Mystery AtlasDoug Bower
English artist who, with Dave Chorley, began creating crop circles in Wiltshire in 1978 and publicly confessed and demonstrated the technique to journalists in 1991, prompting most crop circles to be reassessed as deliberate human artwork.
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Theories & Explanations
Doug Bower popularised Crop Circle Human-Made Explanation.
People
Doug Bower is frequently compared to Dave Chorley — Worked together on crop circles for over a decade before their joint 1991 confession.
Doug Bower is frequently compared to Terence Meaden — The era's two rival explanatory figures, one a confessed prankster and one a scientist, proposing different causes for the same phenomenon.