New Crop Circle Interview–Secrets Revealed!

Another Camera Failure in a Crop Circle–East Kennett, July 2011

We sometimes see this type of unexplained electronic equipment failure as we visit the U.K. crop circles with our tour group. The camera affected this time is a new Canon Rebel EOs T2i in the East Kennett formation. It lost it’s ability to focus as the person stepped into the formation, then it completely lost power for a few minutes.  A few hours later it had completely recovered. (My camera video recorder also failed briefly as I attempted to record this anomalous event.)

New Crop Circle Stunner

Courtesy of Olivier Morrel

Here’s the latest U.K. crop circle at Liddington Castle, Wiltshire. This particular formation has a “lens-type” effect. What is it and what does it mean?

See more pictures here.

Second U.K. Crop Formation of the Year

If you haven’t seen it, this is the second known formation in the U.K. this year. It appeared near Stonehenge around May 9th and it’s a whopper!  Read more about the Stonehenge Formation here.
(Photos © 2010 by Chris Bird.)

First U.K. Crop Circle of the Year

The first U.K. crop circle of the year has appeared, the so-called “Badger Formation,” on May 5th, by Old Sarum. (Discovered by Badger of Disclose TV.) See it here.

Toyota, Chaos Theory, and Crop Circles

For the last century or so, technology has been a great driving force behind many global economic growth. Businesses have seen technology as a pathway to success and profits. The recent unexplained behavior of some Toyota cars with electronic throttle controls calls this belief into question. While many of us see technology as something that brings predictability and comfort into our lives and have a great deal of faith in it, there is also another side to technology: that of unexpected consequences and uncertainty.

The sociologist Charles Perrow pointed out several decades ago that “tightly-coupled” systems were prone to unanticipated failures as the result of the close proximity of many sensitive and interactive parts. Examples include Chernobyl, Three-Mile Island, and the Space Shuttle Challenger disasters. Then, in the 80′s and 90′s, chaos theory and fractal geometry showed us that highly complex systems are likely to experience unintended consequences as a result of the non-linear interactions that erupt in many types of “non-equilibrium” systems (i.e., weather, living things). In certainly could be argued that modern automobiles, while not quite living things, are also tightly-coupled systems that are sometimes subject to non-linear behavior.

New Link Found Between Liquid Crystals and Superconductors: Crop Circle Connection?

I’ve always suspected a link between crop circle anomalies and room-temperature superconductivity. And I’ve argued many times that crop circles may behave like liquid crystals, such as those in your mobile phone or computer flat screen display. New research brings these theoretical connections a bit closer. An article in New Scientist, (January 16, 2010–”Liquid crystal link to superconductor mystery), explains how “electronic liquid crystals” may, in fact, be behind the mystery of high-temperature superconductivity: a heretofore unexplained phenomenon where electrons pair up and electrical resistance in a room-temperature material drops to near zero. In other words, the material spontaneously conducts electricity much more efficiently, a process that usually only happens at extreme cold temperatures.
Researchers used a special type of tunneling microscope to actually see the electrons in an iron-based superconductor. When they did, the researchers observed electrons as “faint striped patterns created by quantum effects” that cause the electrons to line up in a particular direction. To me this seems very analogous to the swirled, directional patterns of wheat or other grain materials in a crop formation that makes them look just like layered liquid crystals. Could they actually be liquid crystals?
The Nobel laureate Brian Josephson, one of the pioneers in superconductivity, suggested controversially that it may be related to remote viewing and other related phenomena. To me, this recent research, brings us one step closer to understanding how the directional, swirled patterns of crop circle lay is related to the weird battery draining and camera destroying effects that are consistently reported from time to time by visitors, including the author, to crop circles.

Superradiance–Super Blasts of Light from Coherent Matter (Like Balls of Light?)

This really caught my attention. An article in Science Magazine, September 18th, 2009 that discusses how coherently organized atoms can spontaneously emit photons. The authors say how this discovery, dating back to 1954 by Robert Dicke, showed that when their atomic “antennas” are coherently aligned, all in the same direction,  then clumps of matter could starting giving off light. Basically, a group of atoms can act like a single atom and resonate at the frequency of perceptible light. This is know as superradiance or “anomalous radiance.”

And now there is a new discovery that the light can even be stronger than previously thought.  This new finding suggests that even if only one atom is excited, if the group of atoms are symmetrically aligned, it can trigger superradiance. This is known as “single-photon” superradiance because it arises from a single atom.

Metamaterials, Bragg Resonance, and Crop Circle Energies-Weirdness Explained?

More support from the world of science that the geometry of crop circles gives them unusual energetic properties. We’re getting close, very close, to something very important here about how crop circles act like energy amplifiers.

A recent article in Science magazine, “Gold Helix Photonic Metamaterial as Broadband Circular Polarizer,” 18 Sept. 2009, brings up the idea of how the geometric shapes of metamaterials creates resonant, macroscopic, energetic effects. Metamaterials are ordinary materials with chiral and other geometric consistencies that give them extraordinary effects on light and other freuquencies. Metamaterials, for example, are used to create cloaking and invisibility.

The authors of the Science article look at how the shape, more specifically the slight chirality of nanoscale gold helixes creates polarized light and mentions the idea of Bragg Resonance: where each individual crystal interacts with the other crystals in a structure to create a broadband, macroscopic effect that is not reducible to each crystal: rather it is the property of the structure as a whole. The authors show that even a small, less than complete twist in gold filaments, when the geometry of the whole substrate is correct,  creates optical shifts in a reflecting light source. This effect is scalable to other frequencies.

Crop Circles, Static Charges, Vertical Voltage Gradients, and You

A recent issue of New Scientist (August 1st, 2009) featured some comments on electrostatic charges that support our research in crop circles. In the Last Word section, a reader asked what it means when you are outdoors and your hair stands on end. Turns out this means negative charges are coming down from clouds above which happens just before a lightening strike. The commentary also mentioned the idea of “vertical voltage gradients” which we’ve observed for years in the crop circles with our handheld static device, the Trek-520 (pictured above). As we’ve seen over the years, the normal range for this gradient is about 100-200 volts per meter, with higher voltages as you move away from the ground towards the sky. However, some crop circles change the gradient so that the voltage gradient, at around waist height and lower, is different than in the surrounding fields of standing crop. We’ve always suspected that these gradient altering effects are part of the reason crop circles can generate such weird electromagnetic effects on our electronic devices. The New Scientist article confirms that such a gradient exists and varies from time to time for many reasons. And if you ever are outside and your hair stands on end or you feeling tingling in your body, run: lightening is heading your way.