August 10, 2004 – Tonight I received an e-mail from Mathias van Singer, one of the Swiss passengers in Peter Tadd’s Fast Helicopter tour of crop formations on July 29, 2004. Originally, the helicopter pilot, Mr. Tadd and the Swiss tourists thought the “serpent” pattern appeared within one hour between Noon and 1 p.m. However, later it was confirmed that the farmer found the pattern at 5 a.m. that morning and crop circle researcher, Jonathan Sherwood, visited the site at 11:30 a.m. But the Swiss helicopter passengers are the only known group to get aerial photographs of the wheat formation before the farmer cut it out early the next morning.Click for report.
West of Warsaw and fourteen miles south of Mogilno (yellow on map) in Mlyny near the village of Wylatowo, two more pictograms have been reported on August 2, 2004, in Poland. This is the 33rd report for Poland’s 2004 crop season.
August 9, 2004 – Mlyny at Wylatowo, Poland – Robert K. Lesniakiewicz, Vice President of the CBUFOIZA (researchers in Poland who investigate unidentified aerial objects and crop formations) reports: “There have been two wheat pictograms that he calls “agrosymbols” in Mlyny near Wylatowo.” He is waiting to hear about sizes of the patterns from the investigative IRG Torun team and I will update this Earthfiles report when I have the dimensions. One has five circles connected by pathways and the other is a triangular pattern of three circles connected by pathways.Click for report.
August 4, 2004 Silbury Hill, Wiltshire, England – Whoever, or whatever, is responsible for the August 2 to 3, 2004, crop formation at Silbury Hill, the design in its border is a mirror image of a rare statue of the Aztec God, Xochipilli, The Prince of Flowers, Maizes, Love, Games, Beauty, Song and Dance. Xochi means ‘flower,’ while pilli means either prince or child.In the mid-1800’s, a 16th century Aztec statue of Xochipilli was unearthed on the side of the volcano Popocatapetl near Tlamanalco, Mexico. The statue is of a single figure seated upon a temple-like base.Click for report.
August 3, 2004 Southern England – A pictorial in chronological order from the most recent crop formation reported on July 31, 2004, in Kent County, England; preceded by two circles in Norfolk County on July 29; and thirteen in Wiltshire over twelve days.
1) Nashenden Farm, Wouldham Near Rochester, Kent County, Reported July 31, 2004.
Left: Young Double-Crested Cormorant. Middle: Ring-Billed Gull. Right: Adult Double-Crested Cormorant. Photographs courtesy U. S. Geological Survey National Wildlife Center.
For the sixth straight year, hundreds of ring-billed gulls and cormorants have died in the Roestler Lake Waterfowl Protection Area in Logan and McIntosh Counties of North Dakota south of where 29,000 pelicans disappeared from the Chase Lake National Wildlife Refuge in mid-June 2004.
Northwest of Minneapolis in Litchfield, Minnesota, 6.2 square miles of barley had many sections randomly laid down in 90-degree angles to each other, discovered on July 4, 2004. Two weeks later on July 19, 2004, east of Minneapolis in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, three large circles connected by pathways were reported in oats.
July 26, 2004 Eau Claire, Wisconsin – I talked with Terry Fisk, an Eau Claire, Wisconsin, electric power company employee whose hobby is to investigate crop formations with his colleague, Chad Lewis. On Monday, July 19, 2004, Chad received an e-mail from someone called “Adam Prince.” The short e-mail said there was a crop circle just outside Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, and gave directions. Chad was working, but Terry drove out to see if he could find the field and formation.
July 25, 2004 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada – I talked this week with Paul Anderson, Director of Canadian Crop Circle Research Network (CCCRN) in Vancouver. The crop circle season so far has brought four patterns which began with a simple ring in pasture grass on June 24, 2004, near a small town called Erb’s Cove in New Brunswick. Over the past decade, New Brunswick has had reports of very few crop formations in contrast to Saskatchewan and Alberta which have had the most. From Paul’s research of Canadian history of the phenomenon, he has found 233 reports between 1925 and 2004. Saskatchewan is the center of activity, “sort of like Wiltshire is in England,” he says.
First Canadian formation of 2004 reported on June 24, near small town of Erb’s Cove in New Brunswick, Canada, between Maine on the west and Nova Scotia on the east.
July 24, 2004 – Last night on Coast to Coast AM radio, I reported about the earth’s weakening magnetic field and the many reports I receive about large populations of birds disappearing or even dying. I also asked the Earthfiles and radio audience to let me know about bird anomalies. I have received so many reports today that I am sharing some of them from various regions of the country.
E-mail # 1 – Lusk, Wyoming:
“I recently moved back to Wyoming after a 30-year stint in California. One of the first things I noticed was the lack of birds here. The state bird is the Meadowlark and I have always loved listening to them. They are gone.Click for report.
July 23, 2004 Wiltshire, England – Between July 11 and July 23, 2004, sixteen crop formations have been reported in southern England, the majority in the country of Wiltshire which has been the heart of the modern British phenomenon since at least the late 1980s. To keep up with news about English crop formations, see Cropcircleconnector.com and other websites included in the final segment of this report.
“A reversal could knock out power grids, hurt astronauts and satellites, widen atmospheric ozone holes, send polar auroras flashing to the equator and confuse birds, fish and migratory animals that rely on the steadiness of the magnetic field as a navigation aid.”
– The New York Times, July 13, 2004
A graphical representation of the total magnetic field strength at the Earth’s surface inferred from the latest International Geomagnetic Reference Field, the IGRF2000, valid until 2005. The red-to-yellow colors indicate a field strength below the mean Earth’s total magnetic field strength. The blue-to-black range represents a field strength above the mean field at the surface. The most pronounced minimum field strength is found in South America and in the South Atlantic below South Africa. Graphic produced from Danish Orsted satellite which measures Earth’s geomagnetic fields.
July 23, 2004 Santa Cruz, California – Magnetic field lines have been coming out of the south pole and entering the north pole of the earth for the past 780,000 years. That is called the magnetic dipole. But now scientists have been monitoring the strongest change humans have ever recorded in the magnetic field at the surface of the earth’s internal iron core four thousand miles down. The result, according to French geophysicist Gauthier Hulot, is that the South Atlantic below Africa and South America now have a magnetic field that is 30% weaker than the rest of the planet. Already some satellites passing over that weak magnetic field have suffered electronic failures because charged particles from the sun can penetrate more easily in a weak magnetic field. And over the past century, the global magnetic field has weakened about 10 to 15 percent. Recently, that magnetic field deterioration has accelerated, provoking scientists to wonder if it will build up to a pole reversal in which compasses will point to the south instead of the north.Click for report.
