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Nishikiwa Cho

JP19860809_A

9 August 1986·Nishikiwa Cho

1000 km
Where it was reported. With no photograph to show, the plate is the place: Nishikiwa Cho, and every formation the archive holds around it. 7 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 (±734,432 m at country confidence), drawn at its true size.

Reported 9 August 1986 at Nishikiwa Cho. One archive recorded it, so nothing about it can be cross-checked.

The record

date
9 August 1986 (day precision)
place
Nishikiwa Cho
Japan
crop
not recorded by any source
size
20 ft (6.1 m) across
as written: 6 m | 20 ft
recorded by
cc
images
1 · 1 diagram
writing
nothing was written about this formation on any source
6 m across100 m

Also called

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

Where exactly

coordinate
35.819064, 136.485189
how it was got
country centroid
country, to within 734,432 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 diagram
no diagram published by cropcirclecenter (plain circle placeholder)
cropcirclecenter.com / Bertold Zugelder site default 575×415
32.4 KiB image/jpeg
image c782665e5c68 https://www.cropcirclecenter.com/date/1986/198608.html

Date

9 August 1986, to day precision. What a source records is the day a formation was found and reported.

reported by
cc: 9 August 1986
weekday
Saturday, day 221 of the year, ISO week 32, summer
sun and moon
44.8 days before the September equinox; moon waxing crescent (14% lit), 10.3 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
35.819064, 136.485189 — country, ±734,432 m, by country_centroid, from the cc record
on a map
OpenStreetMap
siteplacecountycountrygrid refwhat3wordsfix
ccJapan 35.819064, 136.485189 country / country_centroid

Crop and size

crop
not recorded (cc: reed gras)
diameter
20 ft (6.1 m)
size as written
6 m | 20 ft

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 JP19860809_A
name Nishikiwa Cho
location
county
country Japan
date reported 1986-08-09
date precision day
crop reed gras
size 6 m | 20 ft
diameter (ft) 20
grid reference
what3words
map link
credits cropcirclecenter.com / Bertold Zugelder
source page https://www.cropcirclecenter.com/date/1986/198608.html
link to the entity singleton
decided by none on 2026-09-11
warnings no_formation_page
record cc/332a3a41e1424…
raw record view: /formation/cc/332a3a41e1424e2467ab4f9ce20b5b3d02500e71bab2b934627bfe88c2f994e4 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 c782665e (placeholder: digest) ≈ continuous (concentric circles) 1 1 0.996 1.0049

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 c782665e— 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
Selby August 1986, Selby
next
Cheesefoot Head 10 August 1986, Cheesefoot Head
previous in JP
Nobata 30 June 1979
next in JP
Roeburn June 1988
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/JP19860809_A.json · row in index/manifest.jsonl
input digests
entity 6927a28e66a1 · images afe2570b1c43 · texts 4f53cda18c2b · geo f58f3a9ad85c