Non-Manmade Crop Circles
As a “Vacuum Domain" Phenomenon
An Aspect of the Physics Involved?

By Kris Sherwood

With additional research contributed by Ed Sherwood


Sightings of mysterious 'luminous phenomena' can be found in historical records over the centuries
in many parts of the world. It is now better understood by planetary science that there are locations on Earth more conducive to the accumulation of energies responsible for creating interactions of forces that can be accompanied by extraordinary luminous effects. Places such as Hessdalen, Norway (Fig. 1, Ref. 1); Marfa, Texas, USA; Lake Titicaca, Peru; Mt. Popocatepetl, Mexico; Lake Ontario, Canada; and most notably: Wiltshire, England, are a few of the locations known for regular sightings of these luminous phenomena,
that include 'atmospheric plasmas', or 'Earth Lights' (Ref. 2 & 3).



Fig. 1 Atmospheric “Ball Plasma”
Hessdalen, Norway, photographed February 12, 1982 by Leif Havik
Copyright Project Hessdalen


“The Belokurika Flame” and Other Light Beam Sightings

'Balls of light', 'light beams', 'glowing orbs', 'light flashes', and other manifestations of luminous
phenomena, similar to those reported in many locations around the world, have also been witnessed and photographed in close proximity to sacred sites, and also in and near Crop Circle formations in, primarily
but not limited to, areas of Wiltshire, England. My husband, and research partner, Ed Sherwood, has himself witnessed approximately one hundred 'plasmas', or Earth Lights, while living in Wiltshire; including a large diffuse orange ball of light, also witnessed by a group he was with, in July of 1992. On that occasion the
entire group had seen the large golden plasma 'Earth' itself. When he approached the location the next morning, he found a fresh Crop Circle in the exact place in the field where the “amber” colored light form
had disappeared into the crop! On another occasion in 1992, while Ed was on a nightwatch near
the lookout point of Adam's Grave (Wiltshire, England), he witnessed a sudden spectacular light display
over Golden Ball Hill, approximately one and a half miles away, in the form of a brilliant beam of light
that "shot down from a low cloud to the ground." (Ref. 4) Ed reports that the sides of the beam were directly parallel to each other, and very wide, with an estimated diameter of more than one hundred
and fifty feet (Fig.2). 



Fig. 2 Illustration of Ed Sherwood's "light beam" sighting in 1992
Illustration © 2002 Ed Sherwood/Millennium Research

After several seconds the beam then "dissipated into hill-hugging fog leaving scattered, pulsing light discharges within the fog ". In 1988 a similar "light beam" and spectacular light display were witnessed
by Mary Freeman, a Wiltshire, England resident, as she left the Avebury stone circle just after 11 pm on July 13. She reportedly had observed a "large golden disc" that then projected a "bright white, parallel beam
of light" at a "65 degree angle...across the sky towards Silbury Hill..." (Ref. 5). At the same time objects reportedly flew off her car's dashboard, as if a rush of invisible energy had swept past. The next night five circles, forming a large Celtic Cross, appeared in the field adjacent to Silbury Hill, where the light display
has been seen the previous night.

Ed's 1992 light beam sighting was strikingly similar to Mary Freeman's, and to others witnessed
over the years in the same area of England, which is well reputed to be traversed with highly active lines
of subtle Earth energy, locally known as "ley-lines", but are understood by many including dowsers and geomancers, to encompass the entire Earth in their web of subtle energy. This ley-line energy is known
to some researchers to be associated with non-manmade Crop Circle events, and also to the luminous phenomena associated with them, and is not limited to English Crop Circle events. Another stunning,
and very recent sighting of apparently the same type of brilliant beam of light was one witnessed
in direct relation to a Crop Circle discovery, and occurred in the Netherlands in August 2001(Fig. 3).
It was witnessed by Dutch resident Robbert van de Broekke, and American Crop Circle
researcher Nancy Talbott who published a report of their sighting (Ref. 6)(as featured
on the Jeff Rense website).

Fig. 3 Illustration of Nancy Talbott's "light beam" sighting in 2001 Illustration © Andreas Mueller 2001	Fig. 4 "The Belokurikha Flame" Photo credited as "author unknown" Photograph © The Millennium Group

 
To my astonishment I found this remarkable photograph (Fig 4) while researching the possible
physics responsible for non-manmade Crop Circles and luminous phenomena, associated with them.
Taken in the Belokurikha massif area of Russia, it is of a phenomenon that bears an absolutely striking similarity to the reported light beam sightings witnessed in areas of Wiltshire, England, and in apparent relation to Crop Circle events. This photographed column of light, named "The Belokurikha Flame"
by authors of the scientific paper containing the photo, and described by anonymous witnesses,
who said "the flame grew up from the Earth, then rolled itself into a bright ball, and rapidly flew up and disappeared in the sky". (!!) (Ref. 7) This description probably sounds very familiar to anyone who has studied the subject of Crop Circles, and has heard some of the accounts of the luminosities that can be witnessed in association with them. This additional, and equally extraordinary image, captured over the Belukha summits of the Katun Mountain ridge in Russia, shows large anomalous “light forms” appearing above it (Fig. 5) which have also been categorized in the same research paper as a “vacuum domain” phenomenon (Ref. 7). These are remarkably similar to those that Ed sees nearly every day,
and that I have also witnessed myself appearing above surrounding mountains, while driving through
the Southern California desert. The many sightings of "balls of light", "Earth Lights", "plasmas",
"beams of light", "UFOs", and some of their effects, may now just possibly begin to be explained,
at least in part, by impressive new scientific research, and certain evidence of newly explored
principles of Planetary Physics, that I feel may help account for, and support the reality of, the luminous phenomena being seen and reported around the world, and might help explain one of the
Co-Creative forces involved in non-manmade Crop Circle formation.



Fig. 5 “Large Scale Natural Self Luminous Formations” (or “Vacuum Domains”)
Photographed above the Katun Mountain Ridge, Russia, August 12, 1972
© The Millennium Group

The “Vacuum Domain”:
New Scientific Research Documents Evidence Supporting
Luminosity Phenomena Often Associated with Genuine Crop Circle Events

Some time ago I became aware of research being done by a group of scientists in Russia,
Drs. Alexy Dmitriev, D. L. Dyatlov,and A. V. Tetneov, that offers startling corroborating evidence
in the form of a newly defined area of 'Planetophysical' physics, describing a category of phenomena
called "natural self luminous formations" (NSLFs), which they also call "vacuum domains", or "VDs". The phenomena encompassed in the definition of NSLFs lists a broad spectrum of "self luminous" manifestations that include: ‘lightning’; 'ball lightning'; 'plasmoids'; 'sprites'; "Earthquake Lights";
and glowing orb-like balls of light (BOLs) that can apparently “pass unaffected through solid objects”.
All these manifestations, as proposed in the vacuum domain model, being luminous effects created
by combined forces of “electromagnetics”, and “gravitational principles” that can manifest
a localized "mini black hole" of "gravispin waves" creating a vacuum effect and a "pulsed heat
release" that can result in a wide variety of luminous phenomena, depending on the numerous
variables. (Ref. 7) The bursts of light created can be pea sized or smaller, or as large as those
photographed over the Katun Mountain ridge. The large oval shapes, seen in this photo, were largely
invisible to the observers, who only saw “whitish shining spots in the direction of the summits” (Ref. 7).

The phenomenon of “Eclipse Lights” would also fit this model, and I feel should be included here;
being a “plasmoid” luminosity that can manifest in the intensified gravitational and electromagnetic
energies of a Total Solar Eclipse. Eclipse Lights are so rarely seen as to be almost mythical,
but in 1999, during the period of totality of the Millennium ending Total Solar Eclipse of August 11,
Ed and I were incredulous eyewitnesses to five orange-red fireballs that materialized as the moon’s
shadow made landfall in Cornwall, where we had gone to view the historic eclipse. I videotaped
what is, as far as I’ve seen, the only footage to be publicly released of this sighting (Fig. 6)
(Ref.8 & 9). The large Eclipse-stimulated plasmas, or “hovering balls of light” reportedly
“shot off in a Southerly direction”, according to closer witnesses, as totality ended (Ref. 10).



Fig. 6 “Eclipse Lights” Witnessed During the Total Solar Eclipse
Filmed by Kris Sherwood, August 11, 1999, Cornwall, England.
Video Still © 1999 Millennium Research

I suspect that vortically moving, electro-magnetic discharges of energy related to those described
in the vacuum domain model, are also responsible for the exotic "Marine Lightwheel" phenomenon
that I wrote and published an article about a few years ago. This rarely witnessed phenomenon offers evidence of activity of an otherwise invisible force of energy; one that might well have gone unnoticed
in the expanses of the oceans if not for its synchronous ability to stimulate the bioluminescent marine organisms into flourescence to create the Lightwheel effect which, incredibly, happens to reveal
the energy discharge’s geometric shapes and rotational motion, when occurring at night
and under certain conditions (Ref. 11). It seems very likely to me that the Lightwheel
phenomenon is a manifestation of planetary physics similar to those that produce
vacuum domain related phenomena.

Dr. Dmitriev and colleagues Dyatlov and Tetnov's research paper proposes a brilliant
model of "united electrogravidynamics" that describes a very broad category of naturally produced,
and at times utterly stunning, luminous phenomena, created by a combination of physical forces,
that range from upper atmosphere "sprites"; ground level floating "orbs", to the lightning produced
by the tremendous rotating vortices of power inside deadly tornadoes (Ref. 7). I'd also like to suggest that possibly the most enigmatic, and important vacuum domain related phenomenon of all may have been overlooked in the model’s broad category: that of genuine, non-manmade Crop Circle events, which are compellingly attended by many of the luminous manifestations, rotational properties, and other significant effects that are described in the various categories of the proposed vacuum domain model.

Another described property of the vacuum domain is that of “self-emission and absorption
of light” (Ref. 7); something Ed has witnessed almost daily in the “etheric light forms” he sees,
and that we also photograph, that quickly transform from bright white to black in a split second,
sometimes moving and sometimes stationary. This effect is what I think has been captured
in this photograph of an extremely rapidly moving energy discharge (Fig. 7) that seems to “strobe”
from a white phase that transforms to a black area identical to the strobing pattern of the white one,
and seems to actually be absorbing, rather than emitting the light. We have taken numerous
photos at vortex points of concentrated energy and captured similar light absorbing effects,
that can be found on our website’s Psychic Photography Gallery (Ref. 12). Another significant
point to note, from the research of this group of scientists, is that it affirms that all types
of vacuum domain phenomena grow in frequency in the "years of the Active Sun";
meaning the peaks of activity in the 11 year Solar cycle (Ref. 7). This has also been observed
to be the case with non-manmade Crop Circle formations, a connection that Ed fully realized
in 1991, after discovering a 26,000 year Solar cycle that could help explain why so many
non-manmade Crop Circle formations appeared in 1990 (Ref. 4).



Fig. 7 “Moving Luminosity with Non-Luminous Areas, Absent of Light”
Photographed in the Santa Monica Mtns, California, USA
Photograph © 1999 David Mitchell


A Demonstrable Psycho-Interactive Nature

Perhaps the most remarkable property of "plasmoids", like the ones familiar to the landscape
of Wiltshire, is that they have been observed and documented to exhibit behavior of a demonstrably
psycho-interactive nature, in relation to persons present and focusing their attention on them.
Ed stated this publicly in 1992 at a concerned community meeting of Wiltshire residents
who had been witnessing mysterious “balls of light”. After many personal encounters Ed affirms
that plasma is "psycho-interactive from the moment you give your attention to it,
irrespective of distance" (Ref. 4).

The nature of plasma, as an unstable gaseous energy form, makes it more susceptible
to the subtle psycho-kinetic energy effects of the focus of consciousness (something Ed
has stated for many years) and its effect on the quantum level of sub-atomic matter, which is into
the realm of consciousness physics. Another type of "plasma" that has been scientifically
documented to demonstrate psycho-interactive characteristics, and that's heightened activity
has also been known to have effects on genuine Crop Circle events, and even our own behaviour,
is none other than our Sun (Ref. 13).



Fig. 8 Plasma Sighting
Huish Hill, Wiltshire, UK, Witnessed and filmed by Ed Sherwood, July 23, 2001
Video Still © 2001 Ed Sherwood/Millennium Research.

In 2001 Ed videotaped an impressive plasma appearance himself; one that he sensed clairvoyantly
before it appeared over a wood he was observing during a nightwatch in the Wiltshire countryside (Fig. 8). Remarkably Ed's psychic ability allows him to see and sense this energy before it reaches its "physical plasma" state, which then is obviously visible to the eye and camera. It is the subtle energy we have photographed, and represent on our website's Psychic Photography Gallery, as the “non-physical” predecessor to the physical luminosiites discussed here. Drawn from his years of holding nightwatches,
and conducting group meditation events in the Pewsey Vale (The Vale of Pewsey, Wiltshire, UK)
with the intent of initiating interaction with the source of most non-manmade Crop Circle creation,
Ed can cite many instances, alone and with many witnesses, of having observed obvious and apparent interactions of "UFOs", and atmospheric plasmas, to thought or spoken requests such as to "grow
brighter", "move toward the hill", "come closer", etc. (Ref. 4). Even the human "circlemakers"
have reported witnessing luminous and anomalous phenomena in fields at night while perpetrating
some of their deceptively made hoax formations. There are numerous other accounts to be found
on record, in related subject articles and books, that tell of virtually the same type of sightings,
from all over the world, and even from over the millenniums.

Just before Nancy Talbott’s light phenomenon sighting in the Netherlands in 2001,
the interactive nature of these phenomena was again remarkably demonstrated when,
in a moment of frustration, Nancy exclaimed out loud "Why can't this phenomenon be more obvious,
more direct?". She was directly answered approximately fifteen minutes later by the dramatic
light beam display she and Robbert witnessed occurring in a nearby field, where they immediately
went and discovered a fresh, non-manmade Crop Circle formation (Ref 6).

Another example of possible "cooperative interaction" by the “Source” of the phenomenon
occurred approximately fifteen minutes after Ed had recommended to UFO/Crop Circle researcher
Maria Ward to first "ask permission" before attempting to photograph plasma.
Amazingly Maria then happened to have an incredible ‘close encounter’ with one that she was able
to capture a series of photos of, after having first “asked permission” to photograph it. Ed has treasured
this image (Fig. 9), that Maria gave to him of that event, as one of the best ever photographed examples
of a classic Earth Light, or “atmospheric plasma” at close range (approx. 150 feet away).



Fig. 9 ‘Close Encounter’ with an “Atmospheric Plasma”
Witnessed and recorded by Maria Ward, July 28, 1992
Photograph © 1992 Maria Ward

Of the many plasmas, or Earth Lights that Ed has witnessed, his closest sighting was from a distance
of about 100 feet, and he reports what looked to be a "greenish white fireball, approximately 10 feet in diameter". Though perhaps more commonly reported as having an ‘orange’ or ‘amber’ color,
they can display a wide range of colors, shapes, and behaviours. I had a brief sighting of a similar,
greenish white plasma during a nightwatch, with Ed and some friends in 1997, that materialized
off Martinsell Hill (In The Pewsey Vale, of Wiltshire, UK).

Ed tells of attending a village meeting at Alton Barnes in 1992 where the local residents
were expressing concern, and even fear about the "balls of orange light flying around The Valley"
(The Pewsey Vale). Before the end of the meeting Ed took the podium, and related some of his personal experiences and understanding of the co-creative, and spiritual nature of the phenomenon they had been witnessing. In addition to exhibiting psycho-interactive properties and apparent responses to "mental requests", Ed can verify from experience that this type of plasma manifestation will respect
the emotional reaction of the observer/witnesses, particularly in relation to any possible fear that might
be felt by any of them at its presence. He reports that plasmas (associated with non-manmade
Crop Circle events), that have begun to approach a group in response to mutual mental requests,
disappear or quickly retreat to a distance that is “comfortable” for the observers, if a member
of the group begins to react with fear (Ref. 4). The evidence of an apparent intelligence,
motivating the many witnessed interactive responses demonstrated by these luminous "plasmoids"
that seem to obviously fit the “vacuum domain” model (and the fact that similar plasmas have been
seen to be “dissipate” into the Earth and leave a fresh Crop Circle, as Ed witnessed in 1992),
does indeed support the idea that they are manifesting and reflecting interaction with consciousness
and thought! Just as Ed's and my research contends are also contributing factors in authentic
Crop Circle co-creation.

Under the Streetlamp

In a quirky city version of a related interactive plasma phenomena, there is the oddity
of "Streetlamp Interference", that is detailed on a website I located doing internet research,
which includes "grounding" information offered to the sometimes confused victims of this streetlamp
effect (Ref. 14), who apparently often think they are the only ones to have experienced it.
I’ve actually spoken to people who thought it was some strange and unique personal power
they were unconsciously projecting. It does seem to be more affected by negative or aggressive
disturbances in the particular person’s psyche experiencing it. “EEL”, the site’s webmaster,
fairly accurately terms the effect “electromagnetic psychokinesis”. The phenomenon concerns
the apparent disruption of the common city streetlight’s gaseous illumination medium (plasma),
by a person's physical or mental presence, causing it to flicker or blink out when they approach,
or turn their attention to it. This is possibly attributable to the particular electromagnetic,
or psychokinetic effects, or emanations, of certain people, due to unrecognized variables that disrupt
the plasma-like light source of the streetlight, which is actually exhibiting the observed tendency
of plasma to be sensitive to, and react interactively with, subtle energy fields. This further confirms
Ed’s contentions of the psycho-interactiveness of plasma with human consciousness.

New Scientific Evidence of the
Psychokinetic Effects of Consciousness

I’m not a degreed scientist, but I feel I have a layman's grasp of basic principles of physics
and science and, I think, a general intuitive understanding of how these subtle and complex
interactions can work, as well as how they are involved in Crop Circle co-creation as I understand it.
The contributing factors necessary to be accepted, and supported with scientific documentation,
involve difficult to document phenomena like the elusive "atmospheric plasmas", the subtle energies
and effects of consciousness, the observable but also difficult to prove interactions of consciousness
with natural forces and physical matter. It is truly a fantastic new frontier of awareness and knowledge
only now beginning to be understood and gain a degree of acceptance, that transforms our understanding
of reality and the true nature of our physical world. Innovative new thinking and research like that being
done by groups such as The Global Consciousness Project at Princeton, the Russian Academy
of Sciences, and The Millennium Group among others, is offering substantiating scientific evidence
in support of the concept of a unifying field of collective consciousness that actually interacts
with planetary forces to literally co-create events and influence physical and etheric reality.
The known and scientifically documented "power of prayer" is one of most compelling examples
of the co-creative effect of the psychokinetic energy of focused human consciousness, and the demonstrated physical effect of our thoughts, in practical application.

“Magic” of the Living Earth

Ed has been sharing his understanding of plasma's role in Crop Circle co-creation with fellow
researchers and audiences for over ten years; though as yet he hasn't found time to write
the comprehensive piece on it he would like to do, I give him full credit for sharing his observations
with me, information that has enabled me to also understand the astonishing manner in which plasma
can behave under very particular conditions, and even be influenced by one's thoughts and consciousness. Evidence strongly suggests that there is a complex interaction of planetary physics and consciousness, capable of being combined by an Infinite Intelligence source, to produce surpassingly brilliant geometric shapes made in uniquely swirled and flattened crop. It seems to include elements of electromagnetics, plasma dynamics, gravitational and angular momentum effects (Ref. 15), local geophysical and meteorological conditions, and the influence of the psychokinetic energy of a unifying field
of collective and Infinite consciousness that Ed and I think is delivering "messages", or answers,
that are vital to us all at this critical time in Earth's history (Ref. 16).

It seems likely to guess that ancient sightings of these primarily nighttime plasmas may have
inspired the imaginations of our ancient Celtic ancestors to conjure tales of "Fire-breathing Dragons",
and twinkling "Faeries" that roamed the misty, and geomantically-charged hills of Merlin's Ancient
and Magical Land. These enigmatic luminous emanations were witnessed and revered by our ancestors
of all cultures, and still can be seen today, as mystical appearing lights, small orbs, and hissing fire-balls,
that fly over, from, and into the land and the hilltops, and along the criss-crossed ley-line web of energy, flowing around and through the rolling land.

So, in Crop Circle Country, when the sun goes down and the “plasma envelope” surrounding Earth
is drawn toward her night side by Solar and planetary forces (Ref 17), and geomagnetic
and "electrogravidynamic" conditions are just right, balls of plasma ‘night-fire’ (Ref. 18) flicker on
like candle flames, and bob over the ancient rolling land, riding on waves of mass consciousness
that pulse through the "Dragon Paths" of Earth (Ref. 15), erupting in dazzling luminous displays,
and geometrically organized eruptions of psycho-kinetically fueled Divine Energy, that occasionally
leaves behind Its' Crop Circle Co-creations as metaphorical mirrors held up to our collective questions,
and vital issues in need of our attention. At the same time facilitating our necessary Global awakening
to "other realities", and to our ultimate responsibilities of caring for our unspeakably beautiful
and precious planet, and its critically endangered future, while teaching us that we are truly able
to mutually co-create a more positive and balanced future for the greater good of The All.


Copyright © April 2002 Kris Sherwood/Millennium Research
http://www.CropCircleAnswers.com
All rights reserved.

Reference Sources:

Ref. 1 Project Hessdalen. Online at: http://www.hessdalen.org. A decades long research
investigation into the luminous phenomenon routinely witnessed and monitored in a remote
valley of Norway.

Ref. 2 The “Orbwatch” website at http://www.orbwatch.com monitors regular plasma sightings
in Lake Ontario, Canada

Ref. 3 “Places of Power” by Paul Devereaux – Blanford Publishing © 1990

Ref. 4 Ed Sherwood, as quoted from conversations and research discussions with the author
(His wife, and research partner, Kris Sherwood), and as he has numerously related in public talk presentations over the years.

Ref. 5 "Circular Evidence" by Pat Delgado & Colin Andrews - Phanes Press © 1989

Ref. 6 “Eyewitness Report of Light Beams Creating a Crop Formation in Holland”
by Nancy Talbott © 2001 http://www.rense.com/general17/talbot.htm

Ref. 7 "Planetophysical Functions of Vacuum Domains" by A. N. Dmitriev, V. L.
Dyatlov, and A. V. Tetneov (Geology Institute UIGGM, Mathematics Institute SB RAS, Gorno-Altaisk
State University) As posted on The Millennium Group website at: (http://www.tmgnow.com)

Ref. 8 Written by Ed Sherwood, and posted as Sighting number 6, on the ‘Sightings’ page,
of our Crop Circle research website @ www.CropCircleAnswers.com

Ref. 9 “Mysterious Lights and Crop Circles” by Linda Moulton Howe – Paper Chase Press
© 2000 (Includes Linda’s retelling of Ed’s and my account of our Eclipse Lights sighting,
and other luminosity experiences: pages 165 – 172, and 227 - 228)

Ref. 10 As reported in The Cornish Guardian newspaper August 12, 1999,
and forwarded to us by Dave Gillham, founder of the Cornwall UFO Research Group.

Ref. 11* "Marine Lightwheels - Crop Circles of the Sea?”
By Kris Sherwood © Millennium Research 1997, and published in Nexus Magazine
April - May 1997, Vol. 4 No. 3.
http://www.cropcircleanswers.com/articles.htm

Ref. 12 The Psychic Photography Gallery pages of our website at:
http://www.cropcircleanswers.com/psychicphotography.htm

Ref. 13* "Deus ex Sol - Solar Logos and Helioseismology Depicted in Crop Circle
Formations" by Kris Sherwood © Millennium Research. Published in The Cereologist
Winter 2002, UFO Magazine (UK) February 2002, The Flying Saucer Review – The final issue,
and The Sedona Journal of Emergence June 2002.
http://www.cropcircleanswers.com/articles.htm

Ref. 14 EEL’S Electric Street Lamp Interference Information Website:
(http://www.geocities.com/eel_411/)

Ref. 15 “The Word is Nine – Crop Circle Metaphors of 1997 (Part 1) ” by Ed Sherwood © 1998,
Millennium Research. Published in the CCCS quarterly journal “The Circular”, Issue 32 September 1998.
http://www.cropcircleanswers.com/articles.htm

Ref. 16* "Let Us Remember Dragons" by Ed Sherwood © 1997 Millennium Research.
Published in ‘The Circular’, ‘Sightings Magazine’ (UK) Vol 2 Issue 4, ‘Connections’ (US) Summer 1998,
and several other publications.
http://www.cropcircleanswers.com/articles.htm

Ref. 17 A fact of planetary physics first shared with me by Ed Sherwood, and one I later discovered scientific documentation and corroboration of on NASA’s Solar Physics pages.

Ref. 18 A self-reference to my 1998 observation that two alchemical symbols, ones that individually
signified “night” and “fire”, were contained in a 1998 Crop Circle formation. The symbols were
combined into one glyph and could be read as “Nightfire”, a perfect metaphor for the nighttime
plasmas known to be associated with non-manmade Crop Circle creation.

* Indicates articles posted on the CCA ‘Article’ page at:
http://www.cropcircleanswers.com/articles.htm

Images:

Fig. 1 Atmospheric “Ball Plasma”
Hessdalen, Norway, photographed February 12, 1982 by Leif Havik
from Litlfjellet toward Hessdalen. Copyright Project Hessdalen
Project Website: http://www.hessdalen.hiof.no.
Photo used with the kind permission of Prof. Erling Strand, the Project’s Webmaster.

Fig. 2 Illustration of Ed Sherwood's "light beam" sighting in 1992
Illustration © 2002 Ed Sherwood/Millennium Research

Fig. 3 Illustration of Nancy Talbott's "light beam" sighting in 2001
© 2001 Andreas Mueller ICCA – The International Crop Circle Archive
http://invisiblecircle.de

Fig. 4 "The Belokurikha Flame". Photo credited as "author unknown" in the article
"Planetophysical Functions of Vacuum Domains" by A. N. Dmitriev, V. L. Dyatlov,
and A. V. Tetneov (Geology Institute UIGGM, Mathematics Institute SB RAS, Gorno-Altaisk State
University), © to, and as posted on, The Millennium Group website at: http://www.tmgnow.com.
Photo used with the kind permission of Gary Goodwin of The Millennium Group

Fig. 5 “Large Scale NSLF” (“Natural Self Luminous Formations”, or “Vacuum Domains”)
Photographed above the Katun Mountain Ridge, Russia, August 12, 1972; as appears
in the scientific paper "Planetophysical Functions of Vacuum Domains" by A. N. Dmitriev,
V. L. Dyatlov, and A. V. Tetneov (Geology Institute UIGGM, Mathematics Institute SB RAS,
Gorno-Altaisk State University) As posted on, and copyrighted to The Millennium Group website at: http://www.tmgnow.com Photo used with the kind permission of Gary Goodwin of The Millennium Group

Fig. 6 “Eclipse Lights” Witnessed During the Total Solar Eclipse
Filmed by Kris Sherwood, August 11, 1999, Cornwall, England.
Video Still © 1999 Millennium Research
A full report written by Ed Sherwood is posted on the Sightings page of our website at: http://www.cropcircleanswers.com/sightings_pic6.htm (See also Ref. 6)

Fig. 7 “Moving Luminosity with Non-Luminous Areas, Absent of Light” Photographed
in the Santa Monica Mnts, by David Mitchell © 1999.
For more information visit the picture’s page on our Psychic Photography Gallery at: http://www.cropcircleanswers.com/120301/PSI-G_NSpics/8.htm

Fig. 8 Plasma Sighting
Huish Hill, Wiltshire, UK, Witnessed and filmed by Ed Sherwood, July 23, 2001
Video Still © 2001 Ed Sherwood/Millennium Research.
A full report written by Ed Sherwood is posted on Sightings page of our website at: http://www.cropcircleanswers.com/sightings_pic3.htm

Fig. 9 ‘Close Encounter’ with an “Atmospheric Plasma”
Witnessed and recorded by Maria Ward, July 28, 1992
Photograph © 1992 Maria Ward
Gratefully used with her permission, and is also pictured on our CropCircleAnswers.com Home page
in the cross-dissolving “Applet” that depicts the progression of a Crop Circle Co-creation event;
something Ed actually witnessed in July 1992.


With heartfelt thanks to Gary Goodwin of The Millennium Group; Andreas Mueller, ICCA;
Prof. Erling Strand, Webmaster of Project Hessdalen; and Maria Ward for allowing the inclusion
of their images in this article; and with inexpressible appreciation of my husband Ed Sherwood,
and the invaluable contributions he has made with his unparalleled experiences and understanding
of these complex and astonishing phenomena.

For further related information visit our website at: http://www.CropCircleAnswers.com
Email: millennium9@earthlink.net

Ed and Kris Sherwood
Millennium Research
P.O. Box 2084
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