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Confessions of a crop circle chaser

Whetting visitors’ curiosity, residents’ suspicions

By Bill Strubbe

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  November 13, 2011

Though crop circles enjoyed their 15 minutes of fame in the 1990s, dozens of these often complex geometric patterns still appear every summer in Wiltshire, England. Despite night watches by researchers and irate farmers circle makers are rarely, if ever, caught in the act and the mystery remains. Like storm chasers, once an approximate location is established a carload of “croppies’’ heads out to find the circle.

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