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29 july 1996: Triple-Armed Spiral, Windmill Hill, Avebury, Wiltshire, England Boscombe Down but also one of the many Army bases on _ one: £2.00 and in you go! Signs were soon erected announcing Salisbury Plain at Larkhill, both of which claimed nothing out of | "Europe's Largest Crop Circle". The A303 was frequently at a the ordinary had been observed. standstill as thousands of visitors parked, paid their fee and expe- From ground level, "the Julia Set" was too large for anyone to tienced—many for the first time—the wonder of being in a crop grasp the scale and intricacy of the layout. Only from the air circle. could its staggering complexity and beauty be fully appreciated. Newspapers and TV again reported this new formation, so As all the evidence appeared to indicate the formation was created adding to the international awareness that an unexplained phe- in around 30 minutes, human involvement in its creation becomes nomenon exists. At the end of July the annual Glastonbury Crop untenable (one circle every 12 seconds!). Circle Symposium took place, attracting visitors from around the Initially the farmer, Philip Santel, was very angry at the damage world. to his wheat crop and tried to stop anyone entering his field. After As if emboldened by the resurgence of interest, the’ seeing the aerial photographs and recognising the impossibility of | Circlemakers continued to come up with yet more breathtaking keeping out visitors, he reached a solution satisfactory to every- designs: in particular, the triple-armed spiral at Windmill Hill August 1996: Barton Le Clay, Bedfordshire, England im 58 ¢ NEXUS OCTOBER - NOVEMBER 1996,