Location: near Hoeven, Holland
Advance Sketch (night of April 22-23): Robbert
v/d Broeke
Aerial Photos: Yvonne, Ronald Sikking
Ground Photos: Roy Boschman
Diagram: Roy Boschman, Nancy Talbott
Shortly after dark on Tuesday night, April
22nd, Robbert got the feeling that another circle was coming and
that it would be near the village of Hoeven where he grew up.
As Roy was with Robbert that evening they drove to the farm
fields around Hoeven, repeatedly checking a particular field
(one with tall grass) which Robbert “saw” in his "mind’s eye” as
the one where the new formation would be—but they could find
nothing.
When Robbert got back to his apt. he Skyped
Nancy, during which conversation he repeated his strong feeling
that a new circle was coming—saying that now he could not only
“see” what it would look like, he could also “smell” the grass
in which it would appear. I (Nancy) immediately asked him to
make a sketch of what he “saw” and hold it up so I could see it
through Skype (Robbert doesn’t know how to scan things into his
computer)--so I could be a witness to the accuracy of his
“vision” when the actual formation appeared. [Having worked
with Robbert since 1997, and having never observed him to be
mistaken about these “knowings” about where and/or what “design”
new formations will be, I expected that a new formation would
appear…and most likely soon.]
This is the sketch that Robbert showed me
through his Skype camera on the night of April 22-23rd—compare
it with Yvonne’s aerial photo taken in the morning:
On Wednesday the 23rd Robbert was in meetings
with the author of a new book (in Dutch) about him which has
just come out and some other visitors, and so was with many
people all day. After dinner with this group Robbert was driven
back to his apt. around 9:00 - 9:30pm where he soon “felt the
energies” again and “saw” (in his mind’s eye) a flash of light
over the same field where he and Roy had looked the night
before. Finally his feeling that the new formation was coming
was so strong he called Roy again (Roy lives 20-30 minutes away,
by car), to ask if he'd come back so they could go check the
field again. [What Robbert actually said to me was he
felt the same urgency as would a father-to-be who has just been
told his wife has gone to the hospital to give birth — that to
him "these crop circles feel like my children.”]
After an hour or so Roy returned and sometime
around midnight they reached the same field they had carefully
checked the night before and, this time, could immediately see
the new formation in the tall grass. As you can see, it looks
just like the drawing that Robbert showed me thru Skype the
night before.
There is a large (22m+ overall diameter) thin
ring with nine circles and one large ring inside it, forming a
lovely cross…with three circles leading up to the edge of the
big thin ring (overall length = 28m).
When Roy returned in the morning he met a man
who is an “overseer" of the fields around Hoeven and stopped to
speak to him. This man told an interesting story, saying he has
been patrolling his area for decades, day and night, to protect
the area from poachers. In all this time he has never seen a
formation being made by Robbert (or anyone else), in spite of
the fact that many circles have been found in this area over the
years. And he told Roy he can find no explanation for how these
many crop circles have occurred….that, to him, this is a genuine
mystery.
The farmer in this case has indicated
that he does not want people in the field since the grass is
very tall and read to be mowed. He did not mind that Roy took
photos, but said he would cut the grass quickly now.
Robbert said that the “energy” in this
formation is very strong and “fresh” and, if he receives a
“message” related to the formation he will get that info posted
on his website. For more photos of this, and all 2014 Dutch
circles, see Robbert’s Crop Circle Archive (in Dutch, but many
reports translated into English): http://www.robbertvandenbroeke.nl/graancirkelarchief.
