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MUFONET-BBS NETWORK - MUTUAL UFO NETWORK ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ CIRCLE NEWS - WIRE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ÚÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ¿ 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 ³=END= ³

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