This magnificent formation appeared in the night of a lunar eclipse, in the same
field as the very first formation of 2007, right by Oliver’s Castle, world-famous for the video footage shot in 1006 of
the Snow Flake Formation appearing in front of the camera’s lens.
Based on 6-fold geometry, we clearly recognise a Star of David. Yet its centre has been altered and folded like origami,
thus becoming quite 3D and astonishing.
The inner double (folded) triangle was surrounded by 2 hexagons forming 6 triangles in each of which a central half circle
had been cut out. These 6 half-circles had been flipped over towards the centre of the formation, creating the illusion of
half flattened, half standing circles. Yet another large hexagon, placed just outside the two large triangles constructing
the outer Star of David, gave rise to 12 more triangles. An incredible piece of geometric art!
The centre of the formation showed a stunning swirl where the 3 tracks joined together. What struck me was the way the crop
had swirled around the centre. This was not necessary for the creation of the inner swirl, the crop could have simply been
pushed straight forward to meet in the middle and be twisted into a central bundle. In reality however, the outer right
side of the tracks flowed toward the left as they reached the central point, thus creating a river-like flow of 3 streams
meeting and swirling into each other as if to form a clock-wise vortex, a twister of stalks and seed heads.
The star tips all contain 3 little circles, beautifully laid down, some swirling from the inside out but also some from the
outside in which is quite unusual. Two of those small circles show remarkable features: one is tightly swirled and twisted
into itself forming a central knob, whereas the other one shows a twisted bundle of wheat plants flattened in a ring like a
thick rope forming a nest.
The combination of the Star of David design and the small circles surrounding the tips of the triangles made me think of
the Koch fractals of 1997. Bert Janssen showed that only one of those 2 was truly a fractal (the one at Milk Hill), whereas
the other one (at Silbury Hill) was really a Star of David. This had to do with the presence / absence of underlying
construction lines.
This new 2008 formation was clearly not a fractal, but was it a Star of David? In order to find out,
I looked for construction lines.
I did find construction lines (forming the backbone of the formation) but… only bits and pieces! Once again, the Circle
Makers had been showing off: “We follow your logic of geometrical construction) but we do things that you humans cannot do
if you were to (re-)construct this formation: we leave bits out. Guess who we are???” And it was clearly NOT a Star of
David, due to the absence of large pieces of construction lines. I think however it is safe to call this formation a
‘variation to a Star of David…
Some of the construction lines finished after several feet. At first I thought it had to do with the change of the lay of
the crop (in the same direction as the underlying construction lines). But when I walked over to the point where the lay
changed again and where the construction lines should have been found once again, upon lifting the flattened crop the
construction lines that were to be expected were not there...
In other places I found more strange and totally unnecessary (from a geometrical point of view) underlying lines that
seemed to be going nowhere. Some of these even exceeded the perimeter of the formation!
Another mind-boggling aspect was
the frequent interweaving of layers of crop, to the extent that the Basket formation of 1999 came to mind.
Also, the lay
of the crop in the large downed areas of the tips of the outer triangles blew me away: the crop had gone down in a
hexagonal way.
The hexagonal shape of the formation itself
was repeated in the swirls of the triangle tips, like a hologram or a fractal: repeating itself into the finest details,
into infinity...
