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However, what soon took all the attention of us, was the way all the small circles outside and inside the formation were flattened, or actually twisted. It seemed as if in this formation all possible ways of laying down a circle in crop were demonstrated. There were all variations seen before, but also new methods nobody would have even imagined. There were the traditional "galaxy swirles" with different kinds of centers. There were simple "one-armed" spirals and the two-armed "S" spirals. There were the cartwheel style circles with the stems pointing outwards to all directions. And then there were the "baskets"; stalkes twisted into cylinders raised from the ground. There were loose ones, tight ones, low and high. Some of them were hollow, some were totally closed, some had a cartwheel top made of the upper portions of the stalks. One of the small open cylinders had a single undamaged stalk standing in the middle! Inside the tight baskets the crop was still moist; they were so tight that the moisture had been preserved for several hours despite of the extremely intense sunshine. This, to me, was an additional proof of the freshness of the formation; I don't think the moisture could have stayed there through a full day. If it took 20 minutes from one person to make a circle like this, 6 people could create 72 of them during four hours. Yet there were 175 of these circles and they were just an addition to the complex 7-sided ring! This doesn't even include measuring, movinb from one circle to the other, resting... I would say that from seven skilled people using physical tools, even with good planning and rehearsal, it would take at least 1 hour to measure out the seven-sided outer ring 2 hours to measure out the 14-pointed inner star 4 hours to flatten the crop in the ring 3 hours to mark the places of the circles 9 hours to flatten the 175 circles (25 min / circle / person) 1 hour to rest 2 hours to collect the tools and cover the traces That makes 22 hours all together! Yet the formation definately must have appeared in four times less!! Nobody was spotted moving in the field with torches, they should have worked in the dim moonlight or use night vision goggles. And what were the lights flying over the field? Each of the circles also caused a clear reaction in the dowsing rods, whether this has any significance or not (to me it has some).

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