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Martin Hempstead is a physicist and a member of the Wessex Skeptics.
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From the archives: The Summer of ’91 – All you need to know about crop circles
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5th August 2025
From the archives in 1991, Wessex Skeptics member Martin Hempstead on hoaxing crop circles, and the emergence of the circle-spotter
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