Crop circles in Botswana? The burnt maize formation

What was reported

Martin Chibanda of Kwe-Kwe wrote after a Botswana holiday, where a farmer told him he had lost much of his maize when something apparently scorched his field. The burn was not random: it formed a letter-like column of symmetrical rings and X-shapes, which the farmer sketched and Chibanda redrew for Afrinews, with four 'pot-holes' where the ground looked dug into while everything else was burnt. Stalks around the shapes lay flattened, pointing outward from the centre, and the maize was dry and close to harvest. Chibanda did not think to ask when it happened or how big the burnt area was; the farmer cared more about his lost crop than the pattern. Hind, who knew of no crop formations anywhere in Africa, is trying to trace the farmer for the missing details before commenting.

What Hind made of it

Hind finds it very strange, had never heard of crop formations in Africa, and is seeking the farmer for date and size before commenting.

Explanation offered
Context of the 1992 British hoax confession is given, but no explanation is offered for this field

In their words

• the man was more worried about the loss of his crop than about the formation...

• Had anything of this nature ever occurred in Africa? As far as we knew, it had NOT

Cross references

• Crop circle primer and BBC hoax revelation, spread 06
• Farmer acquaintance's remembered circles, 10-06-2

Source

Cynthia Hind, UFO Afrinews No 10 (August 1994), spread 06-07