Part 2: Enchanting Wheat Bundles of Charlbury, Wiltshire

Charlbury, Wiltshire (red circled star in lower left southwest of Wayland's Smithy), and Toot Baldon and Garsington, Oxfordshire (upper right corner). The Vale of the Uffington White Horse extends north of Charlbury toward Garsington. — Charlbury, Wiltshire (red circled star in lower left southwest of Wayland’s Smithy), and Toot Baldon and Garsington, Oxfordshire (upper right corner). The Vale of the Uffington White Horse extends north of Charlbury toward Garsington.

Charlbury, Wiltshire, formation of nearly two hundred "wheat bundles" in two of the three circles lined up with the Charlbury ancient mound was discovered from the air on July 11, 2006. The pattern was located near the Ridgeway between Liddington Castle and Uffington White Horse. Images above and below © 2006 by Cropcircleconnector.com. — Charlbury, Wiltshire, formation of nearly two hundred “wheat bundles” in two of the three circles lined up with the Charlbury ancient mound was discovered from the air on July 11, 2006. The pattern was located near the Ridgeway between Liddington Castle and Uffington White Horse. Images above and below © 2006 by Cropcircleconnector.com.

Wheat "bundles" in foreground circle (86 by one count in this circle; about 175 bundles in both circles) and ancient Charlbury mound in background. Image © 2006 by Steve Alexander. — Wheat “bundles” in foreground circle (86 by one count in this circle; about 175 bundles in both circles) and ancient Charlbury mound in background. Image © 2006 by Steve Alexander.

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September 13, 2006 Albuquerque, New Mexico – After our frustrating trip to Toot Baldon near Garsington, Oxfordshire, on Thursday, August 3, 2006, most of us decided to drive back to Charlbury in Wiltshire southwest of Wayland’s Smithy to see the extraordinary “circles with wheat sculptures inside,” as some called it. The unusual formation was first reported on July 11.

When we arrived, the western sky was a vivid red. Even though three weeks old, the bundled wheat sculptures were well preserved in their eerie beauty. None of us could remember any other formation in the modern mystery, which had as many vertical punctuations into the air. The circle closest to the ancient mound seemed to have slightly shorter wheat bundles. Each “sculpture” was different. There were twisted bridges, hollow caves, fountains, braided clumps. For some reason, I thought of an oscilloscope registering spots of energy. Above us was a white, half moon and Jennifer said out loud, “This is so magical.”

Red western sky beyond the Charlbury mound and the bundles of wheat inside the circle furthest from the mound in the lower right. Image © 2006 by Jennifre Kreitzer.

Crop circle investigator and author, Barbara Lamb, with a colleague standing in the ring of wheat bundles furthest from the mound. Image © 2006 by Jennifer Kreitzer.

Above and below: Glimpses of the unusual wheat bundles lighted by camera flashes as the sky darkened. All images © 2006 by Jennifer Kreitzer. — **Above and below**: Glimpses of the unusual wheat bundles lighted by camera flashes as the sky darkened. All images © 2006 by Jennifer Kreitzer.

Mysterious Light and Translucent Orbs

Jennifer Kreitzer was taking digital pictures as she walked through the Charlbury circles. “Afterward, I was going through the images and noticed there was a ball of light in one of them.” I had been taking 35mm standard reflex lens images, with flash and time exposures. None of my prints showed any mysterious balls of light or translucent spheres. One of the persistent puzzles in crop circle history is why do some people photograph anomalies, while others in the same formation at the same time do not.

Unexplained, white ball on one digital frame inside the circle of wheat bundles furthest from the mound. Image © 2006 by Jennifer Kreitzer.

Different than the white ball are these translucent orbs, more commonly photographed by many people in crop formations - especially by digital cameras. One hypothesis is that an electrostatic charge builds up in the digital camera electronics and periodically discharges, producing the translucent orb effect. Image © 2006 by Jennifer Kreitzer. — Different than the white ball are these translucent orbs, more commonly photographed by many people in crop formations – especially by digital cameras. One hypothesis is that an electrostatic charge builds up in the digital camera electronics and periodically discharges, producing the translucent orb effect. Image © 2006 by Jennifer Kreitzer.

More Information:

For further information about crop formations, please see reports below and going back to 1999 in the Earthfiles Archives and my book, Mysterious Lights and Crop Circles in the Earthfiles Shop:

09/06/2006 — Part 4: Five Circle Pattern in Geneseo, Illinois, Soybeans
08/31/2006 — Part 3: Five Circle Pattern in Geneseo, Illinois, Soybeans
08/28/2006 — Part 2: Five Circle Pattern in Geneseo, Illinois, Soybeans
08/27/2006 — Part 1: Five Circle Pattern in Geneseo, Illinois, Soybeans
08/17/2006 — Military Helicopter Aggression Toward Red Sphere in U. K.
08/16/2006 — Etchilhampton August 15, 2006, Wheat Formation
08/15/2006 — Part 2 – Three Crop Formations Near Uffington White Horse – A “Merkabah?”
08/13/2006 — Part 1: Three Crop Formations Near Uffington White Horse
07/21/2006 — U. K. Breaking Heat Records and 17 Crop Patterns Reported Between July 4 – 20
07/07/2006 — Anomalies in Huntingburg, Indiana, Wheat Pictogram
06/11/2006 — Updated: Two Mysterious Circles in Wheat Baffle Kansas Farmer
04/07/2006 — First 2006 Grass Circles in Conondale, Queensland, Australia
09/21/2005 — Silent, Unidentified Aerial Triangle Entered Thunderstorm Over Fairborn, Ohio
09/02/2005 — “Mayan Clock”? in August U. K. Crop Formations
09/02/2005 — Part 1: New York and Ohio Corn Circles “Flattened 2 to 5 Feet Above Ground”
09/02/2005 — Part 2: Mysterious Lights At Coles County, Illinois, Corn Circles
09/02/2005 — First 2005 Canadian Crop Circles Reported
08/09/2005 — Three Extraordinary U. K. Crop Formations Reported August 9, 2005
08/07/2005 — Mysterious Light Photographed in Canadian Woods
08/02/2005 — Part 2: Anomalies Confirmed in Pennsylvania and Arizona Randomly Downed Crops
08/02/2005 — Part 1: Anomalies Confirmed in Pennsylvania and Arizona Randomly Downed Crops
07/23/2005 — Mystery of Six Grass Circle Formations in North Carolina
07/18/2005 — Garsington, Oxfordshire, U.K. Wheat Formation – Astronomical Orbit?
07/01/2005 — U. K. Bicyclist Reports Mysterious, Low Hovering Objects Bending Wheat
06/28/2005 — Crop Circles in Poland
06/02/2005 — Part 2 – Highly Anomalous Pigment Formation in 2004 Hillsboro, Ohio, Crop Formation
05/26/2005 — Phoenix Barley Mystery: Apparently Irrigation and Wind
05/20/2005 — May 2005 Crop Formation Update in Six Countries
05/09/2005 — Mysterious Lights and 2003 Serpent Mound Soybean Formation
04/20/2005 — Outer Space Impact At Serpent Mound, Ohio, 256 Million Years Ago
04/12/2005 — First 2005 Dutch Crop Circles Reported in Hoeven, Holland Grass
10/17/2004 — American Crop Formations: 1880-2004
09/22/2004 — Miamisburg and Serpent Mound, Ohio Crop Formations: Geometries Compared
09/17/2004 — Updated: Part 1 – High Strangeness in Canadian Cattle Corn
09/12/2004 — Part 2 – High Strangeness in Canadian Cattle Corn
09/10/2004 — Update on Miamisburg, Ohio, Corn Pictogram – Balls of Light?
09/05/2004 — Part 2 – Hillsboro, Ohio Corn Plant Anomalies
09/04/2004 — Hillsboro, Ohio Corn Formation – High Strangeness in Soil and Plants
09/02/2004 — Updated Photos: Big, Impressive New Corn Formation in Miamisburg, Ohio
08/29/2004 — Another Pictogram in Poland
08/12/2004 — Circles in Belgium and Holland
08/10/2004 — Updated Aerial Photos of West Overton, Wiltshire “Serpent”
08/09/2004 — Pictograms in Poland
08/03/2004 — Crop Formations: Fifteen in Southern England Since July 20, 2004.
07/26/2004 — Crop Circles in Tilden, Wisconsin Oats and 90-Degree Angles in Litchfield, Minnesota
07/25/2004 — 2004 Canadian Crop Formations: Scorched Soybeans and “Dirt” Pattern in Barley
07/24/2004 — Part 3 – Crop Formations and Mysterious Lights in Wiltshire, England, July 2004
07/24/2004 — Part 2: Crop Formations and Mysterious Lights in Wiltshire, England, July 2004
07/15/2004 — Updated: Part 1-Beyond Hillsboro, Ohio, More Corn Down in New Milford, Connecticut
07/13/2004 — Updates on Spanish Fork, Utah Barley Formation
07/07/2004 — Fourth 2004 Crop Formation in Poland Has Multiple Parts
07/06/2004 — Mysteriously Downed Plants in Eagle Grove, Iowa, and Hillsboro, Ohio
07/06/2004 — Additions to Spanish Fork, Utah Formation and Mysterious Lights Seen
07/04/2004 — Crop Formation in Spanish Fork, Utah
06/17/2004 — More 2004 Holland and Poland Crop Formations
06/16/2004 — England: 2004 Crop Formations and 2003 Research
06/03/2004 — Updated – Second 2004 Pictogram Crop Formation in Poland
06/02/2004 — 2004 Peach Orchard, Arkansas Crop Formation
05/24/2004 — Biophysicist W. C. Levengood’s Crop Circle Reports Available for First Time On Internet
05/22/2004 — 2004 Overview of Crop Formations in Six Countries
05/17/2004 — Updated – Crop Formation Reported in Zabno, Poland
05/11/2004 — An Extraordinary Photograph in A Dutch Home
05/09/2004 — 2003 English Crop Formations on Documentary DVDs
04/14/2004 — Light Anomalies in Photos of Conondale, Australia Grass Circles
12/05/2003 — Diatonic Ratios and Seed Changes in 2003 California Wheat Circles Rule Out Hoax?
11/07/2003 — British UFO Crash Retrievals
11/01/2003 — Another Soybean Formation in Ohio
10/17/2003 — 2003 “UFO Flap” in Ohio
10/03/2003 — Part 2 – Military Interest in Serpent Mound and Seip Mound Formations?
10/02/2003 — Part 1 – Another Soybean Formation Near Seip Mound in Ohio
09/12/2003 — Second Soybean Crop Formation in Ohio is Manmade. USAF Investigation Unit Involved?
09/06/2003 — Part 2 – Unusual Soybean Formation Near Serpent Mound, Ohio
09/05/2003 — Part 1 – Unusual Soybean Formation Near Serpent Mound, Ohio
09/03/2003 — Helicopter “Attacks” Wiltshire, England, Residents At Knap Hill on August 26, 2003
08/29/2003 — Part 2 – After August 10, No Crop Formations Except in Canada?
08/29/2003 — Part 1 – Why Do Military Helicopters Focus On Crop Formations?
08/23/2003 — Fourteen Crop Formations in Canada
08/05/2003 — Field Notes from Morgan’s Hill Crop Circle
08/01/2003 — Field Notes About English Animal Mutilations
07/21/2003 — Strange Orange Lightning and A Sampling of Recent English Crop Formations
07/19/2003 — Update – Defiance, Missouri T-Pattern Cut in Saplings
07/17/2003 — Land Surveyor Comments About Ogbourne St. George, U.K. Crop Formation
07/16/2003 — Unusual Details in Dutch Crop Formations
07/11/2003 — Updated: Part 2 – Unusual Cylindar-Shaped Cloud Seen Night Before Dutch Crop Circles
06/27/2003 — Part 2 – Mysterious Lights and Fourteen Crop Formations in Italy
06/27/2003 — Part 1 – Mysterious Lights and Fourteen Crop Formations in Italy
06/13/2003 — Updated: Fractal Crop Formation in Knobel, Arkansas
5/26/2003 — East Sussex, England Has Third 2003 Crop Formation
05/20/2003 — More 2003 Crop Formations in Germany
05/10/2003 — Tree Formation in Defiance, Missouri
05/02/2003 — First 2003 English Crop Formations
04/29/2003 — Comparison Between First 2003 and 2002 U. K. Crop Formations
04/26/2003 — First 2003 U.K. Crop Formation Near Petersfield, Hampshire
12/07/2002 — Evolution Near Britain’s Chilbolton Radio Telescope Observatory, 1999 – 2002
11/05/2002 — Canadian Crop Circles and Mysterious Lights in Saskatchewan
10/19/2002 — Shifting Time Lines and Earth’s Destiny?
10/03/2002 — Part 3 – 2002 Crop Formations In Canada
10/01/2002 — Part 2 – September 2002 Maize Circles Update: Canada
09/28/2002 — Part 1 – September 2002 Maize Circles Update: England
09/02/2002 — Blue Lights and Helicopters in Wiltshire’s East Field
08/31/2002 — One ET Experiencer’s Reaction to the Winchester Formation
08/24/2002 — Crop Formation Update: Canada
08/19/2002 — Winchester, Hampshire Circular Code Analysis – UPDATED
08/18/2002 — Another Face and Code Appears in Hampshire, England – UPDATED
07/25/2002 — Strange Stem Anomalies in New Dutch Crop Circles
07/20/2002 — Mysterious Lights Seen Above Field Where Nautilus Formation Emerged
07/13/2002 — More Crop Formations in Holland and Germany
07/12/2002 — New Crop Formation in England
07/06/2002 — Stonehenge 4th of July Formation Echoes Hackpen Hill 1999 4th of July Spiral
06/26/2002 — Part 1 – New Crop Formations in England, Holland and Germany
06/04/2002 — New 2002 Crop Formations in Wiltshire and Sussex, England
05/23/2002 — Third 2002 Crop Formation in Germany Near Giant’s Stone
05/11/2002 — First 2002 Crop Formation In Wiltshire, England
05/09/2002 — More Orange Triangular Aircraft Over Red Deer, Alberta, Canada
05/04/2002 — Two Crop Formations Near Kassel, Germany
11/17/2001 — Scientists Say Lights in Hessdalen, NorwayAre Thermal Plasmas of Unknown Origin
10/27/2001 — Another Orange Triangle Near Red Deer, Alberta, Canada
10/10/2001 — Update On Unique British Crop Formations
09/27/2001 — A Scientific Report About British Milk Hill, Chilbolton “Face” and “Code”
09/22/2001 — Huge Hexagram Crop Formation in Red Deer, Alberta, Canada
09/19/2001 — Part 2 – Gog Magog Hills, Cambridge, England – Two Unusual Crop Formations
09/18/2001 — Part 1 – Gog Magog Hills, Cambridge, England – Two Unusual Crop Formations
09/07/2001 — Third Case of Pure Hemoglobin at Bull Mutilation
08/30/2001 — Chilbolton Observatory – What Does It Do?
08/25/2001 — Are Crop Formations at Chilbolton Observatory A Response to 1974 Earth Transmission?
08/22/2001 — Milk Hill 2001 – 409 Circles, Most For Any Crop Formation So Far
08/09/2001 — Crop Formation in Holland Changes with Researchers Present
06/16/2001 — Beyond Stonehenge with Astronomer Gerald Hawkins
06/06/2001 — New Crop Formations Reported in Serbia and U. K.
05/31/2001 — More Crop Formations in England
05/21/2001 — Part 2 – New Crop Formations in Holland, Germany and England
05/19/2001 — Part 1 – New Crop Formations in Holland, Germany and England
09/30/2000 — Unidentified Moving Spiral of Light Photographed in Crop Formation
08/27/2000 — Crop Circle Reports from Whitefish, Montana – Updated Photos
08/26/2000 — Pulsing, Jumping Light in West Stowell, England Field
08/23/2000 — Intelligence Sensed In Mysterious Lights Associated With Crop Formations
08/20/2000 — Crop Formations In North Dakota
08/19/2000 — White Balls of Light and Helicopter Videotaped in Woodborough Hill Field
08/17/2000 — Mysterious Light Near Woodborough Hill Night Before August 13, 2000 Formation
07/16/2000 — Multiple Crop Formations Same Day in Wiltshire and Hampshire, U. K., July 16, 2000
07/09/2000 — New Book about Ancient Sites of Wiltshire, England
07/06/2000 — Extraordinary U. K. Crop Formations
06/17/2000 — Army Helicopters Damage East Field, Wiltshire Crop
06/11/2000 — Two New Crop Formations at Silbury Hill
05/30/2000 — Crop Formations In Germany, May 2000
11/30/1999 — A New Crop Formation In Marion, New York and Crop Research Updates
09/29/1999 — Crop Formations Continue in Canada
09/21/1999 — 1999 Summary of Crop Formations in Canada and Latest 9/21/99 Edmonton Circles
08/15/1999 — More Mid-August 1999 Crop Formations in Wiltshire, England
08/01/1999 — 1999 Crop Circle Update from Wiltshire, England
07/22/1999 — Cherhill, England, New 1999 Crop Formation
07/15/1999 — Brentwood, Tennessee Crop Formation and New U.K. Photos by Peter Sorensen
06/27/1999 — New 1999 U. K. Crop Formations Photographed by Peter Sorensen
06/07/1999 — 1999 U.K. Crop Circle Update with Photographer Peter Sorensen