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Crop Circles
Two English pensioners with wooden planks and a length of rope confessed to making over 200 "alien" crop circles — and the phenomenon got bigger, not smaller, after they admitted it.
Crop circles are intricate geometric patterns found flattened into fields, especially in southern England, often attributed by believers to UFO activity. In 1991, two men, Doug Bower and Dave Chorley, publicly demonstrated their technique and took credit for creating over 200 circles since 1978, using simple tools — yet new, increasingly elaborate circles have continued appearing every year since.
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Quick facts
- →Doug Bower and Dave Chorley publicly demonstrated their crop-circle-making technique for journalists in 1991, using a plank, rope, and a baseball cap fitted with a wire loop for sighting straight lines.
- →The pair claimed to have created over 200 circles across southern England since starting in 1978, inspired by reports of a similar formation in Australia.
- →Crop circles increased dramatically in number and complexity after Bower and Chorley's 1991 confession, rather than declining.
- →Physicist Taner Edis and other researchers have stated all documented crop circles are consistent with human causation, with no verified case requiring an alternative explanation.
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Crop Circles (event)
Geometric patterns flattened into fields, especially in England; publicly demonstrated as a human hoax technique in 1991.
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Doug Bower (person)
One of two Englishmen who publicly demonstrated the crop circle hoaxing technique in 1991, claiming over 200 circles since 1978.
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