What do you think about this?
In the Peruvian desert, between the Andes and the Pacific, the ground itself becomes a canvas. More than seven hundred geometric shapes and more than seventy animal and human figures are etched into the surface of the desert floor. A monkey with a spiral tail. A hummingbird three hundred feet across. A spider, a condor, a whale, a tree, a humanoid figure waving from a hillside.
The Nazca people, who lived in the region between roughly 500 BC and 500 AD, made these by removing the dark oxidized stones from the top layer of the desert to reveal the lighter sand beneath. The largest figures stretch over a thousand feet in length.
The desert preserves them because it almost never rains and the wind rarely shifts the surface. Some of them are more than two thousand years old.
Here is the part that does not make sense. At ground level you cannot see the figures. The lines are too long, the curves too gradual, the perspective too low. To see a Nazca figure as the figure it is supposed to be, you have to be in the air, hundreds of feet up at minimum, looking down.
The Nazca did not fly. Their technology, by every mainstream account, did not extend to anything that could carry a person above the desert floor.
So why did they build them, who were they showing them to, and how did they get the geometry right without ever seeing them whole?
Makes you wonder who the audience was supposed to be.
What do you think about this? On May 20, 1967, a prospector in Manitoba walked up to a landed craft near Falcon Lake. It blasted him with hot gas and left a grid of burns on his chest matching its vents. Three governments investigated. Canada put it on a coin. Hoax, or the real thing?
What do you think about this? Serpent Mound in Ohio is a 1,348 foot snake of earth, its head aimed at the summer solstice sunset, its body built on the rim of an ancient meteor crater. One dating puts it right after Halley’s Comet in 1066. Sacred art, or a message for the sky?
What do you think about this? Since the early 1990s about two percent of people in Taos, New Mexico, hear a low hum like a distant diesel that never shuts off. In 1993 Los Alamos and Sandia scientists came to find it. Their instruments found nothing. Trick of the ear, or a hidden signal?
What do you think about this? In 1974 a retired air traffic controller cast footprints in Louisiana’s Honey Island Swamp: three webbed toes, a foot long. He had reported a seven foot gray haired creature with yellow eyes standing over a dead boar in 1963. Hoax, or the Letiche?
What do you think about this? For nearly three years beginning April 2, 1968, a glowing figure of a woman appeared on the roof of a church in Cairo, seen by crowds of tens of thousands, Christians and Muslims together, and caught in press photographs. Mass illusion, or a visitation?
What do you think about this? A 2,200 year old wooden bird dug up at Saqqara in 1898 has no legs, no feathers, straight wings and a tail that stands upright like the fin of an airplane. Some replicas glide. A child’s toy that looks like a plane, or a memory of something that flew?
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