Pori, Finland:
THE "MORPHING SERPENT"
Found 23rd July, 1998 (first spotted some two weeks earlier)
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 The "cartwheel" style swirl typical to genuine formations The floor pattern is not very tidy, but this can be in part a result of the rain and wind. However, the crop is in many places apparently laid down in linear or circular strokes. A large part of it has started growing upwards so that it already reached up halfway compared to the surrounding crop, when I first visited the formation. All of the stems are anyway bent against the ground at their lower portions. They have clearly bent upwards at the nodes, which seems to be a completely normal behaviour. What is remarkable though, is that some of the lower nodes are bent towards the ground, though the upper nodes are bent upwards!
The reason why I call this the "morphing serpent" is because it starts of with more complex shapes at the other end and ends up in simple circles and rectangles (though not quite regular) in the other. The "original" shape is a long rectangle with two long extensions (a bit like traces of a very large tractor) starting from the middle and triangular (quite regular) "teeth" on the other side: |
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