TWO MEN SAY THEY ARE BEHIND MYSTERIOUS "CORN CIRCLES" IN BRITAIN NOT ALIENS
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³LONDON (SEPT. 9) UPI - The baffling appearance of dozens of ³
³circles and other shapes in British grain fields may have ³
³been solved Monday when two men said they, not ³
³extraterrestial beings or freak meteorological forces, ³
³created the patterns. ³
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³The declaration of the hoax, itself still unsubstantiated, ³
³has brought forth yet another theory to be considered by ³
³scientists and enthusiasts who have been studying the ³
³mysterious phenomenon for more than a decade. ³
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³The shapes, known locally as ''corn circles,'' have appeared³
³overnight in fields, usually in southern England, without ³
³any obvious sign of human handiwork. They have been ³
³attributed variously to aliens, mating hedgehogs and ³
³swirling masses of electrically charged air. ³
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³Doug Bower and David Chorley told the newspaper Today that ³
³they used two wooden boards, a rope and a primitive aligning³
³device attached to a baseball cap to lay out the huge ³
³patterns. They said they eluded detection by walking in ³
³tractor paths to enter and leave the fields. ³
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³''How on earth can intelligent people of that sort - ³
³professors etc. - just walk into a corn (wheat) field and ³
³see some flattened corn and make all this out it over the ³
³years?'' Bower told Independent Television News. ''We're as ³
³astounded as anyone else.'' ³
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³Some scientists who have studied the mystery remain ³
³sceptical of the Bower and Chorley's claims. ³
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³''I'm waiting for some hard evidence. I want to see them do ³
³what they claim they have done in front of me and television³
³cameras for all the world to see '' said Patrick Delgado, a ³
³retired NASA radar expert who has spent a great deal of time³
³studying the phenomenon. ³
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³Bower and Chorley derided the complex theories that have ³
³grown up around the corn circles, which also have been ³
³spotted in continental Europe and elsewhere. ³
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³''We used to laugh, we used to talk to each other when we're³
³doing this, that all it is is flattened corn. If you walk ³
³in, you flatten it. The only difference was the shapes,'' ³
³Chorley said. ³
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³Bower added, ''We love the shapes because of their artistic ³
³value. It's just become a big laugh as the years go by.'' ³
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³The two men's hoax claim was made as 300 international ³
³circle- watchers gathered in Glastonbury for the first ³
³United Kingdom Cornconference. ³
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³At the conference Sunday night, Delgado acknowledged that he³
³may have been fooled by a hoax. ³
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³''I was taken for a ride like many other people,'' the ³
³retired scientist said. ''But if it wasn't me who was ³
³duped, it would have been someone else later on. This was ³
³obviously a great joke, lasting years, but somewhere or ³
³other it would have been exposed.'' ³
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³Delgado and the other conference delegates planned to ³
³discuss the hoax claim and observe a demonstration of the ³
³two men's technique. ³
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