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Cape Elizabeth

US19970205_A

5 February 1997·Cape Elizabeth

100 km
Where it was reported. With no photograph to show, the plate is the place: Cape Elizabeth, 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 5 February 1997 at Cape Elizabeth. One archive recorded it, so nothing about it can be cross-checked.

The record

date
5 February 1997 (day precision)
place
Cape Elizabeth
United States
crop
not recorded by any source
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
43.563700, -70.200050
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/1997/199702.html

Date

5 February 1997, to day precision. What a source records is the day a formation was found and reported.

reported by
cc: 5 February 1997
weekday
Wednesday, day 36 of the year, ISO week 6, winter
sun and moon
43.1 days before the March equinox; moon waning crescent (7% lit), 12.9 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
43.563700, -70.200050 — place, ±2,000 m, by geonames, from the cc record
on a map
OpenStreetMap
siteplacecountycountrygrid refwhat3wordsfix
ccMaineUnited States 43.563700, -70.200050 place / geonames

Crop and size

crop and size not recorded by any source

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 US19970205_A
name Cape Elizabeth
location
county Maine
country United States
date reported 1997-02-05
date precision day
crop
size
diameter (ft)
grid reference
what3words
map link
credits cropcirclecenter.com / Bertold Zugelder
source page https://www.cropcirclecenter.com/date/1997/199702.html
link to the entity singleton
decided by none on 2026-09-11
warnings no_formation_page
record cc/785a11f0b8193…
raw record view: /formation/cc/785a11f0b8193ae7c8b139b6e26a43a3f241d0adf9e1ee024fd0f408064e34a1 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
Hoeven February 1997, Hoeven
next
Sennen 7 February 1997, Sennen
previous in US
The Hermit January 1997
next in US
Livingstone County 7 February 1997
same day
Cape Elizabeth (Cape Elizabeth)
within 7 days and 25 km
Cape Elizabeth 5 February 1997, 0 m away, 0 day(s) apart

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/US19970205_A.json · row in index/manifest.jsonl
input digests
entity 44763cb18f5f · images a3e534cc7fe9 · texts 4f53cda18c2b · geo 20d62f32c31e