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  "title": "Round in Circles: Physicists, Poltergeists, Pranksters, and the Secret History of the Cropwatchers",
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    "en": "Jim Schnabel's 1993 Hamish Hamilton work — the principal accessible journalistic engagement with the crop circle phenomenon following the Bower-Chorley confession. Schnabel substantially documents the discipline's institutional history (Pat Delgado and Colin Andrews; Terence Meaden and the plasma vortex hypothesis; the substantial Cerealogist community; the 1991 Bower-Chorley confession; the substantial subsequent organized circle-making emergence). The work is the principal accessible non-fiction account of the discipline's substantive transformation across the 1991 confession."
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  "publish_date": "1993",
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