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Terence Meaden

British meteorologist and physicist who proposed the plasma vortex hypothesis for simple crop circle formations in the 1980s, an explanation later overtaken by evidence of widespread deliberate human construction.

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  • Terence Meaden is frequently compared to Doug Bower — The era's two rival explanatory figures, one a confessed prankster and one a scientist, proposing different causes for the same phenomenon.

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