2026 Crop Circles

 

Last year I wrote an article about the status of the crop circle phenomenon, see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-end-of-crop-circles.html. It is a poignant and bittersweet lament in which I had to agree with Andy Thomas that this was the "new normal", a slow and silent decline; maybe the end of crop circles altogether. I was keen to see what would transpire in the year ahead and now that year has come. It is early September, at the time of writing, and the harvests have been gathered in. What can I say about the 2026 season? Well, I can't help thinking that somebody up there read Andy's and my articles and said: "Hold my beer!" The 2026 crop circle tally has more than doubled in size compared to the last few years. Not only has the phenomenon increased in volume, but this year's designs have demonstrated a lot of variety and sophistication. Some of them have a retro tribute feel, hearkening back to the early swirls and linear structures on the 80's and 90's; such as the Fox Hill one and the Swiss example. The former has some features without tramline access. There are some straight and geometric ones, like the example in the illustration from Tidcombe, Wiltshire. Source: https://temporarytemples.co.uk/crop-circles/2026-crop-circles. Obviously this is a happy eventuality and I have enjoyed it; but the question has to be asked: Why the change? Why has whatever is behind the crop circles decided that more are needed this year? Well, this summer has certainly had its challenges, for example the exceptional heatwave, see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2026/08/why-heatwave.html. Is it because of the warning signs of secrets being revealed; the Epstein Files or UFO's? It's impossible to know for sure because none of the circles are explicit in their meaning. As always, their impact comes from how they make us feel at a very deep spiritual level; and it's not usually possible to translate that into current affairs. I look forward to reading what Andy has to say; and it will be in the next issue of Nexus magazine as usual. What will 2027 bring us? Whatever it is, you'll be able to find out in around twelve months time by reading HPANWO Voice.
See here for background: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2023/08/ben-goes-on-tor-2023.html.

HDA Article 3

 

I have written a review of Jonathan Womack's new documentary film Ancient Rings of Sirius. It can be read on The Wow! Signal, the official journal of the Hollywood Disclosure Alliance, see: https://www.thewowsignal.news/latest-news/ancient-rings-of-sirius. The journal is now a subscription service, but it is very cheap, just £1.48 per month; so I heartily recommend buying a subscription.
Not long ago I reviewed Jonathan's previous work, Ancient Architects of Orion, see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2026/03/hda-article-2.html. See here for the director's site: https://jonathanwomack.com.
Many thanks also to the Wow! editor Dan Harary. See here for a HPANWO Radio interview with Dan: https://hpanwo-radio.blogspot.com/2024/08/hpanwo-show-558-podcast-dan-harary.html.

Ben Emlyn-Jones at the Essex UFO and Paranormal Group 2

 

I will be speaking at the Essex UFO and Paranormal Group on Friday the 2nd of October 2026. My talk will be entitled: Helen Duncan and the Witchcraft Trial. In 1944 the psychic medium Helen Duncan was put on trial under the two hundred year old Witchcraft Act of 1735 because she was accused of defrauding the public by staging a fake séance. Was she really a fake medium? Or was something more complicated and furtive going on, something related to espionage and wartime security? The venue is the Balmoral Community Centre, Salisbury Ave, Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, SS0-7AU. The event starts at 7 PM and it costs £10. See here for details: https://essexufo.group/events.
See here for a recording of my previous appearance at the Essex UFO and Paranormal Group: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2026/02/ending-south.html.
See here for background: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2020/02/helen-duncan-portal.html.

UFO Truth Magazine- Issue 80

 

UFO Truth Magazine Issue 80 is now available. It can be purchased on this page as a single copy, but please subscribe and save money if you want to read it regularly, see: https://www.ufotruthmagazine.co.uk.
Issue 80 includes an article in my column entitled The Twin Pillars of Disclosure.
 
Also you will find in Issue 80: UFO vs Brazilian airlines, the psionic factor in crop circles, RAF tanker close encounter and much much more.
Also in this HPANWO Show programme I interview the UFO Truth Magazine's editor Gary Heseltine: https://hpanwo-radio.blogspot.com/2023/06/hpanwo-show-514-podcast-gary-heseltine.html.
See here for details on UFO Truth Magazine Issue 79: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2026/07/ufo-truth-magazine-issue-79.html.

Clive Lewis on UFO's

 

The Sol Foundation has published the most surprising interview. One thing I've often complained about is that the current post-2017 Disclosure movement is centred on, driven by and almost exclusively engaged in by the United States of America. I'm British and passionately enthusiastic about ET Disclosure, almost to the point of obsession; as regular readers will know very well. There is no reason why the United States should be the leader of this quest. We're not in the Cold War anymore and global politics is now distinctly multi-polar. Nobody else has appointed the US to this position. This is not America's fault. At the end of the day, the cause of the US being the prime workhorse of this mission is because other countries are too lazy and/or narrow-minded. I'm afraid it's that simple. American lawmakers have got off their butts and dared to do what few other elected officials ever have. As much as I admire American heroes like Tim Burchett, Anna Paulina Luna and Eric Burlison, my patriotism is resisting. I can't stand the Yanks beating us! I'm pleased to say that a UK Member of Parliament has finally spoken out; he has been featured on an hour-long interview with Sol's co-founder Peter Skafish. Clive Lewis is MP for Norwich South and was first elected in 2015 after working as a BBC journalist and military reservist. He was Shadow Defence Secretary under Jeremy Corbyn. His father is from Grenada, like Sir Eric Gairy, which might be why he says he had an interest in UFO's as a child. He became a skeptic as he grew up and was educated, but something has rekindled his interest. He does the interview from his home, dressed casually; but he is obviously not appearing against the orders of his authority. The Prime Minister at the time of recording, Keir Starmer, may not have positively approved, but he has not vetoed Lewis at all. Behind Lewis is a children's painting of a space rocket, probably done by his eight year old daughter. Mr Lewis shares my wish that British officials should follow the example set by our American peers. He calls for greater transparency for this reason. Strangely, and significantly, he does not mention any specific case. You'd think he would refer to some of them, or at least our most prominent and by far best documented one, the Rendlesham Forest Incident. Is this just an oversight on his part or is he omitting details deliberately? If so then despite that, he is a proponent of transparency, as I said. He is open to the idea that UAP are artefacts of a non-human intelligence. He thinks, as many people do, that the acknowledgement of ET civilization could give all people in the world a sense of common humanity. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoUr0rsb7rU.
 
Despite what I've said here, we "Limeys" have never ignored the UFO phenomenon completely. Actually we set up one of the first investigations in the world back in 1942 under the direct leadership of Winston Churchill, to solve the mystery of the "foo-fighters", see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2017/02/churchill-on-ufos.html. This was several years before Project Sign in the USA. We have had our own close encounters, abductions and crash-retrievals. We have had a number of government research projects over the years run by the Ministry of Defence and intelligence agencies. We have a nationwide network of civilian research groups that are often highly organized and carry out field research in a very professional manner. We also have our home-grown UFO hero in the shape of Peter Baron Hill-Norton, a former Chief of the Defence Staff and joint organizer of NATO. He was quite blunt and unequivocal in his belief that UFO's constituted alien visitation and was vocally opposed to all secrecy. His speeches in the House of Lords are classics in the history of Disclosure. Really, any state actor in the world could do this. Nobody needs to sit around waiting for another nation to start the ball rolling. All countries experience UFO's; probably dozens of them have the kind of decisive physical evidence necessary for Disclosure. To be the Disclosure nation would result in a lot of historical prestige. I really don't care who does it so long as somebody does; but if it were to be my own country of course I'd feel very proud.
See here for background: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2020/02/ufo-disclosure-portal.html.

Substack Exclusive Notice 27/8/26

 

I have published an article on the HPANWO Free Substack blog that will not be posted to Blogger, see: https://benemlynjones.substack.com/p/richard-d-hall-live-in-london.

Nice Town

 

My love of obscure TV miniseries that I remember as part of the haunted generation has led to me seek out Nice Town. It took me a long time to find it all. At first I discovered episode two and three on Dailymotion, but episode one was missing from that platform. This bothered me because it is the best one and it is essential for understanding the two others. Eventually, with the help of a HPANWO reader, I found the entire series on a Russian website. Nice Town was first broadcast in 1992 on the BBC. It was directed by Pedr James and written by Guy Hibbert. It is a story about family who move into a new purpose-built suburban estate of designer McMansions. The central characters are two thirty-something couples; Joe and Frankie, and Paul and Linda. Paul and Joe are brothers and Joe and Linda are ex-partners. This dynamic quickly develops into a terrible crisis. Paul is sterile and wants a baby with Linda. Joe and Linda then conspire for her to get pregnant via donated sperm from Joe; and keep this secret from Paul, making him think that he has recovered from his sterility and is the real father. Alongside all this there is a subplot involving a local teenage boy and girl with very conservative parents who want to have a sexual relationship, so Joe provides a love nest for them in his own home. What's more, ironically, Paul discovers that his and Joe's own parents have a deep dark secret related to hereditary matters. Predictably, all these secrets cannot be kept and when the truth comes out the family is torn apart.
Nice Town can be watched here. The episodes all have ironic names from the bible. "Immaculate Conception", "Unto Us a Child is Born" and "Idyll".
Episode 1: https://ok.ru/video/6858066758392.
Episode 2: https://ok.ru/video/6858066496248.
Episode 3: https://ok.ru/video/6858066889464.
 
There are other somewhat sardonic elements; for example, there are placement shots including the sky and they have a cartoon sun and moon with faces on them. The series is essentially a parody of British suburban middle-class society. We are a nation obsessed with social class and satires about it are very common, but this one is highly unusual. Joe is a very extreme caricature. I first came across Nice Town again when I was researching this year's St Theo's watch party which was for Paper Mask, starring Paul McGann, see: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2026/07/paper-mask-watch-party-livestream.html. McGann also plays Joe, and that character has many similarities to Matthew Harris. They share a common weakness, selfishness and deceit. I find Joe one of the most repulsive individuals I've ever encountered in fiction. He is a feeble, effeminate manipulator, a ruthless and egocentric blackguard. In terms of his marriage, he has an almost complete traditional role-reversal with Frankie. She goes out and works as a medical research scientist. Joe stays at home and looks after their daughter Katie as well as doing the housework. He wears a pink frilly apron while doing this. He has a totally blinkered and unrealistic vision of the world around him. When he presents his idea to Linda he calls it "a simple gift of life" as if he is a member of some New Age free love commune. When he is questioned by the police over his love nest for the teenagers he is totally indignant and entitled. He doesn't understand that what he did was criminal. He is physically puny and when Paul confronts him violently Paul can do so with impunity. Despite Joe's ineffectual and bland personality, his underhand actions leave a trail of chaos and destruction. I must admit, my antipathy towards Joe is really just personal because he reminds me very much of "Centaur", the man who abused me when I was a child, see: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2012/09/centaur.html. This is an important lesson. You may think "girlie men" are harmless, but they are not; they are highly toxic and dangerous. They actually are capable of physical violence, but only against a victim who is even smaller and weaker; that obviously means a child. Along with the cartoon heavenly bodies, Nice Town has other special effect scenes. There is a very grotesque dream sequence in which we see Joe as a satyr. The birth scene of the baby has a distinct horror element to it; and so does its aftermath in the maternity ward. Some viewers might be disturbed by that. However, the most upsetting scenes, for me, are several which are "POV" from the newborn baby, Angelica. This baby is, of course, the innocent victim caught up in the middle of a conflict she was born into and cannot comprehend. Yet in these scenes her parents both lean close to her and shout angrily in her face. That is really nasty. Towards the end of the series, Joe's malevolence gets worse and worse. Even when I saw this programme originally on TV as a much younger person, I understood what it meant and how it fitted in with my own life. Nice Town does have some good elements though. Frankie is played by Josette Simon who is very famous for Blakes 7, see: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2007/10/blakes-7.html. Joe and Paul's mother is played by Doreen Mantle who is a very widespread actress. You might enjoy it, so I recommend giving it a try.