Crop Circle Hoax?

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³=START=   XMT: 12:32 Mon Sep 09  EXP: 12:00 Tue Sep 10      ³

³                                                            ³

³TWO MEN SAY THEY ARE BEHIND MYSTERIOUS "CORN CIRCLES" IN    ³

³BRITAIN NOT ALIENS                                          ³

³                                                            ³

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

³                                                            ³

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

³                                                            ³

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

³                                                            ³

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

³                                                            ³

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

³                                                            ³

³Some scientists who have studied the mystery remain         ³

³sceptical of the Bower and Chorley's claims.                ³

³                                                            ³

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

³                                                            ³

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

³                                                            ³

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

³                                                            ³

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

³                                                            ³

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

³                                                            ³

³At the conference Sunday night, Delgado acknowledged that he³

³may have been fooled by a hoax.                             ³

³                                                            ³

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

³                                                            ³

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

³                                                            ³

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