SUN STREAK PROJECT 0762 SESSION NUMBER: 01 CRV VIEWER: 052

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: STARGATE
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP96-00789R001200060007-6
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• Document Page Count: 18
• Document Creation Date: November 4, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 1, 1998
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: March 1, 1990
• Content Type: REQ

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valley streams.
A 1968 study, financed partly by the
National Geographic Society, ascertained
that some of the lines do indeed point to
solstice positions of the sun and moon in
ancient times, as well as to the rising and
setting points on the horizon of some of
the brighter stars. But, the study indi-
cates, no more than could be expected
by chance.
And so the mystery remains, including
the most tantalizing question of all: Why
did the Nazcas create immense designs
that they themselves could never see,
designs that can be seen only from the air?
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F OR MORE THAN 25 YEARS Maria
Reiche has photographed and charted
las lineas, striving to complete a map
of the hundreds of designs and figures that
score a tableland some 30 miles long,
threaded by the Pan American Highway
(map, upper left). A National Geographic
Society grant now aids her work.
At her desk in Lima (left), the German-
born mathematician glances up from a
chart, where azimuths of lines dart off in
almost all the directions of the compass.
During fieldwork Miss Reiche sleeps on
a camp cot behind her car on the rocky,
grassless Peruvian "pampa," rising be-
fore first light for a breakfast of grapefruit
and canned milk. Despite her 72 years, she
then sets to work with a zeal as relentless
as the noonday sun.
With the reel of tape in her left hand,
she has just completed measuring one of
the sides of a trapezoidal field (right).
Seen from the air (above), it negotiates a
hillock, then branches off octopuslike over
the pampa.
Miss Reiche scorns the suggestion that
such markings may have been airfields
for outer-space visitors to earth in pre-
historic times. "Once you remove the
stones, the ground is quite soft," she says.
"I'm afraid the spacemen would have
gotten stuck."
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AS IF DESIGNED AND DRAWN
by a mad geometrician, markings
great and small litter the pampa
in configurations that defy explana-
tion. They sometimes ignore topogra-
phy as well.
Trapezoids congregate on a plateau
that overlooks the Ingenio Valley
(above). Others march up-or is it
down?-the slopes of an old wash
beside farmers' fields (right), accom-
panied by platoons of lines that appear
to go nowhere. The looped pattern
below them lacks the precision of
many ancient lines and may be the
remains of an irrigation system.
"Throughout the pampa," says Miss
Reiche, "lines stretch for miles, cross-
ing valleys and traversing hills, never
swerving from their courses. Survey-
ors have been astonished by their
straightness."
How did the Nazcas achieve such
exactitude? Along some lines the re-
mains of posts have been found at
intervals approaching a mile. Perhaps
sighting stations with men standing
in line behind them? Perhaps.
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ONGER than a football field and
L completely visible only from the air, a
monkey (left) leans to grasp-nothing.
Its left hand measures more than 40 feet
across (right). Miss Reiche- stands within
the whorled furrows that comprise its
tail (above).
monkeys-woolly, spider, or capuchin-
that live in tropical forests on the east
slopes of the Andes, some 200 miles dis-
learned of these monkeys through trade
contacts with forest peoples, weren't al-
gave their monkey four fingers on one
hand, five on the other, and a prehensile
tail that curves up instead of down.
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