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The astronomy of our local solar system was shown at
Roundway, Bishop Cannings, Windmill Hill or Wayland’s Smithy in
April or May of 2009: the solar ecliptic, lunar orbit, a lunar
eclipse on July 7, 2009, and possibly an upcoming solar storm!
A whole series of
intricate new crop pictures, from April or May of 2009, have
provided a kind of “teaching” information about the astronomy of our
local solar system. Some of those pictures have even seemed to warn
us that our Sun, now in a quiet phase, might flare or emit a coronal
mass ejection on the full Moon of July 7, 2009.
Here we will discuss
and explain four of the latest astronomical crop pictures to appear
in southern England at Roundway on April 29, Bishop Cannings on May
24, Windmill Hill on May 25, or Wayland’s Smithy on May 29, 2009.
Some useful explanations have already been posted about Roundway on
roundway or
roundway,
Bishop Cannings on
bishopcannings,
Windmill Hill on
windmillhill,
or Wayland’s Smithy on
waylandsmithy.
The
extra-terrestrial hypothesis now seems highly favoured
Most of these new
crop pictures seem so impressive, both technically and artistically,
that their only plausible source would seem to be friendly
extra-terrestrials, who are currently visiting our solar system and
watching Earth, but not yet making open contact. How long will it
take the general citizenry of Britain to recognize and accept these
new facts?
Sam Brown had it
right when she sang George Harrison’s “Horse to Water” in 2002 (see
watch):
“You
can take a horse to the water,
But you can't make him drink.
Oh no, oh no, oh no!
You can have it all laid out in front of you,
but it don't make you think.
Oh no, oh no, oh no!”
Defining the nature of our solar ecliptic at
Roundway on April 29, 2009
At Roundway on April 29, a large schematic version of our solar
system was drawn in yellow oilseed rape:
The view shown there
was looking down from above onto the flat plane of our solar system,
something which astronomers call the “solar ecliptic”.
Defining
the monthly path of our Moon at Bishop Cannings on May 24, 2009
Next at Bishop
Cannings on May 24, twelve nested circles were drawn around a
central star-like centre, in order to illustrate the yearly orbit of
our Moon, as it spirals above or below the solar ecliptic:
The monthly declination of our Moon varies in mid-2009 relative to
Earth’s equator by +25o on May 24 (new Moon), -26o
on June 7 (full Moon), +25o on June 22 (another new
Moon), or -25o on July 7 (another full Moon).
Defining a lunar schedule for the summer of 2009 at
Windmill Hill on May 25, 2009
Then at Windmill Hill
on May 25, a long series of seven flattened or standing circles were
drawn all in a row, in order to illustrate a current lunar schedule
for the early summer of 2009:
First we will see a
new Moon on May 24 (one day before the crop picture appeared), then
a full Moon on June 7, another new Moon on June 22, and another new
Moon on July 7. Two S-like shapes were helpfully added to both ends
of that long crop picture, in order to remind us that all of those
new or full Moons will cross over or under the plane of the solar
ecliptic, once in every month:
Telling
us about the importance of a penumbral lunar eclipse on July 7, 2009
Now on a somewhat
longer six-month schedule of time, our Moon will sometimes cross the
plane of the ecliptic in line with Earth and Sun. The two places
where it crosses the ecliptic, once every month, are known as its
“descending node” or “ascending node”.
If either of those
nodes lines up precisely with Earth and Sun, typically once in every
25 weeks, then the conditions may be right to produce a solar or
lunar eclipse, such as the one illustrated above (by a large central
circle) for July 7. A more detailed explanation is shown below for
Earth and Moon orbiting around the Sun:
There we see how long
shadows from either the Moon (small ball) or Earth (large ball) may
produce solar or lunar eclipses respectively, on a six-month time
schedule. Eclipses in 2008, for example, occurred on February 7 or
21, then on August 1 or 16. Eclipses in 2009 have occurred so far on
January 26 or February 9, with three more scheduled for July 7, July
22 or August 6.
Why was
the lunar symbol for July 7, 2009 drawn so large?
The large central
circle which was drawn at Windmill Hill to symbolize a lunar eclipse
on July 7, 2009 seems far too large, to mark such an insignificant
astronomical event! Penumbral eclipses can barely be seen from
Earth, because they block out so little of the Sun’s light during a
full Moon.
That large central
circle was also drawn in connection with seven “curved lines of
eclipse”, which are used to show where on Earth any eclipse will
appear geographically:
By simple logic,
those seven lines could mean “July 7”. So what is going on here? Why
so much fuss over an astronomical non-event?
A solar
storm seems to be predicted for July 7, 2009
Well, certain crop
pictures
from April or May
have seemed to suggest that a major solar storm will impact Earth
fairly soon, perhaps on July 7, 2009 (see
www.earthfiles.com or
roundway2). The last major solar storm to affect Earth was on
October 22, 2003 (see
science).
Could this be true?
Can English crop pictures really predict the future? One past
example which was documented by Andy Thomas seems relevant here (see
swirlednews.com or
cropfiles.it):
“The ‘galaxy’ crop pictures of 1994 displayed Mars, Saturn, Jupiter
and our Moon in the constellation Cetus, exactly where they would
appear on April 6-7, 2000. When that date arrived, the Earth
encountered a powerful solar storm, and a bright aurora borealis was
seen across many European or American countries. Some people
wondered whether those 1994 crop circles had been trying to tell us
that something important would happen to our Sun in 2000? It seems
beyond coincidence. It also seems to show that the intelligences
behind such crop pictures have the power of premonition.”
Telling us where our Sun
will be located on July 7, 2009
An interesting
hypothesis, but not yet proven! Could we perhaps find more evidence
for or against that hypothesis, by studying some of those new crop
pictures more closely?
At Windmill Hill for
example on May 25, we were shown a lunar schedule for the early
summer of 2009, where the long axis of that crop picture represents
the “solar ecliptic”:
Looking further off
into the distance, we can see a large round oval that might be meant
to represent our “Sun”, which will be located 22o north
of the ecliptic on July 7. Then on the right, we can see a
teardrop-shaped pattern in the crop which might be meant to
represent a “solar flare”. A similar series of teardrop-shaped
“flares” were shown at Peaks Down on May 9 (see
peaksdown).
Telling
us that our Moon will cross an intersection between the solar
ecliptic and the Milky Way just before eclipse
Most field
investigators at Windmill Hill were puzzled by one strange aspect of
that crop picture: why had it been aligned carefully with respect to
two different sets of crop tramlines?
“One curious
feature was a mysterious track that can be seen on aerial
photographs. It appears to have been made by some vehicle, yet the
long axis of that crop formation lies directly along it.”---Stuart
Dike (see
windmillhill).
“The
circlemakers paid careful attention to some old tramlines. If you
look closely, you can see that where an old tramline runs through
the design, the barley has not been completely flattened.”---Andrew
Pyrka (see
windmillhill
Upon further study,
we found that one set of crop tramlines at Windmill Hill were meant
to represent the “solar ecliptic” as discussed above, while the
other set were meant to represent the “plane of our Milky Way
galaxy”:
A more accurate
version is shown below, where both the solar ecliptic and plane of
our Milky Way have been drawn with slightly curved paths through our
night sky:
But why would those
crop artists show us a crossing between our solar ecliptic and the
plane of the Milky Way, in relation to an upcoming lunar eclipse?
Maximal eclipse on July 7 will be at 0940 UT, when our Moon is in
Capricorn at RA 19 hours, 10 minutes and Dec -23o 50
minutes (see
eclipse).
Yet two days before
on July 5, our Moon will pass through the constellation of
Sagittarius at RA 18 hours, 10 minutes and Dec -25o 30
minutes. That is close to where our Sun crosses the galactic centre
on December 21-23 of any year at RA 18 hours, 10 minutes and Dec -23o
30 minutes.
Hence by showing two
sets of tramlines, they were telling us where our Moon would be
located in Earth’s sky just before eclipse.
Four
days later at Wayland’s Smithy, they showed us how Earth’s magnetic
field will be deformed soon into the shape of a “jellyfish”
Four days later,
another spectacular crop picture appeared at Wayland’s Smithy on May
29, 2009. It seems to be telling us (in a fairly humorous fashion)
what Earth’s magnetic field will look like soon, after it has been
deformed into the shape of a “jellyfish” by an upcoming solar storm
(see
waylandsmithy):
Everything about that
new crop picture seems to say “July 7”. For example, the thick
“tail” of that jellyfish contains seven eclipse-like symbols, while
there are seven thin “streamers” hanging off to the right.
Four small vertical
circles between its head and its tail represent “eclipses” (see
time2007x),
while three pairs of tiny white circles in that four-circle group
represent three penumbral lunar eclipses which will occur in 2009,
namely on February 9, July 7 or August 6. Indeed, the entire crop
picture seems to be centred on “July 7” as the central eclipse in a
series of three.
Finally, three or
four “stripes” appear in the head of that jellyfish. Those stripes
may suggest three or four waves of emission from our Sun, when (or
if) the predicted solar storm really does occur.
Two more
sets of crop pictures should still appear before July 7, 2009
Current observations
do seem rather suggestive, yet as Carl Sagan once noted:
“Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence”. So we
should all remain fairly sceptical, if open-minded, and just wait to
see what those crop artists show us next?
Two more sets of
astronomical crop pictures should appear on the full Moon of June 7,
as well as on the new Moon of June 22, if past experience this
season can be any guide.
The CMM
Research Group
P.S. We would like to
thank Olivier Morel, Andreas Muller, Jack Turner, Lucy Pringle, and
Steve Alexander for some of the photographs used here.
Harold Stryderight |
