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Alton Barnes

AU19760106_A

6 January 1976·Alton Barnes, Wiltshire

2000 km
Where it was reported. With no photograph to show, the plate is the place: Alton Barnes, and every formation the archive holds around it. 3 other formations sit on this exact point, because their sources named the same place and gave no finer position. The dashed ring is how precise the fix is (±2,000,000 m at country confidence), drawn at its true size.

Reported 6 January 1976 at Alton Barnes, Wiltshire. One archive recorded it, so nothing about it can be cross-checked.

The record

date
6 January 1976 (day precision)
place
Alton Barnes
Wiltshire
Australia
crop
not recorded by any source
size
not recorded
recorded by
cc
images
1 · 1 diagram
writing
nothing was written about this formation on any source

Also called

Nothing else. No other name or place string appears on any source record for this formation.

Where exactly

coordinate
-31.361793, 144.126037
how it was got
country centroid
country, to within 2,000,000 m, from the cc record
on a map
OpenStreetMap

No source publishes a coordinate for any formation in this archive. Every coordinate here is derived from the place name a source printed, and this page says how precise that makes it rather than rounding it away.

Images

1 image(s) on this formation's own source records. Click a tile for the full image; the bytes are fetched when you ask for them and are not stored in this page.

Diagrams (1)

sitekindcreditbasiscaptionsizefilesource page
cc
same file as tt
diagram
no diagram published by cropcirclecenter (“no diagram” tile)
cropcirclecenter.com / Bertold Zugelder site default 575×415
66.1 KiB image/jpeg
image 3461dff5df5d https://www.cropcirclecenter.com/date/1976/197601.html

Date

6 January 1976, to day precision. What a source records is the day a formation was found and reported.

reported by
cc: 6 January 1976
weekday
Tuesday, day 6 of the year, ISO week 2, winter
sun and moon
15.0 days after the December solstice; moon waxing crescent (23% lit), 10.7 days before the full moon (computed at 12:00 UTC; a reported date is a discovery date, not a creation date)

Place

What each source printed, and the coordinate derived from it. No source in this archive publishes a coordinate of its own.

coordinate
-31.361793, 144.126037 — country, ±2,000,000 m, by country_centroid, from the cc record
on a map
OpenStreetMap
siteplacecountycountrygrid refwhat3wordsfix
ccWiltshireAustralia -31.361793, 144.126037 country / country_centroid

Crop and size

crop and size not recorded by any source

Source records

What each source published, side by side. A row whose values differ across the sources is marked: the archive prints the disagreement rather than choosing a winner.

field cc cropcirclecenter.com
id / slug AU19760106_A
name Alton Barnes
location
county Wiltshire
country Australia
date reported 1976-01-06
date precision day
crop
size
diameter (ft)
grid reference
what3words
map link
credits cropcirclecenter.com / Bertold Zugelder
source page https://www.cropcirclecenter.com/date/1976/197601.html
link to the entity singleton
decided by none on 2026-09-11
warnings no_formation_page
record cc/ebf593dcf22cf…
raw record view: /formation/cc/ebf593dcf22cf6e2e40f9bdace3f22591352e5f63168bfb51854433f44a99c09 in the preview app

Texts

no text documents in the archive for this formation

Claims about this formation

no claim was extracted from a text about this formation

Geometry

1 diagram file(s) on this page, of which 1 is a shared cropcirclecenter placeholder rather than a drawing of this formation. measured from the diagram itself, and experimental: the extractor's rotational order is right on 88.8 % of a 200-diagram hand-labelled set against a gate of 90 %, so read a number here beside the picture rather than instead of it.

diagramrotational symmetryelementsringsmirrorfill
cc 3461dff5 (placeholder: digest) ≈ 2-fold score 0.906 4 3 0.853 0.3434

Experimental, and marked ≈ wherever it appears. These numbers are read off a drawing, not off the field: the extractor's rotational order agrees with a hand-labelled set on 88.8 per cent of 200 diagrams against a gate of 90 per cent, its element count is within one on 97.5 per cent, and its ring count is not calibrated at all. Nothing in the analysis tree is derived from the rotational order while that gate is unmet.

Diagrams that look like these: cc 3461dff5— the nearest by perceptual hash. The whole archive is browsable by shape in the shape section, and this formation's own diagrams go straight into that grid: show them in the grid.

Neighbours

In time

previous
Lakeport 1976, Lakeport
next
Kettering February 1976, Kettering
previous in AU
Tranmere 8 December 1975
next in AU
Kettering February 1976
same day
no other formation is dated this day
within 7 days and 25 km
none, or this formation has no coordinate at place confidence or better

In place

The nearest formations the archive can place.

this formation has no coordinate at place confidence or better, so nothing can be called near it

same county and year
none

Provenance

entity built at
2026-09-11T19:20:39Z (derived from the link decisions, not from this build)
index run ids
none
reviews applied
none
open queue pairs
none
entity record
index/formations/AU19760106_A.json · row in index/manifest.jsonl
input digests
entity 803068f34caa · images cde4d9495e39 · texts 4f53cda18c2b · geo da204737bc98