An aerial photo is attached, courtesy of Jeff Challoner. Others will be available soon as well and added to the web site. The field has been combined around the formation, except for one swath where the farmer had initially mistakenly gone through it before realizing what he had found. The exact positioning on the tramlines (again not common here like in Europe) is similar to the 'Tree of Life' formation in England in 1997 for example, and many of the early pictogram formations there in the late 1980s / early 1990s.

Also, it appears that the formation was created sometime during the night of September 1 / 2, as another pilot has now reported seeing it on September 2 and the farmer has said the field was definitely empty on September 1 when they were doing spraying. If so, it is interesting that such a religious / spiritual symbol would appear (which has not happened before in Canada as far as we know) just a few days before the tragic and indeed world-changing events of September 11. A matter of speculation only at this point of course, but worth considering. It went publicly unreported until September 16 when discovered separately by the farmer during combining. The formation, basically hexagonal, can be viewed as a 'Star of David' although it is a variation thereof with the additional circles added to it. The setting is also beautiful, more closely resembling the countryside of England than the typically flat prairies (the formation is near a picturesque hill, similar to the English hills and mounds). Jeff, a minister in nearby Red Deer, said he felt a 'gut feeling' that the hill and surrounding area were a 'holy place'.

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