Doug Bower

Doug Bower was a British man who, along with Dave Chorley, confessed in 1991 to creating over 200 crop circles in southern England since the late 1970s. They used simple tools like ropes and boards to flatten crops, often at night. Their initial inspiration came from a 1966 report of a UFO sighting where a flying saucer supposedly left a flattened area of reeds.1

Bower and Chorley's crop circles became increasingly complex over time, and they enjoyed the attention and the mystery surrounding them. While some believed crop circles were messages from extraterrestrials or unexplained natural phenomena, Bower and Chorley's confession revealed that many were the work of humans. Their actions highlighted that a significant portion of crop circles are man-made hoaxes.12