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Greensburg

US19720914_A

14 September 1972·Greensburg·grass

500 km
Where it was reported. With no photograph to show, the plate is the place: Greensburg, and every formation the archive holds around it. 1 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 (±2,000 m at place confidence), drawn at its true size.

Reported 14 September 1972 in grass at Greensburg. One archive recorded it, so nothing about it can be cross-checked.

The record

date
14 September 1972 (day precision)
place
Greensburg
United States
crop
grass
size
6 ft (1.8 m) across
as written: 2 m | 6 ft
recorded by
cc
images
1 · 1 diagram
writing
nothing was written about this formation on any source
2 m across100 m

Also called

Nothing else. No other name or place string appears on any source record for this formation.

Where exactly

coordinate
40.301460, -79.538930
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
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/1972/197209.html

Date

14 September 1972, to day precision. What a source records is the day a formation was found and reported.

reported by
cc: 14 September 1972
weekday
Thursday, day 258 of the year, ISO week 37, autumn
sun and moon
8.4 days before the September equinox; moon waxing crescent (38% lit), 8.7 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
40.301460, -79.538930 — place, ±2,000 m, by geonames, from the cc record
on a map
OpenStreetMap
siteplacecountycountrygrid refwhat3wordsfix
ccPennsylvaniaUnited States 40.301460, -79.538930 place / geonames

Crop and size

crop
grass (cc: grass)
diameter
6 ft (1.8 m)
size as written
2 m | 6 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 US19720914_A
name Greensburg
location
county Pennsylvania
country United States
date reported 1972-09-14
date precision day
crop grass
size 2 m | 6 ft
diameter (ft) 6
grid reference
what3words
map link
credits cropcirclecenter.com / Bertold Zugelder
source page https://www.cropcirclecenter.com/date/1972/197209.html
link to the entity singleton
decided by none on 2026-09-11
warnings no_formation_page
record cc/98f995f1943d2…
raw record view: /formation/cc/98f995f1943d23ad4314422966f778e0edb68f9559aba387729eff6007ee6e4b 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
Starr Hill 18 August 1972, Starr Hill
next
Burbong 15 September 1972, Burbong
previous in US
Pueblo 9 June 1972
next in US
Dunn County 1973
same day
Houston (Houston)
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/US19720914_A.json · row in index/manifest.jsonl
input digests
entity 9545c5e3d6de · images a3e534cc7fe9 · texts 4f53cda18c2b · geo 532f8bed62fd