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NL20020525_A ·The 2002 season ·The Netherlands

Hoeven

25 May 2002·Hoeven·wheat·46 ft (14.0 m) across

200 km
Plate — where it was reported, drawn from the archive's own coordinate every image →

Reported 25 May 2002 in wheat at Hoeven. One archive recorded it, so nothing about it can be cross-checked.

The record

date
25 May 2002 day precision
place
Hoeven, The Netherlands no other name or place string on any source record · name from the cropcirclecenter.com name
crop
wheat
size
46 ft (14.0 m) acrossas written: 14 m | 46 ft14 m across100 m
recorded by
cc · cropcirclecenter.com
images
1 · 1 diagram
writing
nothing was written about this formation on any source

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/2002/200205.html

Date

25 May 2002, to day precision. What a source records is the day a formation was found and reported.

reported by
cc: 25 May 2002
weekday
Saturday, day 145 of the year, ISO week 21, spring
sun and moon
27.1 days before the June solstice; moon waxing gibbous (99% lit), 1.0 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
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
46 ft (14.0 m)
size as written
14 m | 46 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 NL20020525_A
name Hoeven
location
county Noord-Brabant
country The Netherlands
date reported 2002-05-25
date precision day
crop wheat
size 14 m | 46 ft
diameter (ft) 46
grid reference
what3words
map link
credits cropcirclecenter.com / Bertold Zugelder
source page https://www.cropcirclecenter.com/date/2002/200205.html
link to the entity singleton
decided by none on 2026-09-11
warnings no_formation_page
record cc/def7ab7d9ae8a…
raw record view: /formation/cc/def7ab7d9ae8afc2ab296c655c0e7c36497ba3ae605a1f8296ce21520edf495d 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
Newton St Loe 23 May 2002, Newton St Loe
next
Sinsheim 26 May 2002, Sinsheim
previous in NL
Eefde 28 August 2001
next in NL
Loosdrecht 1 June 2002
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/NL20020525_A.json · row in index/manifest.jsonl
input digests
entity 04ae7e0be36c · images a3e534cc7fe9 · texts 4f53cda18c2b · geo 07250064068a