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To celebrate the launch of our new website and to raise funds for the 2015 season (now urgent) we are offering a huge 20% discount off all orders on our new site.
Use the Welcome20 code above in your
shopping basket to get the discount.
Please share the code around to anyone who might make use of it - as always we need your help to keep flying!
We have some new 10x15 inch prints from this year on the shop. Use this opportunity to have a good look at our new shop. This is a great chance to get 20% off of our crop circle year book set which is already discounted. So you will get even more discount when buying the 8 book set. Don't forget these titles are becoming collectors items. When each book sells out that will be it.
No more reprints.
Thank you. We hope you will be encouraged to buy something.
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Image Copyright Steve Alexander
This spectacular crop circle lies between Alcestor and the small village of Haselor just off the A46 Stratford Road in the country of Warwickshire and was reported on the 19th of July. It measures approximately 250ft in diameter and is in a field of golden,
ripening wheat. The central motif is that of an eight-fold star in which, (like the star at the Rollright Stones) the arms are knotted travelling over and under each other – giving a distinct Celtic knot feel to the design. A circle of standing crop seems to lock the star into place. A crescent moon is inscribed to one side of the central circular shape, then a thin ring surrounds the entire pattern creating the outer perimeter of the crop circle. Finally, a set of eight small satellite circles
sit on the perimeter at equidistant intervals which correspond with the points of the star and a smaller-still ninth satellite circle sits between two of the aforementioned eight satellites. This formation looked spectacular in the landscape with the sun shining on the spun-gold of the wheat. Of particular note is the centre circle, in which the crop is beautifully swept into a pretty pattern all of its own and is reminiscent of the circle at Nettle Hill in Warwickshire last
year. Find Out more
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Image Copyright Steve Alexander
We took a long drive up to an airfield about twenty miles away from this new formation in the Midlands of the UK.
Flying from our normal base at Thruxton in Hampshire was not an option, as it was too far away. So it was a three hour drive there, and a three hour drive back to get these images. It was a beautiful day for flying and we were both pretty excited to see what the circle would look like.
This formation was worth an exhausting days driving
though. It looked simply stunning from the air!
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Appeal For Donations.
Can you Help This Week? We are trying our best to record the crop circles this year, but we need your help. Our new website is now live. Please visit it to check out all the latest images.
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Image Copyright Karen Alexander. Flying over the new Haselor crop circle.
Can you make a donation of £20-£50 this week?
Click on the photo above to donate. We are flying every week now to bring you these
images.
To make a donation click below on Help, or click the photo above. This will take you to our new website where you can make a donation to help us continue to do what we do.
The crop circles are coming thick and fast, and we need your support to help us record the crop
circles in the UK. We are taking some long flights. We are flying again at the weekend.
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Image Copyright Steve Alexander
We had to take a long flight to reach this circle located near Merstham in Surrey. We had to fly relatively high at around 500ft to avoid being an unnecessary distraction the those using the motorway below. The formation was placed in a field of wheat
right by the intersection of the M25 and M23 motorways. The formation also sits bedsides Ockley Wood. It is in a field of wheat and measures approximately 150ft. This is a pretty formation which uses classical geometry to affect a 3D perspective. The design clearly shows a cube with windows in each side which reveal a sphere suspended at its centre. Although we automatically see the 3D shape, to draw this design we have to work on the flat plane of paper, so need to look at its 2D construction.
The circle is divided into six and a hexagon is drawn inside. Then, three alternate points are joined to the centre of the circle, this gives us our basic isometric cube. The finer details of the design are then drawn in. We have seen cubes many times before in crop circle patterns, and interestingly they nearly all have heralded something important to come, whether it be the foray into three dimensions in 1999, or in 2010 the first 4D formations. They seem to be symbolic/echoes of some
kind of dimensional shift at work. Read More
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M25 Motorists Unaware Of The New Visitor.
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Don't forget to get your tickets for The Summer Crop Circle Lectures 2015. Summer Lectures Website To be
Updated Soon.
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Tickets now on sale for the 2015 event.
The Summer Lectures website is to be updated soon with the 2015 speakers list. We have been busy working on our new Temporarytemples website which will be launched in the near future, so things are a bit behind this year.
Dates: Friday 31st July – Sunday 2nd August 2015 Venue: Town Hall,
St. John’s Street, Devizes, Wilts, UK Our 2015 Programme at a glance: Friday 31st July 2015 – Day Crop Circle Coach Tour Friday 31st July 2015 – Evening Crop Circle Geometry Workshop Saturday & Sunday 1st & 2nd August 2015 – Main Lecture Programme Saturday 1st August 2015 – Evening Crop Circles & Consciousness Workshop Sunday 2nd August 2015 – Evening Conference Dinner The Summer Crop Circle Lectures is the world’s leading crop circle conference. Researchers and enthusiasts gather together from around the globe each summer to present and share new ideas, experiences and research into this enigmatic phenomenon. Our programme combines top national and international speakers, along with exciting newcomers to provide a broad collection of ideas and thinking on the subject. Above all, the weekend is a
celebration of the inspiration and influence these magnificent forms have had on our culture and it is an opportunity to meet new people and network with like-minded souls. Our conference is firmly centred around the crop circles, but that focus should not be confused with a narrowness of vision. The circles are considered alongside many other related subjects and disciplines, which makes for a stimulating, vibrant and wide-ranging programme.
Our venue has full disabled access and we provide light refreshments on site. We will also have a collection of trade stands, including all the latest crop circle photographs, films and books for sale. Don’t forget your pen for a signed copy! We look forward
to welcoming you to our event…
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Crop Circle/Sacred Sites Coach Tour 2015.
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Image copyright Dan Vidler.
Crop Circles/Wiltshire's Sacred Sites Coach Tour with Dan Vidler and Jonathan DeVierville. Both are enormously experienced crop circle researchers and tour
guides.
We pick up at the Bear Hotel in Devizes (next-door to our main conference venue). We leave at 9.30am sharp, and drop back at the Bear Hotel at 4.30pm (approx). We have limited places on this very popular tour, so please book early!
There can be no substitute for a first-hand visit to the crop circles. Spending time examining the fine detail inside the circles and soaking up their enigmatic spaces is a unique and amazing experience! Cautionary Note: For the first time in 9 years, we were unable to arrange permission to enter any circles for our 2014 tour. 2014 had seen only a handful circles in Wiltshire and of those that had appeared despite our very best efforts, the farmers did not want visitors. We did arrange an alternative itinerary and the tour went ahead, visiting Avebury Stone Circle and the Crop Circle Exhibition in Devizes Museum. Several well known researchers also helped out and spent time with those on
the tour. Who knows what 2015 will bring? We hope some circles for you all to visit! But we would like everyone booking this tour to know when they book that while we will do everything we can to ensure permission for our tour to visit we feel its only fair to tell you that cannot guarantee either crop circles, or cooperative farmers. So as per last year there will be an alternative itinerary in place should
we need it. As usual, we provide a delicious buffet lunch served in a local country village hall. Transport, tour guides, payments to farmers/attractions and your lunch are included in the ticket price. Transport will be an air-conditioned coach.
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The Crop Circle Summer Lectures - Geometry Workshop. Friday 31st July 2015.
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Friday Evening Geometry Workshop. Learn about number, proportion and meaning. Step by Step drawing instructions and all equipment provided.
Michael Glickman & Karen Alexander will be your guides through the realms of sacred geometry and drawing the crop circle forms. Michael has long been acknowledged as one of the foremost authorities on Crop Circle Geometry and Karen Alexander is well known for her beautiful drawings of the crop formations. Together they make a formidable
team! Explore the numbers, ratios and proportions found in the crop circle designs and then try your hand at drawing some crop circle patterns! This fascinating workshop will be a hands-on experience, with plenty of opportunity to try exercises with compass and straight edge - to feel (in your hands) the way the crop circle patterns come together. Don't worry if you are a novice, there will be plenty of help on hand and we will provide all your drawing
equipment! The workshop is to be led by circles researchers Michael Glickman and Karen Alexander who bring their considerable experience in this field to the event. This is always a hugely popular workshop so please book early, limited places are available! The workshop will be held in the Assembly Room on the upper floor of the Town Hall and will
run from 6.30pm - 8.30pm. Read More
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Please Support Us! How you Can
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Please help us raise money for our flights to record the crop circles in the UK...
We have always been committed to providing the best quality crop circle photography anywhere. Not only as a record of the phenomenon as it unfolds, but also as a legacy for future generations. High quality images are essential for the future and not only will hold more information, but will also show the
magnificence of the crop circles in the landscape and hopefully record the majesty and beauty of the circles for generations who were not there to witness them first hand. The cost of obtaining our high quality images each year is huge (running
in to thousands of pounds). We hire a small helicopter and use high-end digital SLRs to record the images. While it is true that there are cheaper methods for photographing the circles, there is a more damaging cost to the quality of pictures possible using there methods (drones etc.) where using expensive digital cameras would not be practical or possible. Because of our commitment to quality and our awareness of costs, we regularly review our practices and at the moment (as of 2015) we remain convinced that our current operating methods allow us to get the best images possible. It is through the sales of our year books, photos and other merchandise that meeting the cost of our photography possible. We also reply on our donors who very kindly help top up our flight fund each year. We never take any of our
supporters for granted and are constantly humbled and amazed at their generosity. Every sale and every donation, no matter how humble counts, and helps us continue to record this beautiful phenomenon. Here
are a few ways you can help (not all include sales or donations). 1. You can make a donation. 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. Many send gifts to friends and loved ones - all sales really do help. 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 to anyone you know who might be able to help. 4. You can also help by publicizing 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'd like to say again that 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 plans, and we will keep you up to date with anything we put into place. If you would like to talk to us further you can email us at:
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