June 2009:
Light object filmed from Golden Ball Hill
near Alton Priors, Wiltshire, England

On the 24th of June 2009, between 1pm and 2pm, two Norwegians, Thomas Peterson and Lars
Olaussen, were on top of Golden Ball Hill (200m west of Knap Hill) with three other persons (two
Englishmen and a German) to search for a new crop circle. Two helicopters appeared, and Lars
Olaussen filmed one of them as it was hovering low over the wheat field below Golden Ball Hill (the
field to east of the famous East Field).

Later, when they looked through the footage, they discovered that they had filmed a small ball of
light that was moving from the left of the picture across the field in the foreground.

Here you can see the section of the footage (in slow motion) where the BOL travels across the field,
from the left towards the right.

The images beolw are stills from the footage:

Stills from the footage filmed from Golden Ball Hill 25.06.2009. Photos: Lars Olaussen

This ball of light is similar to light objects filmed on earlier occations, for instance by Steve Alexander
from Milk Hill in 1990.

5-10 minutes later Thomas observed with his telescope a small, white ball "flying" in high speed, from
the left to the right, low over the field to the left of (east of) the field where Lars filmed the light object.
Then both the helicopters left the area.

Right after this, all the five persons observed two bright lights. One of the lights seemed to rest on top
of a hill facing Golden Ball Hill to the south:

Photso: Thomas Peterson

The same light object, with most of the contrast in the photo taken out.
Photo: Thomas Peterson

Right afterwards another light appeared in front of the hill in a south-easternly direction from
Golden Ball Hill. This light constantly changed in shape and size. The same light was also
observed from Etchilhampton Hill, which lies about 7 km west-southwest of Golden Ball Hill
and aprx 4 km north of the location where the light was obsreved:


Photo: Thomas Peterson

Both these light were stationary and visible for 20-30 minutes.

The observers are open to the possibility that the two last objects might have been reflections
from buildings or other objects. They cannot help wondering, though, how this could be the case
on such a overcast, dark day. Also the sun, at this time of the day, would be positioned "behind"
the objects (in this case also behind the clouds!) in relation to the observers' point of view. The
fact that the light was observed from different directions and that it changed in shape and colour,
also makes a reflection less likely.

Thanks to Lars Olaussen and Thomas Peterson for making the report andthe images available.

© 2009 The Norwegian Crop Circle Group