The Nazca Lines and UFOS

I was watching the tv show "Ancient Aliens" and thought it would be interesting to see if what they were presenting has any validity as well as get some thoughts from readers and maybe get a good discussion going. The show "Ancient Aliens" begins by presenting the Nazca Lines.

"Ancient Aliens" says the Nazca lines were made in ancient times for beings that could see them from the sky. "Ancient Aliens" says the Nazca lines are what remains of a massive ancient runway system used as a landing base for ufos and that the top of the mountain has been "flattened" or "shaved off" for this purpose. "Ancient Aliens" does state that there are opposing views and that the lines may have been made for religious reasons.

The Nazca Lines are certainly mysterious, though the first thing that gets my attention is the "ancient" title. Wikipedia and other sources agree that the Nazca Lines are about 1500 years old, and while that is pretty old, it is not really "ancient" so it is unclear why they began here. That the mountain is so flat I feel is strange and wins some points for the idea that ufos may have landed here as well as the fact that it really does look like a lot of airplane runways. Would aliens or gods have or need airplanes? Most of the alien ufos are usually said to not need such a device as a landing strip. Would the act of landing ufos leave marks on the ground that would also be preserved?

For me, it seems that there are just too many strips to really be runways, and some of them are wider at one end than at the other. I also see in some images of the animal shapes that they sometimes were drawn over the "runway" and they were not disturbed by landings. "Ancient Aliens" does present the idea that the local peaople drew the images to "call back" the departed ones.

In my opinion, the most logical explanation would be that the people that lived in this area drew the images and the strips to try to contact their God. Perhaps the Nazca people felt forgotten in the dry desert and thought that if their God did pass by he would see the symbols and remember them. Many cultures have worshiped things in the sky and might construct something to be seen from the sky. Some of the designes are quite complex and one might think they would be to hard to create from the ground without seeing them, but they remind me of the modern crop circle formations that were proven as hoaxes and built by common people on the ground in some cases in one night and not by ufos. I also think removing the small reddish stones to reveal the lighter ground underneath in Nazca is an easier method than perfectly bending the grasses and stalks of crop circles and many crop circle formations are much more detailed than any of the Nazca lines.

So, to sum it up, I think the Nazca lines are very interesting and raise a lot of questions. Why is the mountain shaved off? What do the images mean? Is there a message in the images? Is there other Nazca art or literature that might explain these images or describe the landings of the ufos? What happened to the Nazca people? Where did the Nazca people live while they made these lines and where are the houses? If this was a huge landing place for ufos is there not one piece of garbage, not one broken wheel left behind to find? If these lines are preserved surely everything must be.

I give this a 2 on the mystery scale. Let me know what you think.

1 = no mystery
2 = possible mystery
3 = total mystery

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