Etchilhampton, Wiltshire, is in the lower left corner southwest of Avebury. Wayland’s Smithy is in the upper right corner of Oxfordshire County near Blowingstone Hill and Uffington Castle. Some other 2006 crop formation locations are highlighted in yellow.
August 16, 2006 Etchilhampton, Wiltshire, England – British researcher and photographer, Lucy Pringle, has photographed the new August 15, 2006, Etchilhampton formation from the air, while on the ground the Cropcircleconnector.com’s Julian Gibsone reports: ” Complexity within this wonderful new Star. This a beautiful new formation with an intricate line structure and a lovely star shaped centre. As I wandered around this circle I became aware of just how interesting the line structure was. This is a case of where seeing a formation on the ground is as significant as seeing it from the air. The lay, appeared to me at least, to be pretty impressive in crop that is about to be cut in the next few days. … The location was outstanding as one could look across Pewsey Vale to the Milk Hill White Horse, Woodborough and Picton Hills in the distance.”Click for report.
In the county of Oxfordshire, England, formations were reported at Wayland’s Smithy and Uffington Castle on the same day of July 8, 2006. Then a month later on August 6, 2006, a third formation was reported at Blowingstone Hill in Kingston Lisle, northeast of Uffington Castle.
August 14, 2006 Kingston Lisle, Oxfordshire, England – A few days before I left for England, journalist Jaime Maussan in Mexico City called. Jaime is an TV and magazine investigative reporter for his own production company and last year went to the U. K. to fly over and videotape the 2005 Wayland’s Smithy “Mayan Calendar” and Woolstone “Mayan Clock.” Jaime asked a Mexican archaeologist to study the 2005 wheat patterns and reported that the glyphs were counting down to 2012 and the end of the Grand Mayan Calendar. Click for report.
In the county of Oxfordshire, England, formations were reported at Wayland’s Smithy and Uffington Castle on the same day of July 8, 2006. Then a month later on August 6, 2006, another formation was reported at Blowingstone Hill in Kingston Lisle, northeast of Uffington Castle.
August 12 , 2006 Uffington, Oxfordshire, England – On July 8, 2006, four extraordinary crop formations were reported in southern England. The sequence began in Boxley near Maidstone in the county of Kent southeast of London with a “fractal snowflake.” Many investigators think this was the finest crop formation of 2006. The ground lay was fluid, like water waves.Click for report.
Wiltshire County, England, peaceful landscape of cereal crop farms.
August 12 , 2006 Albuquerque, New Mexico – At 5:30 a.m. on Thursday morning, August 10, I was traveling in my rental car from Wiltshire County, England, to Heathrow Airport in London. I had been in southern England for two weeks to explore crop formations and do more research on the mysterious red rain of Kerala, India. [ See: Earthfiles061606 and upcoming new report. ]Click for report.
“No one to our knowledge has seen anything quite like this.”
– Wesley Balla, New Hampshire Historical Society
July 29, 2006 Concord, New Hampshire – One hundred and thirty-two years ago in 1872, workmen were digging post holes in the town of Meredith, New Hampshire. One of the workers hit something solid like a stone and lifted out glob of clay. When the dirt was cleaned off, the workers were surprised to see a brown-colored stone about four inches high and two and a half inches wide shaped exactly like a goose egg. All around the egg were carvings. The owner and manager of the post hole project was Seneca Ladd. He was interested in geology and historic relics, so he claimed the “mystery stone” for his private collection.
The dense stone was later identified to be fairly dense quartzite. Today, the stone is housed in the New Hampshire Historical Society in Concord. The Director of Collections and Exhibitions there since 2003 is Wesley G. Balla, M. A. I talked with him this week about the mystery stone and asked him to describe the symbols carved in it.
Interview:
Wesley G. Balla, M. A., Director of Collections & Exhibitions, New Hampshire Historical Society, Concord, New Hampshire: “All the way around the sides and the bottom, there are a series of images, symbols, pictographs that have been carved or cut on to the stone. The pictographs include a human face, a teepee, and circle on one side.
Brownish, dense quartzite stone the shape and size of a goose egg about four inches high and 2.5 inches wide. Originally found in the ground by post hole digger in Meredith, New Hampshire, in 1872. Its origin and age are still a mystery. Photographs courtesy New Hampshire Historical Society.
In another section of the mystery stone are arrows or spears, a crescent over crossed spears, and a spiral.
In another section, is an ear of corn over a circle that has a number of other figures inside of it, which are hard to make out. They are sort of curved and angled figures.
On the very bottom drawn around one of the boring holes is a multi-sided geometric figure. It is very precise and even in the way it’s drawn, angles. It’s similar to a star, but it’s really a square superimposed on another square, so there are 8 straighter sides than you would have in the depiction of a star symbol.
Small Machine-Bored Holes At Top and Bottom of Mystery Stone
COULD YOU EXPLAIN THE BORE HOLES AND AT THE TOP AND BOTTOM? HOW WERE THEY MADE AND WHAT WAS THE PURPOSE?
Again, it’s a mystery. We don’t know why they were made or when. We know how they were made, probably by a metal drill. We’ve had an analysis done which suggests that the top hope is about an eighth of an inch in diameter. The bottom hole is 3/8ths inch in diameter. One is larger than the other. There are abrasions or scratches on the inside of each hole that suggest they were made by metal. When? and who? remains a mystery.
AN EIGHTH OF AN INCH FOR ONE OF THOSE HOLES MEANS IT COULD NOT HAVE BEEN MOUNTED ON ANYTHING THAT WAS THICK. IT HAD TO BE MOUNTED ON SOMETHING VERY THIN.
Yes. We assume it was mounted somehow, but there is no real context for any of this. No one to our knowledge has seen anything quite like this. The scratches found in the analysis inside the holes suggests that the egg-shaped stone was probably made in recent history, that it’s not a prehistoric piece because Native Americans did not have the technology to drill with metal.
DID ANYONE EVER TRY TO DATE THE LAYER IN THE GROUND FROM WHICH THE STONE WAS TAKEN?
No, that is one of the things that is conspicuously absent. It was just viewed as something that was pulled up out of the ground. No one said what level or if there was anything else at that level. It was just, ‘We found this when we were digging post holes.’ That’s been the story since 1927 when it was given to the Historical Society. We don’t even know precisely which spot in Meredith it was dug up. If you don’t have a very precise site, it’s very hard to date.
IS THERE ANYTHING IN MEREDITH LIKE AN ANCIENT EARTH MOUND OR STONE CIRCLES OR SOME VERY OLD GROUND MARKING SIMILAR TO THE OHIO EARTH MOUNDS?
Not that I’m aware.
HAVE YOU HAD EXPERTS IN VARIOUS KINDS OF PICTOGRAMS AND RUNE LANGUAGES TO SEE IF THE EGG-SHAPED STONE SYMBOLS COMPARE TO ANY OTHER LANGUAGE OR SYMBOLS?
No, we don’t know anything about the pictographs.”
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For further information about archaeological mysteries, please see reports below in the Earthfiles Archives:
07/07/2006 — Noah’s Ark Atop Takht-e-Soleiman Peak in Iran?
03/26/2006 — “Anomaly” On Mt. Ararat’s Western Plateau?
12/09/2005 — Mystery of “Footprints” in 1.3 Million-Year-Old Mexico Volcanic Rock
05/26/2005 — Part 2 – Corguinho, Brazil: Plasma Balls Which Enter Humans
12/28/2002 — Part 3 – Tall, Red-Haired, Non-Human Beings
11/14/2002 — What Happened 12,000 Years Ago That Killed So Many Animals?
11/02/2002 — Update on 6,500-Year-Old Astronomical Stone Circle and Megaliths in Nabta, Egypt
10/22/2002 — 63 A.D. Inscription Refers to “Jesus” – An Archaeological First
07/13/2002 — More Crop Formations in Holland and Germany
02/16/2002 — Sunken City Off India Coast – 7500 B. C.?
12/28/2001 — Images from Cuban Deep Water Megalithic Site
12/08/2001 — 70,000-Year-Old “Modern Humans” Lived in Blombos Cave, South Africa
11/19/2001 — Update on Underwater Megalithic Structures near Western Cuba
10/05/2001 — Large Prehistoric Underground Circle Found in Chillicothe, Ohio
06/13/2001 — Update on Mysterious Deep Water Sonar Images Off Western Cuba
05/18/2001 — Underwater City Reported Off Western Cuba
05/05/2001 — Archaeologists Find Central Asia Civilization As Old As Sumeria
09/17/2000 — Evidence of 7000 Year Old Flood and Human Habitation Discovered Beneath Black Sea
05/28/2000 — Hamoukar, Syria – A City Older Than 6000 Years?
05/16/1999 — Edgar Evans Cayce About His Father and Atlantis
“What’s the probability that we’re going to have a large earthquake, magnitude 6, 7 or 8, on the southern part of the San Andreas Fault? There is about a 70% likelihood of a large earthquake within the next 30 years.”
– Seismologist Debi Kilb, Ph.D.
Blue triangles indicate 2006 small quake activity along San Jacinto Fault, Elsinoro Fault, and Rose Canyon Fault, while the San Andreas Fault near the Salton Sea is building more and more energy in a “locked up” mode, moving only 1 inch per year. Map source: USGS.
July 27, 2006 La Jolla, California – Last month, the June 22, 2006, issue of the science journal Nature, published recent detailed research of the San Andreas and San Jacinto faults in Southern California. The data shows the San Andreas so stressed that its next quake release of energy could be a magnitude 8 on the Richter scale. The San Andreas Fault is considered the main boundary between the Pacific and North American tectonic plates that are slowly moving past each other. Some day in the far distant future, those moving plates might even break off sections of the Pacific coast into the ocean. The tension between those moving plates is what makes California “earthquake country.”Click for report.
“A streak of light, like a honey-coloured comet tail, flashed past me at eye level no more than six feet from my head.”
– William Betts, U. K. Crop Circle Researcher
UPDATED with mysterious light photos July 24, 2006 Petersfield, Hampshire, England – It is so hot in southern England right now that the London Zoo is feeding blood-flavored ice blocks to the lions to help keep them cooler. The hottest day ever recorded in a British summer was on July 19th. London’s Underground subway system has no air conditioning and temperatures have reportedly reached 117 degrees Fahrenheit, while road surfaces south of London have been melting.Click for report.
“The average temperature for the continental United States from January through June 2006 was the warmest first half of any year since records began in 1895.”
– NOAA
July 17, 2006, temperature map for mainland United States.
July 18, 2006 Asheville, North Carolina – The following is the National Oceanic and Atmosphere Agency’s summary of America’s “record warm first half of year, widespread drought and northeast record rainfall.”
NOAA report on July 14, 2006: “The average temperature for the continental United States from January through June 2006 was the warmest first half of any year since records began in 1895, according to scientists at the NOAA National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C. Last month was the second warmest June on record and nationally averaged precipitation was below average. The continuation of below normal precipitation in certain regions and much warmer-than-average temperatures expanded moderate-to-extreme drought conditions in the contiguous U.S. However, much of the Northeast experienced severe flooding and record rainfall during the last week of June. The global surface temperature was second warmest on record for June.
U.S. Temperature Highlights
The average January-June temperature for the contiguous United States (based on preliminary data) was 51.8 degrees F (11.0 degrees C), or 3.4 degrees F (1.8 degrees C) above the 20th century (1901-2000) average. Five states (Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska and Missouri) experienced record warmth for the period. No state was near or cooler than average.
The nation observed the second warmest June on record this year. In the West, 11 states were much warmer than average. Only five states (Kentucky, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and South Carolina) were cooler than normal for the month.
The June statewide average temperature for Alaska was near average, and January-June was 0.55 degrees F (0.30 degrees C) cooler than the 1971-2000 average.
U.S. Precipitation Highlights
The average precipitation for June 2006 across the continental U.S. was 0.3 in. (8 mm) below the 20th century average.
Record rainfall in parts of the Northeast during May and June contributed to the wetter-than-normal first half of the year for that region. Heavy precipitation along the East Coast from June 22-28 resulted in widespread flooding. For example, Washington’s Reagan National Airport reported 11.37 inches (289 mm) during that time and a record June total of 14.02 inches (356 mm). More than 10 inches (254 mm) of rain fell in Federalsburg on Maryland’s Eastern Shore in a 24-hour period.
In June, 45 percent of the contiguous U.S. was in moderate-to-extreme drought (based on the Palmer Drought Index), an increase of 6 percent from May, while 27 percent was in severe-extreme drought (up from 20 percent in May). Additionally, from January through June, warm, dry conditions spawned more than 50,000 wildfires, burning more than 3,000,000 acres in the contiguous U.S. and Alaska, according to the National Interagency Fire Center.
Global Highlights
It was the second warmest June on record for global land- and ocean-surface temperatures since records began in 1880 (1.08 degrees F/0.60 degrees C above the 20th century mean) and the sixth warmest year-to-date (January-June) (0.90 degrees F/0.50 degrees C).”
Eastern Gulf of Mexico Coast Temperatures
Current water temperatures in degrees Fahrenheit near Pensacola, Florida are 90 degrees F; Naples, Florida = 87.6 F; and Key West, Florida = 84.9 degrees F. [Source: National Oceanographic Data Center.]
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In 2007, NOAA, an agency of the U.S. Commerce Department, celebrates 200 years of science and service to the nation. NOAA’s U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey was established in 1807 by Thomas Jefferson, followed by formation of the Weather Bureau and the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries in the 1870s.
Through the emerging Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS), NOAA is working with its federal partners and more than 60 countries to develop a global monitoring network of Earth.
For further information about global warming, please see reports below in the Earthfiles Archives:
06/24/2006 — “High Confidence” Earth Is Warmest in 400 Years – Maybe Even 2,000
04/08/2006 — Recent Caribbean Coral Reef Die-Off Biggest Ever Seen
03/17/2006 — Planet Earth’s Ice Melt
02/20/2006 — Mysterious Deaths of Whales in Mexico
11/18/2005 — Is the Sun Heating Up?
10/07/2005 — Warmer Sea Surfaces, Increased Wind Power Making Hurricanes Stronger
09/29/2005 — 2005 Arctic Summer Ice Melt – Largest On Record
09/23/2005 — 9 X-Class Solar Flares Between September 7 – 19, 2005.
09/23/2005 — Phenomenon of “Instant” Hurricanes in 2005
09/15/2005 — Animal Mutilations Reported in Switzerland, Hollywood and Kansas
08/26/2005 — What Is Killing Amphibians Around the World?
08/26/2005 — Another Cattle Mutilation in Canada
08/18/2005 — Unusual Summer Swarm of Arkansas Copperheads
08/05/2005 — Scientists Puzzled by “Bizarre” Pacific Coast Die-offs in 2005
05/11/2005 — Greenland Sea Cold Water Re-Cycling Has Nearly Stopped. Britain Expected to Become Cooler.
05/07/2005 — Did Milky Way Gas and Dust Turn Earth Into Icy Snowball Four Times?
03/25/2005 — Glow of Distant Worlds Seen For First Time
02/26/2005 — Collapse of Societies: From Easter Island to Iraq – to Western World?
02/21/2005 — Updated – Bull and Cow Mutilations Northwest of Corpus Christi, Texas
02/03/2005 — Kyoto Protocol Goes Into Effect February 16, 2005. British Scientists Warn Global Temperatures Could Climb Higher Than Earlier Estimates.
01/22/2005 — From U. S. to Arctic – A Sea Change in the Weather
12/31/2004 — Abrupt Climate Change Occurred Worldwide 5,200 Years Ago
11/02/2004 — North Pole Summers Without Ice?
10/15/2004 — Ever-Increasing Carbon Dioxide Build-Up in Atmosphere Since 1958
09/17/2004 — Cat 4 and 5 Hurricanes Charley, Frances and Ivan in Four Weeks -Unprecedented in American Recorded Weather History
08/27/2004 — Global Warming Impact On Birds – More Extinctions Expected
08/14/2004 — Oceans Are Absorbing A Lot of Greenhouse CO2. As Chemistry Changes, What Happens to Sea Life?
08/01/2004 — Sixth Straight Year Hundreds of Birds Die at Roestler Lake, North Dakota.
02/27/2004 — Abrupt Climate Change: Scenario from A Pentagon-Commissioned Report
July 7, 2006 Williamsburg, Ohio – Another earth mystery has been unfolding amid all the earth mounds in southwestern Indiana. Find Evansville, Indiana, on the map above. A little southeast of the city is the Angel Mounds Historic Site. Several miles northeast of Angel Mounds in Dubois County is the farming community of Huntingburg. Further northeast is the Crane Naval Surface Warfare Center, worth noting because the military has long been interested in crop formations. [See: 10/03/2003 Earthfiles and 09/12/03 Earthfiles and 08/29/03 Earthfiles and 09/04/03 Earthfiles. ]
From Neilburg to Waterhen Lake First Nation, Saskatchewan, Canada, for years phenomena such as crop circles, animal mutilations and glowing discs have been reported. Northwest of Waterhen Lake is Cold Lake Air Weapons Range. Investigators often wonder if the UFO phenomenon monitors Earth military installations?
July 1, 2006 Maidstone, Saskatchewan, Canada – Mysterious, unexplained glowing discs have been showing up almost weekly since early April 2006 at Meadow Lake and Waterhen Lake in Saskatchewan, Canada, northeast of Lloydminster. Barb Campbell, organizer of the SPPRC – Paranormal Research Centre in Saskatchewan, Canada is also Manager of the Sandpiper Motel in Maidstone, Saskatchewan. Barb has made the two to three hour trip to the lakes to investigate the unidentified aerial phenomena and talk to eyewitnesses. In one instance at Waterhen Lake First Nation, it was estimated that perhaps a thousand people saw strange, moving lights over the water. Back north of Lloydminster on a ranch in Hillmond, Barb has also investigated a recent cattle mutilation discovered by the farm owner on June 17, only two weeks ago.Click for report.
In another section, is an ear of corn over a circle that has a number of other figures inside of it, which are hard to make out. They are sort of curved and angled figures.
