Eyewitness accounts
If I would describe all the eyewitness accounts of the last couple of years, this would indeed become a very large chapter. Ever since 1995 (my first crop circle season in England), I have met and talked with dozens of people who have seen balls, columns and beams of light, varying in size from a pingpong ball to a large beach ball, and varying in colour from white, yellow and orange to blue and red.
Just a dry summing up seems useless to me, especially since I cannot show you any images of most of the accounts. What I will do here, is share with you a small selection of eyewitness accounts, thus giving you insight in the lights' specific features. If you would like to see the available pieces of video footage - which I definitely recommend! - then the best thing to do is to purchase the award winning video documentary
The first case of this chapter's selection, is Donald Fletcher's sighting at the beautiful Barbury Castle formation in 1999.
On 7 August 1999 Donald Fletcher from Londen climbed Oliver's Castle (Wiltshire, UK), the prehistoric hill-fort that is granted one or more crop formations each year in its surrounding fields. The formation of 1999 had chosen a magnificent spot.
As Donald put his video camera on a tripod and looked through the view finder, he saw two large white balls of light approaching the formation. At first he thought they were sea-gulls, but soon he realised that these were authentic crop circle lights. He grabbed his camera (with tripod and all) and shot the best footage ever...
The video footage shows the following.
The lights (about as big as a human head) approach the formation coming from the trees at the horizon. They enter the formation and seperate. Donald chooses to follow one of them in his view finder. The people who are in the formation don't respond to the lights at all, even though the lights fly straight over their heads. They just don't see them. The light that Donald follows with his camera, clearly interacts with the shape of the formation: it follows the round perimeter, bends off and ascends while leaving the formation. You really get the impression that the light is conscious and knows exactly what it's doing and where it's going...
Then the light accelerates in a few seconds to enormous speed. Donald manages to follow the light for quite some time, but eventually loses it. This enormous acceleration is one of the lights' characteristics that we often see. Another feature that we often encounter is that the lights can be seen by eyewitnesses at a distance, but not by people who are at close range.
