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Aix-en-Provence

FR19770520_A

20 May 1977·Aix-en-Provence·wheat

100 km
Where it was reported. With no photograph to show, the plate is the place: Aix-en-Provence, and every formation the archive holds around it. The dashed ring is how precise the fix is (±2,000 m at place confidence), drawn at its true size.

Reported 20 May 1977 in wheat at Aix-en-Provence. One archive recorded it, so nothing about it can be cross-checked.

The record

date
20 May 1977 (day precision)
place
Aix-en-Provence
France
crop
wheat
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
43.528300, 5.449730
how it was got
geonames
place, to within 2,000 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/1977/197705.html

Date

20 May 1977, to day precision. What a source records is the day a formation was found and reported.

reported by
cc: 20 May 1977
weekday
Friday, day 140 of the year, ISO week 20, spring
sun and moon
32.0 days before the June solstice; moon waxing crescent (5% lit), 12.4 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
43.528300, 5.449730 — place, ±2,000 m, by geonames, from the cc record
on a map
OpenStreetMap
siteplacecountycountrygrid refwhat3wordsfix
ccProvence-Alpes-Côte d'AzurFrance 43.528300, 5.449730 place / geonames

Crop and size

crop
wheat (cc: wheat)
diameter
not recorded by any source
size as written
not recorded

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 FR19770520_A
name Aix-en-Provence
location
county Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
country France
date reported 1977-05-20
date precision day
crop wheat
size
diameter (ft)
grid reference
what3words
map link
credits cropcirclecenter.com / Bertold Zugelder
source page https://www.cropcirclecenter.com/date/1977/197705.html
link to the entity singleton
decided by none on 2026-09-11
warnings no_formation_page
record cc/85a7fb80a78c3…
raw record view: /formation/cc/85a7fb80a78c3f0fda57820c529b8a3a60c0362203ae34efa07e7486be494b2d 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
Wooburn Green 19 May 1977, Wooburn Green
next
Orange 26 May 1977, Orange
previous in FR
Draguignan April 1971
next in FR
Draguignan 9 January 1981
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.

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/FR19770520_A.json · row in index/manifest.jsonl
input digests
entity e09e3266515b · images cde4d9495e39 · texts 4f53cda18c2b · geo a2102ffc0582