August 4, 2005: Boreham Down, Wiltshire, England
On August 4, 2005 at 4:23pm French researcher Pierre Beake was carrying out one of his numerous photo-experiments inside the above described crop circle formation at Boreham Down, near Lockeridge in Wiltshire. Over a long term period and together with his wife he was taking hundrets of digital photos of the surrounding area. The results of those experiments are investigated intesively back home on the computer. Out of the hundrets of normal photos with nothing unusual on it, from time to time Pierre and his team discover extraordinary details such as for example strange objects captured on film. While one person takes the photos a second (in this case Pierres wife) controlls the scenery with his eyes to look out for anything strange or normal that could be misinterpreted later.
And again, the photo-session inside the Boreham Down crop circle showed an interesting but strange result in the sky above the nearby West Woods.
While there is a lot of speculation about what this "anomaly" might be, there is no answer to this question so far. A first idea was that it could be a paraglider. However, this idea can be disproved for the following reasons:
First of all, NO paraglider nor similar activities were observed by the controlling person at the time the photos were taken and there is only one photos showing this "object". General paragliding activities would have been visible also on previous and following pictures - but none are. Furthermore, the general area and direction in which the photo was taken (see: following map) is no paragliding area and not suitable for this sport. Others places nearby - such as for example Golden Ball Hill and Milk Hill areas - were people do paragliding are to far away to explain the "object".
Finally the position of the "object" seems to coincide with the distance of the West Woods trees - again an argument against the idea that the object might be a paraglider caught in a strange angled movement as paragliding would be impossible there.
So far there is no valid explanation for the strange object in the sky above West Woods. You can find more interesting and spectacular results of the French researchers dedicated work on their homepage at: www.coldevence.com