US19970822_A ·The 1997 season ·United States
Marion
22 August 1997·Marion·wheat·82 ft (25.0 m) across
Reported 22 August 1997 in wheat at Marion. One archive recorded it, so nothing about it can be cross-checked.
The record
- date
- 22 August 1997 day precision
- place
- Marion, United States no other name or place string on any source record · name from the cropcirclecenter.com name
- crop
- wheat
- size
- 82 ft (25.0 m) acrossas written: 25 m | 82 ft
- recorded by
- cc · cropcirclecenter.com
- images
- 1 · 1 diagram
- writing
- nothing was written about this formation on any source
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 | cropcirclecenter.com / Bertold Zugelder | site default | 575×415 40.6 KiB image/jpeg |
image 2ec20b1d1f9c | https://www.cropcirclecenter.com/date/1997/199708.html |
Date
22 August 1997, to day precision. What a source records is the day a formation was found and reported.
- reported by
- cc: 22 August 1997
- weekday
- Friday, day 234 of the year, ISO week 34, summer
- sun and moon
- 31.5 days before the September equinox; moon waning gibbous (78% lit), 4.0 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 | United States | 37.845404, -89.224923 country / country_centroid |
Crop and size
- crop
- wheat (cc: wheat)
- diameter
- 82 ft (25.0 m)
- size as written
- 25 m | 82 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 | US19970822_A |
| name | Marion |
| location | |
| county | |
| country | United States |
| date reported | 1997-08-22 |
| date precision | day |
| crop | wheat |
| size | 25 m | 82 ft |
| diameter (ft) | 82 |
| grid reference | |
| what3words | |
| map link | |
| credits | cropcirclecenter.com / Bertold Zugelder |
| source page | https://www.cropcirclecenter.com/date/1997/199708.html |
| link to the entity | singleton decided by none on 2026-09-11 |
| warnings | no_formation_page |
| record | cc/04f8c93e839d5… raw record view: /formation/cc/04f8c93e839d5fc5dbebf08163e89edc9753beca39fb536782762cd62d981bd4 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 2ec20b1d | ≈ none found | 1 | 1 | 0.951 | 0.1397 |
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 2ec20b1d— 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
- Shearby 21 August 1997, Shearby
- next
- Sapporo September 1997, Sapporo
- previous in US
- Wausau 15 August 1997
- next in US
- US19970914_A 14 September 1997
- 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
- 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/US19970822_A.json · row in index/manifest.jsonl
- input digests
- entity 70add3e0ed25 · images f5b39fd7859f · texts 4f53cda18c2b · geo ebc35a47f50e