On the morning of June 21st 2009 we captured a series of interesting images.
Due to persistent verbal ridicule via Crop Circle Connectors Forum by two individuals, we have submitted our original images to professional photographer for critical analysis. The photographer in question is a skeptic and a non believer in crop circles or other Alien life forms. So this would be a challenge for them to try and explain what they thought we captured, this is what they had to say :
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Dear Andrew
Please find attached the first image which we have now fully analyzed. We will continue to work on the other images in due course and will respond at our earliest convenience.
We can confirm that the raw image supplied has all the required digital signatures and has not been altered in any way. We have also analyzed the magnified and enhanced image you also supplied for comparison. Again, comparing the two, we can also confirm, that the figures in the image are also the same. We could not detect any additions between the two as you have asked us to check.
We can also confirm that the image attached is in no way regarded as ' pixel bleeding or error ' . The figure and object seen clearly do not fit into the color scheme of the background. I would also like to add that we estimate the figure to be much shorter to your original description. We feel that the figure is no more than 1 foot tall, this is a comparison against the wheat crop and the gentleman seen in the image, who you have described as being 6 foot tall .
As a skeptic I feel I need to concede a little bit here and confirm that your capture has stirred interest amongst other photographers, what it is exactly, we are unable to confirm but one of my field friends has stated that you should use these images with caution. ( ******************* Sentence Removed****************** ) . Please bear with me while I process other images which you have supplied. I'm Intrigued ! .

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The grey scaled image as seen above or below is the photographers version.

The current climate within the crop circle world does not want to accept that unexplained entities have an interest in human art and will do everything they can to discredit such findings as it will disrupt the same old theories which they prefer to keep.
These people are regarded as ' crop circle guardians ' who are nothing more than hypocrites as they promote crop circles to be of alien or paranormal nature but yet fail to accept captured images of unexplained entities within crop circles and their boundaries. They are refusing to accept, as they themselves are fully aware that crop circles are man made, so how is it possible for such entities to appear in their art work ?. This of course is a conundrum for them where their egoism over rules their thickell minds.
We will persevere  and will never give up in continuing to bring you that dreaded word ' The Truth '.

There is a private debate through private email which frankly is beyond belief.
The 7-7-7 Ohm Crop circle debate just doesn't want to slip into the archives and go to sleep. There are some people out there ( including the private e-mailer ) who keep digging it up and keep on telling me that this crop circle was witnessed in the making ?! .
NO IT WASN'T WITNESSED IN THE MAKING ! . It was spotted by poor grade quality night vision camera at first break of dawn !!!
The 7-7-7 crop circle was designed by a wife for her husband and made by 7 circle makers. The circle makers were even seen getting out of a Range Rover and were seen entering the field by some chap who later claimed that they were the men in black !!!....

I'm sure you have all seen this video before but its worth prompting all who are interested to listen . Mr King clearly states that HE DIDN'T WITNESS the MAKING of this crop circle, he merely states that he discovered it at first light with the help of Winston Keeche's camera equipment. So this is not a witness in the making testimony as everyone has been led to believe.

Below is a testimony from a circle maker who made the 7-7-7 ohm crop circle. This testimony was made during a discussion via Facebook on a post which was related to the Ohm crop circle.

As always, some posts become  heated debates as seen below;

Below are some examples also made by Thomas Anderson and Co.

Do you remember this crop circle ? . If you dont then its no surprise as its not shown in photographic form on Crop Circle Connector, WCCSG, Silent Circle, Lucy Pringles, Michael Glickmans, Bert Janssens and Janet Ossebards web sites . The only photographer to show it, is Steve Alexander from Temporary Temples. Probably just as well as time would see a closure to a story which shouldn't be forgotten !

Do You Remember Why ?

Well - This crop circle was deemed as a threat to UK's National Security ! A crop circle, a threat to UK's National Security - REALLY !
If you haven't heard about it then here is the original report to refresh your minds.

Crop Circle At Temple Balsall Warwickshire Reported End of July 2011.

This rather mysterious crop formation first appeared at the Crop Circle Connectors presentation at the Coronation Hall in Alton Priors on the 27th July 2011. It was shown for a few brief seconds to the £10 paying audience but it wasn’t and still isn’t reported on Crop Circle Connectors web site.

When first images of this formation by Steve Alexander were shown, this was indeed a curiosity why such a well constructed formation was not reported. Any information relating to this formation posted on Crop Circle Connectors Facebook page was immediately removed. This of course raised curiosity why such action was taken. Anyone who raised a question why their posts relating to this formation were removed, such posts were also removed.

We however posted the location on RACCF and the possibility why this formation was kept under wraps. We stated that someone may have entered Birmingham International Airport Airspace without prior permission from the control tower. With the current CCA regulations in place such a possibility was not ruled out of the equation.

Soon after our posting of the location I received a phone call from Charles Mallett, stating that it would be a wise for me to remove ALL information relating to this formation. We were informed in such a manner where it was classified as highly sensitive and a threat to National Security. At first we found this to be rather bizarre but took the advice and temporarily removed all our own posts relating to this matter .

As we still found all this rather odd, so we begun to suspect foul play and begun our own investigation into the matter. I begun by making a call to Solihull County Council who with no surprise were kind of surprised to hear the rather unusual request for information. I clearly explained the situation to them and requested information on the area in question. The answer I received was simply that there was nothing in the area which they could classify as ‘ Sensitive Military or Government Establishments’. There was simply nothing which would create the need to call the whole thing as ‘ A threat to national security’.

Surveying the area through various ways and means we also found that the field in question had no barriers/fences etc. and no signage to keep out. This field was just like any other field !!!!! However the location is within Birmingham's International Airport Airspace !.

Within the time we were investing, curious circle chasers went to the location, filmed the formation, took images and posted their work on YouTube.

If such an area was so highly sensitive for whatever reason then surely any such information posted on the internet would be instantly removed, but in this case it was still there for all to see and visiting Circle Chasers would surely have not been able to enter the land.So this raised even more suspicion why such a well made formation was still being kept out of the public arena by the one and only Crop Circle Connector ?.

So Why The Secrecy ?

Just like always Stuart Dike, Julian Gibsone and Mark Fussell of Crop Circle Connector get information of any new crop circles first. They in turn inform their chosen researchers of any new reports, ( such as Bert Janssen - as an example ) so such researchers will go along and take beautiful ground shots for their own website. I had such a privilege back in 2009 and 2010, so basically I would know of any new crop formations before the report was made public on Crop Circle Connectors website. The delay in reporting was simply due to the fact that there was a need to be the first to take aerial images and photographers on the ground could take images of a pristine crop formation, not a trampled one !!! A pristine image will always heighten the belief that something miraculous has happened, and of course if you published your images first then there was a good chance that the press would buy them from you.

So What Happened..?

On this occasion the whole thing backfired and caught them off guard – literally !!.

When the report to Crop Circle Connector was made that there was a new formation at Temple Balsall , Julian Gibsone and Stuart Dike went along to photograph this formation. ( At this stage in time the report was still not made public on their web site.) While Stuart was taking ground/pole shots with his rather long shiny pole. From a distance the farmer who owned the land in question, spotted this unusual activity in his field. At this stage in time, the farmer was not aware that he had a crop circle in his field. So what he saw was an elongated object being raised into the air, as the farmer was not familiar with camera poles of such lengths he suspected something more sinister. As the area is in Birmingham’s International Airport Airspace , the farmer suspected that some act of terrorism was taking place, so he called the Police. Within minutes of making the call, Armed Police swooped on Julian Gibsone and Stuart Dike and questioned them. After a satisfactory explanation the Police gave them a bollocking and the pair left with a tail hanging between their legs. The Police basically warned them not to make this crop formation public as the farmer didn’t wish for crowds to trample all over his field. ( lets be honest this has never stopped them from reporting before – a simple message saying ‘ Farmers request is that no one enters his field’ would have been sufficient .

So rather than owning up to the whole scenario and be found out by Steve Alexander that they knew about this formation and didn’t make it public as they wanted exclusivity on it , they decided to spin a yarn and cover up the whole thing by making up a mysterious circumstance which would also add a bit of spice to the belief of origin of crop circles . So by making it sound like ‘ National Security ‘ they hoped that this would put off the public from going there .

Charles Mallett and a Norwegian documentary maker decided to go and see this crop circle just to satisfy their own curiosity .
This is a short excerpt from Charles's report:

' Our overall conclusion was, considering the regular and repetitive patterns of damage across the entire formation, that this event was constructed on the ground with the use of mechanical devices. '

http://www.silentcircle.co.uk/TBground.htm

Charles and the Norwegian documentary maker obviously had no problems in going into the crop circle to make a report !

Just over a week later, the local press ( The Coventry Telegraph ) reported on this crop circle without using words such as ' Threat To National Security ' !. There's a surprise !

Here is the Newspaper Report ..
http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/2011/08/10/investigators-try-to-decipher-meaning-of-temple-balsall-crop-circle-92746-29211240/#ixzz1VEfymqa9

PLEASE NOTE THE ABOVE TEXT IS SIMILAR TO THE ORIGINAL REPORT.
Below you can see the conversation which followed the posting of the above slide on RACCF.

Then to our surprise Steve Alexander woke up and joined in .....

Read this part by Steve Alexander very carefully - Steve practically admits that crop circles are man made.

As you can see the conversation did get out of hand but generally information within the above conversation would never normally be seen. When heated moments begin so does the flow of information.
Regardless how distasteful some comments maybe, its still very important to retain all documents for future reference.

Britain will be forced to become a net importer of wheat for the first time in a decade this year, after the recent bitter weather devastated crops.

A disastrous 12-month cycle of poor weather has ruined harvests across the UK, costing farmers an estimated £500m, the chief economist of the National Farmers Union (NFU) warned.

The conditions mean Britain – traditionally a significant net exporter of wheat – will have to boost imports by more than a million tonnes.

While the effect on the price of a loaf of bread is expected to be minimal, the dismal harvests will increase the country's reliance on the secretive trading firms which dominate the international grain market.

The crop damage deals a further blow to Britain's beleaguered farming industry, which is already reeling from a spate of recent livestock deaths due to the cold weather. To make matters worse, the weather has made planting new crops more difficult and damaged many of the seeds that have been sown in recent weeks.

This means the next harvest has already been damaged. Nor is wheat the only crop crop affected. Potato plantings stood at just 4,000 hectares at the end of March, barely a 10th of the 30,000 hectare area that had been planted this time last year, implying a jump in potato imports next crop year. After the coldest March in half a century, Britain is on course to import about 1.5m tonnes more of the grain than it exports this “crop year”, which runs from July 2012 to June 2013.  This compares to net exports of 1.6m tonnes last crop year and 2.2m tonnes four years ago, according to the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB).

“The last 12 months have been unreal for farmers. Last April we had a drought and talk of a hosepipe ban, then we had to contend with heavy rains and flooding and then the wintery weather, frozen land and snow,” says Mike Thomas, of the National Farmers Union (NFU).

The poor harvest represents the lowest wheat crop since 1985 and means the country will be a net importer of the grain this crop year for the first time since 2001. The NFU predicts next crop year – July 2013 to June 2014 - will be another year of net wheat imports, the first time this has happened in consecutive years since the start of the 1980s.

But while farmers will lose hundreds of millions of pounds and the fragile economy will suffer, British consumers are only like to see a small increase, if any, in the price of a loaf.

“Wheat only represents about a tenth of the cost of a loaf and energy costs and packaging probably have as large an impact on price,” says NFU chief economist Phil Bicknell. “But the wheat price is determined by global supply, rather than UK supply, and the price has actually dipped in the last few days.”

Increasingly unpredictable crop yields caused by adverse weather conditions have increased the opportunity for traders to make a profit from price fluctuations.  This week Geneva-based Vitol, the world’s largest oil trading house, announced plans to become the latest company to move into the lucrative and monopolistic business of food trading.

Vitol is a highly secretive energy, sugar, metals and minerals trading giant run by Ian Taylor, one of Scotland’s wealthiest men with an estimated £155m fortune who has donated more than £500,000 to the Conservative Party and attended a dinner through for large donors at 10 Downing Street in 2011.

Vitol is the third major energy trader to add food staples to its portfolio in recent months. Analysts speculated that these energy-focused giants were driven, at least in part, by the need to counter lower profitability in crude oil, natural gas and power, which have been less volatile in the past two years.

Vitol joins an elite group of five dominant food traders who collectively control 90 per cent of the global market for grain. Glencore, the Swiss trading giant listed on the London Stock Exchange and run by multi-billionaire Ivan Glasenberg, is best known. The others are Cargill, Archer Daniels Midland, Bunge and Louis Dreyfus.

Like Vitol, the big-five food traders are largely based in or near Geneva and collectively made billions of dollars of profits last year, much of it from providing an essential trading function, buying commodities from farmers, shipping them around the world and selling them to users.

As such, the addition of another muscular food trader will be good for consumers because the extra competition will could reduce the mark-up they make on their buying and selling activities.

But there is also evidence that some of the dominant traders engage in speculative trading – investing in agricultural staples purely for financial gain through “futures” contracts – an activity critics say exacerbates price volatility.

Christine Haigh, food and finance campaigner at the World Development Movement anti-poverty group, said: “Like the banks, the big traders also play the market as speculators. While they might not like to admit it, it’s widely acknowledged that these players trade many more futures contracts than necessary to protect themselves from losses due to price fluctuations.”

Image Credit to : Robert Irving (C) 2012
Fascinating Landscape - I have to say !