Woolaston Grange of July 18, 2010 and Beggar’s Knoll of July 27, 2010 seem to show textbook symbols for the first and second stages of a proton-proton fusion reaction: what could this mean? 

Some crop pictures seem designed merely to appeal to our aesthetic senses, whereas others (a rare few) seem somehow to predict future events. In the past, such future-predictive crop pictures have been limited mainly to unexpected astronomical events in our solar system: for example unusual behaviors for three different comets observed in 1994, 1995 or 2007 (see time2007i or scorpious_hour or time2007a or time2007g or time2007h.html).  

Last year in 2009, certain crop pictures predicted small astronomical events involving our Sun: such as giant sunspots, bursts of solar wind, solar flares, large solar filaments or coronal mass ejections (see eastfield or badbury or waylandsmithy3).  

Sometimes however, modern crop pictures have seemed to predict important human events on Earth: for example a novel decoding of the Antikythera device in 2006 (see time2007w or time2007u), or the BP oil spill in 2010 (see the top two slides on cropcircleresearch).  

Future-predictive crop pictures are one of two “smoking guns” for their paranormal reality 

I walked personally through one of the “BP oil spill” pictures in July of 2007 at Martinsell, and was impressed with its complex lay of fallen crop, but had no idea at the time what it might mean. Only with the slow passage of time from July 2007 to April 2010, did we learn that two crop pictures from the summer of 2007 (at Maritnsell or Hinton Downs) had seemingly foreseen what was going to happen in the Gulf of Mexico three years later.  

Likewise for several crop pictures from the summer of 2005, which predicted an explosion of Comet 17P Holmes in 2007: we knew (from Lane End Down) that something “round and spherical” was going to explode soon in space, and we knew (from Wayland’s Smithy) that it was going to explode around November 2007, but we could not foresee exactly which comet it might be, or how spectacular that rare astronomical event was going to turn out!  

Future-predictive crop pictures are thus one of two “smoking guns” in the modern crop picture phenomenon (the other being “ghosts” of the same picture in a following year). Those people who are most sceptical about modern crop pictures, seldom know anything of their future-predictive aspects.  

Have we just been shown in 2010 two more crop pictures that predict the future?  

Very recently, two new crop pictures appeared on July 18, 2010 at Woolaston Grange (near the Oldbury nuclear power plant) or on July 27, 2010 at Beggar’s Knoll (near a large white chalk pit). Both of those ostensibly seem to predict the future. The first of those two pictures describes what is called a “Coulomb barrier” to nuclear fusion. Two positively charged protons will repel one another quite strongly when they come close together, so that any productive fusion of their two nuclei is greatly hindered (see Nuclear_fusion or Woolaston comments): 

The second of those two pictures describes what is called an “explosive stage” in nuclear fusion (see proton_chain_reaction or  chalkpit comments). After two protons (p and p) overcome the Coulomb barrier and get close, their respective nuclei may fuse (to pn) and release huge amounts of excess energy, in terms of a positively charged electron (e⁺) and a neutrino (v). The released positron (e⁺) will quickly react with any normal electrons (e^-) nearby, so as to form two gamma-ray photons that produce heat and light: 

Once we superimpose those two standard diagrams for “proton-proton fusion” onto aerial photographs of the two new crop pictures, then a good similarity between the two sets of data becomes obvious:  

Sometimes the first two steps of proton-proton fusion, as shown in crops at Woolaston Grange or Beggar’s Knoll, may continue onward to the proton-proton chain reaction which powers our Sun, or which powers man-made hydrogen bombs: 

The crop artists are certainly here and active this summer, because on June 7, 2010 at Stoney Littleton Longbarrow, they produced another of their “future predictive” crop pictures, which seemed to predict the unusual behavior of Comet C/2009 R1 McNaught one week before it happened (see StonyLittleton/comments.html). They may also have predicted on June 23, 2010 at Savernake Forest an unprecedentedly powerful x-ray burst from deep space (see savernake).  

Field images are often helpfully supplemented by instructive field contexts for truly paranormal crop pictures 

Now in addition to the field images themselves, the field contexts of those two new crop pictures may provide more useful information. Thus, it quickly seemed clear to both aerial photographers, Olivier Morel or Julian Gibsone, that each new crop picture might have “nuclear” connotations. Woolaston Grange was located on a bank of the River Severn close to Oldbury nuclear power plant, and essentially pointed toward it. Likewise, Beggar’s Knoll was located not far from some unusual “radiative markings” in a field below, and also pointed toward a large white chalk pit, so as to suggest a large but finite region of explosion (see Woolaston or chalkpit):

“We can see at Woolaston Grange the interaction between two wave patterns, where energy is transmitted outward from both sources then passes through the other source. Next there is a reaction between both sources as they approach each other’s nucleus. This crop formation has been located near Oldbury nuclear power station, which lies on the opposite bank of the River Severn. Hopefully it is not some kind of warning?”

“Radiation in the landscape? Mysterious radiative markings can be seen in the field below this wonderful new formation at Beggar’s Knoll. Could there be a symbolic connection between the new crop picture and its nearby field markings? This crop formation reintroduces a stylistic theme which was present earlier in the season at Woolaston Grange. A powerful statement!”

An objective assessment of the data and its possible paranormal reality

So when all is said and done, what do we have here? We seem to have been presented with two more future-predictive crop pictures, which ostensibly predict a nuclear fusion explosion somewhere in Earth in the not too distant future, perhaps in the next one to five years. The explosion may be located near a nuclear power plant (which works by fission, not fusion), and it may cause a finite but substantial area of destruction.

Could local humans have made those two crop pictures with rope and boards? If so, then they would have had to create a lot of very clever multi-layered features at Woolaston Grange, as may be seen in aerial photographs (see Woolaston), or as were photographed on the ground by Ross Holcombe (see woolaston fieldreports):

“We visited the Woolaston crop formation today. Some fascinating elements in the lay, and a very palpable energy. There was a tracer arc hidden 6-8 inches under the surface lay, and in an opposite direction to it, which completed the outside edge of the first ring around its left-hand circle. Its right-hand circle did not show a similar tracer arc, but rather showed laid-wheat filling in a completion of the first ring. We also found a couple of spots where the underlying wheat went with the direction of the flow initially, then turned sideways by 90 or 180 degrees. A great formation in a very remote spot!”

Likewise at Beggar’s Knoll, they would have had to create many sharp perimeters and graceful curves as described by Shawn Randall (see chalkpit):

“I was just in the Beggar’s Knoll formation today July 27, on the first day of its reported appearance. A few of us dashed over to search for it as soon as your notification came in. There was little sign of previous visitors. Perhaps only one or two people had been there before, and most of the formation had not been touched or walked upon. The lay was quite flat to the ground, yet also fluffy to step on. Untouched wheat lay spread before my eyes - a welcome sight - after many visitors in other crop formations this year. I hardly wanted to step on it!

The perimeters were sharp and clean. Graceful curves in the lay of wheat were a lovely feature with only one, or possibly two, swirled centers among them. There were numerous segments of the design surrounded by undisturbed standing wheat, with no tramline access. The formation is on a sloping hill and incurs wind – possibly it had been rained upon – yet still it was very smooth, even if a bit weathered. I also found some bent stalks, even though the crop was mature and ready for harvest. This formation is a beautiful example of ‘skilled clean wheat lay’, that makes the experience of being among the first into it an extra-special event on many levels!”

Thus an objective assessment of those two crop pictures by two different skilled observers, namely Ross Holcombe and Shawn Randall, does not suggest that either picture might have been faked.

In addition to the difficulties of field layout, any hypothetical human fakers would have had to go through some college-level physics textbooks, find a few figures describing nuclear fusion reactions, then draw them carefully in two separate, faraway fields near a nuclear power station and/or a white chalk pit, while paying off (or not being observed by) the farmer in each case. Yet to what end? To somehow “fool people” that we would be experiencing a nuclear explosion soon? Or to show “nuclear fusion” crop pictures in an annual calendar, for their exquisite appeal on a wall or coffee table?

Certainly a “human faker hypothesis” would seem doubtful in these particular cases. There may be of course other crop pictures from the well-trodden fields around Avebury which tourists frequent, that could have been produced by human hands (and also usually give a faked appearance on the ground or by aerial photographs).

A possible relation to current world events

Looking at world events, one can scarcely fail to notice a possible relation between these new crop pictures and recent events in the Middle East. The colourful President of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, said recently that he expects the U.S.A. to “launch a military strike on at least two countries in the Middle East within the next three months”, say by October of 2010 (see world_news-mideast). Meanwhile, the European Union has just applied strong economic sanctions against Iranian oil and gas industries, in an attempt to derail their nuclear development program (see EU-hits-Iran-with-tough-sanctions-against-oil-industry-over-nuclear-programmel). An aging Fidel Castro has even emerged from seclusion in Cuba, to warn the U.S.A. against a possible war with Iran, which he says might “turn nuclear” (see www.abc.net.au):  

What might happen over the next six months, between now and the end of 2010? Will the U.S.A. and/or Israel use tactical fusion weapons against certain power plants in Iran, which they believe are producing enriched isotopes of uranium, needed for making a fission nuclear bomb? If so, that might explain why the crop artists have shown us two new pictures at Woolaston Grange or Beggar’s Knoll, which seem to illustrate the two earliest stages of a proton-proton fusion reaction. One was cleverly located near a British nuclear power plant, while the other was located near a large white chalk pit, to suggest a finite but substantial region of explosion. Might certain nuclear facilities in Iran be destined to suffer a similar fate? Only the crop artists know for sure, while the rest of us can just watch and wait. 

Did they show us a third crop picture at Windmill Hill which also predicts the future, on the same day as Beggar’s Knoll?  

A third, well-documented crop picture appeared on July 27, 2010 at Windmill Hill, on the same day as Beggar’s Knoll some distance away. That third picture again seems to predict the future, by providing a possible date for when the two “fusion events” shown at Woolaston Grange or Beggar’s Knoll might take place. Yet as for most oracles, its predictions seem fairly obscure!  

Windmill Hill shows what is essentially a six-month lunar calendar, where the months have been numbered cleverly from “4” to “9” using three nests of beaded crop at its very centre. Those three nests show either 5, 7 or 9 beads inside, in order to uniquely number the corresponding months outside as “5”, “7” or “9” (see windmillhill comments or windmillhill groundshots). The other three months “4”, “6” and “8” may be numbered by simple inference.  

Then along the outside it shows a completely different stylistic motif: namely some kind of Its “trigger mechanism”, possibly suggestive of the Teller-Ulam design for two-step nuclear fusion (see Teller Ulam_design). That trigger mechanism (which has been labeled with a yellow asterisk) remains open during lunar month “5”, partly open during lunar month “7”, or closed by lunar month “9”:  

So far, so good. Yet how can we read dates from their lunar calendar in terms of our normal Julian-Gregorian calendar? If lunar month “5” (open) matches July 27, 2010, when the crop picture appeared (on a full Moon), then lunar month “9” (closed) would equal November 21, 2010 (as in the current Chinese lunar calendar).  

Alternatively, if the start of their annual calendar with lunar month “0” (not shown) matches July 27, 2010, when the crop picture appeared, then lunar month “9” (closed) would equal April 18, 2011 (see windmillhill).  

Certain details along the outer edge of that crop picture actually suggest a final lunar date of “8.25” rather than “9”. In which case, its two possible “closed” dates would be either October 30, 2010 or March 26, 2011. Again we can only wait and watch, not having the prescient abilities of our crop-artist friends.  

Why have they shown such difficult prospects for our future, and why have we felt it necessary to discuss such crop pictures here?  

These would have to count as some of the most distressing images ever shown in crops, if our current interpretation of them is correct. The only other comparable statement which they have made would be “much pain but still time” at Crabwood in 2002. Of course that was eight years ago, so the “still time” period may be running out.  

Yet we strongly believe, based on many years of experience, that those crop artists would only show us such distressing images, if something could still be done about a bad situation in a favourable way. It is for that reason that we have discussed them here. By proper foreknowledge of any bad situation, its outcome can always be ameliorated to some extent.  

For example, some secretary to President Obama might be a “crop circle enthusiast”, so that by reading this very article, a potential nuclear attack on Iran might not be carried out. Alternatively, if a nuclear episode is really destined to happen, then by reading this article or others, and by studying new crop pictures for the rest of 2010, certain people who might be affected by that terrible event will instead escape safely.  

In summary, this is certainly not a time to neglect what modern crop pictures might be telling us. We should pay closer attention now than ever. “The wise man walks with eyes in his head, while the fool walks in darkness.” 

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