formations, formations, formations
where a man's a man and the children dance to the pipes of pan...
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Two shots of the July 1996 Stonehenge Julia Set. Photograph courtesy of Peter Sorensen.
Ever since this formation appeared, there have been claims that it formed
in daylight. Part of said claim is that, if the formation had been
made the night before, it would have been clearly visible from the road
or from Stonehenge itself. But is this true? Some argue that it isn't,
and that due to the topography of the field in question, it simply went
unnoticed until the afternoon. You can read one such claim, with
diagrams, here.
Rod Dickinson claims the same thing, on the Circlemakers website, here.We were first set along this line of enquiry after reading Freddy Silva's Secrets In The Fields several years ago. Page 75 of this book features a shot, taken from Stonehenge and supposed to show the formation, with an arrow pointing to... nothing at all, as far as we can see. Which, for us, would seem to prove that the formation wasn't visible from Stonehenge at all, though Silva seems to be using the picture to prove the opposite.
So we repeat our request for photographic evidence that the formation was actually visible from Stonehenge and / or the road. The issue of the pilot (sometimes more than one, depending on which account you read) that flew over the field in question and stated that it wasn't there earlier is a separate one, we think, and should be dealt with as such.
We still want to see pictures.
If you have such photographs, please forward them to us, with the line 'Stonehenge Julia Set' in your subject header. Please note that we're not interested in 'I was there, I saw it' claims, or 'you're a bunch of debunkers / hoax boosters' claims, or 'I read x in y book' claims, or ''who's paying you off?' claims. What we're interested in is proof.