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UK19940726_C ·The 1994 season ·West Sussex, England

Ditchling Beacon

26 July 1994·Ditchling Beacon, West Sussex·oilseed rape·59 ft (18.0 m) across

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

Reported 26 July 1994 in oilseed rape at Ditchling Beacon, West Sussex. One archive recorded it, so nothing about it can be cross-checked.

The record

date
26 July 1994 day precision
place
Ditchling Beacon, West Sussex, England no other name or place string on any source record · name from the cropcirclecenter.com name
crop
oilseed rape
size
59 ft (18.0 m) acrossas written: 18 m | 59 ft18 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
50.901985, -0.107200
how it was got
os open names — 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
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/1994/199407.html

Date

26 July 1994, to day precision. What a source records is the day a formation was found and reported.

reported by
cc: 26 July 1994
weekday
Tuesday, day 207 of the year, ISO week 30, summer
sun and moon
34.9 days after the June solstice; moon waning gibbous (85% lit), 3.7 days after 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
50.901985, -0.107200 — place, ±2,000 m, by os_open_names, from the cc record
on a map
OpenStreetMap
siteplacecountycountrygrid refwhat3wordsfix
ccWest SussexEngland 50.901985, -0.107200 place / os_open_names

Crop and size

crop
oilseed rape (cc: oilseed rape)
diameter
59 ft (18.0 m)
size as written
18 m | 59 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 UK19940726_C
name Ditchling Beacon
location
county West Sussex
country England
date reported 1994-07-26
date precision day
crop oilseed rape
size 18 m | 59 ft
diameter (ft) 59
grid reference
what3words
map link
credits cropcirclecenter.com / Bertold Zugelder
source page https://www.cropcirclecenter.com/date/1994/199407.html
link to the entity singleton
decided by none on 2026-09-11
warnings no_formation_page
record cc/deba6ebcc6701…
raw record view: /formation/cc/deba6ebcc6701bf4b4f97b5700adae3aa1cf73a986426054c88eb4fb42e05f41 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
West Overton 25 July 1994, West Overton
next
Seeroskerke 27 July 1994, Seeroskerke
previous in UK
West Overton 25 July 1994
next in UK
Acaster Malbis 27 July 1994
same day
Ashbury (Ashbury) · Broadwindsor (Broadwindsor) · Oliver's Castle (Oliver's Castle) · Patcham (Patcham)
within 7 days and 25 km
Patcham 26 July 1994, 5.1 km away, 0 day(s) apart · Sompting 29 July 1994, 17.9 km away, 3 day(s) apart

In place

The nearest formations the archive can place.

same county and year
Sompting 6 June 1994 · Sompting 6 June 1994 · Sompting 14 July 1994 · South Harting 17 July 1994 · Sompting 29 July 1994 · Amberly 1994

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/UK19940726_C.json · row in index/manifest.jsonl
input digests
entity f1f823f7741c · images afe2570b1c43 · texts 4f53cda18c2b · geo bda2dae6836d