Three formations. Seven weeks. All in the traditional Wiltshire-Somerset corridor. The 2026 UK season opened with a cross on Easter Sunday near a Royal Navy air station, continued with a vesica pisces geometry formation between Silbury Hill and Avebury, and reached its current peak with a 200-foot pentagram spiral on the same date as the US UAP file release. The season has barely started.
Formation 1: Ilchester, Somerset — April 4 (Easter Sunday)
Location: Bondip Hill, north of the A303, Ilchester, Somerset. OS Grid Ref: ST 52003 24129. Google Maps: close to RNAS Yeovilton.
Crop: Oilseed rape (canola), early flowering stage
Size: Approximately 100ft in length
Design: Cross-shaped formation with ring
The cross-with-ring is one of the older formation archetypes in the crop circle record — combining the most fundamental geometric elements: the cross (four-fold division of space) with the circle (unity, completion). It appeared on Easter Sunday — whether that is coincidence or pattern is a question the phenomenon raises repeatedly. Researcher Peter van den Burg’s geometry analysis found connections to the recent Artemis lunar mission — a finding that, if valid, would imply awareness of current human space programmes in the formation’s encoding.
Military proximity: The Ilchester formation is close to Royal Naval Air Station Yeovilton — one of the Royal Navy’s primary air stations, home to 847 Naval Air Squadron and the Fleet Air Arm Museum. Drone flying requires permission in this area due to restricted airspace. Yeovilton’s proximity means any UAP or anomalous aerial phenomena in the area would be observed by trained military pilots with access to military sensor systems. The fact that RNAS Yeovilton has not published any documentation about the Ilchester formation is itself notable.
Formation 2: Waden Hill, Wiltshire — April 29
Location: Between Silbury Hill and Avebury stone circle, Wiltshire. OS Grid Ref: SU 10495 68980.
Crop: Oilseed rape (canola)
Size: Approximately 100ft in length
Design: Dumbbell — two circles connected by a line (vesica pisces geometry)
Waden Hill sits in the sacred heart of Wiltshire. To its north: Avebury stone circle, the largest prehistoric stone circle on Earth, enclosing an entire village. To its south: Silbury Hill, the largest prehistoric man-made mound in Europe, of unknown purpose. The area is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It has been considered sacred by human cultures for at least 5,000 years.
The dumbbell or vesica pisces formation encodes the first geometric act of division — the splitting of unity into two. In sacred geometry, the vesica pisces (the lens-shaped intersection of two equal circles) is considered the fundamental building block of all subsequent geometry. The fact that this design appeared between the two most significant prehistoric monuments in Britain is either coincidence or communication. The phenomenon has returned to Waden Hill every few years since at least 1994 — 30 years of documented returns to the same location.
Formation 3: Jack’s Plantation, Bruton — May 8
Location: South Brewham, Bruton, Somerset, near Alfred’s Tower. OS Grid Ref: ST 74957 35471.
Crop: Young barley
Size: Approximately 200ft in width
Design: Five-fold pentagram star — five arms, each containing three diminishing circles with central circles, centred on a ring with five equidistant small circles
At 200 feet, this is the largest of the 2026 formations so far and the most geometrically sophisticated. The five-fold pentagram encoding is mathematically significant: the pentagon and pentagram embed the golden ratio (φ = 1.618…) throughout their proportions. Each arm of the star contains a stack of three partially overlapping circles of diminishing size — a design element that implies recursive self-similarity at smaller scales. Researcher Peter van den Burg found a hidden sixfold proportioning in the overall pattern, suggesting multiple simultaneous geometric encodings within the same design.
The formation appeared May 8, 2026 — the same date as the US Department of War’s release of 162 classified UAP files. Alfred’s Tower, visible from the formation site, marks the location where King Alfred raised his standard before defeating the Danish invaders in 878 AD. The National Trust site describes it as one of the most historically significant locations in Somerset. The field chosen for this formation sits within sight of it.
The Season Ahead
Three formations in seven weeks is a normal early pace for the UK season. The most complex and geometrically elaborate formations typically appear in June, July, and August — when wheat and barley are at maximum height and photographic contrast is strongest. The 2026 season is tracking the traditional corridor: Somerset-Wiltshire border area, Avebury-Stonehenge axis, chalk downland. UAP Oracle will document significant formations as they appear. Temporary Temples (temporarytemples.co.uk) maintains the primary photographic archive.
Sources: Temporary Temples 2026 documentation — Ilchester, Waden Hill, Jack’s Plantation formation pages. Researcher Peter van den Burg geometry analysis. RNAS Yeovilton official documentation.