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Hawkins’ studies also included analysis of the Nazca lines in Peru and the Amun Temple of Karnak in Egypt. In 1992, Hawkins gave an interview to Monte Leach of Share International in which he spoke of his research on crop circles and his discoveries that they contained ratios that related to musical major scales and contained undiscovered theorems of Euclidian geometry...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Astronomer Who Wrote On Stonehenge Dies | 8/1/2003 | See Source »

...Bahamas in the 15th century, struggled back across the Atlantic and entrusted his map and logs to Columbus, who concealed his knowledge of them to reap the glory of discovery for himself. But then, why leave out the extraterrestrial beings who landed in Peru to create the vast Nazca earth drawings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Just Who Was That Man? | 10/7/1991 | See Source »

...committee has also protested similar tactics in the In Search of... and The Outer Space Connection programs aired by NBC. Though also broadcast as entertainment, one 'show clearly supported the idea that the huge drawings on Peru's Nazca plains could have been made only with the help of ancient visitors from outer space. It stressed that no one has figured out how else the figures could have been created, though German Mathematician Maria Reiche has demonstrated that the Nazcans would have needed no outside help. Still another program showed pictures made by a process called Kirlian photography...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Attacking the New Nonsense | 12/12/1977 | See Source »

...eyes scored at 3 ft. Von Däniken's notions make use of ancient artifacts that he feels are proof of an extraterrestrial influence in history: the massive Easter Island statues, for instance, and the mysterious lines extending for miles on the Peruvian coastal plain at Nazca that he argues were landing strips for celestial spaceships. Story easily demonstrates that Von Däniken's use of details and overstretched imaginings are on a par with those of children seeing camels and puppies in cloud formations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Worlds in Collusion | 8/2/1976 | See Source »

...flight of the Condor may also have accomplished another goal of the I.E.S. Until recently, Peruvian authorities have shown little interest in protecting the Nazca drawings, some of which have already been partially obscured by footprints and tire tracks. Now, inspired by Condor, the mayors of nearby towns have joined in an effort to protect the drawings. Also, the government is looking into the construction of a 30-passenger dirigible to carry tourists who want to view the drawings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Nazca Balloonists? | 12/15/1975 | See Source »

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