Watertown
US19960808_A8 August 1996·Watertown·wheat
Reported 8 August 1996 in wheat at Watertown. One archive recorded it, so nothing about it can be cross-checked.
The record
- date
- 8 August 1996 (day precision)
- place
- Watertown
United States - crop
- wheat
- size
- 164 ft (50.0 m) across
as written: 50 m | 164 ft - 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
- 42.370930, -71.182830
- 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)
| site | kind | credit | basis | caption | size | file | source page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| cc | diagram | cropcirclecenter.com / Bertold Zugelder | site default | 575×415 44.6 KiB image/jpeg |
image 470bd3b78a2c | https://www.cropcirclecenter.com/date/1996/199608.html |
Date
8 August 1996, to day precision. What a source records is the day a formation was found and reported.
- reported by
- cc: 8 August 1996
- weekday
- Thursday, day 221 of the year, ISO week 32, summer
- sun and moon
- 45.3 days before the September equinox; moon waning crescent (28% lit), 9.1 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
- 42.370930, -71.182830 — place, ±2,000 m, by geonames, from the cc record
- on a map
- OpenStreetMap
| site | place | county | country | grid ref | what3words | fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| cc | Massachusetts | United States | 42.370930, -71.182830 place / geonames |
Crop and size
- crop
- wheat (cc: wheat)
- diameter
- 164 ft (50.0 m)
- size as written
- 50 m | 164 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 | US19960808_A |
| name | Watertown |
| location | |
| county | Massachusetts |
| country | United States |
| date reported | 1996-08-08 |
| date precision | day |
| crop | wheat |
| size | 50 m | 164 ft |
| diameter (ft) | 164 |
| grid reference | |
| what3words | |
| map link | |
| credits | cropcirclecenter.com / Bertold Zugelder |
| source page | https://www.cropcirclecenter.com/date/1996/199608.html |
| link to the entity | singleton decided by none on 2026-09-11 |
| warnings | no_formation_page |
| record | cc/785d7a971dc0d… raw record view: /formation/cc/785d7a971dc0df7e6a4afe72550be95eccb230d744d9c399d25322dc266ade33 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.
| diagram | rotational symmetry | elements | rings | mirror | fill |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| cc 470bd3b7 | ≈ none found | 3 | 0 | 0.875 | 0.0586 |
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 470bd3b7— 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
- Saltdean 7 August 1996, Saltdean
- next
- Tachiv 9 August 1996, Tachiv
- previous in US
- Sugar Creek 1 August 1996
- next in US
- Gilroy 10 August 1996
- same day
- Barger-Oosterfeld (Barger-Oosterfeld) · Ee (Ee) · Elkenrade Wiljire (Elkenrade Wiljire) · Kommerzijl (Kommerzijl) · Waarde (Waarde) · Coleton Fishacre (Coleton Fishacre) · Exmouth (Exmouth)
- 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.
Waltham
4.4 km away, 1979-09
Charles RiverJanuary 1991Charles River
11.0 km away, 1991-01 Charles River1 February 1993
Charles River
11.0 km away, 1993-02-01
Chelmsford5 August 1993Chelmsford
29.6 km away, 1993-08-05
Scituate1992Scituate
42.3 km away, 1992 Manchester1932
Manchester
72.9 km away, 1932
- 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/US19960808_A.json · row in index/manifest.jsonl
- input digests
- entity 0ef71d34132b · images ad7652375f86 · texts 4f53cda18c2b · geo ab776ce2d3e9