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Doug Bower and Dave Chorley say they made England's crop circles

When: Sep 1991
Sources: 2 public sources

A crop circle of the kind Doug Bower and Dave Chorley said they had made in England Jabberocky, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Two Englishmen, Doug Bower and Dave Chorley, told the press in September 1991 that they had been making crop circles in southern England for years, starting as a joke about UFO 'saucer nests'. Their account undercut claims that the circles marked UFO landings.

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Press2 Jovial Con Men Demystify Those Crop Circles in Britain (opens in a new tab)The New York Times / 1991-09-10
PressCrop Circles: The Art of the Hoax (Rob Irving and Peter Brookesmith) (opens in a new tab)Smithsonian Magazine / 2009-12-15

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