Visit to the 2nd Grass Circle, Garsington on 12th June 2005
A brief report
Grid reference SP579016
Well the morning started well with a flat car battery. I'd received an email from Mark Fussell
(Crop Circle Connector) late-ish on Saturday night (11th June) and resolved to haul myself outa bed early on Sunday morning and drive to Garsington. I was fast asleep when a voice said quite clearly "It's 5 o'clock". I hopped out of bed and tip-toed down to the kitchen, made a cup of tea and then slipped out into the silvery morning. Having loaded my car with the necessary I turned the ignition key...and nothing happened. Great start! ...or not, more like it. There was nobody about unsurprisingly so I sat and wondered what to do next. Then I remembered my daughter's car...5 or 6 minuted later, after being as quiet as it was possible to be, I was heading for the hills, well Garsington Hill. As I drove down the hill from Toot Baldon I could make out the circle in pasture ahead of me, so I stopped and took a couple of photographs and then carried on to Garsington Church car park.
It was a beautiful morning, blackbirds, chaffinches, wrens and robins tripped about in front of me as I wound down the little path beneath the church yard. St Mary's Church has just got to be in one of the most glorious positions in southern England.
I found the circle easily. It seemed a very complicated and intricate design. The grass was laying very low and had not been so wind-ruffled as the last one. This one, like the May formation, evoked a very gentle feeling. I noticed that it had been placed directly underneath that one and there appeared to be some tracery of patterns joining the two. This could, I suppose be trails from visitors to the first one but I don't think they all were. The lines etc seemed more recent than the first shapes but later than this new one. An aeriel photograph may sort this out.
I took quite half a dozen photographs and then my newly recharged batteries went flat. But Ha! I had anticipated this and whatever it was would not stymmie me this time! I had bought some back-ups and I had left the zoom camera at home (unintentionally). I loaded the replacement batteries and snapped away. I took about a dozen more photographs. When I got home 4 of them were completely blank as well as 3 almost flashed out - I didn't use the flash at all.
The formation is approximately 22 meters in diameter. The central circle approximately 9 meters diameter. The 'paths' about 2 feet wide except where they join, where they are wider and up to 6 feet. The whole design is laid clockwise and seems to resemble a spinning atom. I hope to get airborne tomorrow (Monday 13th June) and hopefully confirm the design and maybe spot another pattern at least, as I feel there is another around.
I'll keep you posted with more on the atomic antics in the green fields of Oxfordshire.
Cheers
Ellis
12th June 2005
p.s. One of the first photographs I took from the bottom of Toot Baldon hill has what may be an anomalous craft. I'm hoping to get it checked out. More on this later.
Note: Unfortunately I could not get a flight to view the circles from aloft. However the photograph mentioned above does appear to show an anomolous object in the sky. For more on this please click here.