Dumbfounded scientists have contributed the crop circles to several different theories including plasma vortexes, earth energies, and microwave transient heating. However, Doug Bower said it best in a 1991 interview shortly after his confession stating, “It’s only flattened corn.” He then goes on to say, “ I'd always been interested in UFOs and flying saucers...so I thought I'd make it look like one had landed. I‘m still not sure what all the fuss is about..." Whatever initially inspired him - divine guidance, the 1966 circle in a Queensland reed-bed, close to where Doug lived at the time, or simply one beer too many, the leap from local field trampler to extraterrestrial icon was swift.

Doug Bower, assisted by his pal Dave, made his first circle in a Hamp

Any Martian watching them at work would have been greatly amused, but for Doug and Dave, they were magical nights. “It was just pure enjoyment”, he recalls, “on those beautiful summer nights for two artistic people under the stars amid all those cornfields. We were both 19th Century people really. We were in another world.

They were asked to design a complex crop formation that could be made at night in under four hours. The formation they designed had over 100 flattened circles and a diameter of 300ft, making it one of the most complex formations to appear in the fields of England over the past few years. It was made with the permission of the farmer and harvested almost immediately.

shire wheat field sometime during the summer of 1978. They made it on their hands and knees with a four-foot metal bar normally used to secure the back-door of Doug's Southampton studio and soon became two of the most successful con artists the world has ever seen. Since that fateful summer night in England, thousands of circles have appeared throughout various regions of the world, such as in the U.S., Canada, throughout Europe, South America, Asia and Australia. In fact, the only two countries where crop circle have never been reported are China and South Africa.

Whether the circles

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