Latest Crop Pictures--UK 2008

ET landing pads or human crop art? You decide. Here are some of latest crop formations from England. Thanks to Matt Williams for the inexpensive, fuel-sharing microlight flight that made these pictures possible. (Feel free to copy for personal, non-commercial purposes.)

Honey Street

Wroughton

Horton

Charlsbury Hill

Eastfield

Southfield


Southfield Formation Grows Larger!

Westwoods

Lockeridge

Lockeridge Wide View

Chiseldon

Bishops Cannings

All Cannings

More Device Failures in Crop Circles--GPS Device Fails at Fyfield Down, 1999/Camera Failure in East Field, 2007

As discussed in Opening Minds, here is a clip of a GPS device failing as the owner entered the Fyfield Down formation in 1999. The device had 14 hours of battery life before its owner came into the crop formation. The batteries drained within a few minutes when inside the formation. Also affected a few minutes before, were my Trek electrostatic meter, which lost all power, and a friend's camcorder which would no longer record. Thus, a total of three devices seemed to strangely malfunction within the space of a few minutes.



In the following video, an Australian tourist's camera stops working inside the East Field "OM" Formation in 2007. This is a phenomenon I have witnessed many times while visiting these formations. Yet every time it happens, it reignites my fascination with the subject.
East Field "Om" Formation, 2007

More crop circle weirdness

Over the past several years, we've seen a small but consistent amount of malfunctions in our cameras and electronic equipment when we go into crop circles during our tour in England. It's happened to camcorders, measuring devices, and laptops. This year was no exception. The first video shows Dan, an electrical engineer and one of the tour participants, explaining how his electronic compass failed in the Ridgeway formation. This happened on July 14th, 2008. The compass recovered about one hour later and worked fine for the rest of the tour. But for most of the time in the formation, it would not find true North and had North and South only ninety degrees apart, instead of one-hundred and eighty.



The second video shows Dan measuring the wavy looking Westwoods formation with our electrostatic meter. While filming him, my Sony camera starts blurring and then refocusing, as if it can't lock onto the objects in its field of view with the auto-focus feature. It's never done that before, anywhere. A few minutes later it was fine and remained so for the rest of the tour.



Once again, crop formations are creating mysterious effects on our equipment. These anomalies don't happen everyday, but at the same time, I've never seen them happen anywhere but in crop formations. And that goes for most people whom I've talked to who have experienced the same, strange phenomena.