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© © 2009 by Nick Nicholson.
Sixth oilseed rape formation at Roundway Hill near Devizes,
Wiltshire, reported April 29, 2009.

Roundway Hill
Southwest of Avebury Stone Circles

But Charles Mallett got into the sixth reported yesterday, April 29, at Roundway Hill southwest of the ancient Avebury stone circles. This morning by phone, Charles told me that this brand new formation is also impossible to see from the ground because it is right on top of Roundway Hill and can only be seen from the air. In fact, it was spotted from an airplane early on the morning of April 29, and eyewitnesses assume it was made that night. The beautiful pattern is 230 feet in diameter and has 18 arcs swirling from a center made of five rings around a small flattened circle, 15 feet in diameter.

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Yellow, flowering oilseed rape (canola) is one of the most difficult crops in the world to move in. Some varieties grow five to six feet tall and others three feet high. Blooming oilseed rape is thick and tangles around legs. The yellow pollen puffs off in clouds, leaving green trails of disturbance where people have walked. Yet, the first three 2009 crop formations reported in Wiltshire, England, between April 14 and April 24, were all precise, intricate patterns in blooming, oilseed rape. The third one, a sunburst pattern, stunned Silent Circle researcher, Charles Mallett, when his tape measure showed the longest length to be 298 feet, the size of a football field.

Then the next day on April 24, came the extraordinary fourth pattern at Morgan's Hill southwest of Avebury. No one can recall seeing such a large, precise triangular pattern made up of seven circles and three near-half-circles in which the 5-foot-tall Morgan's Hill plants were laid down without a crease or break in their crisp stems.