
| viewed from above. The crop (wheat, barley, | | | | they are created by humans does not constitute |
| corn? I'm no agriculturalist!) was bent down to | | | | a hoax. There is no such thing as a fake Crop |
| create a flat surface which had a strange whirl to | | | | Circle! It could be that they are all created by |
| it.Looking at the edges we found that there was | | | | humans with planks of wood and a rope. If they |
| quite an abrupt cutoff between the bent corn and | | | | are then good luck. They are still works of art, still |
| the undisturbed corn. The immense diameter and | | | | spectacular. |
| complexity of the circle makes it amazing how | | | | If you measure a Crop Circle they are actually |
| someone or something could create it. It seems | | | | elliptical and not exactly circular. |
| that the circle was greater than a week old when | | | | These are our observations taken during the visit |
| we saw it, so the crop was actually trodden | | | | and it is to me both exciting and quite weird at |
| down and slightly damaged from previous visitors. | | | | the same time.As a matter of interest, we also |
| We took a few photographs although none of | | | | saw a few UFOs in the sky from our tent. They |
| them were from above the Circle (none of us | | | | were single small illuminated dots moving in an |
| can jump 32 feet high). They sort of give you an | | | | exact straight line through the night sky.They |
| idea of it's size and complexity but some other | | | | seemed to slow down as they reached the |
| photo's I have seen are totally | | | | horizon. We came to the conclusion they were |
| spectacular.Anyway, back to the plot. We left the | | | | probably satellites with the sun shining off them |
| Crop Circle, went back to the car and went in | | | | (the sun had gone down but it would reflect off |
| search of the Woodbridge Inn.During the evening | | | | the objects if they were high enough).I'll say one |
| we spoke to someone who knew of a Crop | | | | thing though: some of the amazing photographs |
| Circle quite near to where we were staying, so | | | | of patterns in fields look way too complicated to |
| the following day we set off early to find it. We | | | | be hoaxed in a day (or night, or at all). Some may |
| eventually found what was a nice temporary car | | | | be hoaxed (smaller, less complicated ones), but I |
| park on the edge of a field. There were a few | | | | can't believe it's possible to hoax some of the |
| people near the top and when one of them came | | | | mindblowing designs I've seen. This is a |
| down the field we asked them a bit sheepishly | | | | phenomena where only time will an answer |
| what was at the top. A Crop Circle was the reply, | | | | appear. It's also quite possible that no answer will |
| as if we should have known! This one was | | | | ever appear.The Crop Circle phenomena is a very |
| situated at the top of a slope which gave a great | | | | unsual, beautiful puzzle, which you should try and |
| view. I don't know the immediate area it was | | | | experience first hand. If anything, it makes you |
| situated in, but it overlooked a White Horse | | | | stand back from the daily grind of life, to |
| (relativley modern by the looks of it). I think it's | | | | appreciate things in a new and enlightening |
| the same White Horse you can see from The | | | | way.Written By: Richard Hawkins |
| Barge Inn. This Crop Circle was of similar | | | | (Personal Blog) |
| construction to the previous one, albeit a bit | | | | A guy with an avid interest in unusual |
| larger. The corn was compressed as before and | | | | phenomena. |