UNKNOWN SOURCE WAS BEHIND CORN CIRCLES, CLAIMS HOAXER

by NICK BROWNLEE

The man behind Britain's spectacular corn circles has done a dramatic U-turn.

Doug Bower now claims an "unknown force" told him to create the elaborate patterns in fields of wheat.

And he has given new hope to UFO buffs who are convinced that crop circles are the work of extra terrestrials.

Five years ago, Doug stunned the world when he revealed how he made the circles with only a plumb and a length of rope.

But the 74-year-old Southampton artist now says, "I honestly believe I was programmed by some force to make these circles.

"At the time it was just a good laugh. We made monkeys out of the scientists. But now I'm convinced something out there was telling me to do it."