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The Etchilhampton Formation
Wednesday, July 30, 1997 - Etchilhampton
Nr Devizes, Wiltshire
An aerial shot by Steve Alexander © 1997
The formation is a six petalled design incorporated within a circle. It is approximately 150 feet in diameter.
During the crop circle season Michael Glickman and Patricia Murray live at Etchilhampton. The field, which is known locally as Gypsy Patch, is a little over a mile from their house.
In 1996 this field received the longest crop circle ever recorded. It was too big to measure by hand so Michael drove a car carefully along the adjoining farm track, measuring the distance on the odometer as he went. It was eight tenths of a mile long and was a track linking thirteen circles, very much like pearls on a necklace. At the centre, and seperate from the track, was a circle which contained a perfect equilateral triangle. Though the points of the triangle were intact, the centre had been cut away to form what appeared to be a flying horse. From this circle could be seen the white horse of Alton Barnes.
This formation, apart from the fact that it was so close to their home, appeared on the very day that Michael and Patricia spoke at the Glastonbury Symposium.
It was natural, then, that they assumed that there would be another formation in the same field during the 1997 season. They visited it often. On the night of 23rd July, as they drove home, a brilliant luminosity dropped vertically in front of their car and then shot off in the direction of the Gypsy Patch field. They tried to follow it but lost it very shortly.
Though they visited he field almost daily, there was no activity and then, on the night of 30th July, turning the corner near the field, Michael suddenly said: "It's landed!" He is wary of predictions the third circle until, during harvesting, the combine driver stopped his machine to speak to them and told them of a third circle in the corner of the field.)
An aerial shot by Steve Alexander © 1997
The formation was accompanied by this design. Detail below.
An aerial shot by Steve Alexander © 1997
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