When are crop circles formed?
When the plants involved have grown enough to be flattened. In general this means between March and September, when there are fields of crop. But also during the winter crop circles appear, for instance in fields of grass.
And then the actual timing: most crop circles are formed during the night. But there are exceptions... On 7 July 1996 this formation (called the 'Juliaset') appeared near Stonehenge, in broad daylight!
Multiple eyewitnesses confirmed that they were positive that this complex formation appeared in the late afternoon. The eyewitnesses were all pilots, who had flown over Stonehenge around 17.30 h. when the formation had definitely not been there. When they flew over Stonehenge once more at 18.00 h., the Juliaset was there...
The 999 emergency centre confirmed that at 17.50 h. they received reports of cars suddenly pulling over at Stonehenge, causing dangerous situations at the A303. People got out of their cars and peered into the field across Stonehenge, marvoulled by the sheer beauty of the Juliaset... Due to these reports we know for sure that this enormous formation, consisting of 149 circels, must have been formed between 17.30 h.and 17.50 h. That is, within 20 minutes in broad daylight! On inquiry, nobody turned out to have seen anything out of the ordinary, neither the countless tourists who visited Stonehenge, nor the guards who work there...
There are more examples of crop circles that were formed during the day, but thanks to the fact that the Juliaset event was confirmed by multiple, independant witnesses, this remains a unique example.
