The grass picture near Hoeven on May 7, 2015 seems to show an elliptical orbit for planet Mercury: starting on May 7 when that field picture appeared, then ending on May 29 when Mercury will reach inferior conjunction with our Sun (as seen from Earth)  

Our path to understanding this new field image was as follows: first, the orbit of Mercury is an “ellipse”, while this new grass picture from May 7 shows an “orbital ellipse” for some unspecified planet. It has been combined there with other circular symbols of a complex nature, to be explored further below.  

An elliptical orbit for Mercury, which may be divided into eight smaller parts  

When we compare a standard orbital diagram for Mercury, with a black-and-white diagram of this new grass picture, we find a good match to first approximation:  

The elliptical orbit of Mercury about our Sun requires 88 days. It is often divided into eight parts of 11 days each. This grass picture, even on first glance, seems to resemble parts “1” to “5” of Mercury’s orbit around our Sun.  

Furthermore, a small circle has been drawn along its outer “elliptical orbit” near location “3”. This matches where Mercury was located in space on May 7. That was the day when this grass picture appeared!  

Mercury continues next in its orbit to location “5”, where it will be located between our Earth and the Sun on May 29, just 22 days later. In astronomical terms, the May 29 alignment of Earth-Mercury-Sun is called an “inferior conjunction”.  

This movie shows how Mercury moves in an elliptical orbit around our Sun:  

It looks like a pretty good match to me! One subtle difference between the grass picture, and this simplified movie, would be that Mercury will lie far from the Sun (at aphelion) on May 29, rather than close to the Sun (at perihelion) as drawn in grass. Yet perhaps the unknown artist is taking “artistic license”? 

Mercury reached its greatest elongation from the Sun on May 6 as seen from Earth. Next it will reach inferior conjunction on May 30, almost covering the face of the Sun as seen from Earth. Then Mercury will reach aphelion from the Sun on June 3 (see www.astropixels.com or in-the-sky.org).  

It would not possible, by the normal rules of physics, for this grass picture to represent a “binary star system with planets”. In such a case, those “planets” would have to orbit outside of the two binary stars themselves, rather than between two large end-circles (“stars”) as shown in the field diagram (see Circumbinary planet or www.cfa.harvard.edu).  

A superposition of two astronomical diagrams: one shows the elliptical orbit of Mercury, while the other shows our inner solar system 

Now let us concern ourselves with interpreting this new grass picture in closer detail. When we examine real planetary configurations for Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars on May 7 (or May 29), we find that the orbital path of planet Mercury has been well described by the field image as shown below:  

Looking carefully at the slide above, we can see where two small blue circles mark the relative location of Mercury on May 7, 2015 in grass versus in space (left or right in its upper part). Two other blue circles mark the relative location of Mercury on May 29, 2015 in grass versus in space (left or right in its lower part).  

In addition, we can see how a simple diagram for the orbit of Mercury (as an ellipse) has been superimposed on a diagram of our inner solar system, which includes Earth, Mars, Venus and Sun. Two large end-circles from that grass picture seem to match the orbital locations of Earth-Moon or Mars on May 29, 2015.  

Our Sun has been represented inside of Mercury’s ellipse near location “5” as “one circle drawn around another circle”. That is how we will see planet Mercury on May 29 at inferior conjunction, as superimposed (almost) on the face of the Sun as seen from Earth. Planet Mars will line up precisely on the opposite side of our Sun, as seen from Earth, on June 14, 2015 a few weeks later.  

Details of the flattened lay agree well with this model  

Studying next certain details of the flattened lay, we can see how an anti-clockwise sense of the lay matches an anti-clockwise sense of orbital motions around our Sun for all four inner planets, as viewed from this perspective:  

Likewise, an anti-clockwise sense of the lay within a small outer circle for “Mercury” on May 7 matches the slow rotational motion of that planet as it orbits our Sun. Please examine light-dark shadings of Mercury in the first slide above.  

The only serious distortions of this field image, away from a literal drawing of our inner solar system, would be: (1) the relatively small size of our “Sun”, relative to large sizes for “Earth” and “Mars” on each end; plus (2) an aphelion versus perihelion location for “Mercury” as noted above. Once again, the crop artist may be trying to get across a specific message, rather than trying to draw a precisely accurate model of our solar system. The entire field diagram seems to focus on planet Mercury and its elliptical orbit around our Sun from May 7 to May 29, rather on the Sun or other planets. Venus seems not to be described at all.  

Mars on May 29, 2015 will lie opposite Earth, and four orbital paths out from the Sun  

Finally we can see, in the slide below, how all four planets and Earth’s Moon will appear on May 29, when Mercury reaches inferior conjunction. There may be a second way of numbering those four inner circles from the field diagram as “1-2-3-4”, in order to suggest that a large end-circle near the top represents “planet Mars”, which is fourth out from the Sun:                                                                                                                                      

How can we be sure which inferior conjunction of Mercury was described in grass on May 7 near Hoeven? Mercury moves between Earth and our Sun three times per year, with a synodic period of 116 days, versus only 88 days for its orbit around the Sun. When we studied the next four inferior conjunctions of Mercury, which will occur in years 2015 or 2016, we learned that only the conjunction of May 29, 2015 shows another planet which opposes Earth and Moon, at four orbits away from the Sun.  

Thus on May 30, 2015, Mars will lie opposite Earth, and four orbits out from the Sun. On September 30, 2015, no planet will lie opposite Earth. Again on January 14, 2016, no planet will lie opposite Earth. Then on May 9, 2016, Venus will lie opposite Earth, but only two orbits out from the Sun (see www.fourmilab.ch). A previous grass picture on April 28 likewise shows symbols which suggest “month 5” and “day 2-9” or a date of “May 29” (see Oudenbosch). Since this grass picture was drawn in the same field, it seems only logical that it might subtly encode the same date.  

What might be so important about May 29, 2015? Do the crop artists just “love astronomy”, or will something happen then?  

Why would those unseen “crop artists” wish to show us a coded date of May 29, 2015? Maybe they just “love astronomy”, and like to make clever diagrams of an astronomical kind? Alternatively, the careful study of this grass picture and its surrounding landscape features, as well as a nearby grass picture on April 28, 2015, suggests that such images may possibly have been drawn by time travellers, however improbable and outlandish that might seem to the general public today. We have found, by studying many different crop pictures, that they do sometimes “mark” near-future events (see for example fringe2015c). 

How can anyone understand what time-travellers really think, or their underlying reasons for doing something, without knowing more about who they are, and their technical capabilities in space-time physics? In any case, while drawing “crop pictures” (Linda Howe was told back in 1991, that this was the theory favoured by US intelligence agencies to explain the crop-circle phenomenon), they must ensure that any information supplied remains fairly cryptic. Otherwise Earth’s historical timeline could be changed in an unpredictable fashion, if humans of our era see and respond to such field information, then act differently than they would have acted otherwise  

Based on what we have found, from our detailed but private studies, we suspect that these two new grass pictures in Holland might describe some near-future event of a geological (or oceanic) nature.  

Most people from the general public would naturally assume that both grass pictures might have been “faked” using “rope and boards”. That sceptical opinion might be of value in some circumstances. Yet in the present circumstance, how can we explain so many fine details in the lay of flattened grass, using a rope-and-boards hypothesis?(see Hoeven)  

Why use astronomy to tell a date? Why not use normal symbols which everyone can understand? 

Why don’t those crop artists use our modern calendar to tell a date? Well, they did so perhaps on June 4, 2014 near Standdaarbuiten (see Standdaarbuiten). On that occasion, they drew five large circles to suggest “month 5”. Their fifth circle was further “circled”, and pointed toward 27 or 29 “small bars” in the landscape above (see comments). Might that crop picture from 2014 suggest the same date of “5-29” which was just described on May 7, 2015, using an astronomical diagram? Several other “large bars” in the landscape, further above that Standdaarbuiten crop picture, appear to show “1” and “5”, possibly as if to suggest “1-5” or the year 2015. 

Thus those crop artists certainly do know our modern calendar, but choose on some occasions to use astronomical diagrams to show a date, rather than simple number symbols from our calendar. Just as another example, the date of appearance of this new grass picture on “5-7” (or May 7) was subtly coded into their astronomical diagram in a clever way! Please feel free to study that result, as it has been explained by another slide on this webpage.  

Other details of the fallen lay or nearby landscape in Holland on April 28 or May 7, 2015 

Within this new astronomical diagram, certain details of the fallen lay within a large end-circle for “Earth” look almost like a partial “map” of the planet. Certain “continental edges” seem to have been drawn, close to a tall mustard plant which stands intact nearby (please see ground photographs on Hoeven).  

The intact mustard plant from their May 7 grass picture points in the landscape toward a long, double-sided “ridge” below, while the intact mustard plant from their April 28 grass picture points in the landscape in an opposite direction, toward a “house” image just above (see Oudenbosch or comments). These two grass pictures were laid out in nearly opposite directions, so as to point at different but relevant landscape features nearby. Those specific landscape features are surely a part of their intended messages, which at present however remain somewhat obscure.  

Other field images of “Mercury orbit” were drawn in England last summer  

Two crop pictures in England last summer, from Welsh Way on July 22, 2014 (see Welsh Way) or Green Street on July 29, 2014 (see green Street), likewise seem to suggest that some inferior conjunction of Mercury may mark an important near-future event. Still it is hard to be sure which inferior conjunction of Mercury those crop pictures were referring to, or what might happen on such a near-future date? The English crop artist was very cryptic, even more so than in Holland!  

At Welsh Way on July 22, 2014, he drew the orbital paths for three inner planets Mercury, Venus and Earth, as they will move into the shape of a “keyhole lock”, sometime in the near future. At Green Street on July 29, 2014, he then informed us that the “three-digit combination” by which to open this “lock” is “3-point-1-4” or pi! The crop picture at Welsh Way was drawn on “pi day” July 22 or 22/7, which approximates pi numerically. The crop picture at Welsh Way pointed toward a huge landscape symbol nearby for the letter “pi”.  

Mercury will supposedly be close to inferior conjunction, for whichever near-future event those two English crop pictures from 2014 might describe. This seems just like in Holland on May 7, 2015. When and if something important does happen, as described so cryptically by our friends, then we will show more details.  

Red Collie (Dr. Horace R. Drew) 

P.S. We would like to thank Robbert van den Broeke, Ronald Sikking, Roy Boschman and Astrid Wevers for excellent field and aerial photography.