Lincolnshire Farmer Witnesses
Non-Manmade Crop Circle Creation

By Ed Sherwood

On August 12^th 1990, I examined the site of a non-manmade Crop Circle and interviewed the witness to the circles creation. From notes that I took during the investigation I documented the following account.

At approximately 3pm, in the first week of August, Mr. Cunningham, a ‘no nonsense’ Lincolnshire farmer with more than thirty years experience of working the rich Fenland soil of England, with no prior interest in Crop Circles, drove his tractor to a field of young Brussels sprout plants on a baking hot dry dusty day. It was the summer heat wave of 1990. The sky was a clear blue, and everything seemed normal with his crop, until something invisible suddenly ‘hit’ his tractor with considerable force. Getting out of the vehicle, he immediately felt a damp icy cold breeze go past him.

A second or two later, about twenty feet away, close to the edge of the field, Mr. Cunningham heard and saw an expanding circular area of Brussels spouts begin to rustle and rotate rapidly outwards from a central point. Shocked and somewhat unnerved by the dramatic event, he moved away from the tractor and hid behind a nearby grassy embankment, as the circle creating force uprooted some of the swirling plants and threw them out into what was otherwise motionless standing crop. When the circle was approximately 30 feet wide, all of the plants inside the circle were suddenly flattened (bent) to the ground, followed by silence.

Recounting the experience in the field to Rita Gould, Vince Palmer and myself, about a week after the event, Mr. Cunningham said what amazed him the most, apart from the Crop Circles mysterious appearance, was that no dust was generated during its creation, by the crop rustling, swirling, unearthing, bending and flattening, despite the fact it hadn’t rained for a least two weeks, and the circle had formed on a very hot, dry, dusty, soil parched day, when just to walk into the field produced a dust cloud.

Why didn’t the force of the Crop Circle creating ‘wind’ agitate the dust I wondered?

Perhaps the dampness of a grounding ‘icy cold’ ball plasma caused this effect or its electrostatic field? Particulate matter, both airborne and non-air airborne, having much less mass than Brussels sprout plants was perhaps drawn to the ground first, before the plants, and throughout the circle creating process, after receiving an enveloping positive electrical charge, like the surface of the rustling plants, attracting and pinning all particulates to the negatively charged earth?

Carefully examining the Crop Circle site, after very few people had visited it, I found many, easy to bruise and break, brittle young Brussels sprout plants bent 90 degrees, just above the ground, without a sign of damage. The plants looked as if they had been ‘formed’ into position like the English Plantain in The 1996 Laguna Canyon Crop Circle Pictogram and plants I examined in many other formations, from 1990 to 2000, soon after their appearance (i.e.: plants bent 90 degrees, in addition to their natural bend, near and or above ground level, without a break, bruise or crease).

I also saw plants around the edge of the circle, with soil still attached to their roots, unearthed and thrown into the field, and on top of a hedge nearby, from the centrifugal force of the clockwise swirled crop.

As with many other cases of non-manmade Crop Circle formation there was a significant body of water nearby, in the form of a miles long canal wide fenland water drainage channel, called the ‘South Forty-Foot Drain’, just beyond the hedgerow that flanked one side of the field. Interesting, I thought, the farmer reported feeling ‘a damp icy cold breeze go passed him’ during what was otherwise a very dry, hot, summer heat wave day.
 
Mr. Cunningham’s experience of Crop Circle creation, at a remote location near Pinchbeck West, in Lincolnshire, is, in my view, one of the most credible and telling eyewitness accounts of non-manmade Crop Circle formation on record.
 
Ed Sherwood – August 1990 (Edited slightly in 2024)
 
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