October 2, 2003 Bainbridge, Ohio - On September 28, 2003,
The Highland County Press newspaper in Ohio, published an aerial photograph by Dan Music and Ron Tillis that showed the second Bainbridge crop formation in soybeans this year. The newspaper reported that the two men "were flying over the area recently in their private plane and were surprised to see the designs cut into this bean field. Local residents said they suspected young people on four-wheelers had made the design. Several other crop circles have been found in the area, including one discovered August 23 (correct date is August 24) near Serpent Mound in Adams County. A third crop circle was recently found and photographed near Seip Mound in Ross County." See 09/12/03 Earthfiles.
The pattern in the aerial photograph is crisply laid out in 40-acres of soybeans surrounded by Paint Creek, said to be the largest creek in the United States. The creek flows in a large heel-shaped loop around the soybean field and its water is lined by tall trees. There are only two access points to the field and they are at least a half mile from the nearest road that passes one of the landowner's homes. Then you still have to cross Paint Creek to get into the field.
Delsey Knoechelman who discovered and first reported the August 24, 2003, Serpent Mound pattern that was also in soybeans, saw the newspaper article and contacted field investigator, Jeffrey Wilson. On Saturday to Sunday, September 27-28, Jeff, his team of investigators and several local volunteers set out to obtain permission from the soybean farm owners and to get out on the island to make measurements, sample soil and plants and take a variety of instrument readings.
Interview:
Jeffrey Wilson, Independent Crop Formation Investigator, Master's Degree in General Science, Dexter, Michigan: "We managed to contact one of the land owners and had to do some convincing to get him to allow us into the field. (Even with the newspaper's aerial photograph), he didn't believe at first that there was any formation in the field. He finally took us out to the site and we couldn't see the formation even from the edge of the field once you got onto the island. We had to climb a tree to locate where it was in the field.
There were no tracks whatsoever going into the formation itself. There were no tramlines, no sprayer lines in the field, nothing like that whatsoever. We were the first ones to make our way, rip our way, through that dense foliage of soybeans to get to where the formation was. We went around the entire field to look for tracks.
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