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THE TWILIGHT ZONE spaced out in a straight line on the water's surface, about 600 feet apart, from which the concentric rings of light emanated at the rate of approximately one per second. Sometimes these lightwheel displays have been seen to be preceded by straight horizontal bands of light approaching side- on from a distance in "waves" before the onset of the rotating rimless lightwheels. These wheel displays then finish with a similar set of horizontal bars. Groups of rotating circular patches of phosphorescence have also been seen in the same area. Another report from the Gulf of Oman, in 1951, attributed ship's radar, or some type of "sound excitation" of the Noctiluca by indigenous marine mammal communication, as the cause of a mass display of brilliant, whirling phos- phorescent crescents that were seen spin- ning—clockwise to starboard and anti- clockwise to port—inward toward the ship's bow and extending outward close to two miles. The duration of these "lightshows" has been said to last from 15 to 30 minutes. No occurrences have been reported in open oceans; instead, they tend to happen in landside straights. (I am not a mariner, but that description sounds like it refers to something akin to the tendency of crop cir- cles to form on leeward slopes.) Seventy per cent of the lightwheel sight- ings have been during March through June, and 60 per cent of these in April, May and June. Additionally, at times the sea sur- face has been seen to "boil" during the event. A "swishing” sound has been heard that's been likened to that heard during "low-level aurora displays", and compass- es have "gone haywire" in the centres of these wheels! I have even come across ironic (and eerily familiar) comments about how scientists have generally ignored the phenomenon, writing it off to "wild sailors’ tales". The parallels to the crop circle phenome- non are obvious, but how does it fit togeth- er? I suspect a critical combination of ele- ments has to come together in order to trig- ger a crop circle event. Part of the physics involved may work much the same way as it does in lightning strikes and involve a similar ground-based electromagnetic component. Among other things that may be involved are ley-line energies, Earth- energy grid points (Bruce Cathie's work), the Van Allen magnetic belt, and, in the case of lightwheels, the energy concentra- tion at latitude 19.5° north and south (Hoagland's work in tetrahedral geometry). The lightwheels, by a combination of synchronous ingredients, may be an image of one or more of these energies as cap- tured and revealed by the agitated phos- phorescence of the local marine life. Why the Indian Ocean seems to be the centre of this phenomenon, when Noctiluca is found in abundance in many other areas, is a mystery. Could this area near the Indian Ocean be a power point of converging energies, similar to southern England? While I'm convinced that in the case of crop circles there is a powerful intelligence behind the emergent designs, I think natu- rally-occurring energies are being applied in their formation. Lightwheels may be a ‘shadow on the wall' of one of them. Writing this piece, I kept seeing an image of lightwheels roaming the ocean's surface, like the energy in a glass plasma- ball (the kind you can buy in some special- ty shops) that radiates from the centre ran- domly until you touch it and it 'magnetises' to your hand. But what 'hand' is involved here? "The versatility of the unknown geome- ter creating the marine displays seems unbounded." (From The Handbook of Unusual Natural Phenomena) 0 References * Corliss, William R., The Handbook of Unusual Natural Phenomena, Crown Publishing, New York, 1986. ¢ Sanderson, Ivan T., Invisible Residents, World Publishing Co., 1970. * The Books of Charles Fort, Henry Holt & Company, New York, 1941. Note: The marine lightwheel illustration is by Ed Sherwood. The author and illus- trator can be contacted as follows: Millennium Research, PO Box 2084 Santa Monica, CA 90406-2084, USA Telephone: +1 (310) 319 9329 Also visit Crop Circle Connector web site: http://www.marque.demon.co. uk/connector/connector.html deaf Dain Tas Sin, * dh gl my ce a.” APRIL - MAY 1997 NEXUS 69