Original 1970s crop circle hoaxer Doug Bower dies aged 84 - ITV West (2018) HTV

Original 1970s crop circle hoaxer Doug Bower dies aged 84 - HTV - Matthew Williams

Doug Bower.

Bower earned infamy in 1991 when, with his friend Dave Chorley, he confessed to TODAY newspaper that he had started the modern crop circle phenomenon in the mid-1970s. Their initial aim had been to dupe ufologists into believing flying saucers had landed in the grain fields of Hampshire, although this extended once other theories as to the origins of crop circles began to circulate.



A picture framer and artist, Bower took his inspiration for the circles from the time he spent living in Melbourne, Australia. Here he learned of the 1966 Tully Saucer Nest case in which the landing traces of an apparent UFO were discovered by farm worker George Pedley. These took the shape of a circular bed of reeds uprooted from a shallow lagoon.

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