Fig.
1
Marine Lightwheel Illustration
Copyright 1997 Ed Sherwood
Sunday
morning May 20, 2007 I awoke to several astonishing email
messages from excited crewmembers aboard a US Navy ship
deployed in waters off the Iranian coast. Over the night
of May 19, 2007 they witnessed something that had completely
stunned, amazed, and shocked them and, as one said, made
them think that Iran had some “new form of weaponry” that
was being deployed against them (!). An apparently rapid
internet search resulted in their finding an article I wrote
that was published in Nexus magazine in 1997 about a rarely
witnessed, and nearly mythically exotic, phenomenon known
as “Marine
Lightwheels” (Ref. 1). The
information contained in my article relieved their concerns
and described exactly what they had witnessed, and they
responded with exuberant descriptions of their freshly experience
sighting.
Years ago while
conducting research into the possible geophysical forces
involved in the creation of non-manmade Crop Circles and
certain associated phenomena, my attention was drawn to
reports of a little known or understood bioluminescent marine
phenomenon called Marine Lightwheels and, noting some very
intriguing similarities to aspects of Crop Circle creation,
I did further research and wrote an article summarizing
what I found which was later published in a number of periodicals,
and linked widely on the internet. For those who don’t know
of it, the Marine Lightwheel phenomenon is caused by very
small, fluorescing bioluminescent marine organisms that
are apparently stimulated by unseen electromagnetic planetary
forces that are revealed, much in the same way that dust
is swept into 'dust
devils’, and similarly rotational energy systems related to the
electromagnetically driven phenomena propelling them. (Ref.2a)”. A more detailed description of
the Lightwheel phenomenon can be found in my original article,
but suffice it to say here that the rotating, curve-spoked
Lightwheels can extend as far as the horizon and consist
of multiple glowing rimless “wheels” overlapping and spinning
past the ship’s bow as fast as three per second, and can
manifest in rotating wheels, circles, crescents, converging
sets of bars and random pulsing patches of light. The ‘light’
is generated by microscopic bioluminescent organisms present
in certain areas and has the same greenish-white glow as
normal bioluminescence, but on a massive and geometrically
organized scale. Mariners have been reporting sightings
of this phenomenon in ship’s logs for hundreds of years,
but had been largely considered a “wild sailor’s tale”.
It is my hope that further scientific research will eventually
be able to provide a more thorough understanding of this
phenomenon and how it may be related to the causative forces
involved in non-manmade Crop Circle creation, and in the
process add credibility and scientific weight to the reality
of both phenomena.
Fig.
2 Handbook of Unusual Natural Phenomenon
William R. Corliss, Crown Publishing New York 1986
After my article’s
first publication in 1997, and subsequent radio interviews
that husband Ed Sherwood and I did, a handful of anecdotal
reports were forwarded to me from witnesses to the Lightwheel
phenomenon. The most notable of these was from an Australian
mariner, Norm Fraser, who had written a report of his sighting
and had published it in the Marine Observer before discovering
my article in Nexus Magazine.
I plan to write
a more comprehensive update on the numerous sightings on
record that came to light during my further research, but
for this report I will now let the valiant sailors aboard
the USNS tell about their sighting in their own words, without
which this new sighting of this still under-investigated
and little understood phenomenon would not be possible.
My heartfelt thanks to those sailors who took a possible
risk in contacting me, and my assurance to them that their
names, the ship’s name and exact location will remain undisclosed,
out of respect for the nature of their mission and deployment
in hostile waters.
Fig
3. Map of Persian Gulf and Straits of Hormuz
Area map from Hammond Standard World Atlas Hammond Incorporated
Copyright 1967
I received the
following precisely detailed and concise account of the
May 19th sighting from a crewmember who has asked to be
identified only as “CMK”. This report was approved for release
by his ship’s master (Ref. 2). CMK’s riveting account contains
valuable confirmation and much corroborating information
consistent with many historic reports that I found while
researching my original article.
The May
18/19, 2007 sighting in CMK’s own words:
1. First occasion.
The time of the
first occurrence was approximately 2315 on 18 May 2007
and lasted for about 40 minutes. At the onset, we were in
the east-bound international shipping lane, and our position
was in the vicinity of 26 degrees 31 minutes north and 56
degrees 22 minutes east on a course of 066 degrees true
at 11 knots. Our distance from land was approximately 8
miles and the water depth was approximately 82 fathoms.
The wind direction and speed was out of the south west at
10 knots prior to the event, and rose steadily upon the
onset of the event to approximately 20+ knots true (30+relative
wind speed). Once we changed course to 090 degrees true,
the event was more pronounced.
The first occurrence
consisted primarily of "blob" shapes (described
as an underwater disco show) and some concentric rings "radiating"
out from the vicinity of the ship and was spread over an
extremely large area, literally as far as I could see. There
were occasional bars or echelons that varied in size, and
direction of travel. Additionally there were a few spiral
designs, however there was no set pattern or rhythm to any
of the displays. The flashing of the bioluminescence was
completely random.
2. Second occasion.
The second occurrence
happened at approximately 0045 on 19 May 2007 and lasted
for about 30 minutes. At the onset of the second occurrence,
we were still in the east-bound international shipping lane,
our position was in the vicinity of 26 degrees 25 minutes
north 56 degrees 37 minutes east on a course of 147 degrees
true at 11 knots. Our distance from land was approximately
7 miles and the water depth varied between 90 and 130 fathoms
during the sighting. The wind direction and speed was not
recorded during the second event, but the winds had calmed
after the first event, and rose again during the second
to near the same speed as before.
The second occurrence
consisted primarily of bars, "waves" or echelons
that were approximately 8-10 feet wide with some being larger.
There were also blob shapes and concentric rings. Again
this was spread over an extremely large area. There were
occasional bars or echelons ("waves" of light)
that varied in size, and direction of travel. This time
there were several spiral designs. Again there was no set
rhythm or pattern to the occurrence. The flashing of the
bioluminescence was completely random.
3. Commonalties.
During both occurrences,
which happened while in the international shipping lanes
of the Straights of Hormuz, the air temperature was 83-86,
and the water temperature was 88 degrees.
The height of
eye during the observations was about 80 feet.
The seas were
calm until the event and then kicked up to about 2-3 feet,
calmed again and repeated during the second event.
Additionally,
the barometric pressure at 2200 on the 18th was 1002.3 millibars
and rising, dropped during the events and 4 hours later
had risen up to that amount again.
The concentric
rings that seemed to radiate out from the vicinity of the
ship were actually diamond shaped, with a point on the bow,
stern and each beam of the ship. I did not see any set rhythm
when this did happen (but the rather straight lines would
explain why we saw so many "waves" of light).
Fig. 4 “Phosphorescent Bars” (or
“echelons” as CMK called them) illustration.
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Some of the comments
I heard about this were: "I have been sailing for 40
years and I have never seen anything like it", "I
thought I had seen everything. Now I have!", "It's
like a underwater techno show!", "It looked like
and underwater disco", "No one is gonna believe
this!", "Amazing", "Remarkable",
"Incredible", "What the F*** is that?!"
There were about
30 eyewitnesses.
End of report.
Subsequent to my learning of this event a news report out
of South Africa caught my attention that provided further
very significant and corroborating evidence of an association
that Ed and I have long suspected to exist in relation to
non-manmade Crop Circle creation, and that has been documented
between Solar Flare activity and certain other electromagnetic
planetary phenomena (Ref 2a), such as Marine
Lightwheels.
Radio Pretoria
in South Africa reported that on the days of May 19 and
20, the same period during which the Marine Lightwheel sighting
took place, “unusually strong Solar outbursts…interfered
with the Earth’s electro magnetic field” causing “thousands
of valuable racing pigeons” that navigate by Earth’s electromagnetic
fields, to be lost when the fields were disrupted during
a weekend of racing flights. (Ref. 3 & 4) European pigeon
handlers reported similar losses that weekend. This was
a terrible loss for the trainers as well as the unfortunate
birds. Homing instincts recovered for the remaining birds
following the Solar outbursts and further losses ceased.
It is hoped that predicting Solar weather will not only
help protect human technology from damaging Solar storms
by giving advance warnings, it may also help minimize future
losses among Pigeon keepers by allowing them to keep their
birds from flying during high Solar activity.
In an extremely
synchronous “life sign” event, on Saturday May 19, the day
I received the emails from the crew members on the Navy
ship, Ed and I rescued a baby Pigeon, that had been separated
from nest and parents and was in the street being attacked
by Crows. We’ve rescued many birds over the years but this
was our first Pigeon rescue. When I later learned of the
huge loss of Pigeons due to the disrupted electromagnetic
fields from Solar activity, I felt it was a further confirmation
that this was what had triggered the extraordinary Marine
Lightwheel occurrence.
An expanded article
on this phenomenon is in progress and will be released as
an update to my original Marine Lightwheel article in the
near future.
Kris Sherwood
June 2007
http://www.CropCircleAnswers.com
References
Ref. 1 Marine
Lightwheels – Crop Circles of the Sea?
By Kris Sherwood Copyright 1997. (As published in Nexus
Magazine 1997 and posted at: http://www.cropcircleanswers.com/marinelightwheels.htm)
Ref. 2 The USNS crewmember who forwarded this extraordinary
report asked to be identified only as “CMK”. I presume this
is due to security concerns, especially considering the
location of the waters they were traversing on a military
deployment. I am amazed and very grateful to have received
this report, and the email descriptions I received from
the other crewmembers, and honor the requests of these brave
sailors to remain anonymous while on assignment. My sincere
and heartfelt thanks to CMK for his excellent report.
Ref. 2a Non-Manmade Crop Circles As a "Vacuum Domain"
Phenomenon - An Aspect of the Physics Involved?
by Kris Sherwood - Copyright 2002 (Published in UFO Magazine
UK, and online at: http://www.cropcircleanswers.com/CC_Vacuum_Domain.htm)
Ref. 3 Solar Flares Cause Loss of Thousands of Homing Pigeons
by Adriana Stujt (as posted on Rense.com 6-8-07)
Ref. 4 Radio Pretoria South Africa http://www.radiopretoria.co.za
Image credits:
Fig. 1 Marine
Lightwheel illustration Copyright Ed Sherwood 1997
Fig 3. Map of Persian Gulf and Straits of Hormuz area from
Hammond Standard World Atlas Hammond Incorporated Copyright
1967
Fig. 2 Handbook of Unusual Natural Phenomenon William R.
Corliss, Crown Publishing New York 1986
Fig. 4 “Phosphorescent Bars” (or “echelons” as CMK called
them) illustration.
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