1934 - Great Eversden
Yet again we have a case which latterly came to light, after the witness wrote to the press in the wake of the widespread media interest of 1990. In this instance, the writer was Kathleen Skin, who sent her account to The Sunday Express, who printed it on August 12, 1990.
Her story is remarkable, not just for the fact that she reports having seen crop circles in 1934, but that she actually saw them form!
The case drew attention from Terence Meaden, who spoke with Mrs Skin by telepone and learned that she had in fact seen two circles form, and not one, as stated in her letter.
Her story is remarkable, not just for the fact that she reports having seen crop circles in 1934, but that she actually saw them form!
The case drew attention from Terence Meaden, who spoke with Mrs Skin by telepone and learned that she had in fact seen two circles form, and not one, as stated in her letter.
Details
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Kathleen was 14 at the time, and stopped to talk to farmer Mr Hagger, whom she knew. She then witnessed two circles forming before her eyes.
Mrs Skin's account is of a whirlwind moving through a field and spinning out a circle of "interlaced" corn. The whirlwind then moved off and made a second circle in the corner of the field. The circles were around 4m in diameter. She states that this took place one afternoon before the end of school term, and Meaden has suggested this dates it to before Friday 20th July 1934. (She was off school feeling unwell at the time so it was likely a weekday.) |
Once more, it is to Meaden's great credit that he contacted the witness. Had he not done so, the inaccurate details would never have been corrected.
The details are indicative of a regular crop circle of the type being documented today. She described the plants as having "their ears lying on each other (others even plaited)". 
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Further details, 1994
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In 1994, a documentary on the phenomenon hosted by Arthur C Clarke was broadcast. It included a new interview with Kathleen, pictured left at around the time she made her sighting. She was filmed back in the same field and her on-screen testimony is as follows:
""It was a lovely hot, sultry day, as if there's a storm coming. But in front of me there was this great big field of wheat. And I was chewing a bit of wheat and all of a sudden I saw a blessed great whirlwind right in the middle of the field. And it was throwing up stuff, about 30, 40 feet up, and all of a sudden it dissipated and all the stuff fell down to the ground, and I was fascinated by this. And it was amazing - there was a whacking great circle of flattened down corn, and I had sandals on so I felt that the [fallen] corn was ever so hot to my feet, and all around - you know how you have a pack of cards and they all fall against each other? - well, the corn was like that in a clockwise direction, all all the ears of corn were sort of intertwined, all the way around, it made a lovely periphery. It could only be very strong pressure to press down all the corn so hard onto the ground in that particular pattern." |
historic old crop circles - UK circles
