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Marion

US19970822_A

22 August 1997·Marion·wheat

cropcirclecenter.com / Bertold Zugelder (site default) · diagram published by cropcirclecenter.com.

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
crop
wheat
size
82 ft (25.0 m) across
as written: 25 m | 82 ft
recorded by
cc
images
1 · 1 diagram
writing
nothing was written about this formation on any source
25 m across100 m

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
2000 km

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 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
siteplacecountycountrygrid refwhat3wordsfix
ccUnited 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.

diagramrotational symmetryelementsringsmirrorfill
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