In 1991, two British men shocked the world when they confessed to hoaxing all the famous crop circles found in England in recent years. However, a detailed examination of their claims shows that these men could not possibly have started the crop circle phenomenon, and probably had nothing to do with the famous circles in Wiltshire, England, or anywhere else.
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Some sources:
Terry Wilson. Men Who Conned the World. Accessed Dec 12, 2018: https://menwhoconnedtheworld.weebly.com.
Pat Delgado and Colin Andrews. Circular Evidence: a Detailed Investigation of the Flattened Swirled Crops Phenomenon. London: Bloomsbury Publishing Ltd., 1989.
Terry Wilson. The Secret History of Crop Circles: Recording the Phenomenon In Days of Old. Paignton, UK: Terry Wilson, 2015.
Crop Circles: The Human Experience. Interview with Colin Andrews, by Diane M. Cooper: http://spiritofmaat.com/archive/dec2/andrews.htm.
Interview with David Chorley on CBC radio (Canada), September 9, 1991. Full transcript: https://menwhoconnedtheworld.weebly.com/canadian-radio-interview.html.
Interview with Doug Bower and George Wingfield by DJ Nicky Campbell on Into the Night, BBC Radio 1, Sept 10, 1991: https://youtube.com/watch?v=47IF1DPiiTY.
John Rand Capron, letter to the editor, Nature 22 (May - October, 1880): 290 - 291.
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