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Hello Everyone,
New Circle at Uffington White Horse
There is a new circle in the UK. Reported yesterday it is at Uffington White Horse on the Wiltshire/Oxfordshire border. It is a simple ringed circle with a collection of smaller circles. Some are already connecting it with an impending solar eclipse, or the transit of Venus. See below for a pole-shot by researcher Bert Janssen. We hope to fly over it early next week. This will be fairly long flight for us as Uffington is at the northern boundary Wiltshire, so as ever, we are looking for funds to help with this and other flights.See below for how you can help...
Our grateful thanks to Bert Janssen for allowing us to reproduce his image of the formation.
New Aerial Images of Eaton Water Copse & Ashmead Break formations...
Aerial Images of the these formations are now available to view on our Image Library. Steve has taken some stunning landscape images of these formations, so please check them out. Click on either image to visit our 2012 Image Library.
Eaton Water Copse, Wilts. 12th May 2012
Ashmead Break, Wilts. 13th May 2012.
New Blog: Quirky Quintuplet: Back to Square One?
Eaton Water Copse, nr Hannington, Wilts May 12th 2012
Oilseed Rape (canola)
"The third formation of the year was reported on May the 12th and was located at the rather elaborately named 'Eaton Water Copse' (near to Hannington) in Wilts, just North of Swindon. While there are many that would argue that Swindon does not have many endearing qualities, one only has to look at the countryside surrounding it to see that even though its town centre may not be the most picturesque, its encompassing landscape more than makes up for it. The rolling hills and grand expanses of farmers fields; a collage all shapes, sizes and colours, make a beautiful frame for the concrete and red brick town centre.
The formation was a quintuplet; this is a 'five dot on a dice' design, one circle in the centre and four circles surrounding it in equidistant positions. It is a classical crop circle design-type. There has been a whole catalogue of variations on this pattern, with circles of varying sizes, some connected by a ring, others not, even one where (most unusually), the four orbiting circles touched the centre circle. Researcher and geometer Michael Glickman affectionately identifies them as the mother circle (in the centre) and her daughters (orbiting circles). This is so endearing that it is now how I think of them as well!
A glimpse through any of the early books about the phenomenon will throw up a whole raft of quintuplets. While the quintuplet is essentially about the number four (it is four-fold in nature), it does have a curious connection to five through its anchoring centre circle. The quintuplet has long fascinated crop circle researchers/geometers (as evidenced above), because it has been such a reoccurring design, but it was geometer Allan Brown that really propelled the quintuplet into superstardom. He showed that almost every quintuplet-shaped crop circle carried a hidden property. That hidden property was that they all Squared the Circle...
 Squaring the Circle - the geometry of the Eaton Water Copse formation. Click on image to read the entire blog.
HALF PRICE POSTER OFFER RETURNS!
(now until end of May)
50 x 75 inch prints JUST £22.50 each - while stocks last!
(Normal postal charges apply).
H:29.527 x W:19.687 inches (75 X 50cms) Gloss Finish.
These huge and magnificent full-colour photo prints are the ultimate in crop circle imagery and will make an absolutely stunning addition to any home, office or even gallery. They look great framed on any wall space.
Each print is supplied hand-rolled and posted in a strong cardboard tube to ensure safe delivery (they are not flat packed). We have chosen a selection of our favourite crop circles from over the years for you to choose from.
You can also order a hanger for these prints as an alternative to framing (see image).
Click on image to browse Poster Prints and to buy!
THANK-YOU!
Steve and I would like to extend a huge 'Thank-you!' to everyone who has helped us so far. We really do appreciate your help and support. Thanks also for all your lovely emails and letters, we read every single one and appreciate them enormously.
HERE'S HOW YOU CAN HELP OUR FUNDRAISING...
1. You can make a donation from as little as £5.00 (GBP). If everyone on this list did that we would be able to sort out our flying for the entire season! Click on the button below to find out more about making a donation.
2. You can help by making purchases from our online shop. Sales of our products help directly finance our work.
3. If you are unable to make a donation or purchase yourself, perhaps you know someone who might? Please pass on details of our website and the code for the 20% discount to anyone you know who might be able to help.
4. You can also help by publicising our website on social networking sites or on your own website if you have one. We can supply graphics and banners for website adverts/inclusions. We would also be grateful if you could add us to your links page.
Finally ...
We very much appreciate all the support we receive from you and we never take it for granted. We are constantly astonished at the generosity of your support, we simply couldn't do it without you.
We are looking into some further fundraising schemes, and we will keep you up to date with anything we put into place.
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