U. K.’s Last 2006 Wheat Formation – A Mayan “Lamat”?

"Great Cycle of 13 Baktuns." A Mayan Baktun is thirteen cycles of 394 solar years that equals the Grand Calendar.
“Great Cycle of 13 Baktuns.” A Mayan Baktun is thirteen cycles of 394 solar years that equals the Grand Calendar.

October 5, 2006  Mexico City, Mexico – The beginning of the Mayan “Long Count” or “Great Cycle” calendar is variously located between August 6 and August 13, 3113 B. C. on the Christian calendar. In Mayan chronology, the beginning date is written 13.0.0.0.0.Click for report.

Viewer Letters About Mayan “Lamat”

"Lamat" formation in wheat at Etchilhampton Hill, near Devizes, Wiltshire, England, reported on August 15, 2006. Estimated diameter is about 300 feet.  Aerial image © 2006 by Cropcircleconnector.com.
“Lamat” formation in wheat at Etchilhampton Hill, near Devizes, Wiltshire, England, reported on August 15, 2006. Estimated diameter is about 300 feet. Aerial image © 2006 by Cropcircleconnector.com.

1)  October 5, 2006

Email from Australian scientist who requests anonymity:   “Etchilhampton Hill seems to show some kind of space-time grid from general relativity. By that interpretation, its four-fold symmetric star-shape could be interpreted to illustrate a gravity-wave vibration, which has two degrees of freedom as “up-down” or “left-right” (that is, vertical or horizontal).

Similarly the round white circle, which is shown below that four-fold star, could be meant to illustrate how space and time will vibrate due to a passing gravity wave, near an originally round planet such as Earth.

Finally, its construction date of August 14, 2006 could possibly be one year before a real impact date of August 14, 2007, but only if the crop artists have a symbolic logic resembling our own, which is not certain.

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How might Etchilhampton Hill of August 2006 relate to previous Mayan-type crop pictures?

Recall that Wayland’s Smithy of August 2005 showed two sets of base-16 hexadecimal numbers as “13-10-7” and “14-5-11”.

If we choose to interpret those numbers as “calendar dates” (an idea first suggested by Jaime Maussan) within the current 52-year Mayan calendar system, starting on Dec. 21-22, 1960 and ending on Dec. 21-22, 2012, then we can translate those base-16 numbers into our modern calendar by simple calculator math:

0-0-0 = Dec. 21, 1960

16-0-0 = Dec. 21, 2012

13-10-7 = May 1-4, 2005 (first crop picture of the 2005 season at Golden Ball Hill)

14-5-11 = August 13-16, 2007 (same as August 14 for Etchilhampton Hill of 2006, but add one year exactly)

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To make this clear, let us show the latter calculation in detail.

For “14-5-11” in base-16, we first need to obtain a fraction of the 52-year period as follows:

14 /16 + 5 / (16*16 ) + 11 / (16*16*16) = 0.87500 + 0.01953 + 0.00269 = 0.89722, which is a fraction of 52 years between December 1960 and December 2012.

Further calculations then show that 0.89722 x 52 = 46.655 years since the starting date of December 21-22, 1960.

First we add 46 years to December 21-22, 1960 to get December 21-22, 2006.

Next we add 0.655 years = 239 days to December 21-22, 2006 to get approximately August 15, 2007.

[ Note that three base-16 numbers in 52 years only give a modern date accurate to five days.]

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The 52-year Mayan period represents a regular periodic motion of the Sun and Venus. One Mayan Sun equals exactly 5200 “years” of 360 days each (as shown at Silbury Hill in 2004).

Then we take (360 / 365.25) x 5200 to get 5125.26 years of 365.25 days each. Dec. 21, 2012 AD (2011.95) minus 5125.26 then gives 3113.3 BC, or 3114.3 BC since there is no “year zero.”

How do we know that the Mayan 52-year calendar, based on motions of the Sun and Venus through our sky, was the proper choice?

Well, it was illustrated symbolically at Silbury Hill in August 2004; and a series of “Mayan glyphs” were shown around the outer part of Wayland’s Smithy in August 2005.
Finally, the central “crescent” of Wayland’s Smithy 2005 showed only 15% remaining, which was nearly correct for August 2005 as a fraction of 52 years spanning 1960 to 2012. In other words, (2012-2005) / 52 = 7 / 52 = 0.134.

[ See Earthfiles Archived reports below for images and more information.]

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Thus we see a strong logical connectivity of all three August patterns over three successive years from 2004 to 2006.

One of the most interesting aspects of this crop-circle logic is that those 52-year calendar periods refer to periodic motions of the Sun and Venus as seen from Earth, and not in a Sun-centered frame of reference.

If they were not made by local human fakers (of a mathematical nature), then how could the crop artists possibly be ‘aliens’? They could instead be humans from our own past, or maybe from our own future? Time-travel through wormholes makes all things possible, even apparent contradictions involving causality.

‘You do not understand the basic nature of time. There is no present without the past, and no future without the present.’ Those words were written by Ursula LeGuin in her great novel The Dispossessed, where her character Shevek invents a new theory of time that makes faster-than-light communication possible.

That was considered wildly speculative when she wrote the book, but today we call it ‘quantum teleportation,’ and it is discussed in leading scientific journals such as Nature.

Who can say whether advanced scientists on Earth will eventually invent some new technology, which will enable them to send messages back in time, by making complex patterns in summer crops? We see motifs there which are all too human, and often not ‘alien’ at all: Celtic symbols, Buddhist symbols, Jewish symbols, or even highly-coded warnings about the near future.

Simply by waiting for another 11 months, we should be able to learn whether those patterns are being made by local humans from our own time, or else by humans from some other reality?

If any readers would like to study those crop patterns further, to obtain a possibly more accurate or revised date from Etchilhamton Hill 2006 and Wayland’s Smithy 2005 (see also Wayland’s Smithy 2006), then any sincere, well-thought-out efforts would be welcome. By drawing open pictures in crops, their messages are meant for all of us: not for any particular country or tribe, but for all of us.”

2)  October 5, 2006

Ted Robertson, Harpsichord Maker and Independent Crop Circle Research Assoc. (ICCRA) Investigator, Indiana: “That particular star formation has been one of my favorites this year and just from the looks of it alone I thought it one that is probably authentic. It does look like Venus now that you mentioned it. The paths being so narrow and straight, so elegant and the design itself gives a “positive” feel to it.

Another thing too is that for me the octave represents a completion and a resting point. This seems congruent with the Mayan symbol of eight the Lamat. The eight for a completion of scale containing only diatonic tones while the thirteen – also mentioned as the long count with 13 baktuns represent another way of looking at the harmonic scale when it includes all the half steps ( includes the non-diatonic notes as well). And so twelve different tones are the number of notes counted in a chromatic scale when on note thirteen one reaches the octave again.

So both 8 and 13 represent to me completion ( the octave) where the notes counted end on an octave the first using the diatonic scale and the second using the chromatic scale.

I do think that the Lamat is an excellent interpretation of this crop circle and this in the light of all the other Mayan glyphs seems very likely.”


More Information:

For further information about Mayan and Aztec-related crop formations, please see reports below in the Earthfiles Archives. For other crop formation images and information, please see Mysterious Lights and Crop Circles and Glimpses of Other Realities, Vol. I: Facts & Eyewitnesses in the Earthfiles Shop.

 

  • 08/15/2006 — Three Crop Formations Near Uffington White Horse – A “Merkabah?”
  • 07/21/2006 — 17 Crop Patterns Reported Between July 4 – 20
  • 09/02/2005 — “Mayan Clock”? in August U. K. Crop Formations
  • 01/03/2005 — Audience Feedback About Mayan and Aztec Calendar Links
  • 08/04/2004 — Silbury Hill Design and Aztec God, Xochipilli
  • 06/02/2004 — 2004 Peach Orchard, Arkansas Crop Formation
  • 10/19/2002 — Shifting Time Lines and Earth’s Destiny?
  • 06/11/2000 — Two New Crop Formations at Silbury Hill

 


Websites:

Archaeological Mind:  http://www.enter-the-past.org/article/mayan-mathematics-part-3

Maya Civilization:  http://archaeology.about.com/od/mayaarchaeology/

Foundation for the Advancement of Meso-American Studies:  http://www.famsi.org/mayawriting/dictionary/montgomery/l/t510.htm

Mayan Mathematics: 
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/HistTopics/Mayan_mathematics.html

NASA Annular Solar Eclipse of May 20, 2012:  http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/SEgoogle/SEgoogle2001/ASE2012google.html

Manipulation of Time and Matter by Non-Humans: The Experiences of Jim Sparks

“What really intrigues me is the E.T.s can be 5% to 10% in this dimension
on this physical plane while the rest is in another dimension. There are dimensions out there like layers of an onion… The E. T.s molecularly change the vibration of something so they can be in another dimension and solid, but be projected here in only 5%.”

– Jim Sparks, Author, The Keepers

Jim Sparks with his dog, Tucker,  when he lived in, Ft. Myers Beach, Florida, 1999.
Jim Sparks with his dog, Tucker, when he lived in, Ft. Myers Beach, Florida, 1999.

September 29, 2006  Las Vegas, Nevada – Eleven years ago at a conference about the human abduction syndrome, one of the participants was a man named Jim Sparks, born Jim Sparacino to his Italian parents fifty-two years ago on November 15,  1954.

Unlike many abductees who experience loss of consciousness and missing time, Jim’s interactions with what he calls ‘aliens’ have been mostly conscious. Even back in 1995, Jim Sparks made a clear distinction between what he described as “small, grey, drone worker types” versus “taller, true aliens, or supervisors.”

Jim explained that when he was thirty-four years old in 1988,  he was happily married and had thriving real-estate work in both Texas and North Carolina. Then suddenly, beings from other worlds entered his life and he thought he was losing his mind. Jim Sparks had interactions with two different types: one category was the grey-skinned, large dark eyes, that apparently come in many varieties, including small androids that do work for taller, very intelligent controllers.

From 1988 into the 1990s, Jim was schooled by the Greys in front of computers and 3-dimensional projections. Jim was forced to learn the alien symbols and numbers. Eventually, Jim says he was also contacted by alleged U. S. government intelligence operatives who wanted to know about the alien symbols and numbers.

Jim also had a conscious, face-to-face encounter with several tall, reptilian-skinned humanoids. Jim says those reptilians warned that the Earth’s environment is facing a crisis and that the planet must be saved, whether humans survive or not.

Now Jim Sparks has put his eighteen years of interactions with non-humans into a new book entitled THE KEEPERS: Alien Message for the Human Race. Of the many abductees I’ve interviewed, Jim has always impressed me with his down-to-Earth attitude and common sense. So, I recommend his new book, which can be ordered from the publisher on a limited promotional sale now at the toll free number given below.

Jim has always stressed that when people see aerial craft jump from one side of the sky to the other, or see entities walk through solid walls, or feel a weight go down on their bed, but cannot see what’s making the weight – it’s all advanced technologies. Recently I asked him about his firsthand experiences with extraterrestrial abilities to manipulate time and matter.

"Real alien" supervisor that appeared with powerful presence and ordered Jim Sparks to write his question in alien symbols after Sparks argued with small, grey "drones." Drawing by Jose Galante © 1996 for Jim Sparks.
“Real alien” supervisor that appeared with powerful presence and ordered Jim Sparks to write his question in alien symbols after Sparks argued with small, grey “drones.”
Drawing by Jose Galante © 1996 for Jim Sparks.

Interview:

Jim Sparks, Debt Consultant, Las Vegas, Nevada: “Time in their eyes is quite a bit different. If you are a time traveler, so to speak, it’s no big deal to you. It’s just another technological apparatus. You can go from Point A in time to Point B in time whenever you want, almost as simple as using a TV remote control.

In fact, from what I can see and experience with these beings, it’s almost mundane and boring to them. It’s not even exciting to travel time. It‘s just something that they do. Since we’re stuck in it, time is extremely relevant to us.

WHEN YOU SAY FROM YOUR PERSPECTIVE THE NON-HUMANS ARE EVEN BORED BY THE IDEA OF TIME TRAVEL, COULD YOU SHARE YOUR OWN PERSONAL EXPERIENCE ABOUT HOW YOU EVEN LEARNED THAT?

I think by a mistake. There was one experience I just can’t get over. I know it will stick with me the rest of my life, regarding time travel. Before the mistake, I should share the fact that whenever I was ‘abducted’ – I still haven’t found the perfect word for that experience yet. I like to use the word ‘pulled’ because of the sensation. In the alien world, we would do certain tasks that would end and another task began. When the non-humans determined it was time to end, or for me to go back, a week could have gone by, a month could have gone by. Then no matter how long I had been gone, I would find myself exactly where I left off, as though I had never left, and as if the aliens had never pulled me.

When I say a mistake, I had an experience – and bare in mind that 90% of them are conscious recall right in your face – where I was at home and got pulled in the late afternoon or early evening. I was watching television. I was on the sofa. My hand was on my head and my elbow was on the sofa. I was lying sideways watching TV.

I had gotten up and walked over to get something to eat and drink to snack on from the refrigerator. So, I had to walk by an island in the kitchen and make a sharp right turn to get into the kitchen to get into the refrigerator. I got up from the sofa, walked across the living room. I have an aquarium, so I looked at my fish for a few seconds. Then I opened up the refrigerator door, grabbed a soda, drank it. Got something to eat. Shut the door and walked back around the aquarium in the living room and back to the sofa. And then I got pulled. I was not expecting it.

I had a two-hour experience. This was the first time manipulation where it was firsthand in my face and it just astounded me. Because what happened was:  I had gone through the abduction experience for the two-hour period. When I came back, I came back approximately a minute or two minutes before I originally left, meaning that I found myself back on the sofa. But like I was in two places at once, I could see myself get up from the sofa, walk around the aquarium like I did earlier and into the kitchen. I just sat there with my mouth shut in shock and didn’t make a sound. I could hear my footsteps. I could hear myself going into the kitchen. This other me watched from the sofa and heard the refrigerator door open, saw a light go on in the refrigerator, heard the sounds of me drinking the soda. I heard and saw the whole scene! Then I watched myself come back from the kitchen. This is not an out of body experience because let me set a foundation here.

All this stuff is technology. I’ve stuck to the logic of technology. I am not letting myself drift to the left or right on that issue. When I saw myself walking back to the sofa, I just said, ‘Well, here comes me and what is ‘me’ going to do when it sees me now?’ But that ‘me’ did not even see me and as it got closer, it started fading and disappeared.

So, I saw something in solid real life – myself – back a minute or two before I left!

 

Invisibility Technology

Another area that astounds me is an invisibility factor there. They have the ability to be invisible. Again, I just look at these things as technology, nothing more than that. I’m not going to get spooked by it. I’m just going to witness it and see if I can figure it out. I’m not a technician or a scientist. But I’m going to take as much of a science approach as I can.

They just create some kind of electrical field and anything within that field, the laws of physics don’t apply as we understand them. That’s why sometimes you can see them as whole or other times you see them look faded. Or we see them walk through walls. Are they really walking through walls? Or are they displacing matter that is the wall in the field? They literally are going through solid matter.

FROM A TECHNOLOGY POINT OF VIEW, IT SOUNDS AS IF THE NON-HUMANS CAN DEFLECT PHOTONS, WHICH WOULD MAKE THEM INSTANTLY INVISIBLE. AND THAT THEY ALSO HAVE SOME KIND OF CONTROL AND MANIPULATION AT THE ATOMIC OR MOLECULAR LEVEL?

Their technology is so sophisticated – I’ll address one level. Again, it’s the invisibility thing again. They can toy with the mind. Remember, a perfect example would be if you are walking along the sidewalk and you see a red ant pile. Some how with technology, let’s say we manage to communicate with one of the ants.

Our mind is thinking a million miles an hour and this ant is just looking up and saying, ‘Wow, for the first time I’m seeing a human face.’ How can you tell that ant what a car payment is? It does not even understand what anything is in our big world. So, relatively speaking, when I say toy with our minds, the E. T.s understand the basic human day-to-day stimuli and visuals. In other words, if you are in your car and driving down the highway – you’re looking at signs, you’re looking at the other cars, you might see a flock of birds fly by, all the natural things that we do.

But what the E. T.s do is take the natural things and manipulate them, for example, into a flock of birds. You think it’s a flock of birds, because the non-humans will transmit an energy into your mind and work with the chemicals in your mind and the electrical system in our body and brain. So, you think you are seeing a flock of birds and so does everybody else on the highway. Actually, it could be a formation of alien ships. So, they are transmitting something that affects human minds.

 

Screen Memories

I UNDERSTAND THIS WHOLE IDEA OF A SCREEN MEMORY THAT HAS BEEN DISCUSSED IN THE ABDUCTION LITERATURE SINCE THE 1970S BY LEO SPRINKLE, BUDD HOPKINS, JOHN MACK AND OTHERS. THE SCREEN MEMORIES HAVE BEEN THINGS LIKE A DEER, OR AN OWL, OR BIRDS – NON-HUMAN MANIPULATION THAT CREATES DISGUISES.

Absolutely. Something that you would just see every day and not give it a second thought! The reason I spot these things from time to time is that I’ve had so much exposure over the last eighteen years to E. T. technology and how they screen image and how they work. I’ve been adamant about not being friendly with them and just observing and having a frame of reference where I can understand and try to keep it as logical and scientific as possible – even though in the early years, it was pretty terrorizing.

Their trickery – it’s so good! It’s like a chameleon. A chameleon can blend into the scenery. Or like an octopus that can do that at the bottom of the sea. They can look like the sea floor and the other fish don’t notice them. The E. T.s are such masters at this. They are absolute masters! One of their ships can be a car in your parking lot and you just don’t give it a second thought. Your brain just sees a car and goes on. It doesn’t even say the word ‘car’ in your mind. You’ve got to remember what we are dealing with. We are dealing with beings that have the capacity to retain and assimilate more data and process more data than we can. They’ve been around longer. They can think faster.

IT SOUNDS LIKE THEY CAN TAKE ATOMS AND MOLECULES AND MANIPULATE THEM ANY WAY THEY WANT TO, TO LOOK LIKE ANYTHING THEY WANT US TO SEE. IT REMINDS ME OF A DEPUTY THEY EVEN SAW A GLOWING RED SQUARE IN A GROVE OF TREES WHERE THEY WERE INVESTIGATING ANIMAL MUTILATIONS AND THE NEXT MORNING. THERE WERE THEIR TIRE TRACKS WHERE THEY HAD STOPPED THE NIGHT BEFORE. THE GROVE OF TREES THAT HAD THE RED, GLOWING SQUARE IN IT DID NOT EVEN EXIST. EVEN THE TREES HAD BEEN SOME KIND OF SCREEN MEMORY.

Exactly. But you’re dealing with different technologies. It’s almost like having a universal remote control. You’ve got the remote control that creates invisibility. You’ve got the remote control that controls the camouflage techniques. You’ve got the remote control button that can create a field. Another that can travel through time.

 

Projecting Percentages of Matter – From Other Dimensions?

It’s like an electrical field, for lack of a better definition. I’m not a scientist. But sometimes there is even a humming sound associated with it that I pick up. They create a field and they can manipulate not so much, from what I can tell – yeah, you’ll see things that they want you to see and they can manipulate matter in that way. What really intrigues me is the E. T.s can be 5% to 10% in this dimension on this physical plane while the rest is in another dimension. In other words, let’s say you are in your living room and you see something that looks like an apparition or ghost that you can kind of see through it.

Well, they might be only 2 to 3% in our dimension and they are 98% or 97% solid in some other dimension. There are dimensions out there like layers of an onion, by the thousands, in a sense that they squeeze into. But they don’t really. The E. T.s molecularly change the vibration of something so they can be in another dimension and solid, but be projected here in only 5%. That’s when they are doing research work here and they don’t have to handle physical items or objects in our dimension or plane.

I see sometimes they will be 40%, or 50% in our dimension if they need to move solid objects here. But, their self-defense is to disappear. So, if you charge at them, they are gone. Or if you charge at them by running at them in an attack or anything of that nature, you can put your hand right through them.

With their science, I’ve seen them take an object, for example – something as simple as a can of soda pop. They can take one can of soda pop and make two cans of soda pop from it. Each can has 50% of the molecular structure and weight divided evenly. Then they can do it in quarters. Then they can do it in eighths. Then they can break it down into thousandths. Then the next thing you know, you are looking through those cans.

That’s what the E. T.s do with their technology – push a button and you have time travel. Push another button, you have invisibility. It’s not like each individual E. T. is a high tech wizard. They are just like any other person who is using a tool.

DO YOU HAVE ANY SENSE NOW IN 2006 WHERE THE REAL ORIGIN IS FOR THE GREYS?

Well, when we say greys – you have working beings, which in my experience are created just for that purpose. They are part biological, they are part robotic. These things are used as a tool for labor, for tasks, even if it’s technical. I think a lot of the beings are mistaken tools, or biological working beings, are mistaken as extraterrestrials. My experience primarily has been in what you would call greys and some referred to as reptilian, snake-like, lizard-like beings. They all seem to have these little workers as a tool. When you ask, ‘Where are they from?’ Could it be from working in another dimension? Could it be from another time? From another place? Can it be from another star? Can it be a race of E. T.s that are not from the two I just mentioned? But the E. T.s will have the little worker beings with them, too?

When you take in consideration that traveling time means nothing and invisibility is nothing. Getting from point A to point B is nothing. What I have learned about them is they are extreme masters of deception, meaning that almost anything we can come up with – and I’m not trying to belittle our scientists or agencies that are studying this stuff – the E. T.s can lead them to believe, as you could an ant, anything they are using.

JIM, WHAT NOW IN 2006 DO YOU IN YOUR HEART THINK THE GREYS AND WHOEVER THEIR INTELLIGENT CONTROLLERS ARE, WHAT DO THEY WANT?

What I’ve come to in the last 18 years, we’re about ½% of what they are about and 99.5% is something else that we don’t have a clue what they are doing. What we are seeing is that ½% in our face from time to time.”

The Keepers: An Alien Message for the Human Race  © 2006 by Jim Sparks, published by Wild Flower Press. ISBN is: 1-930724-05-5
The Keepers: An Alien Message for the Human Race © 2006 by Jim Sparks, published by Wild Flower Press.
ISBN is: 1-930724-05-5

Jim’s new book can be ordered from the publisher on a limited promotional sale for $19.00 through October 1, 2006, at this toll free phone number:  800-366-0264.

Beginning Monday, October 2, 2006, the normal price will be:  $24.00 at 800-366-0264.


More Information:

For further information about the human abduction syndrome, please see reports below in the Earthfiles Archives.

 

  • 06/13/2006 — Mysterious Triangle-Shaped Welts and Bruises
  • 06/08/2006 — Part 2: Unexplained Phenomenon of Sudden Human-to-Reptile “Replacement”
  • 06/02/2006 — Part 1: Unexplained Phenomenon of Sudden Human-to-Reptile “Replacement
  • 05/12/2006 — An Extraterrestrial School for Humans (Jim Sparks)
  • 05/05/2006 — Military Man’s Description of EBE Telepathic Download
  • 04/28/2006 — Modern Warfare Applied to Extra-Terrestrial Invasion
  • 03/02/2006 — Missing Time Abduction Before Birth
  • 01/27/2006 — Part 2: Navy Physicist and USAF Geophysicist Discuss UFOs and ETs
  • 12/07/2005 — Zeta Reticuli I and II – Binary Home of Extraterrestrial Biological Entities?
  • 12/02/2005 — Abduction by Grey ETs in Huge, Black Triangle
  • 10/22/2005 — A Lifting Beam Technology in Colorado Human Abduction
  • 10/07/2005 — Part 1: Beam Technology Lifted Body Near Ft. Stewart, Georgia
  • 09/09/2005 — Rock Stars and Extraterrestrials
  • 08/19/2005 — Strange Aerial Lights, Military Knowledge and Hooded “Insects”
  • 08/11/2005 — Part 4: Two Men See Cow Mutilated in Light Beam
  • 08/03/2005 — Part 3: Two Men See Cow Mutilated in Light Beam
  • 10/10/2004 — Part 2: Texas Case of Shape-Shifting Human-to-Reptilian
  • 05/26/2005 — Part 2 – Corguinho, Brazil: Plasma Balls Which Enter Humans
  • 05/26/2005 — Part 1 – Brazilian Air Force Opens Its UFO Files to Public
  • 05/24/2004 — Biophysicist W. C. Levengood’s Crop Circle Reports Available for First Time On Internet
  • 06/21/2003 — Corguinho, Brazil Farmer, Urandir Oliveira, and Attorney Describe Harassments
  • 06/13/2003 — Corguinho, Brazil: Only One Bed Sheet
  • 06/06/2003 — Part 2 – Textiles Expert Examines the Corguinho, Brazil Bed Sheet and Pillowcase
  • 06/06/2003 — Part 1 – Scientists Examine Samples from the Corguinho, Brazil Bed Sheet and Pillowcase
  • 06/06/2003 — Part 3 – Infrared and Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy on the Corguinho, Brazil Round Stones
  • 06/06/2003 — Part 4 – Geologists Run X-Ray Defractometer on Corguinho, Brazil Stones
  • 03/15/2003 — Part 6 – Corguinho, Brazil: Microscopic Images from Body Pattern on Urandir Oliveira’s Bed Sheet
  • 03/08/2003 — Part 5 – Corguinho, Brazil: Large Light Explodes – Breaks Tree, Kills Calves
  • 03/03/2003 — Censorship By Omission and Comments from MUFON’s John Schuessler
  • 03/01/2003 — Part 4 – Corguinho, Brazil: Chemist and Biophysicist Examine Samples of Urandir Oliveira’s Bed Sheet
  • 02/26/2003 — Part 3 – Corguinho, Brazil: Return from the Non-Human Craft on September 18, 2002
  • 02/25/2003 — Part 2 – Corguinho, Brazil: Inside the Non-Human Craft from September 15 – 18, 2002
  • 02/22/2003 — Part 1 – Corguinho, Brazil: Farmer Describes His Transport to A Non-Human Craft on September 15, 2002.
  • 12/21/2002 — Part 2 – Corguinho, Brazil: Close Encounters with Tall Red-Haired and Blond-Haired Non-Human Beings
  • 12/19/2002 — Part 1 – Corguinho, Brazil, Alleged Human Abduction and Photos of Body Marks On Bed and Ceiling

 

E. coli O157:H7 – Why Can’t It Be Washed Off Contaminated Spinach?

“There are many sources of water coming into the Salinas Valley watershed, and I guarantee you they all have generic E. coli.”

– Christopher Rose, California’s Central Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board

Top: E. coli O157:H7 bacteria magnified 10,961 times can apparently enter tissue of plants such as spinach (bottom), lettuce and other salad plants. Once embedded, the bacteria cannot be washed away. But heat at 160 degrees F. for two minutes, or boiling at 212 degrees F. for a few seconds, can kill the bacteria. Images courtesy CDC.
Top: E. coli O157:H7 bacteria magnified 10,961 times can apparently enter tissue of plants such as spinach (bottom), lettuce and other salad plants. Once embedded, the bacteria cannot be washed away. But heat at 160 degrees F. for two minutes, or boiling at 212 degrees F. for a few seconds, can kill the bacteria. Images courtesy CDC.

 

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Three Sets of Concentric Rings in South Texas Field

Rio Hondo is near Harlingen, at the far southern tip of Texas, a few miles north of the Mexico border.
Rio Hondo is near Harlingen, at the far southern tip of Texas, a few miles north of the Mexico border.
Cameron County Deputy Sheriff Arnulfo Huerta stands by two of the concentric rings he discovered on Thursday, September 7, 2006, after he burned waist-high weeds to get rid of ticks near his property in Rio Hondo, Texas. Image © 2006 by Joe Hermosa/Valley Morning Star.
Cameron County Deputy Sheriff Arnulfo Huerta stands by two of the concentric rings he discovered on Thursday, September 7, 2006, after he burned waist-high weeds to get rid of ticks near his property in Rio Hondo, Texas. Image © 2006 by Joe Hermosa/Valley Morning Star.

Updated September 20, 2006 (Originally filed September 14, 2006)  Rio Hondo, Texas – Today I talked with reporter Allen Essex at the Valley Morning Star newspaper in Harlingen, Texas. Allen visited the site of the concentric rings with Star photographer, Joe Hermosa, earlier this week. There were three sets of rings all the same diameter “pressed down into the ground as if something very heavy had set down,” said Allen Essex. “All of the rings were pressed about five inches into the ground and at the bottom of the rings were crushed weeds. The rings in the photograph were the most distinct. The other two sets of rings were not quite as clear.”

I asked Joe Hermosa if he photographed all three sets of double rings and he said he did not because he would have to get too far away to get all three in the frame. He estimated that each pair of rings was separated from the others by about twenty to twenty-five feet. “But the three sets of rings were not in a straight line or in a triangle or anything like that,” said Essex. “It was just like something round and very heavy had set down three different times in the general area.”

“I thought about UFOs,” said Essex, “and I wanted to know if there was any radiation in the rings. So, I gathered some of the soil and took it to a hazardous waste material place. They tested the soil with a geiger counter, but it wasn’t much above background.”

Beatriz Huerta, Arnulfo’s wife, and their son, Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Armin Huerta (temporarily home from Iraq and now on travel again), noticed the three sets of concentric rings about 5:30 p.m., on Thursday, September 7, 2006. Arnulfo Huerta told Allen Essex, “We hadn’t noticed them before. You can see that the grass was too high to see them (before the burning).” Huerta said he got a burning permit from the Rio Hondo fire chief because the weeds were so full of ticks.

Allen Essex and Joe Hermosa from the Valley Morning Star measured the ring diameters. Essex reported that “the diameter of the most distinct set of round marks is 47 feet, 8 inches for the outside circle and 37 feet, 5 inches for the inner circle.” He told me that the other rings in the other two sets seemed to be the same size.

Essex talked to a Cameron County road crew working about two miles from the Huerta property, who said there were no signs of heavy vehicles or equipment anywhere around where the concentric rings were found.

Christmas Eve 2004 – A Bright Light Over Field

The Huertas told Essex that on Christmas Eve in December 2004, their son, Armin, saw a bright light right over the weed field where the concentric rings have now been discovered. Arnulfo told Essex, “My wife and I were at a birthday party and he (Armin) called us. He was real excited. There was a blue light, right out here where these circles are. Armin told us it lit up the whole inside of the house as if it were daytime.” The Huertas realized their son was nervous about the brightness of the light and he did not go outside to see the source. Now the Huertas wonder if the bright, blue light might have landed three times in the weeds two years ago for reasons unknown.

September 19, 2006 Email Update:

C. B. in Utica, Mississipi, emailed today: “In the mid-winter of the early 1970s, I was a teenager doing one of my farm chores of checking the perimeter fences on my father’s farm in Claiborne County, Mississippi. The farm is about fifteen miles south of Utica, Mississippi. We had cattle and my father wanted the perimeter fences checked daily. While heading back to the house on my horse, I found three perfectly flattened circles in the field a few hundred feet from our house.

“They were not concentric rings cut into the ground like those in the Rio Hondo, Texas, photograph on your Earthfiles webpage. The three depressions were perfectly round filled areas and about three feet apart. It was as if three extremely heavy perfectly flat round surfaces about 15 feet wide landed there and crushed the dried brush and grass till the pieces separated from the pressure. Or, maybe whatever it was landed, rose again, landed close by, rose again, and landed again close by. Whatever it was, it was quiet to have been so massively heavy.

“They were large and close together. I brought my father and mother to these large flattened areas to get their opinion. They didn’t know what to make of them. My father was a retired Marine drill instructor with military service during WW2 and a highly trained observer, but this really puzzled him. Had we burned the dried weeds away like this (Rio Hondo) rancher did, we might have even found rings like his.

“Whatever made those perfectly round flattened areas had to have weighed several tons or more to flatten out the tall, stiff brush so perfectly. I can drive my nearly two ton Ford pickup over the same kind of dried brush and can’t get it to flatten out the way that area was back then. That dried brush was completely crushed by something that came down on it from above. By that, I mean the stems of the dried dog fennel themselves were crushed and pulled apart. Whatever the craft was, it came straight down, too. The dried grasses weren’t twirled or twisted like crop circles I’ve heard about. And these three areas were not a deer bed or places where the cattle herd had lain in the night. The outer lines were too perfect. A cattle herd bunched up and sleeping on the ground like that would not have made depressions in the brush that perfectly round.

“Those rings had not been there the day before either. I would have seen them because I rode my horse a lot back then in the pasture behind the house checking on the cattle and perimeter fences.

“Back in August of 1979 I was twenty-one years old. I witnessed three UFOs come in from the east, west, and south and hover over this same farm. They looked like glowing balls of light. At first I thought they were helicopters because it was National Guard Weekend and helicopters flew over the farm all the time during National Guard Weekend. I estimate they hovered about a half a mile up for ten minutes. Then the UFOs quickly moved a 90 degree direction from their original flight path then suddenly shot off across the horizon at a 45 degree angle from the point they moved to. By example, I mean that the UFO from the west moved quickly south-west then zoomed north-east. How those three UFOs didn’t collide at those speeds is amazing. I just stood there with my mouth wide opened at what I had just witnessed. At those fantastic speeds, anything with a blood pulse would have died – or so I reasoned with my very very limited knowledge of space flight and UFOs.”


More Information:

For further information about crop formations, please see reports below and going back to 1999 in the Earthfiles Archives and my book, Mysterious Lights and Crop Circles in the Earthfiles Shop:

  • 09/06/2006 — Part 4: Five Circle Pattern in Geneseo, Illinois, Soybeans
  • 08/31/2006 — Part 3: Five Circle Pattern in Geneseo, Illinois, Soybeans
  • 08/28/2006 — Part 2: Five Circle Pattern in Geneseo, Illinois, Soybeans
  • 08/27/2006 — Part 1: Five Circle Pattern in Geneseo, Illinois, Soybeans
  • 08/17/2006 — Military Helicopter Aggression Toward Red Sphere in U. K.
  • 08/16/2006 — Etchilhampton August 15, 2006, Wheat Formation
  • 08/15/2006 — Part 2 – Three Crop Formations Near Uffington White Horse – A “Merkabah?”
  • 08/13/2006 — Part 1: Three Crop Formations Near Uffington White Horse
  • 07/21/2006 — U. K. Breaking Heat Records and 17 Crop Patterns Reported Between July 4 – 20
  • 07/07/2006 — Anomalies in Huntingburg, Indiana, Wheat Pictogram
  • 06/11/2006 — Updated: Two Mysterious Circles in Wheat Baffle Kansas Farmer
  • 04/07/2006 — First 2006 Grass Circles in Conondale, Queensland, Australia
  • 09/21/2005 — Silent, Unidentified Aerial Triangle Entered Thunderstorm Over Fairborn, Ohio
  • 09/02/2005 — “Mayan Clock”? in August U. K. Crop Formations
  • 09/02/2005 — Part 1: New York and Ohio Corn Circles “Flattened 2 to 5 Feet Above Ground”
  • 09/02/2005 — Part 2: Mysterious Lights At Coles County, Illinois, Corn Circles
  • 09/02/2005 — First 2005 Canadian Crop Circles Reported
  • 08/09/2005 — Three Extraordinary U. K. Crop Formations Reported August 9, 2005
  • 08/07/2005 — Mysterious Light Photographed in Canadian Woods
  • 08/02/2005 — Part 2: Anomalies Confirmed in Pennsylvania and Arizona Randomly Downed Crops
  • 08/02/2005 — Part 1: Anomalies Confirmed in Pennsylvania and Arizona Randomly Downed Crops
  • 07/23/2005 — Mystery of Six Grass Circle Formations in North Carolina
  • 07/18/2005 — Garsington, Oxfordshire, U.K. Wheat Formation – Astronomical Orbit?
  • 07/01/2005 — U. K. Bicyclist Reports Mysterious, Low Hovering Objects Bending Wheat
  • 06/28/2005 — Crop Circles in Poland
  • 06/02/2005 — Part 2 – Highly Anomalous Pigment Formation in 2004 Hillsboro, Ohio, Crop Formation
  • 05/26/2005 — Phoenix Barley Mystery: Apparently Irrigation and Wind
  • 05/20/2005 — May 2005 Crop Formation Update in Six Countries
  • 05/09/2005 — Mysterious Lights and 2003 Serpent Mound Soybean Formation
  • 04/20/2005 — Outer Space Impact At Serpent Mound, Ohio, 256 Million Years Ago
  • 04/12/2005 — First 2005 Dutch Crop Circles Reported in Hoeven, Holland Grass
  • 10/17/2004 — American Crop Formations: 1880-2004
  • 09/22/2004 — Miamisburg and Serpent Mound, Ohio Crop Formations: Geometries Compared
  • 09/17/2004 — Updated: Part 1 – High Strangeness in Canadian Cattle Corn
  • 09/12/2004 — Part 2 – High Strangeness in Canadian Cattle Corn
  • 09/10/2004 — Update on Miamisburg, Ohio, Corn Pictogram – Balls of Light?
  • 09/05/2004 — Part 2 – Hillsboro, Ohio Corn Plant Anomalies
  • 09/04/2004 — Hillsboro, Ohio Corn Formation – High Strangeness in Soil and Plants
  • 09/02/2004 — Updated Photos: Big, Impressive New Corn Formation in Miamisburg, Ohio
  • 08/29/2004 — Another Pictogram in Poland
  • 08/12/2004 — Circles in Belgium and Holland
  • 08/10/2004 — Updated Aerial Photos of West Overton, Wiltshire “Serpent”
  • 08/09/2004 — Pictograms in Poland
  • 08/03/2004 — Crop Formations: Fifteen in Southern England Since July 20, 2004.
  • 07/26/2004 — Crop Circles in Tilden, Wisconsin Oats and 90-Degree Angles in Litchfield, Minnesota
  • 07/25/2004 — 2004 Canadian Crop Formations: Scorched Soybeans and “Dirt” Pattern in Barley
  • 07/24/2004 — Part 3 – Crop Formations and Mysterious Lights in Wiltshire, England, July 2004
  • 07/24/2004 — Part 2: Crop Formations and Mysterious Lights in Wiltshire, England, July 2004
  • 07/15/2004 — Updated: Part 1-Beyond Hillsboro, Ohio, More Corn Down in New Milford, Connecticut
  • 07/13/2004 — Updates on Spanish Fork, Utah Barley Formation
  • 07/07/2004 — Fourth 2004 Crop Formation in Poland Has Multiple Parts
  • 07/06/2004 — Mysteriously Downed Plants in Eagle Grove, Iowa, and Hillsboro, Ohio
  • 07/06/2004 — Additions to Spanish Fork, Utah Formation and Mysterious Lights Seen
  • 07/04/2004 — Crop Formation in Spanish Fork, Utah
  • 06/17/2004 — More 2004 Holland and Poland Crop Formations
  • 06/16/2004 — England: 2004 Crop Formations and 2003 Research
  • 06/03/2004 — Updated – Second 2004 Pictogram Crop Formation in Poland
  • 06/02/2004 — 2004 Peach Orchard, Arkansas Crop Formation
  • 05/24/2004 — Biophysicist W. C. Levengood’s Crop Circle Reports Available for First Time On Internet
  • 05/22/2004 — 2004 Overview of Crop Formations in Six Countries
  • 05/17/2004 — Updated – Crop Formation Reported in Zabno, Poland
  • 05/11/2004 — An Extraordinary Photograph in A Dutch Home
  • 05/09/2004 — 2003 English Crop Formations on Documentary DVDs
  • 04/14/2004 — Light Anomalies in Photos of Conondale, Australia Grass Circles
  • 12/05/2003 — Diatonic Ratios and Seed Changes in 2003 California Wheat Circles Rule Out Hoax?
  • 11/07/2003 — British UFO Crash Retrievals
  • 11/01/2003 — Another Soybean Formation in Ohio
  • 10/17/2003 — 2003 “UFO Flap” in Ohio
  • 10/03/2003 — Part 2 – Military Interest in Serpent Mound and Seip Mound Formations?
  • 10/02/2003 — Part 1 – Another Soybean Formation Near Seip Mound in Ohio
  • 09/12/2003 — Second Soybean Crop Formation in Ohio is Manmade. USAF Investigation Unit Involved?
  • 09/06/2003 — Part 2 – Unusual Soybean Formation Near Serpent Mound, Ohio
  • 09/05/2003 — Part 1 – Unusual Soybean Formation Near Serpent Mound, Ohio
  • 09/03/2003 — Helicopter “Attacks” Wiltshire, England, Residents At Knap Hill on August 26, 2003
  • 08/29/2003 — Part 2 – After August 10, No Crop Formations Except in Canada?
  • 08/29/2003 — Part 1 – Why Do Military Helicopters Focus On Crop Formations?
  • 08/23/2003 — Fourteen Crop Formations in Canada
  • 08/05/2003 — Field Notes from Morgan’s Hill Crop Circle
  • 08/01/2003 — Field Notes About English Animal Mutilations
  • 07/21/2003 — Strange Orange Lightning and A Sampling of Recent English Crop Formations
  • 07/19/2003 — Update – Defiance, Missouri T-Pattern Cut in Saplings
  • 07/17/2003 — Land Surveyor Comments About Ogbourne St. George, U.K. Crop Formation
  • 07/16/2003 — Unusual Details in Dutch Crop Formations
  • 07/11/2003 — Updated: Part 2 – Unusual Cylindar-Shaped Cloud Seen Night Before Dutch Crop Circles
  • 06/27/2003 — Part 2 – Mysterious Lights and Fourteen Crop Formations in Italy
  • 06/27/2003 — Part 1 – Mysterious Lights and Fourteen Crop Formations in Italy
  • 06/13/2003 — Updated: Fractal Crop Formation in Knobel, Arkansas
  • 05/26/2003 — East Sussex, England Has Third 2003 Crop Formation
  • 05/20/2003 — More 2003 Crop Formations in Germany
  • 05/10/2003 — Tree Formation in Defiance, Missouri
  • 05/02/2003 — First 2003 English Crop Formations
  • 04/29/2003 — Comparison Between First 2003 and 2002 U. K. Crop Formations
  • 04/26/2003 — First 2003 U.K. Crop Formation Near Petersfield, Hampshire
  • 12/07/2002 — Evolution Near Britain’s Chilbolton Radio Telescope Observatory, 1999 – 2002
  • 11/05/2002 — Canadian Crop Circles and Mysterious Lights in Saskatchewan
  • 10/19/2002 — Shifting Time Lines and Earth’s Destiny?
  • 10/03/2002 — Part 3 – 2002 Crop Formations In Canada
  • 10/01/2002 — Part 2 – September 2002 Maize Circles Update: Canada
  • 09/28/2002 — Part 1 – September 2002 Maize Circles Update: England
  • 09/02/2002 — Blue Lights and Helicopters in Wiltshire’s East Field
  • 08/31/2002 — One ET Experiencer’s Reaction to the Winchester Formation
  • 08/24/2002 — Crop Formation Update: Canada
  • 08/19/2002 — Winchester, Hampshire Circular Code Analysis – UPDATED
  • 08/18/2002 — Another Face and Code Appears in Hampshire, England – UPDATED
  • 07/25/2002 — Strange Stem Anomalies in New Dutch Crop Circles
  • 07/20/2002 — Mysterious Lights Seen Above Field Where Nautilus Formation Emerged
  • 07/13/2002 — More Crop Formations in Holland and Germany
  • 07/12/2002 — New Crop Formation in England
  • 07/06/2002 — Stonehenge 4th of July Formation Echoes Hackpen Hill 1999 4th of July Spiral
  • 06/26/2002 — Part 1 – New Crop Formations in England, Holland and Germany
  • 06/04/2002 — New 2002 Crop Formations in Wiltshire and Sussex, England
  • 05/23/2002 — Third 2002 Crop Formation in Germany Near Giant’s Stone
  • 05/11/2002 — First 2002 Crop Formation In Wiltshire, England
  • 05/09/2002 — More Orange Triangular Aircraft Over Red Deer, Alberta, Canada
  • 05/04/2002 — Two Crop Formations Near Kassel, Germany
  • 11/17/2001 — Scientists Say Lights in Hessdalen, NorwayAre Thermal Plasmas of Unknown Origin
  • 10/27/2001 — Another Orange Triangle Near Red Deer, Alberta, Canada
  • 10/10/2001 — Update On Unique British Crop Formations
  • 09/27/2001 — A Scientific Report About British Milk Hill, Chilbolton “Face” and “Code”
  • 09/22/2001 — Huge Hexagram Crop Formation in Red Deer, Alberta, Canada
  • 09/19/2001 — Part 2 – Gog Magog Hills, Cambridge, England – Two Unusual Crop Formations
  • 09/18/2001 — Part 1 – Gog Magog Hills, Cambridge, England – Two Unusual Crop Formations
  • 09/07/2001 — Third Case of Pure Hemoglobin at Bull Mutilation
  • 08/30/2001 — Chilbolton Observatory – What Does It Do?
  • 08/25/2001 — Are Crop Formations at Chilbolton Observatory A Response to 1974 Earth Transmission?
  • 08/22/2001 — Milk Hill 2001 – 409 Circles, Most For Any Crop Formation So Far
  • 08/09/2001 — Crop Formation in Holland Changes  with Researchers Present
  • 06/16/2001 — Beyond Stonehenge with Astronomer Gerald Hawkins
  • 06/06/2001 — New Crop Formations Reported in Serbia and U. K.
  • 05/31/2001 — More Crop Formations in England
  • 05/21/2001 — Part 2 – New Crop Formations in Holland, Germany and England
  • 05/19/2001 — Part 1 – New Crop Formations in Holland, Germany and England
  • 09/30/2000 — Unidentified Moving Spiral of Light Photographed in Crop Formation
  • 08/27/2000 — Crop Circle Reports from Whitefish, Montana – Updated Photos
  • 08/26/2000 — Pulsing, Jumping Light in West Stowell, England Field
  • 08/23/2000 — Intelligence Sensed In Mysterious Lights Associated With Crop Formations
  • 08/20/2000 — Crop Formations In North Dakota
  • 08/19/2000 — White Balls of Light and Helicopter Videotaped in Woodborough Hill Field
  • 08/17/2000 — Mysterious Light Near Woodborough Hill Night Before August 13, 2000 Formation
  • 07/16/2000 — Multiple Crop Formations Same Day in Wiltshire and Hampshire, U. K., July 16, 2000
  • 07/09/2000 — New Book about Ancient Sites of Wiltshire, England
  • 07/06/2000 — Extraordinary U. K. Crop Formations
  • 06/17/2000 — Army Helicopters Damage East Field, Wiltshire Crop
  • 06/11/2000 — Two New Crop Formations at Silbury Hill
  • 05/30/2000 — Crop Formations In Germany, May 2000
  • 11/30/1999 — A New Crop Formation In Marion, New York and Crop Research Updates
  • 09/29/1999 — Crop Formations Continue in Canada
  • 09/21/1999 — 1999 Summary of Crop Formations in Canada and Latest 9/21/99 Edmonton Circles
  • 08/15/1999 — More Mid-August 1999 Crop Formations in Wiltshire, England
  • 08/01/1999 — 1999 Crop Circle Update from Wiltshire, England
  • 07/22/1999 — Cherhill, England, New 1999 Crop Formation
  • 07/15/1999 — Brentwood, Tennessee Crop Formation and New U.K. Photos by Peter Sorensen
  • 06/27/1999 — New 1999 U. K. Crop Formations Photographed by Peter Sorensen
  • 06/07/1999 — 1999 U.K. Crop Circle Update with Photographer Peter Sorensen

Websites:

Valley Morning Star: http://www.valleystar.com/articles/2006/09/11/local_news/7_saturday/local_news2.txt

English Crop Circles, Current and Archived: http://www.cropcircleconnector.com

American Crop Circles, ICCRA: http://www.cropcirclenews.com/

Canadian Crop Circles, CCCRN:  http://www.cccrn.ca/

German Crop Circles:  http://www.kornkreise-forschung.de

Dutch Crop Circles, DCCA:  http://www.dcca.nl

http://www.lucypringle.co.uk

http://www.members.iinet.net.au/~bwratten/ccc.html

http://www.cropcircleresearch.com

http://www.x-cosmos.it

http://www.bertjanssen.nl

http://www.swirlednews.com

http://www.heramagazine.net

http://www.CropCircleAnswers.com

http://www.ukcropcircles.co.uk/?page=home

http://www.temporarytemples.co.uk

Part 2: Enchanting Wheat Bundles of Charlbury, Wiltshire

Charlbury, Wiltshire (red circled star in lower left southwest of Wayland's Smithy), and Toot Baldon and Garsington, Oxfordshire (upper right corner). The Vale of the Uffington White Horse extends north of Charlbury toward Garsington.
Charlbury, Wiltshire (red circled star in lower left southwest of Wayland’s Smithy), and Toot Baldon and Garsington, Oxfordshire (upper right corner). The Vale of the Uffington White Horse extends north of Charlbury toward Garsington.
Charlbury, Wiltshire, formation of nearly two hundred "wheat bundles" in two of the three circles lined up with the Charlbury ancient mound was discovered from the air on July 11, 2006. The pattern was located near the Ridgeway between Liddington Castle and Uffington White Horse. Images above and below © 2006 by Cropcircleconnector.com.
Charlbury, Wiltshire, formation of nearly two hundred “wheat bundles” in two of the three circles lined up with the Charlbury ancient mound was discovered from the air on July 11, 2006. The pattern was located near the Ridgeway between Liddington Castle and Uffington White Horse. Images above and below © 2006 by Cropcircleconnector.com.

Wheat "bundles" in foreground circle (86 by one count in this circle; about 175 bundles in both circles) and ancient Charlbury mound in background. Image © 2006 by Steve Alexander.
Wheat “bundles” in foreground circle (86 by one count in this circle; about 175 bundles in both circles) and ancient Charlbury mound in background. Image © 2006 by Steve Alexander.

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September 13, 2006  Albuquerque, New Mexico – After our frustrating trip to Toot Baldon near Garsington, Oxfordshire, on Thursday, August 3, 2006, most of us decided to drive back to Charlbury in Wiltshire southwest of Wayland’s Smithy to see the extraordinary “circles with wheat sculptures inside,” as some called it. The unusual formation was first reported on July 11.Click for report.

Part 1: Ancient Geometries in Toot Baldon, Oxfordshire, Wheat

Charlbury, Wiltshire (red circled star in lower left southwest of Wayland's Smithy), and Toot Baldon and Garsington, Oxfordshire (upper right corner). The Vale of the Uffington White Horse extends north of Charlbury toward Garsington.
Charlbury, Wiltshire (red circled star in lower left southwest of Wayland’s Smithy), and Toot Baldon and Garsington, Oxfordshire (upper right corner). The Vale of the Uffington White Horse extends north of Charlbury toward Garsington.
Flower of Life inside a Vesica Piscis was reported on July 30, 2006, in this Toot Baldon wheat field southwest of Garsington, Oxfordshire. Aerial image © 2006 by Andrew King.
Flower of Life inside a Vesica Piscis was reported on July 30, 2006, in this Toot Baldon wheat field southwest of Garsington, Oxfordshire. Aerial image © 2006 by Andrew King.
 Closer aerial showing the "signature" to the left of the main Flower of Life inside Vesica Piscis. Aerial image © 2006 by Steve Alexander.
Closer aerial showing the “signature” to the left of the main Flower of Life inside Vesica Piscis. Aerial image © 2006 by Steve Alexander.

September 11, 2006  Santa Clara, California – Northwest of Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, is a farm region that includes March Baldon, Toot Baldon, Big Baldon, Little Baldon and Baldon on the Green. The entire region’s population is less than 500 people. Toot Baldon is located at the top of a hill and the name “Toot” means lookout. St Lawrence’s Church at Toot Baldon dates back at least to the 12th century and has wide views of the Thame valley to the Chiltern hills.Click for report.

Methane – Another Threat in Global Warming

” I look at this new methane data as a disturbing early harbinger that maybe things might be worse than our global warming models predict.”

– Ken Caldeira, Ph.D., Carnegie Institution, Stanford University


September 9, 2006  Stanford, California –
As we begin September 2006, there is more disturbing news about Earth’s environment. A rapidly spreading fungal disease is predicted to wipe out about half the world’s frogs, toads, newts and salamanders by the end of this year. Andrew Blaustein, a zoology professor at Oregon State University, says, “Species are going extinct very fast. These are bio indicators that something is wrong with the planet.”Click for report.

Part 4: Five Circle Pattern in Geneseo, Illinois, Soybeans

September 6, 2006  Geneseo, Illinois –  On Thursday, August 24, 2006, Ted Robertson hired a fixed-wing airplane pilot to take him over the Jim and Chris Stahl soybean farm in Geneseo, Illinois. One of his photographs sparked a question in the minds of Roger Sugden and Jeffrey Wilson of the Independent Crop Circle Research Association (ICCRA).

Puzzling Soybean Circle Placement
Graphically superimposed blue line goes along sprayer lines; red line goes along planting rows. Aerial image © 2006 by Ted Robertson and graphic © 2006 by Roger Sugden and Jeffrey Wilson, ICCRA.
Graphically superimposed blue line goes along sprayer lines; red line goes along planting rows. Aerial image © 2006 by Ted Robertson and graphic © 2006 by Roger Sugden and Jeffrey Wilson, ICCRA.

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Part 3: Five Circle Pattern in Geneseo, Illinois, Soybeans

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Where Illinois and Iowa run along either side of the big Mississippi River outlined in the orange rectangle on the map, that region is known as "Quad Cities." That 4-city complex is Davenport, Iowa; Bettendorf, Iowa; Rock Island, Illinois; and Moline, Illinois. Twenty miles east of Moline in Henry County is Geneseo, Illinois, a farming community of about 6,500 people.
Where Illinois and Iowa run along either side of the big Mississippi River outlined in the orange rectangle on the map, that region is known as “Quad Cities.” That 4-city complex is Davenport, Iowa; Bettendorf, Iowa; Rock Island, Illinois; and Moline, Illinois. Twenty miles east of Moline in Henry County is Geneseo, Illinois, a farming community of about 6,500 people.

August 31, 2006  Geneseo, Illinois – When I first learned about the Geneseo, Illinois, soybean formations on Monday, August 21, I immediately wanted to get aerials before the field deteriorated from visitor traffic and weather. So, I talked with the farm’s owner, Jim Stahl, who recommended Steve’s Nursery in Geneseo, which hires out for landscape photography. Later that afternoon, Mike Belovicks at Steve’s Nursery photographed for me the soybean circles from north, south, east and west. He also got a clear close-up of the southern circle which showed the downed soybeans there were still pretty fresh and green, without much feet damage from visitors. That contrasted with a close-up Mike was able to get of the far eastern circle where most visitors had entered on the original path made by farm owner, Jim Stahl on Saturday morning, August 19. In all five circles, the soybean plants were circling clockwise, with the exception of anomalies in the eastern and center circles discussed below.Click for report.

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