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Share: Digg <#> Facebook <http://www.facebook.com/share.php?u=http://www.earthfiles.com/news.php?\ ID=1756&category=Environment> StumbleUpon <http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=http://www.earthfiles.com/news.ph\ p?ID=1756&category=Environment&title=Mysterious 3D Wheat Grid and Aerial Light in Wiltshire, U. K.> Mysterious 3D Wheat Grid and Aerial Light in Wiltshire, U. K. © 2010 by Linda Moulton Howe "When I walked into the Whitefield Hill formation the morning of August 4, 2010, everywhere I could see most of the seed heads in the flattened crop were straight relative to the heavily curled seed heads in the standing crop. That seemed to be physically impossible." - Charles Mallett, Silent Circle Information Center, Yatesbury, Wiltshire, U.K. Created on a slanted hillside, the large, 250-foot-diameter Whitefield Hill "3-dimensional" wheat formation near Woodsend about six miles north of Marlboro, Wiltshire, England, was reported August 3, 2010. Aerial image © 2010 by Olivier Morel. See more images and information: Cropcircleconnector.com. <http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/2010/whitefieldhill/whitefieldhill20\ 10a.html> Whitefield Hill is near Woodsend, Wiltshire, (red circle map center) about six miles north of Marlborough. Southeast of Woodsend are the ancient stone circles of Avebury and Silbury Hill, the largest, artificially constructed hill in Europe (red circle in lower left). To the southeast of Woodsend is Hungerford and the nearby M4 motorway where the two "grid and dots" crop patterns were discovered north and south of the M4 on July 30, 2010. See: 080410 Earthfiles. <http://www.earthfiles.com/news.php?ID=1737&category=Environment> Above and below: Fifteen rows of standing wheat of varying widths made up the "3-D sphere" inside the square grid turned on an angle to another square. Ground pole shot © 2010 by Photopole. Aerial © 2010 by Frank Laumen. August 22, 2010 Yatesbury, Wiltshire, England - Mysterious crop circles associated with balls of light moving in the air across fields have been reported in England since at least World War I. The modern age of crop formations emerged in the late 1970s around Warminster, England, and evolved through the 1980s from single circles to simple patterns of a few circles to the astonishing geometries, fractals and other complex patterns in the 1990s and through the first decade of the 21st Century. In England, most of the modern crop circle patterns emerged repeatedly each summer in Wiltshire County's Vale of Pewsey. At the heart of the Vale is a group of hills named Milk Hill, Adam's Grave, Knap Hill, Golden Ball Hill and Woodborough Hill. Milk Hill, Adam's Grave, Knap Hill, Golden Ball Hill, East Field, Tawsmead Copse and Woodborough Hill near Alton Barnes, Wiltshire, England, in the Vale of Pewsey are at the heart of the crop formation phenomenon since at least the early 1990s. Whitefield Hill is northeast a few miles. In the 2010 crop season between April and August, the Cropcircleconnector.com archive reports 57 patterns of which 35 were in Wiltshire county. But the rest expanded to 13 other English counties: Somerset, Berkshire, Nottinghamshire, Warwickshire, West Yorkshire, North Yorkshire, South Yorkshire, Hampshire, Gloucestershire, Buckinghamshire, Essex, Dorset and Lincolnshire. Of the entire 2010 season, one of the most anomalous crop formations was reported on August 3, 2010, in a wheat field growing on the slant of Whitefield Hill near Woodsend about six miles north of Marlborough. Recently I talked about the puzzling Whitefield Hill crop formation with Charles Mallett, Director of the Silent Circle Information Center in Yatesbury, Wiltshire, who has walked in dozens of oilseed rape, barley, and wheat formations over the past fifteen years to measure, photograph, and sometimes gather plant and soil samples for biophysical and biochemical analysis. Interview: Charles Mallett, Director, Silent Circle Information Center, Yatesbury, Wiltshire, England: "The formation at Whitefield Hill, Wiltshire I heard about that at the end of day one (August 3, 2010). I saw an aerial image of it and thought, `Wow! That's a really impressive shape in a field of wheat!' And I started looking at the central feature with the gentle curves of thin lines and thought, `That looks impossible!' So, I wanted to go to that formation. Down the tramline running toward horizon through the furthest right side in this aerial of the Whitefield Hill formation is a small flattened ring of wheat around a standing center. Aerial image © 2010 by Lucy Pringle. <http://www.lucypringle.co.uk/> I got there the next morning and there had already been quite a few visitors that second day after it was reported at least a hundred people or so. Whitefield was a very large formation and people walked in very predictable places, so it's easy in crop formations to find areas that have not been damaged. The formation is on the side of a hill and not in the easiest physical area of the field. It would have been easier to put the formation on the top flat part of the hill. However, it is where it is. Immediately when I walked into the formation, I was struck by one thing that I have been looking out for that I have occasionally seen in formations that I would consider genuinely made by a mysterious force. That is the seed heads on mature wheat out in the standing crop of the field, the seed heads curl over because the seed heads are very heavy relative to the very thin top of the stalk, which the seed head rests on. This happens because the plants are dying after their summer growth and the seed heads curl over and go into a rigid position. When I walked into the Whitefield Hill formation the morning of August 4, 2010, everywhere I could see, most of the seed heads in the flattened crop were straight relative to the heavily curled seed heads in the standing crop. When I tried to manipulate those straight seed heads in the flattened crop with my fingers I tried to bend them to the same curled position as the standing crop the straight seed heads would just snap off because they were dry and completely rigid in that position as opposed to the standing crop where the seed heads are curled and completely rigid. That seemed to be something that was physically impossible to achieve from a mechanical point of view. But there it was over that entire 250-foot-diameter formation in the flattened crop area. Charles Mallett's foot rests on the flattened wheat with abnormally straight seed heads in the Whitefield Hill wheat formation that he first visited on the morning of August 4, 2010. The flattened straight wheat contrasts to the standing plants on the right that have normal, dry, rigid, curled seed heads of August. Image © 2010 by Charles Mallett. Close-up on abnormally straight seed heads in the flattened Whitefield Hill wheat formation visited by Charles Mallett on August 4, 2010, the morning after the formation was first reported. Image © 2010 by Charles Mallett. I've had some of those seed heads from the standing crop laid out in my garden for the last week and they are exactly the same as when I took them from the field and put them there with curled seed heads. None have straightened out lying on the ground. So, now the standing crop seed heads are still curled and the ones from the formation are still straight. So nothing happens to the seed heads when they are down they just stay as they were when they went down. Charles Mallett gathered samples of the normal curled wheat seed heads from the standing crop in the Whitefield Hill formation and samples of the straight seed heads from the flattened wheat. After a week at his home, the straight seed heads on the right were still straight in comparison to the normal curled wheat heads on the left. Image © 2010 by Charles Mallett. And I went back to the formation on August 8, 2010, to check the straight heads in the ground lay and they were still just as straight. You can see that in my dated photo (below). Four days after Charles Mallett first visited the Whitefield Hill wheat formation and was amazed at all the straight wheat seed heads on the ground, he returned on August 8, 2010, to see if the flattened seed heads had curled, but they had not. Image © 2010 by Charles Mallett. WHAT EXACTLY DID FARMERS SAY TO YOU ABOUT THESE VERY STRAIGHT SEED HEADS? I've spoken to two farmers about the condition of the seed heads. In both cases, the farmers told me, `I don't know how that could happen.' I was also talking with an Australian farmer here visiting crop circles a couple of days ago. He farms 20,000 acres of wheat and has farmed for 30 years. I showed him the wheat samples of straight and curled I had taken from the formation. I said, `Here are the plants from the standing crop and here are the plants from the flattened crop. Can you explain this to me?' He didn't know either. I don't think the straight seed heads in flattened crop has occurred much before now, but I have seen it several times in 2010. It's almost as if the circle making force is showing a kind of test of genuine formations because the time period for really curled and dry wheat seed heads lasts only about two to three weeks each year a short time. This constitutes in my mind a physical proof that something happened at Whitefield Hill that was not mechanical man-made. IT'S ALMOST AS IF THE PHENOMENON IS SAYING, `WE CAN STILL DO THINGS THAT YOU HUMANS CANNOT.' Right, and in 2010 for the first time in nearly 20 years, we've had a lot of simple circles across the landscape. I've looked at several of these this year and they really are kind of retro-circles that hark back to the mid-1980s. They are deeply fascinating. The simplicity of these simple circles have physical attributes that people could not physically produce because they are far from tramlines, but there is no evidence of tracks through the wheat to get to the circles. Also of great interest to me is the fact that many of the 2010 simple circles have appeared close or next to some of the large, pretty, hoaxed patterns. It is almost like you said a kind of reminder that, `Look, we are actually here even if there is a stink hanging around (hoaxers).' Some of these simple circles are only ten or fifteen feet in diameter are far more impressive than the huge, pretty, manmade patterns. Their simplicity is much more of a statement than another large, contrived, crop vandalism. I did not find any blown growth nodes that biophysicist W. C. Levengood discovered in the early 1990s and reported about, like those he found in the wheat in the 409 circles on Milk Hill in August 2001. 409 circles on a slanted hillside spanned 787-foot-diameter in wheat formation discovered Sunday, August 12, 2001, after a night of rain. This wheat field is on the highest plateau of Milk Hill and the highest point in the county of Wiltshire, England. The field is not visible from any road and to get there, people must walk about fifteen minutes from the nearest place to park a car. Aerial photograph © 2001 by Lucy Pringle. <http://www.lucypringle.co.uk/> Tiny expulsion cavities in crop formation wheat nodes collected from August 12, 2001, Milk Hill, Wiltshire, England 409-circle formation. Hypothesis is that microwave energy in a spinning plasma vortex interacts with plants during the mysterious process of creating crop circles. The microwave energy heats up the water in the plant's growth nodes and the steam explodes outward leaving the expulsion cavities. Magnification 40X. Photographs © 2001 by biophysicist W. C. Levengood. See my 1999 to 2002 book, Mysterious Lights and Crop Circles, in the Earthfiles Shop </shop.php> and 102701Earthfiles Archived Scientific Report. <http://www.earthfiles.com/news.php?ID=297&category=Real X-Files> This was very dry, mature wheat crop. All of the moisture is pretty much gone out of the stems, so even if they are being hit with some kind of spinning plasma vortex, as biophysicist Levengood hypothesizes, there is not much moisture in the growth nodes to heat up and explode out the sides of the growth nodes. So, it's not unusual to find no nodal damage in very late season wheat formations." Interpretations of Whitefield Hill Pattern's Meaning WHAT MEANING OR INTERPRETATION DO YOU AND OTHERS HAVE FOR THAT RIPPLED CIRCLE INSIDE THE SQUARE? It is a really intriguing, strange thing to see! Some people have said it is an egg slicer. (laughs) It actually does have a similarity to a hard-boiled egg slicer. Others say it is a 3-dimensional schematic for a Star Trek `quantum slipstream warp drive' a time machine. The fact is, no one really has a clue what it is. It just looks pretty amazing. After nearly fifteen years of investigating crop formations, this is the one in 2010 that I am really quite amazed by. A Star Trek "Quantum Slipstream Warp Drive" ? The oddly distorted grid in the Whitefield Hill wheat has been compared by some to the distortion (right) of the Star Trek spacecraft (center) of TV visualization of a "warp field" in space where the spacecraft is about to "jump through" time and space. Source: Wikipedia. [ Editor's Note: Wikipedia - Warp drive is a faster-than-light (FTL) propulsion system depicted in dramatic works of science fiction, most notably in the television series Star Trek. In contrast to many other fictional FTL technologies, such as a " jump drive" or the Infinite Improbability Drive, the warp drive does not permit instantaneous travel between two points. Instead, warp drive technology creates an artificial "bubble" of normal space-time that surrounds the spacecraft (as opposed to entering a separate realm or dimension like hyperspace, such as the "warp drive" which is used in the "Warhammer 40,000" universe. Consequently, spacecraft at warp velocity can continue to interact with objects in normal space. "Slipstream" is a science fiction term for a fictional method of faster-than-light space travel, similar to hyperspace travel, warp drive, or "transfer points" from David Brin's Uplift series. Similar to the Borg transwarp conduits, the slipstream is a narrowly-focused, directed field that is initiated by manipulating the fabric of the space-time continuum at the quantum level using the starship's navigational deflector array. It works by focusing a quantum field through a deflector dish to generate massive changes in local space curvature. This creates a subspace tunnel, which is projected ahead of the vessel. Once a ship has entered this tunnel, the forces inside propel it at incredible speed. In order to maintain the slipstream, a ship has to constantly modify the quantum field with its deflector dish. However, the calculations involved are too complicated, and the time available too short for 24th century Starfleet computer technology. ] A "Musical Amplifier" ? Above and below: Another suggestion by CMM Research, a collaboration of Italian, Australian and American crop formation analysts, is that the nearby radio transmitter marked with the yellow arrow above might imply the makers of the Whitefield Hill wheat formation marked with the red arrow were trying to reinforce the concept of a "musical amplifier." http://www.earthfiles.com/news.php?ID=1756&category=Environment <http://www.earthfiles.com/news.php?ID=1756&category=Environment>
