County of Akershus
Holter in the community of Nannestad
Øvre Elton farm

The crop circle was discovered by the farmer, Dag Bjørgesæther, on Monday the 30th of July.
On thursdag the 31th of July, the local newspaper "Romerikets Blad" contacted the Norwegian Crop Circle Group.
Two representatives for the gruop, Guro Parvanova og Eva-Marie Brekkestø, examined the circle on the 31th of July.

The circle is located in a sloping wheat field easily seen from the road. The formation's total length is 36 metres.
The largest ring has a diameter of aprx 28 metres with an average width of 130 cm.
The smaller ring, concentric with and placed inside, the larger, has an aprx diameter of 24 meter, and is just
over a meter wide in average.
An additional ring, aprx 10 metres in diameter, partly cuts into the two largest.
Within this smallest ring is a semi circle.



There are several characteristics pointing towards a human origin to this circle.
And after close inspection the ground, we found clear evidence for it being man made. Click here for detailed photographic
evindence.

1) The pattern is rather impresise and messy.

2) The centre of the two largest rings was found in the middle of a tram line. And excactly where we estimated the centre to be, we found a large hole in the ground, seemingly left by a pole. A rope has probably been attached to the pole to mark out the pheriphery of the two concentric circles. It is, however, quite difficult to hold a 12-14 metres long rope constantly streched out while moving around in a circle. The result is thus often an uneven and rugged ring.
The fact that the hole is a cone (far wider at the top than at the bottom), indicates a heavy pull at the pole. Around the hole some stalks were trampled down, probably by the person who held the pole.

3) In all the areas of the circle that we examined, we found visible marks across the parallel downed stalks. The edge of a hard object, for instance a board used to push down the crop, will leave marks on the stalks just like the ones found in this formation.

We still have to point out, that due to the fact that the formation was two days old when we examined it, we cannot with absolute certainty, conclude that the formation is man made. There is a possibility that people who have visited the circle after is was discovered, have made the hole in the centre and inflicted the damage to the downed stalks. We consider this possibility to bea very faint one, however.

Eva-Marie Brekkestø
31th of July 2007

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