Reports of Unidentified Flying Object: The English Corn Circles in 1988 – Further Circles at Silbury Hill
On July 26 farmer Roger Hues discovered that a new quin tuple set of Circles had formed in his wheat field opposite Silbury Hill, immediately adjacent to the original set. This configuration was identical to the first set and virtually the same size. And, as can be seen from Photo 13, this new quintuple has two sides of the square whose corners are the centers of its satellite circles, exactly parallel to the “tramlines”‘ Its orientation was 135° different from the first formation in that its single clockwise satellite pointed roughly south-east, toward West Kennet Long Barrow.
Even though it lay in full view beside the main A4 road, no one had reported seeing a thing. A night-long vigil on Silbury Hill several days later, using an infrared night sight through which the Circles were clearly visible in the dark, failed to give any sign of who or what was producing them. There were no nocturnal visitors and nothing was seen to move.
Again, the Marlborough Times lead story headlined these events: “Circles Mystery Intensified by Further Sighting”. But this referred to the new Circles rather than to any further UFO sighting. And at some stage in the following days a further three single Circles appeared in the field close to the two large quintuples. They now seemed to be spreading like a rash!