OVNI 2004 07 July August

Journal of the Phenomenon Research Association £i +pp uk: 2Eurosinci.pp "JA.t 'Tfie Cutting "Edge" Members Free OVNI Journal of the Phenomenon Research Association Group Leader July/August Secretary Omar Fowler Karen Richardson (Derby) Sinfin, Derby. DE24 9H Tel/Fax 01332 761464 E-Mail: Bontor@aol.com CROP CIRCLES: IS THIS THE END OF THE LINE? "Crop Circles used to be the work of amateur pranksters. Now flattening wheat fields is a lucrative commercial enterprise." A Report by Kate Burt: Independent.co.uk News {Extract). 06 July 2004 Rod Dickinson clearly remember the night he made his first crop circle. It was the summer of 1991, just months before the famous crop-circle hoaxing duo, Doug Bower and Dave Chorley, came out about their nocturnal wheat flattening activities; a time when the nation was still gripped by the idea that aliens might feasibly have been parking up in fields at night, all over the southern English countryside. "No one had really mooted the idea these things might have been man-made," said Dickinson, an artist "as far as people were concerned, me included, there were definitely other possibilities; at least some unexplained natural phenomena. I was fascinated." So when a friend challenged Dickinson to join him in an illicit attempt to create their own crop circle, the pair found themselves on their knees in the middle of the night, with …