Word: pisco
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bestseller Chariots of the Gods? (on which the movie is based), Science Fiction Writer Erich von Däniken says that the lines-which do, in fact, resemble airport runways-may have been landing strips for otherworldly visitors. A huge, cliffside trident, overlooking the nearby Bay of Pisco, may even have pointed the way to them, he says. But most scholars, including Reiche, flatly reject that farfetched idea; for one thing, no extraterrestrial artifacts have ever been found at the site. Scientific observers lean to a more down-to-earth explanation first proposed by the late archaeologist Paul Kosok...