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Hoeven

NL19970133_A

January 1997·Hoeven·wheat

200 km
Where it was reported. With no photograph to show, the plate is the place: Hoeven, and every formation the archive holds around it. 141 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 (±142,261 m at country confidence), drawn at its true size.

Reported January 1997 in wheat at Hoeven. One archive recorded it, so nothing about it can be cross-checked.

The record

date
January 1997 (month precision)
place
Hoeven
The Netherlands
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
52.120624, 5.573243
how it was got
country centroid
country, to within 142,261 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
32.5 KiB image/jpeg
image 540997e43c34 https://www.cropcirclecenter.com/date/1997/199701.html

Date

January 1997, to month precision. What a source records is the day a formation was found and reported.

reported by
cc: January 1997

Place

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

coordinate
52.120624, 5.573243 — country, ±142,261 m, by country_centroid, from the cc record
on a map
OpenStreetMap
siteplacecountycountrygrid refwhat3wordsfix
ccNoord-BrabantThe Netherlands 52.120624, 5.573243 country / country_centroid

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 NL19970133_A
name Hoeven
location
county Noord-Brabant
country The Netherlands
date reported 1997-01
date precision month
crop wheat
size
diameter (ft)
grid reference
what3words
map link
credits cropcirclecenter.com / Bertold Zugelder
source page https://www.cropcirclecenter.com/date/1997/199701.html
link to the entity singleton
decided by none on 2026-09-11
warnings unknown_day; no_formation_page
record cc/8d44395d024a9…
raw record view: /formation/cc/8d44395d024a928f2022403b101f30431785f6c8cca4f845c115d1efb6cf5bc1 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 540997e4 (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 540997e4— 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
Hoeven 30 December 1996, Hoeven
next
Amsterdam 18 January 1997, Amsterdam
previous in NL
Hoeven 30 December 1996
next in NL
Amsterdam 18 January 1997
same day
St Marein (St Marein) · Weideneck (Weideneck) · Köln (Köln) · Almere (Almere) · Dongen (Dongen) · Hooghalen (Hooghalen) · Huist (Huist) · Noordgouwe (Noordgouwe) · Vlissingen (Vlissingen) · Wieringermeer (Wieringermeer) · Wijster (Wijster) · Wilhelminadorp (Wilhelminadorp) · Canterbury (Canterbury) · Litchfield (Litchfield) · The Hermit (The Hermit)
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/NL19970133_A.json · row in index/manifest.jsonl
input digests
entity f3ee315d7e0f · images a3e534cc7fe9 · texts 4f53cda18c2b · geo 1f8b46993d08