“Let Us Remember Dragons”

A Meteorological Connection In Crop Circles 

By Ed Sherwood

TO ‘SEE’ A 'DRAGON'

During the early 1980s a theory emerged offering a completely natural explanation for the origin of many Crop Circles. It is called the ‘Plasma Vortices Theory’ and its main proponent is Professor Terrence Meaden: a meteorologist.

According to Professor Meaden, a genuine Crop Circle is the effect of a “descending energetic vortex from the atmosphere, a vortex of air which is ionized to the point at which it is better regarded as a species of low-density cool plasma, producing a high-energy electromagnetic field.”

The Plasma Vortices Theory describes how a rotating mass of electrically charged air (reported as a luminous UFO) might form from certain weather conditions and topographical features in the landscape (Ref. 1).

Fig. 1 Close Proximity ‘Ball Plasma’
Photo Copyright 1992 Maria Ward

Many people, including myself, have experienced UFOs in association with Crop Circles. Of the 56 that I saw between 1992 and 1996 while living within three miles of East Field (one of England’s most prodigious Crop Circle sites), 31 looked ‘plasma-like’: luminous, diffusely edged ‘fire balls’ that materialized in a variety of colours, though most often amber-orange, or ‘Golden’, and or red; and 29 of those occurred in the same weather conditions, characterized by calm stable air, high pressure, high humidity, and low to no wind speed (Fig. 1). 

While not supporting the idea that non-manmade Crop Circles and some of the UFOs, and light phenomena, associated with them have been created by weather, I do think meteorology has played an important part in the physics of their creation. It has also been affirmed through the sign symbolism of some very notable and historic formations (Fig. 2 & Ref. 2 & 3).

UPON THE ‘LEY’ OF THE LAND

Fig. 2 East Field 1990 Crop Circle Pictogram
Photo Copyright 1990 George Wingfield

Looking strangely ‘Hieroglyphic’, the East Field Crop Circle pictogram appeared during the pre-dawn hours of July 11th 1990 near the villages of Alton Priors and Alton Barnes in Wiltshire, England (Fig. 2 & 3).

 

Fig. 3 East Field 1990 Crop Circle Silhouette Drawing
Drawing Copyright 1990 Ed Sherwood

It was the longest and most complex formation to have appeared up to that time, the first to involve ‘claw-like’ and ‘foot-like’ design features and to include a double ‘dumb-bell’. It was also the first Crop Circle pictogram to manifest in East Field, belonging to farmer and resident of Alton Barnes, Tim Carson.

Apart from its unique design and massive size (measured at 405 feet long), there was evidence of 90 degree plant stem bending (in this case wheat), without a break or crease; ‘Gap Seeking’, a physical effect on ‘downed’ plant flow when crossing or approaching tractor lines (i.e.: spaces devoid of crop); repeated electrical equipment malfunctioning when inside the pictogram, unlike outside the formation, as experienced by National and International television crews within days of the pictogram forming; and ‘Tangential Geometry’ giving a precise alignment, size and spacing of Crop Circle sign elements (Ref. 2). 

DRAGONS PLAY

WHERE THERE IS WIND AND WATER

Water, important in meteorology, has long been recognized as an element of the non-manmade Crop Circle phenomenon, and perhaps not surprisingly, can be ‘seen’ in the sign symbolism of some notable formations (Fig. 6).

The symbol used by meteorologists to represent wind force and direction is known as a ‘Wind Feather’ (Fig. 7, Ref. 2 & 4). As a symbol it’s been reflected in many formations and has helped in reading them. A perfect example was the pictogram that formed at the Neolithic site of Old Sarum in 1992 that incorporated wind feather symbols to create a pair of metaphorical ‘wings’, and a ‘tail’, for a symbolic ‘Crow’ or ‘Raven’ in flight (Fig. 7).

The tail wind feather denoted wind speed and direction, and possibly when the formation was created, like the wind feather in ‘The Nine’ glyph Crop Circle sign that appeared 18 days later at Silbury Hill (Fig. 6). The pictogram also included the meteorological symbols for rain: a filled circle, which could also denote total cloud cover; and drizzle: the symbol resembling a ‘comma’ and musical break (‘breath’) mark (Fig. 7, Ref. 2 & 4).

With its ‘head’ and ‘beak’ pointing directly at Old Sarum, its central axis reflected an alignment between that site and Stonehenge, represented by the ringed circle.

Old Sarum and Stonehenge are exactly six miles apart “As the crow flies”, when measured from the center of each site. The pictogram had six circular areas of flattened crop.

Throughout the ancient world the Raven and Crow were thought to be the confidant and messenger of the ‘Gods’, possessing the power of prophesy. To the Greeks and Romans the Crow was a ‘weather prophet’. In the British Isles the Raven was considered to be an oracle. In Ireland the phrase ‘a ravens knowledge’ means to see and know all.

With this in mind perhaps the pictogram was saying:

“This is a meteorological message from the ‘Source’, the ‘Creator’, the ‘Sun-God’ or ‘Creator-God’ (symbolized by cultures throughout history as a ringed circle or ringed ‘dot’, and variations of); once revered at ancient sacred sites; from which and to which the ‘messenger’ of prophesy, a ‘Crow’, flies along a Ley Line from Stonehenge to Old Sarum.”

Interestingly in 1992 a third pictogram, combining meteorological symbols, was discovered in the desert near Safaga, in Egypt, on November 28, by Charlotte Wusthoff, which included a wind feather and a ring: the symbol for ‘cloudless’ in meteorology, in its sign symbolism (Fig. 8 & 4, & Ref 5).

LOOK TO THE EAST

The Dragon’s Forecast (Fig. 2-5 & 11) appeared in East Field so I looked to the traditions, folklore, legends, earth sciences and religions of the near and far East in 1990 for clues to further understand the non-manmade Crop Circle phenomenon, and its implied physics and metaphysics. 

In China, for example, where the ancient science of ‘Feng-Shui’ (translated ‘Wind’ and ‘Water’) or ‘Geomancy’ has been practiced for over 2000 years, the Chinese have long held the idea that the Earth, like the human body, is covered by a matrix of invisible lines of subtle magnetic force, referred to as ‘Lung Mei’ translated ‘Dragon Paths’ (Ref. 6-10). 

In Britain Lung Mei correspond to Ley Lines and references to them have appeared in the sign symbolism, geometry, orientation and location of many formations, including several pictograms in East Field (Fig. 9).

Taking each in turn:

The major axis of the 1990 pictogram was aligned to Magnetic North, the primary ‘Geomantic’ compass bearing. It was also crossed by several Lung Mei and with its wind feathers ‘doubling’ as symbolic legs, feet and claws, the pictogram even took on the appearance of a Dragon, with one foot up and three feet down, traversing its path across the land (Ref. 2).

In 1992 the symbol of a ‘Snail’ formed. I later learned that scientists have found that snails perceive extremely weak magnetic fields (Lung Mei) by which they navigate. Also, in old England a snail was called a ‘Dodman’, which could mean: ‘an ancient surveyor of the landscape’, a term given to ancient ‘Geomancers’ (Ref. 11).

And in 1996 a spectacular formation ‘mirrored’, amongst other things; Lung Mei, by symbolizing and combining the path of a ‘Serpent’, historically interchangeable with Dragon (or two Serpents, like a Caduceus), and the path of two snails. As John Haddington stated in 1992 (Ref. 11), Latin for snail is ‘Helix Nemoralix’ or in the case of two snails: a ‘Double Helix’!

DRAGONS SONG

There have been reports of inaudible and audible sounds emanating from the center of some Crop Circles or from their vicinity.

On July 29th 1990, at approximately 12pm, at a formation directly opposite the East Field pictogram, a whining pulsing sound issued from the center of the largest of three circles (Fig. 10). Although clearly recorded on audio tape at the time as a distinct sound; which began quietly at first and then quickly increased in volume and intensity until it was the only sound recorded; it was otherwise inaudible to the three witnesses present: Rita Gould, Vince Palmer and myself.   

Another sound, this time audible, is known as the ‘Trilling Sound’, or “electronic sparrow”, as Colin Andrews once aptly called it (Ref. 12 & 13). Measured at 5.2KH, it is a sound that seems ‘localized’, from a distance, and ‘all encompassing’ when very close. I have experienced it three times to date.

On a ‘resonant’ note a striking correlation exists in an old Chinese tale: ‘Yui Yi & The Dragon King’, as it describes Dragons in human form in the process of changing back to Dragons (Ref. 14):

“All around them, the sudden chattering of the courtiers rose like the twittering and trilling of thousands of birds, like the liquid songs of flutes or the chiming of bells. In the pearly light, the courtiers shapes seemed to dissolve and form again and again, as if the atoms of creation were dancing.”

SIGNATURES ON THE LAND

‘Dragons feet’ have appeared in a number of impressive formations since East Field 1990. They include: Milk Hill (Left), on the following night; East Kennett (Right), just over two weeks later, and Silbury Hill (Center), on August 18th 1992. (Fig. 8 & 11)

In each case the ‘foot’ was symbolized with three ‘claws’, which could be a reference to ‘Tatsu’, a Dragon in Japanese folklore identified by three claws (unlike Chinese Dragons that have either four or five) on each foot. This Dragon was thought to be capable of changing form and size at will, even to the point of invisibility (Ref. 15). Interestingly, Japan was the only country in the Orient to report Crop Circles in 1990 (Ref. 16), the same year that ‘Dragons feet’ first entered Crop Circle sign symbolism.

Another twist to this very ‘Holographic’ phenomenon are ‘Dragons footprints’, a term given to areas of irregularly flattened crop, resembling ‘elemental’ footprints, that sometimes precede or accompany a Crop Circle event, and display biophysical anomalies characteristic of non-manmade formations (Fig. 11 & Ref. 17).

A SIGN FROM THE GODS

‘Dragon Lane’ is the road sign name of a narrow village road built on a prominent Ley Line leading to an ancient sacred site called ‘Swanborough Tump’ and a field two and a half miles away, known for its Crop Circle pictograms and references to Lung Mei: East Field, and another ‘Sign’ of the Dragon (Fig. 12).

To the ancient Chinese, and Japanese, Dragons were ‘weather lords’, masters of the wind with control over water. Their flight was the wind; their breath, the mists and rain. Thought to be spirits that spiraled the sky and blew the clouds along, resting in regions beyond the bounds of air, they were ordinarily seen as the ever-changing patterns of the weather. As great clouds, storms, wind squalls and whirlwinds, they left their mark on land, flattening crops and causing rivers to flood (Ref. 18, 9 19 & 20, & Fig. 13).

Eastern Dragons were said to be as fluid as the elements and water was their place of residence. In early 1996 I learned from professor Gerald Hawkins that ‘Alton’ as in Alton Barnes and Alton Priors is an old English word meaning “source of a river”, and that the source of the Avon (a river that flows within a mile of Stonehenge) begins at the foot of East Field.

Many Crop Circle formations have appeared in close proximity to water, either or both above and below ground sources. There is even evidence of a phenomenon very similar to Crop Circles having occurred in the Sea! (Ref. 21) Also water has been a reoccurring theme reflected in Crop Circle sign symbolism since 1988. Other examples include: Stonehenge 1997; Liddington Castle 1996; Stockbridge Down 1995; Oliver’s Castle 1994; Cherhill 1993; Silbury Hill 1992; Firs Farm 1991 and East Field 1990 (Ref. 22). Like a stream of clear consciousness WATER, among other things, has been reflected again and again as a key element of the non-manmade Crop Circle creation process. Another clue?

Chinese folklore says, “If Dragon fire comes into contact with wetness it flames, and if it meets water it burns”. In the damp Wiltshire valley known as the ‘Vale of Pewsey’ luminous ‘UFOs’ are not uncommon. Of those that I have seen, from distances of several miles to a hundred feet away, more than half were best described as: ‘Ball Plasmas’; ‘Plasma Vortices’; ‘Earth Lights’; ‘Amber Gambolars’; ‘Fire Balls’; and ‘Dragons Fire’ (Fig.1 & Ref. 18).

W.C. Levengood, a noted biophysicist and expert in Crop Circle plant analysis, had this to say about plants sampled from the 1996 Laguna Canyon Crop Circle formation: “As we have seen in the past, this degree of change in the cell wall pit diameters indicates the plants were exposed to a very rapid, high heat input.” (Ref. 23) Signs of internal heating have appeared in other ways too, such as stem node swelling, splitting, and expulsion cavities. These effects have occurred in the stem node areas where water is most concentrated. (Ref. 24)

On the 8/9th of August 1986 in a mountainous part of Yamagata Province, Japan, a single Crop Circle appeared in a rice paddy. That night a ‘bright orange light’ was seen in the vicinity, severe television interference was experienced at a nearby house, and approximately 20 tons of water vanished from the field (Ref. 16).

At another formation that appeared on the 18th of August 1992 near Silbury Hill, in Wiltshire, a metal water trough became an incorporated sign feature in one of the most beautiful pictograms to grace the English countryside to date. Clearly underscoring the importance of water the trough had also been partly emptied by the event. (Fig. 8 & 11)

Apart from the Silbury Hill formation referencing water it also consisted of nine different sign symbols; eight joined by a narrow ring and one in the center. In the monumental Chinese Medical treaties the ‘Pen Ts’ao Kang Mu’, compiled at the end of the 16th century, and the ‘Nine Dragon Scroll’ of mid-13th century, there were said to be Nine Dragons revered in China.

One of the Nine Dragons: ‘The Golden Dragon’ or ‘Cosmic Dragon’ was given greater importance than his fellow kinsfolk. Said to be the colour of the Sun (like an Amber Gambolar?), this Dragon was described as an elusive, enigmatic, august and solitary creature that disdained display. Scholars wrote: “He can be large or small, short or long, obscure or manifest, alive or dead. The King cannot drain his pool or catch him (like we cannot ‘catch’ the ‘Primary Source’ behind most non-manmade Crop Circle creation). His intelligence and virtue are unfathomable. He does not go in company or live in herds. He waits for the wind and rain and deports himself in the azure air. He wanders in the wilds among the heavens. He comes and goes, and at the proper season (i.e.: Summer), if there is perfection, he comes forth, if not, he remains unseen.” (Ref. 25)

In ancient Egypt the first religion was based on ‘Nine Creation Gods’, nine deified Principles and Forces of Creation, known as the Nine Great ‘Neteru’, and like the Nine Dragons of China, one was deified more than any other. Named ‘Atum’ this ‘God-like’ Intelligence, Principle and Force was the ‘initiator’ of Creation, the first of the Nine Great Neteru, who in one act of divine ‘Communication’ was said to have given birth to the fundamental forces of the Universe, symbolized by the Nine Gods.

Atum, in blissful contemplation, is represented in the form of the largest free standing monolithic sculpture in the world: The Great Sphinx, at Gizeh, and is known by many names including: Tum, ‘Re-Harakhti’ (‘Re’ pronounced ray was the Egyptian Sun-god), Ra, Herenkar, Harmarkos, Tehuti, and ‘Tom’; the name given to the ‘Communicator’ of ‘The Nine’, the ‘Infinite Intelligence’, in more recent times (Ref. 26-31).

Discovered by Vince Palmer and I on July 30^th 1990, and ‘echoing’ one of the central concerns of The Nine (Ref. 28-30), a non-manmade Crop Circle, measuring approximately 30ft in diameter, appeared in a wheat field, near Stonehenge, at a village called Palestine.

Throughout the undisturbed circle I found 90 degree plant stem bending (i.e.: plants bent in addition to their natural bend, at ground level, without a break or a crease) and a pristine crop lay which revealed the plants had been bent, rotated and ‘flattened’ very recently, and in one motion: non-mechanically, at the same time and within seconds.

In 1995 the largest and finest nine ringed spiral sign formed in young barley, its location near Beckhampton, in Wiltshire, closely corresponding to the ‘Earth Analogue Site’ of the ‘Face on Mars’, also known as the ‘Martian Sphinx’ (Ref. 32-33). With its location associated with Atum and its sign symbolism the ‘Sun-God’, and The Nine, the Knoll Down formation was simplicity itself. (Fig. 14)

From the ‘Dragons Forecast’ of 1990 to the ‘Gaia Mind’ formation of 1997 (Fig.15, Ref. 34) there have been many non-manmade Crop Circle communications referencing ‘Nine’ and ‘Dragons’, among other things, in their sign symbolism (Fig. 16 & Ref. 26).

LIKE A HOLOGRAM

Formations like the Dragon’s Forecast of 1990 and the Nine Crop Circle pictogram of 1992, and many other non-manmade Crop Circle signs before and since, were, in my view, communications from the Infinite Intelligence, The Nine; symbolized in ancient times as Nine Dragons, and Nine Creation Gods; utilizing natural and supernatural energies and forces of the Cosmos and Earth, including the co-creative psychokinetic (PK) energy, and effect, of focused and expanded, individual and collective, Human Consciousness.

In 1952, via the Collective Consciousness or Mind of Dr Vinod (Ref. 29) the ‘Communicator’ of The Nine had this to say about their reality and purpose:

“We are Nine Principles and Forces, Personalities if you will, working in complete mutual implication. We are forces, and the nature of our work is to accentuate the positive, the evolutional, and the teleological aspects of existence.”

Continuing: “To be simple, we accentuate certain directions as will fulfill the destiny of creation.”

As we approach a New Millennium and ‘Age’ of increasing and accelerating Human Consciousness supernatural ‘Signs’ of a world in transition are before us. Like a ‘Course in Miracles’ from humanities ‘Higher Self’, and the Infinite Intelligence, Crop Circle communications, like The Dragon’s Forecast and many others, have revealed again and again, through their timing, placing, geometry, mathematics, sign symbolism, physics, biophysics, astrophysics and more (including luminous and non-luminous aerial and other phenomena), the Omniscient ‘Source’ of Intelligence and Consciousness behind them, and a message for us all: With every thought, every emotion, every intension and act of giving attention causing an effect in a Psychokinetic Universe let us remember the power of prayer and meditation.

And the ideal conditions for the Golden Dragon, Atum, Tom, the Communicator of The Nine, to appear on Earth.

Ed Sherwood - June 1997 (Edited 2023)

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Postscript:

By July 1997 many non-manmade Crop Circle pictograms had symbolized 3 dimensional forms: a Dragon; a Disk; a Dolphin; a Snail; a Crow; a Planet; a Moon; a Comet; an Asteroid Belt; a Lunar System, a Solar System, a Galactic System; a Double Helix; a Star; a Sphere, a Tetrahedron, a Temple, and so on...

On July 22 1997, my wife, Kris Sherwood and I gave a Crop Circle presentation, including information from this article, at The Assembly Rooms in Glastonbury entitled: ‘Exploring A Crop Circle Hologram’ and that night the first ‘Holographic’ looking non-manmade Crop Circle sign (below) appeared at the site of the pictogram I had presented as the centerpiece of the talk: ‘The Nine’ Crop Circle pictogram of 1992 at Silbury Hill (Ref. 26)

Photo Copyright 1992 Maria Ward/Photo Copyright 1997 Steve Alexander

(Reference source missing from archives. To add when found.)

26) The Word Is Nine (Part 1), by Ed Sherwood, Millennium Research, June 1998.

27) Ancient Times: A History of the Early World, James H. Breasted, Second Edition,
Ginn & Company. 1916 & 1935.

28) Briefing for the Landing on Planet Earth, Stuart Holroyd, Corgi 1979.
Reprinted by White Crow Books, 2023, and available from: Amazon.com, ebay.com, and goodreads.com

29) Uri: The Authorized Biography of Uri Geller; The Worlds Most Famous Psychic,
Andrija Puharich, Futura Publications Ltd. 1974.

30) The Nine: Briefing From Deep Space, Stuart Holroyd, White Crow Books, 2023.

31) Keeper of Genesis, Robert Bauval & Graham Hancock, Mandarin 1997.

32) Beckhampton Spiral, Crop Circle Silhouette Drawing, By Peter R. Sorensen, 1995.

33) Martian Horizons, The Quarterly Journal of The Mars Mission, Vol. 1/No.3 Winter 1992.

34) The Philosopher’s Stone - A Stone Most Precious, Kris Sherwood, 1997.

35) The Scorpius Hour, Kris Sherwood, 1997.