Large circle, 12 metre, with two satellites, 2 metre and bar, in 60 centimetre high grass, all counter-clockwise. The young man who reported the formation believes that it had just appeared when he found it. He told how the grass still seemed to be 'charged', and made a crackling noise, 'like cold french fries when you throw them in hot oil'.
Source: DCCCS.
Crop unknown. Pictogram with circles, rings and bars.
Source: DCCCS.
Single circle, about 10 m diameter.
Source: DCCCS.
Three circular imprints in barley. Reported in a local newspaper (Eindhovens Dagblad, July 1st). According to the police, the formation appeared between 20.00 Saturday night and 11.00 Sunday morning. The formation was visible from the dike which runs parallel to the Hoofdgraaf (road), west of the village. The formation was shaped like a barbell. It consisted of three circles, connected by 40 cm wide pathways. Flow of the crop: anti-clockwise in all the circles. Orientation: North-South, the largest circle South. The circles were not completely round, but a little bit 'squeezed' in the North-South direction.
Source: DCCCS.
06- Beilen (1), Drenthe, 10-07-1997.
10- Zevenbergen, Noord Brabant, 12-07-1997.
Pictogram in rye. When I wanted to enter the formation, I was hit by the worst thunderstorm in my circle-carreer, which forced me to stay in the car for about half an hour. Unfortunately, this storm damaged the formation almost completely. The attached diagram is hence only approximate, particularly the 'fork' at the left. The field was so wet and muddy that I did not feel like uncovering the damaged areas so as to figure out what it had looked like before the storm struck. The counter-clockwise lay of the large circle (appr. 8 m diameter) was still very nice though. I discovered several bent nodes, as well as indications of swollen pulvini.
Source: DCCCS.
Single circle, broadcast on a news reel by a local TV station (TV-West, Rijswijk) on July 14th.
Source: DCCCS.
Found close to the first Hooghalen formation. We might have missed this one when we visited the first one, perhaps it was created afterwards.
Source: DCCCS.
A Celtic Cross in wheat, diameters 6, 4, 4, 4, 4 metre. Reported by a pilot from Flight Centre Zeeland.
Source: DCCCS.
15- Smilde, Drenthe, 17-07-1997.
Single circle. Diameter: 16 metres.
Reported at http://Drenthe-Net.nl/rtv_drenthe/
Source: DCCCS.
17- Melick, Limburg, 18-07-1997.
Large pictogram (45 m total length) in barley. Appeared in a local newspaper, 'Het Limburgs Dagblad', around July 27. Good lay, with a central underneath swath running all over the pictogram. The ends of the 'horse shoe' showed five nice adjacent 'dents' into the standing crop, the way ilyes describes in her monograph. The crop was ripe, and many seeds had fallen out of the heads by people stepping on it. Many of them seeds had germinated, and the seedlings were already 5 cm high, peeping through the flattened crop. Samples were taken along the right hand side of the horse shoe, plus two controls and a single sample in a near 'randomly downed' area. Preliminary seedling tests showed 1. Retardation of germination w.r.t. controls and 2. Extremely strong seedlings from the crop formation which did not die even after over two months without water (controls were dead in 2-3 weeks).
Source: DCCCS.
Source: DCCCS.
A large (50 m) pictogram. The diagram is just an artist impression from a quick description over the phone.
Source: DCCCS.
Circles with protrusions, located near Volkel. Underneath the crop an empty bottle of beer was found!
Source: DCCCS.
Three circles (8 meters in diameter), connected by bars, in an equilateral triangle. Crop unknown. All circles counter-clockwise. Reported in a local newspaper.
Source: DCCCS.
Pictogram in wheat, 25 m total length, only a few hundreds meters away from the first Melick formation. Good lay.
Source: DCCCS.
24- Ee, Friesland, 28-07-1997.
single circle, appr. 10 m diameter, aerial photograph made by Eltjo. Reported on Net.nl/rtv_drenthe/ and the 'Nieuwe Dockumer Courant', July 28, 1997.
Source: DCCCS.
Single circle, not perfectly symmetric, 18 m diameter. Flat lay, but irregular edge.
Source: DCCCS.
Near a camping place, between Doetinchem and Emmerich (Germany). Three circles, of which one seems to be unfinished, with connecting paths.
Source: DCCCS.
Three circles, spotted from the airplane, one minute after take-off from Amsterdam Airport on a trip to Glastonbury. The diagram is only an inpression of what I remembered, and hence inaccurate.
Source: DCCCS.
Circle, 10 m dialeter with two rings, connected to second circle with one ring. It was almost impossible to see this formation from the dike - unless you knew it was there.
Source: DCCCS.
30- Hoeven, Noord Brabant, 07-08-1997.
31- Standdaarbuiten, Noord Brabant, 16-10-1997.
Small circle, with two sattellites. Nice lay, in ramadas crop.
Source: DCCCS.
Found between Wolveschans en Groeneweg. Predicted by clearvoyant! Three circles in winter-rye, diameters 15, 7 and 2 metres. Article in local newspaper .
Source: DCCCS.
An eye witness saw balls in a farm field in the evening. The next morning he found a question mark shaped spiral in the sand.
Source: DCCCS.
34- Noordgouwe, Zeeland, 1997.
35, 36, 37- 3 formations near Dongen, Noord Brabant, 1997.
38- Wieringermeer, Noord Holland, 1997.
A stewardess from the Royal Dutch Airlines told how she clearly saw three large crop formations somewhere in the Flevopolder: two very large circles, and one pictogram. Later, we suspected they were somewhere in the Wieringermeerpolder. Never found! Interesting: the same stewardess recently saw crop circles in China!
Source: DCCCS.
Singe circle. Reported on http://Drenthe-Net.nl/rtv_drenthe/, they also show an image.
Source: DCCCS.
Ring with 4 internal pathways, forming a sort of peace symbol.
Source: DCCCS.
42- Hulst, Zeeland, 1997.
43- Almere, Flevoland, 1997.
