Alton Barnes
US19570919_A19 September 1957·Alton Barnes, Wiltshire·grass
Reported 19 September 1957 in grass at Alton Barnes, Wiltshire. One archive recorded it, so nothing about it can be cross-checked.
The record
- date
- 19 September 1957 (day precision)
- place
- Alton Barnes
Wiltshire
United States - crop
- grass
- 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
- 37.845404, -89.224923
- how it was got
- country centroid
country, to within 2,000,000 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)
| site | kind | credit | basis | caption | size | file | source 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/1957/195709.html |
Date
19 September 1957, to day precision. What a source records is the day a formation was found and reported.
- reported by
- cc: 19 September 1957
- weekday
- Thursday, day 262 of the year, ISO week 38, autumn
- sun and moon
- 3.8 days before the September equinox; moon waning crescent (25% lit), 10.3 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
- 37.845404, -89.224923 — country, ±2,000,000 m, by country_centroid, from the cc record
- on a map
- OpenStreetMap
| site | place | county | country | grid ref | what3words | fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| cc | Wiltshire | United States | 37.845404, -89.224923 country / country_centroid |
Crop and size
- crop
- grass (cc: grass)
- 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 | US19570919_A |
| name | Alton Barnes |
| location | |
| county | Wiltshire |
| country | United States |
| date reported | 1957-09-19 |
| date precision | day |
| crop | grass |
| size | |
| diameter (ft) | |
| grid reference | |
| what3words | |
| map link | |
| credits | cropcirclecenter.com / Bertold Zugelder |
| source page | https://www.cropcirclecenter.com/date/1957/195709.html |
| link to the entity | singleton decided by none on 2026-09-11 |
| warnings | no_formation_page |
| record | cc/eb84322fdb967… raw record view: /formation/cc/eb84322fdb967510eb3b09075247f1ea40e110510b09771147333163e1f009b2 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.
| diagram | rotational symmetry | elements | rings | mirror | fill |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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
- Meopham June 1957, Meopham
- next
- RU19571033_A October 1957
- previous in US
- Stover 1956
- next in US
- South Lee 24 October 1957
- 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
- Stonehenge 1957
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/US19570919_A.json · row in index/manifest.jsonl
- input digests
- entity 68197f289a52 · images a3e534cc7fe9 · texts 4f53cda18c2b · geo b67581e7a4ad