On 9 September 1991, the Today newspaper published a story entitled “The Men Who Conned The World” on its front page about Doug Bower and Dave Chorley (commonly referred to as “Doug and Dave”) of Southampton, England and their claim that they had hoaxed crop circles. Asked by the Today newspaper about a crop circle (constructed by Doug and Dave whilst being recorded), Pat Delgado reportedly stated “In no way could this be a hoax. This is without doubt the most wonderful day of my life”.
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Book References
For discussion of Doug and Dave see the following:
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Alnor, William M in his “UFO in the New Age” (1992) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 38 (in Chapter 2) of the Baker softcover edition. |
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Andrews, Colin with Spignesi, Stephen J in their “Crop Circles: Signs of Contact” (2003) at pages 127, 128 (in Chapter 13), 156-157 (in Chapter 17), 179-180 (in Appendix A), 194 (in Appendix C) of the New Page softcover edition. |
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Baker, Alan in his “The Encyclopaedia of Alien Encounters” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 59 (in an entry entitled “Crop Circles”) of the Virgin hardback edition. |
1 |
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Birnes, William in his “The UFO Magazine UFO Encyclopedia” (2004) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 44-45 (in an entry entitled “Bower, Doug”) of the Pocket Books softcover edition. |
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Brennan, Herbie in his “The Aliens Handbook” (2005) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 40-41 (in Chapter 7) of the Faber and Faber softcover edition. |
2 |
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Collins, Andrew in his “The Circlemakers: A Revolutionary New Vision” (1992) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 232-236 (in Chapter 21), 240-241 (in Chapter 22) of the ABC softcover edition. |
7 |
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Coomer, David in his “The UFO Investigator’s Guide” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 131, 132 (in Chapter 10) of the Blandford softback edition. |
2 |
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Craft, Michael in his “Alien Impact” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 183 (in Chapter 9) of the St Martin’s Paperbacks paperback edition. |
1 |
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Dash, Mike in his “Borderlands” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 283-285 (in Chapter 8) of the Arrow paperback edition. |
3 |
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Delgado, Pat in his “Crop Circles: Conclusive Evidence” (1989) at pages 124-125 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “A Study of Hoaxing”) of the Bloomsbury hardback edition. |
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Devereux, Paul and Brookesmith, Peter in their “UFOs and Ufology – the first 50 years” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 69-70, 72 (in Chapter 5) of the Blandford softcover edition. |
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Emmons, Charles F in his “At The Threshold: UFOs, Science and the New Age” (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 90-91 (in Chapter 5) of the Wild Flower Press softcover edition. |
2 |
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Fitzgerald, Randall in his “The Cosmic Test Tube” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 289 (in Section 4) of the Moonlake Media softcover edition. |
1 |
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Frissell, Bob in his “Nothing in this book is true, but it's exactly how things are” (1994) at page 9 (in Chapter 2) of the Frog softcover edition. |
1 |
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Hesemann, Michael in his “The Cosmic Connection” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 4 (in the Foreword), 39-44 (in Chapter 4), 144 (in Chapter 14), 151-152 (in Chapter 15), 158 (in Chapter 16) of the Gateway Books softcover edition. |
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Hoggart, Simon & Hutchinson, Mike in their “Bizarre Beliefs” (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 54, 57 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Crop Circles”) of the Richard Cohen Books softcover edition. |
2 |
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King, Jon in his “Cosmic Top Secret” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 255, 272-273, 276-277 (in the chapter entitled “Document |
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Larson, Bob in his “UFOs and the Alien Agenda” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 99, 102 (in Chapter 6) of the Nelson softcover edition. |
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Marrs, Jim in his “Alien Agenda” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 281-287 (in Chapter 10), 309-310 (in Chapter 11) of the Harper Collins paperback edition. |
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Nickell, Joe and Fischer, John F in their “Mysterious Realms” (1992) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 201-202 (in Chapter 11) of the Prometheus hardback edition. |
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Picknett, Lynn in her “The Mammoth Book of UFOs” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 259, 260 (in Chapter 4) of the Robinson softcover edition. |
2 |
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Pope, Nick in his “Open Skies, Closed Minds” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 100-101 (in Chapter 5) of the Simon and Schuster hardback edition, with the same page numbering in the Pocket Books paperback edition. |
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Pope, Nick in his “The Uninvited” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 247 (in Chapter 15) of the Simon and Schuster hardback edition, with the same page numbering in the Pocket Books paperback edition. |
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Presley, Reg in his “Wild Things (They Don’t Tell Us)” (2002) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 54-55 (in Chapter 3), 268 (in Chapter 18) of the Metro hardback edition. |
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Randi, James in his “An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural” (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 60 (in the entry entitled “Crop Circles”) of the St Martin’s Press hardback edition. |
1 |
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Randi, James in his “The Supernatural A-Z: The Truth and the Lies” (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 80 (in the entry entitled “crop circles”) of the Brockhampton Press hardback edition. |
1 |
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Randles, Jenny and Hough, Peter in their “Encyclopedia of the Unexplained” (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 23 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “The Supernatural Earth”) of the Brockhampton hardback edition. |
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Randles, Jenny and Hough, Peter in their “The Complete Book of UFOs” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 295-296, 297 (in Chapter 26) of the Piatkus softcover edition. |
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Randles, Jenny in “The Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 147 (in an entry entitled “Crop Circles”) of the New American Library softcover edition, at pages 144-145 of the pdf edition (with the same page numbering in the Microsoft Word edition). |
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Randles, Jenny in “The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 177 (in an entry entitled “Crop Circles”) of the Robinson softcover edition. |
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Randles, Jenny in her “The Paranormal Source Book” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 58-59, 64, 65 (in the unnumbered, but alphabetically arranged, chapter entitled “Crop Circles”) of the Piatkus hardback edition. |
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Randles, Jenny in her “The Unexplained: Great Mysteries of the 20th Century” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 128-129 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “The 1990s”) of the Index hardback edition. |
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Sagan, Carl in his “The Demon Haunted World” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 74-75 (in Chapter 4) of the Headline softcover edition. |
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Schnabel, Jim in his “Round in Circles” (1993) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 260-266 (in Chapter 22), 267-277 (Chapter 23 generally), 278, 293 (in the Epilogue) of the Hamish Hamilton hardback edition. |
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Sellier, Charles E and Meier, Joe in their “UFO” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 198, 199, 200 (in Chapter 11) of the Contemporary Books hardback edition. |
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Spencer, John and Spencer, Anne in their “Fifty Years of UFOs” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 141 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “1987-1997”) of the Boxtree hardback edition. |
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Talaraski, Chris in “Making Contact” (1997) (edited by Bill Fawcett) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 329 (in Section 4) of the Morrow hardback edition. |
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Tonnies, Mac in his “After the Martian Apocalypse” (2004) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 136 (in Chapter 5) of the Paraview Pocket Books softcover edition. |
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Tutt, Keith in his “True Life Encounters : Unexplained Natural Phenomena” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 281-282 (in Chapter 3) of the Millenium paperback edition. |
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Wilson, Colin in his “Alien Dawn” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 36-37, 48, 53 (in Chapter 2) of the Virgin softcover edition (with the same page numbering in the Virgin paperback edition). |
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