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In 1978, Ian Stevens photographed a crop circle at Headbourne Worthy, just north of Winchester, UK.
It marked the beginning of what would later become known as the modern era of crop circles.
At first, the formations were simple circles, but over the years the number of events increased
and the designs became ever more intricate and complex. In recent years, however, the phenomenon appears to have faded.
During the last couple of years, few designs truly touched me. They lacked the quality needed to spark my interest,
until 22 May 2026, when an event at White Sheet Hill near Mere called to me.
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In 1978, Ian Stevens photographed a crop circle at Headbourne Worthy, just north of Winchester, UK.
It marked the beginning of what would later become known as the modern era of crop circles.
At first, the formations were simple circles, but over the years the number of events increased
and the designs became ever more intricate and complex. In recent years, however, the phenomenon appears to have faded.
During the last couple of years, few designs truly touched me. They lacked the quality needed to spark my interest,
until 22 May 2026, when an event at White Sheet Hill near Mere called to me.
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Mere, 22 May 2026 - photo by Hugh Newman |
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In this article, I will show why that call proved valid. Over the years, I have come to understand that
Squaring the Circle
in all its strangeness, is an inseparable part of life as we know it. This insight motivated me to write a book,
the Organizing Principle - There Are No Coincidences,
in which squaring the circle plays an important role.
I felt that the Mere 2026 event encoded this principle, and my intuition did not let me down. Let us reconstruct the event at
Mere and discover where this elusive squaring of the circle is hiding. Let's start with constructing a small circle.
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The diagram on the left shows this circle. We then use it to construct two new circles of identical size,
as shown in the middle diagram. Together, these three circles define the size of a larger circle, shown in the diagram on the right.
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This newly constructed circle forms the centre of the formation, as found at White Sheet Hill (see the photo at the top of the article).
This circle can be used to determine the positions of the four outer circles, which are the same size as the central circle.
See the diagram above on the left for an illustration of how this is done. We then construct a circle that passes through
the centres of the four ‘in-between’ circles. See the diagram above on the right.
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We construct the same circle four more times using the centres of the four outer circles.
See the diagram above on the left. We then construct a ‘big ring’ that passes through the centres of the four outer circles.
See the diagram above on the right.
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We now return to the first small circle, copy it eight times, and place these copies at the intersection points of
the newly constructed ‘big ring’ and the four outermost circles. See the diagram above on the left.
By selecting the appropriate circles, rings, and pathways, we have reconstructed the crop circle that was found at White Sheet Hill on 22 May 2026.
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As can be seen in the diagram and photo above, the reconstructed geometrical shape fits perfectly over the original crop circle.
We have now reached a very interesting situation. The reconstructed diagram contains various very accurate approximations of
squaring the circle.
I say ‘approximations’ because
Ferdinand von Lindemann
proved in 1882 that squaring the circle cannot be achieved using only a compass and straightedge.
The main obstacle here is the number
Pi (π).
Because Pi (π) is a
transcendental number,
it is impossible, starting with a square, to construct a circle
with the same area or perimeter as the square, or vice versa, starting with a circle, as we did with the above described reconstruction.
But our reconstructed geometrical shape comes very, very close as I will show in the diagrams below.
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Let's first have a look at the diagram above on the left. We can construct a circle and a square that both encompass the small circles.
The resulting ‘squaring of the circle’, whereby the circle and square have equal surface areas, has an accuracy of 99.38%.
In the diagram above on the right, the square fits exactly within the four larger circles,
while the red circle passes through the centres of the small circles generating a ‘squaring of the circle’
with an accuracy of 99.21%. Both ‘squaring the circles’ are amazingly accurate.
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The diagram above on the left shows a blue square passing through the centres of the small circles and a red circle
encompassing those same small circles. The resulting ‘squaring of the circle’ (in this case based on equal perimeters of the circle and the square)
has an accuracy of 99.03%. The diagram above on the right shows the same red circle, now combined with a square that
fits exactly within the four larger circles. This ‘squaring the circle’ has a stunning accuracy of 99.97%.
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The elegance of the geometry alone was enough to capture my interest, but it was the hidden ‘squaring of the circles’ that truly drew me to this crop circle,
which appeared on 22 May 2026 at the foot of White Sheet Hill near Mere, UK. It felt as though something was calling me to investigate and I’m grateful I listened.
I hope, by now, you feel the same pull.
Read also Squaring the Circle - a clarification
© Bert Janssen, 2026.
In my book 'the Organizing Principle',
you can read more about the enormous importance of Squaring the Circle.
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Please join me on my and lets find the secret.
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