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NL20010506_A ·The 2001 season ·The Netherlands

Aalten

6 May 2001·Aalten·grass·141 ft (43.0 m) across

Plate — one of 1 image on this record · 575×415 px every image →

Reported 6 May 2001 in grass at Aalten. One archive recorded it, so nothing about it can be cross-checked.

The record

date
6 May 2001 day precision
place
Aalten, The Netherlands no other name or place string on any source record · name from the cropcirclecenter.com name
crop
grass
size
141 ft (43.0 m) acrossas written: 43 m | 141 ft43 m across100 m
recorded by
cc · cropcirclecenter.com
images
1 · 1 diagram
writing
nothing was written about this formation on any source

Where exactly

20 km
coordinate
51.925000, 6.580560
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 diagram cropcirclecenter.com / Bertold Zugelder site default 575×415
40.0 KiB image/jpeg
image 9ad112be3af0 https://www.cropcirclecenter.com/date/2001/200105.html

Date

6 May 2001, to day precision. What a source records is the day a formation was found and reported.

reported by
cc: 6 May 2001
weekday
Sunday, day 126 of the year, ISO week 18, spring
sun and moon
45.8 days before the June solstice; moon waxing gibbous (98% lit), 1.1 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
51.925000, 6.580560 — place, ±2,000 m, by geonames, from the cc record
on a map
OpenStreetMap
siteplacecountycountrygrid refwhat3wordsfix
ccGelderlandThe Netherlands 51.925000, 6.580560 place / geonames

Crop and size

crop
grass (cc: grass)
diameter
141 ft (43.0 m)
size as written
43 m | 141 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 NL20010506_A
name Aalten
location
county Gelderland
country The Netherlands
date reported 2001-05-06
date precision day
crop grass
size 43 m | 141 ft
diameter (ft) 141
grid reference
what3words
map link
credits cropcirclecenter.com / Bertold Zugelder
source page https://www.cropcirclecenter.com/date/2001/200105.html
link to the entity singleton
decided by none on 2026-09-11
warnings no_formation_page
record cc/b3045204fcb7d…
raw record view: /formation/cc/b3045204fcb7d1e07a208f8c85f1aaf1c8b8f64349ca397e415f7dfff189481b 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. 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 9ad112be ≈ none found 2 1 0.803 0.1959

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 9ad112be— 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
Stephens Castle May 2001, Stephens Castle
next
nr Old Winchester Hill 11 May 2001, nr Old Winchester Hill
previous in NL
Hoeven 26 April 2001
next in NL
Hoeven 21 June 2001
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/NL20010506_A.json · row in index/manifest.jsonl
input digests
entity 0dfd8db64cc8 · images ce2c9c133d61 · texts 4f53cda18c2b · geo b94fa684b0e7