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Milk Hill 'Galaxy' formation

The largest formation on record: 409 circles spanning some 900 feet across four acres of Milk Hill wheat, found after a night of wind and rain. Six spiral spokes of growing circles each end in a giant, and diminishing chains link the giants into a closed outer rim — 79 major circles dressed with hundreds of satellites.

Milk Hill 'Galaxy' formation — 2001-08-12 (cca-2001-milk-hill-galaxy) The largest formation on record: 409 circles spanning some 900 feet across four acres of Milk Hill wheat, found after a night of wind and rain. Six spiral spokes of growing circles each end in a giant, and diminishing chains link the giants into a closed outer rim — 79 major circles dressed with hundreds of satellites. Location: Milk Hill, Alton Barnes, Wiltshire, GB (51.3623, -1.8532). Reported 2001-08-12. Original imagery: https://www.cropcirclearchives.co.uk/archives/2001/MilkHill2/milkhill2001a.html (photo © its photographer, not covered by this file's license). Reconstruction data and rendered images (c) Crop Circle Atlas / Leslie, released under CC BY-SA 4.0: reuse and adapt freely, but you must credit the Atlas and share alike. Referenced aerial photographs are NOT part of this work and remain (c) their photographers. Milk Hill 'Galaxy' formation cca-2001-milk-hill-galaxy Leslie / Crop Circle Atlas © 2026 Leslie / Crop Circle Atlas · CC-BY-SA-4.0 2026-08-19 The largest formation on record: 409 circles spanning some 900 feet across four acres of Milk Hill wheat, found after a night of wind and rain. Six spiral spokes of growing circles each end in a giant, and diminishing chains link the giants into a closed outer rim — 79 major circles dressed with hundreds of satellites. Milk Hill, Alton Barnes, Wiltshire, GB (51.3623, -1.8532) — formation reported 2001-08-12 https://www.cropcirclearchives.co.uk/archives/2001/MilkHill2/milkhill2001a.html https://github.com/crop-circle-atlas Milk Hill 'Galaxy' formation · 2001-08-12 · Milk Hill, Alton Barnes, Wiltshire, GB cca-2001-milk-hill-galaxy · © 2026 Leslie / Crop Circle Atlas · CC-BY-SA-4.0

Survey record

Reported
2001-08-12
Location
Milk Hill, Alton Barnes, Wiltshire · map
Coordinates
51.3623, -1.8532 (±500 m)
Crop
wheat
Span
274 m
Symmetry
6-fold
Elements
409 rendered from 69 declared
Fidelity
level 3 · confidence high
Digitized
claude-fable-5, 2026-08-19
galaxysix-foldrecord-sizemilk-hillwiltshirefamous2000s

Construction

Major-circle chain digitized from Zef Damen's reconstruction diagram by pixel analysis (six-fold folding, worst residual <1 m). Each arm: 6-circle spoke growing outward (+50°→+12° ahead of the arm's big circle), big circle at 109.4 m from centre, then a 6-circle diminishing rim tail (−12°→−51°) ending tangent to the next arm's big circle, so the 6 bigs + 6 tails close into a rim loop. 55 satellites/arm (notch beads, flankers, two strings) are representative: Zef's survey covers majors only. 6×(13+55)+1 = 409.

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