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PROJECT SUN STREAK
WARNING NOTICE:
INTELLIGENCE SOURCES AND METHODS INVOLVED
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PROJECT NUMBER:
0762 (Tng)
SESSION NUMBER:
1
DATE OF SESSION:
01 MAR 90
DATE OF REPORT:
05 MAR 90
START:
1407
END:
1428
METHODOLOGY:
CRV
VIEWER IDENTIFIER:
052
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1.
(S/STD)
MISSION:
To describe the target site (The Nazca lines, Peru)
in Stage 2 terminology.
2.
(S/STD)
VIEWER TASKING:
Encrypted coordinates only.
3.
(S/STD)
COMMENTS: No Physical Inclemencies.
052 had many accurate
perceptions of the site and no discernable incorrect ones.
Stage 1 gestalts
included "water" (which is not at the site), but there appears to be
something at this site which drives that gestalt, as it is a common mistake
to this site.
052 at one point perceived "grapes". _ Post session feedback
found that the original pages include a page from another article on Italian
grapes.
Post session discussion included "viewing the site, not the
feedback package", and an overview of how to break oneself from the habit.
052 also wondered about an impression of a distorted hand (shown on page 723
in the feedback), which registered, but did not drive the desire to write it
down.
Again, stress was placed on writing down everything.
4.
(S/STD) EVALUATION:
5.
(S/STD) SEARCH EVALUATION:
N/A
MONITOR:
018
HANDLE VIA STIPPLE CHANNELS ONLY
SECRET/NOFORN
CLASSIFIED BY:
DIA (DT)
DECLASSIFY:
OADR
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SERVICIO AEROFOTOGRAFICO NACIONAL (ABOVE AND BELOW); LOREN MCINTYRE (BOTTOM) AND GEORG GERSTER
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IN THE PAMPA FLOOR birds
fly, whales swim, and other crea-
tures crawl and creep. Many of
their forms closely resemble the fig-
ures on Nazca pots.
Ceramic representation of a killer
whale (below), created near the end
of the third century A.D., shares the
sinuous form of a figure scribed in
the desert (right). Stylized human
heads, trophies of a Nazca head-
hunting cult, band the side of the
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potter's whale. Other pots render a
head dangling below the whale's
body, as the drawing does.
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A few of the figures have been
identified as pre-Nazca. Miss Reiche
walks the outline of a wide-eyed
hillside figure (right). Pottery and
textile similarities link it with the
Nazcas' immediate predecessors,
people of the Paracas culture.
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D
ESERT AVIARY contains 18
bird figures, including that of a
hummingbird (left), an apparent
duckling (right), and a sea bird al-
most 450 feet long (below), whose
beak is only partly shown.
"We can't be sure what their
meaning was, but we can be sure
they had meaning," says art his-
torian Alan Sawyer. "Most figures
are composed of a single line that
never crosses itself, perhaps the
path of a ritual maze. If so, when the
Nazcas walked the line, they could
have felt they were absorbing the
essence of whatever the drawing
symbolized."
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CRAFTED with uncommon care, the Nazca
Lines remained much as their makers made
them. For perhaps two thousand years a spi-
der 150 feet long lay clearly in the sand, its out-
line almost undisturbed in a photograph taken in
1963 (right). Now it bears the scars of dune
buggies, jeeps, and sightseers on foot (below). A
similar fate threatens many of the markings.
For years Miss Reiche has crusaded to preserve
the lines, an effort acknowledged last January
when the Peruvian Government allotted one mil-
lion sols (about $23,000) for the purpose.
"I would like to see a viewing tower erected
near the Pan American Highway," she says, "so
that visitors will not be tempted to walk on the
lines. I used to direct people to the sites. Now I
direct them away, before all the ruins are ruined."
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BATES LITTLEHALES, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC PHOTOGRAPHER,
AND SERVICIO AEROFOTOGRAFICO NACIONAL (BELOW)
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B. Water
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AOL BIL
U.S.
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hard
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Structures
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Bright Diagonals
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Mystery
of the
Ancient
Nazca
Lines
PICTURE STORY BY
LOREN
MCINTYRE
MAP
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R
ULER STRAIGHT and tack sharp, a
curious marking more than a mile
long etches the desert in southern
Peru. Wandering mule paths that cross
it only emphasize the precision of its design.
Throughout hundreds of square miles of
arid plateau, other markings abound, most
of them concentrated between the towns of
Nazca and Palpa. Known as the Nazca
Lines, they form a geometrical mélange of
quadrangles, triangles, and trapezoids;
spirals and flowers; narrow lines that ex-
tend more than five miles; and a desert
zoo of giant creatures-birds, reptiles, and
whales, a monkey and a spider.
Because some of the figures resemble
those decorating Nazca pottery, archeol-
ogists attribute the lines to the Nazcas, a
coastal people whose culture rose, flour-
ished, and declined between-roughly
speaking-100 B.C. and A.D. 700.
Making the marks must have been sim-
ple enough, though time-consuming. Clear
away a few million rocks to expose the
lighter ground beneath them, pile the rocks
in rows, and you have designs that, in this
nearly rainless region, can last thousands
of years.
But why did the ancients construct
them? Nobody really knows. There have
been many guesses-that they were pre-
historic roads, farms, or some form of
signals or offerings to celestial beings.
Dr. Paul Kosok, the first scholar to study
the markings after they were first recog-
nized from the air in the late 1920's, specu-
lated that they constituted a giant astro-
nomical calendar, an almanac for farmers
anxious to predict the return of water to
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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Palpa
To Puerto Caballas.
on Pacific coast, 23. miles
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Warca Lines shown inred
Elevations in fect.
Nazca
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DRAWN BY LEO'B ZEBAN
OR MORE THAN 25 YEARS Maria
F 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 carth 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."
National Geographic, May 1975
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S 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
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).
The figure looks like any of several
monkeys-woolly, spider, or capuchin-
that live in tropical forests on the east
slopes of the Andes, some 200 miles dis-
tant. But Nazca artists, who probably
learned of these monkeys through trade
contacts with forest peoples, weren't al-
ways accurate in anatomical detail. They
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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