Wiltshire
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LocationRegionWiltshire is a chalk-downland county in South West England, home to Stonehenge and Avebury, the 1960s Warminster sightings and the fields where Britain's crop-circle phenomenon took shape.
Wiltshire is a chalk-downland county in South West England, home to Stonehenge and Avebury, the 1960s Warminster sightings and the fields where Britain's crop-circle phenomenon took shape.
Wiltshire is a largely rural ceremonial county in South West England, with about 768,000 residents, Trowbridge as its county town and Swindon as its largest settlement. About two-thirds of the county lies on chalk, from the Marlborough Downs and the Vale of Pewsey to Salisbury Plain, much of which is a British Army training area. Its highest point, Tan Hill–Milk Hill, rises to 295 metres, and several chalk hillsides carry cut white horse figures.
The downland holds some of Britain's best-known prehistoric monuments. Stonehenge and Avebury together form a UNESCO World Heritage Site, near earthworks such as Silbury Hill and West Kennet Long Barrow. Wiltshire's modern UFO reputation began in Warminster, where Arthur Shuttlewood recorded a first sighting on 25 December 1964 and compiled a dossier of further reports that the Daily Mirror published. The coverage led to a 1966 BBC documentary and several books, and ufologists later traded rumours of flattened "saucer nests" that were never photographed.
Crop circles then made the same fields the centre of an international phenomenon. Formations in Hampshire and Wiltshire drew wide media attention in the late 1980s, and one in East Field at Alton Barnes appeared on a 1990 Led Zeppelin box set. In 1991, Doug Bower and Dave Chorley said they had started making circles in 1978 with a plank, rope and a cap fitted with a wire sighting loop, claimed more than 200 formations, and made one for journalists that a circle researcher declared genuine before the hoax was revealed. Researcher Jeremy Northcote later found English formations clustered near roads, towns and monuments such as Stonehenge and Avebury, a pattern that strongly suggests human makers. The wider crop circles debate still turns on whether any formation falls outside that explanation.
The season continued in 2026. Between June and July, drone videographers Stonehenge Dronescapes recorded new formations at Grovely Wood near Wilton, Etchilhampton Hill and Roundway Hill near Devizes, Hackpen Hill, Milk Hill above Alton Barnes and beside the Avebury henge. Another appeared at Foxhill near Swindon, and visitors posted videos of lights and a moving "vortex" at the sites. In September, Ross Coulthart retold a July 2009 account by an off-duty Wiltshire police sergeant who said he saw three tall figures inside a formation beside Silbury Hill. Wiltshire's significance lies in that overlap: a military and farming county whose ancient landscape became the main stage for crop-circle art, hoaxing and claims of contact.
I remember working on this story and speaking with case-investigator, Andy Russell. Russell told Liberation Times that similar encounters with mysterious, Nordic-looking figures have also been reported across Wiltshire, particularly in the countryside around Warminster. https://t.co/Ps1Jc2rbZE [Quoted] Ross Coulthart says an off duty policeman had an encounter with NORDIC ALIENS 👽 On the morning of 6 July 2009 an off-duty Wiltshire police sergeant driving the A4 past Silbury Hill saw three e...
Ross Coulthart says an off duty policeman had an encounter with NORDIC ALIENS 👽 On the morning of 6 July 2009 an off-duty Wiltshire police sergeant driving the A4 past Silbury Hill saw three exceptionally tall blonde figures in white one-piece suits inside a crop formation. He first took them for forensic officers. At the field edge he heard a crackle “not dissimilar to static electricity.” He shouted. They ignored him, then looked up and ran. “I’m no slouch but they were moving so fast. I l...
🚨NEW: Crop Formation Foxhill Nr Swindon Wiltshire July 21st 2026 A symbolic map showing a central source connected to two larger systems, representing communication, travel or energy transfer between them? Or could it be intended to resemble an engineered schematic disguised as a planetary alignment? #ufotwitter #uapX #Cropcircles #Cropformation Source: https://t.co/KJvpoo0W0s
“It’s the end of the world as we know it,” jokes a skeptical British couple during a nighttime drive through Wiltshire. Then the sky gives them something they weren’t expecting. What do you think they captured? #UAP #UFO #Stonehenge https://t.co/nCfsctmYtu
around may 2020, a crop circle appeared in the UK (Wiltshire, Potterne Field). depending on interpretatio, it closely mirrored the structure of a coronavirus. just 2 days later, a second crop circle appeared in the same area (also in Wiltshire), this time depicting a highly precise yin-yang symbol. (links: Potterne, Wilts | 28th May 2020 - Temporary Temples and Cley Hill, Wilts | 30th May 2020 - Temporary Temples) have you happened to observe or log any other "anomalies" with respect to the t...
🚨NEW Crop Circle | Avebury Henge Wiltshire July 14th 2026 A new crop formation was reported at the historic Avebury Henge in Wiltshire, reported on July 14th 2026, and captured by Stonehenge Dronescapes. This doesn't look like a traditional crop circle and more like a motion diagram with three circular objects moving through long parallel tracks, with a faint larger field around them. Could it be orbits, signal paths, or objects passing through some kind of corridor? What are your thoughts?...
🚨NEW Crop Circle Milk Hill Alton Barnes Wiltshire July 12th 2026 New crop circle reported at the historic Milk Hill Hill nr Alton Barnes with amazing views across the Pewsey Vale and can even see Silbury Hill in this video. Recorded by Stonehenge Dronescapes https://t.co/uH5TXCiw3l @RedCollie1 @zzzyzzyva #ufotwitter #uapX #Cropcircles
🚨NEW: Crop formation Roundway Hill Devizes Wiltshire July 11th 2026 A new crop formation has appeared which Stonehenge Dronescapes has affectionately named 'The Cosmic Chicken.' #ufotwitter #uapX #Cropformation Source: https://t.co/YNNHQdmZGr @RedCollie1 @zzzyzzyva
🚨NEW Crop Formation Maccoombe Down nr Tidcombe Wiltshire July 7th 2026 The 16th crop formation of the year depicting what could possibly be a hypercube has appeared. It was reported on July 7th and recorded by Stonehenge Dronescapes on the 8th. #ufotwitter #uapX #Cropformation Source: https://t.co/LxwLhFUvfW @RedCollie1 @zzzyzzyva
🔴NEW: Crop Circle Etchilhampton Hill nr Devizes Wiltshire July 4th 2026 We have a new crop circle, the 'Independence day' formation. @RedCollie1 I believe this one will be of interest to you if its showing what I think it is... #ufotwitter #uapX #Independanceday #4thjuly Credit: Stonehenge Dronescapes https://t.co/bMAK4nofcj
