Blandford Forum
x-lp-9a97d39e6fb523 June 1998·Blandford Forum, Dorset
Possibly the same formation as: these cross-site pairs are still open in the index review queue.
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Witchampton (Dorset)(cc, tier C, score 0.60, rule county_only, pair 18a14cee)
date 1998-06-23 vs 1998-06-23 (delta +0 d); county Dorset == Dorset; country UK (cc_id) == UK (country_field)
Reported 23 June 1998 at Blandford Forum, Dorset. One archive recorded it, so nothing about it can be cross-checked.
The record
- date
- 23 June 1998 (day precision)
- place
- Blandford Forum
Dorset
United Kingdom - crop
- not recorded by any source
- size
- not recorded
- recorded by
- lp
- images
- 1 on the record, 2 attached · 1 other
- 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
No coordinate could be resolved from any member record's place name.
Images
1 image(s) on this formation's own source records, and 2 more on 2 attached record(s) below. Click a tile for the full image; the bytes are fetched when you ask for them and are not stored in this page.
Photographs (1)
| site | kind | credit | basis | caption | size | file | source page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| lp | other | Lucy Pringle | page credit | Large spiralled wheel outer ring and other circles. UFOs reported in area on night of formation. | 620×427 28.2 KiB image/jpeg |
image 550859cbb9c6 | https://www.cropcirclephotographs.co.uk/photos/1998/uk1998br.shtml |
Attached photographs (2)
inferred link These pictures did not come with a source record of this formation. Each one is a single-photograph archive entry whose own date and place the index matched to this formation; nothing about the formation itself comes from them. The rule, the score and the evidence are printed with each record so the link can be checked, and the credit stays with the photograph.
Blandford Forum, Dorset | 23rd June 1998 | Wheat OH 35mm
tt temporarytemples.co.uk · archive_image · 23 June 1998 ·
matched on date and place by the index (not confirmed by hand) · rule attach, tier B, score 0.90 ·
pair 2d20b2eaad3b · decided 2026-09-15T21:14:17Z
- attachment: tt archive_image blandford-forum-dorset-23rd-june-1998-wheat-oh-35mm
- date 1998-06-23 vs 1998-06-23 (delta +0 d)
- name tokens shared: blandford, forum
- county Dorset == Dorset
- country UK (uk_county) == UK (country_field)
- the only entity the photograph's date and place fit (x-lp-9a97d39e6fb5)
| site | kind | credit | basis | caption | size | file | source page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| tt | aerial | Steve Alexander / Temporary Temples | site default | Blandford Forum, Dorset | 23rd June 1998 | Wheat OH 35mm | 800×544 626.6 KiB image/jpeg |
image eaddd87c6e59 | https://temporarytemples.co.uk/crop-circles/1998-crop-circles |
Blandford Forum, Dorset | 23rd June 1998 | Wheat L 35mm
tt temporarytemples.co.uk · archive_image · 23 June 1998 ·
matched on date and place by the index (not confirmed by hand) · rule attach, tier B, score 0.90 ·
pair c4c8f4051f28 · decided 2026-09-15T21:14:17Z
- attachment: tt archive_image blandford-forum-dorset-23rd-june-1998-wheat-l-35mm
- date 1998-06-23 vs 1998-06-23 (delta +0 d)
- name tokens shared: blandford, forum
- county Dorset == Dorset
- country UK (uk_county) == UK (country_field)
- the only entity the photograph's date and place fit (x-lp-9a97d39e6fb5)
| site | kind | credit | basis | caption | size | file | source page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| tt | aerial | Steve Alexander / Temporary Temples | site default | Blandford Forum, Dorset | 23rd June 1998 | Wheat L 35mm | 800×539 520.0 KiB image/jpeg |
image bf490aeb5d7d | https://temporarytemples.co.uk/crop-circles/1998-crop-circles |
Date
23 June 1998, to day precision. What a source records is the day a formation was found and reported.
- reported by
- lp: 23 June 1998
- weekday
- Tuesday, day 174 of the year, ISO week 26, summer
- sun and moon
- 1.9 days after the June solstice; moon new (1% lit), 13.3 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.
| site | place | county | country | grid ref | what3words | fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| lp | Blandford Forum | Dorset | United Kingdom | none |
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 | lp cropcirclephotographs.co.uk |
|---|---|
| id / slug | blandford-forum-1998 |
| name | Blandford Forum |
| location | Blandford Forum |
| county | Dorset |
| country | United Kingdom |
| date reported | 1998-06-23 |
| date precision | day |
| crop | |
| size | |
| diameter (ft) | |
| grid reference | |
| what3words | |
| map link | |
| credits | Lucy Pringle |
| source page | https://www.cropcirclephotographs.co.uk/photos/1998/uk1998br.shtml |
| link to the entity | singleton decided by none on 2026-09-15 |
| warnings | none |
| record | lp/9a97d39e6fb5d… raw record view: /formation/lp/9a97d39e6fb5dddbd643015c67b817a9429fedf868239edc11acbf6699b7203d 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
no diagram of this formation has been measured
0 diagram file(s) on this page. no diagram of this formation has been measured; run `python -m scraper analysis geometry` to fill this section.
Neighbours
In time
- previous
- Cutforth 22 June 1998, Cutforth
- next
- Gunneby 26 June 1998, Gunneby
- previous in UK
- Cutforth 22 June 1998
- next in UK
- Piddletrenthide 26 June 1998
- same day
- Witchampton (Witchampton)
- 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
- Blandford 21 June 1998 · Witchampton 23 June 1998 · Piddletrenthide 26 June 1998 · Dorchester 21 July 1998
Provenance
- entity built at
- 2026-09-15T21:14:17Z (derived from the link decisions, not from this build)
- index run ids
- 20260915T211417Z-index-build
- reviews applied
- none
- open queue pairs
- 18a14cee7bc2e9dae73ba3d200931c7df246e95d5bffd41bca5b01cdda2c7318
- entity record
- index/formations/x-lp-9a97d39e6fb5.json · row in index/manifest.jsonl
- input digests
- entity 01dddeaa8648 · images 1eb14d2ad6a4 · attachments 445824f52a83 · texts 4f53cda18c2b · geo none