Intricate diagrams carved into the surface of the Earth.
There are over 800 straight lines.
One has to wonder, what was it for?
Massive depictions of animals and strange beings
seen only from the sky.
There's enormous amount of mystery about
the Nazca Lines.
Who could have done this, and why?
And bizarre, elongated skulls found all over the world.
This is an unusual cranial, kind of elongated head.
And we don't know whether it's really natural or was some
kind of deformation that they did.
Are the mysterious geoglyphs of Nazca really just
artistic creations by ancient man?
Or are they evidence of
otherworldly visitors in the remote past?
I am absolutely sure long time ago
the extraterrestrials, they were seeking for raw material
for energy of all kind.
They found Nazca.
Millions of people around the world believe we have
been visited in the past by extraterrestrial beings.
What if it were true?
Did ancient aliens really help to shape our history?
And if so, might the proof be found when we explore
the mystery Beyond Nazca?
Southern Peru.
1927.
While hiking in the foothills of the arid Nazca Desert,
archaeologist Toribio Mejia Xesspe discovers what appears to
be a large network of ancient roads carved into the earth.
Years later, as airplane travel to the region becomes more
frequent, aerial flyovers reveal
nearly 100 other designs in the nearby landscape.
Known as geoglyphs, they depict animals, flowers, and even a
mysterious, human-like being.
Scattered over a nearly 200-square-mile area, these
lines and figures have become collectively known as the Nazca Lines.
The Nazca Lines consist of these massive
drawings, or carvings, if you like, on the ground.
Everything from geometric symbols, lines, to animals...
fish, birds.
But the intriguing thing about them is, you know, number one,
they're massive, and they can really only be seen properly from the sky.
There are over 800 straight lines.
There are over 70 animal figures.
There are over 150 geometrical shapes.
We have glyphs of different figurines on the ground.
We have these intricate lines and what appear to be runways
spread all around the desert.
Some of these actually show mathematical diagrams built
thousands of years ago, which really raises the question: Why?
There's an enormous amount of unanswered and perhaps
unanswerable questions that arise from the phenomena.
The largest of the figures is nearly 1,000 feet,
or the size of three football fields...
while the longest line extends almost nine miles.
According to mainstream archaeologists, these mysterious
earth drawings were created by the Nazca, an ancient people
that flourished in the region between the 1st and 8th century A.D.
The lines were formed by the careful removal of the reddish
iron oxide pebbles that make up the desert surface.
Once exposed, the underlying dirt, which contains high
amounts of lime, hardened and was resistant to erosion.
The Nazca plain is made up of layers of light-colored kind of rock
and dirt with dark-colored rock and dirt, just on top.
It's very simple.
And then you just remove the dark-colored stuff to reveal
these kind of white looking lines over the landscape.
It's like a canvas that isn't being disturbed, that's
maintained its integrity for hundreds or even thousands of years.
The reason why they have survived is because of the desert conditions.
Truly, if you make a geoglyph at the Nazca Desert environment
today, it will be found hundreds of years from now.
There is hardly any rain, hardly any wind.
Anything you make here will last for eternity.
But why did the Nazca people feel it necessary
to make these elaborate and massive drawings in the earth?
What purpose were they intended to serve?
And why were they designed in such a way that they could have
only been seen and appreciated from the sky...
at a time when aircraft didn't even exist?
The only place you can see them above is that
somehow you're floating in midair.
It has been suggested that whoever inhabited
the Nazca plateau, that they had access to some type of balloon
flight, so that they could appreciate what they had created on the ground.
If the Nazca population had access to balloon flight, the
Spanish chroniclers would have most certainly
recorded that in their reports.
But there is not a single word that describes that the Nazcans
had access to hot air balloons.
They would have written that down, but they didn't, so it didn't exist.
By default, we're in the bailiwick of highly advanced
terrestrial technology, and that
is really the anomaly of the Nazca Lines.
They really are easy to make, when you look at it, because it
is only really removing the top layer of a surface.
But the magnitude of the figures is what makes this such a
complex undertaking.
Many of the lines at Nazca go for miles, perfectly
straight through the desert.
There are various trapezoids and spirals and other glyphs that
are so large that the surveyors would need some direction from the sky.
And this is where aliens or some kind of people with flight had
to be involved with the creation of the Nazca Lines.
I was in Peru for a month in 1987.
I went with a pilot over the plains of Nazca.
The first pattern that the pilot said,
"Well, let's aim for that long six-mile triangle."
And there have been laser surveys done, and it is
remarkably accurate, this triangle.
And it looked like something had
pressed the whole ground down at least 24 inches.
How would you press down a six-mile-long perfect triangle
into the desert of Nazca?
What kind of technology can do that?
Not the feet of ancient people.
How could the ancient people of Nazca have
created such massive geoglyphs without the capability of flight
or the use of advanced tools?
Might these mysterious lines
have actually been created with the help of otherworldly beings,
as ancient astronaut theorists believe?
The fact that these designs can only be seen
from above, from the sky, is an indication that they were to be
used as navigational markers for the gods when they were actually here.
So the question then becomes, you know, were they drawn in
this way as navigational markers
for the gods to actually fly their vehicles in?
Let's assume for a moment that extraterrestrials
sent down some type of an unmanned craft, like a rover
that we have on Mars right now, that is collecting samples, and
is driving around a desert plateau.
It, of course, leaves behind some type of tracks.
And then the natives who just witnessed this would look at
each other and say, "Wow! We were just visited by God."
When in reality, no such thing happened.
Now, could it be the the case that the gods directed
building of them to the people below?
Could it be that there was some sort of teaching process involved?
The fact that we're talking about geometric lines and things
like this, was it a teaching process by somebody up there for
the so-called "lesser perceived" people down below?
We're still asking questions 1,500 years later, but, you
know, to this day they fascinate people and just provoke endless controversy.
Were the Nazca Lines really navigational
markers for otherworldly beings visiting Earth?
Or were they meant to commemorate an extraterrestrial
encounter, one that happened...
tens of thousands of years ago?
Modern-day historians and anthropologists believe the
Nazca people were one of several ancestors of the Inca
civilization, the largest empire in pre-Columbian America.
In the 13th century, the Inca Empire thrived in the Andes
Mountain region of South America.
According to legend, the mysterious Incan creator god
Viracocha, commissioned the Nazca Lines and glyphs in the remote past.
And these were said to be created by the Viracocha
himself, who was the great teacher god of the Andes.
And so where he came from is still a mystery.
He could've been from Sumeria.
He could've been connected somehow with the Anunnaki.
No one really knows.
But the same legends and the same stories of these great gods
appear throughout the world, especially all the way through the Americas.
We know that they are part of a creation
mythology in which some of the figurines which are depicted
here are said to be deities, are said to be part of the creation
mythology as to how the people who lived in that area and who
made these geoglyphs came about.
They are messages to be seen from above to basically say that
the people on the ground still live in accordance with the
rules established by the deities who came from above to teach the
people on the ground about civilization and various other aspects of culture.
Could the lines and glyphs of Nazca really have been
the work of the Inca god Viracocha, as their legends suggest?
If so, what was the purpose of
carving these strange geoglyphs into the Earth?
Perhaps the answers can be found by taking a closer look at one
of Nazca's most mysterious figures, one that has become
known as El Astronauto.
Switzerland, 1968.
Researcher and writer Erich von Daniken publishes his first
book, "Chariots of the Gods?"
In it, he introduces the revolutionary notion that the
Nazca Lines were created by the Nazca people after witnessing
extraterrestrials using advanced technology and a sophisticated
knowledge of mathematics.
Erich Von Daniken was one of the first to actually
do aerial flyovers of the Nazca region, and was one of the first
researchers to not only look at the diagrams on the plain floor,
but also in the hills of Nazca.
We find intricate mathematical diagrams that have never been
documented before.
When you fly over the desert, you see down gigantic lines.
Seen from the air, they give you the imagination of airstrips
because they start abruptly, end abruptly; sometimes they cross.
They look like airstrips.
When Erich drew the comparison as to how this looks
like a network of runways, it is to draw a visual comparison to
what they look like from above.
They are not runways.
They would not support the weight of anything physically landing there.
Some theorize that they were runways.
I don't believe that for a moment.
Hell, I was in the Air Force for six years, and none of the
aircraft that we had would be capable of landing on that as a runway.
I think it's more of a attention-getter.
You can see them from space.
So I think that it's a, uh...
a signal.
In the more than four decades since the
publication of Chariots of the Gods?, Erich von Daniken's
controversial theories concerning the Nazca Lines have
continued to spark widespread study.
Some scholars, after discovering curious patterns in the numerous
designs, suggest that the Nazca Lines might actually be one of
the earliest known examples of applied geometry.
They were interesting geometric figures.
They could draw a figure, and
then they could envision making it even bigger.
You're making angles; you're approximating distances, and
that innate skill of us to deal with geometry, I think,
translates to our earliest art forms.
It's interesting as you look at these designs on the
plains of Nazca, some of them have very, very interesting
relationships to the skies overhead.
There's a very famous glyph of a spider with one leg that extends
way, way out, and if you take that and flip it into sort of a
mirror situation, what you can plainly see is that the spider
is meant to represent the constellation of Orion, and the
spider's leg, the extension, is meant to represent the star Sirius.
So whoever put these designs on the plains of Nazca understood
the same thing that all of the other ancient cultures before
them understood, which is that there's some critical importance
to understanding Orion and Sirius and their relationship to the Earth.
But could the Nazca figures really have had a more
profound purpose?
Some ancient astronaut theorists believe they were created as a
means of communicating messages to the gods...
messages that may have also included a plea for them to return.
Ancient astronaut theorists believe the mysterious figure
known as El Astronauto could hold a clue to the Nazca mystery.
They call him The Spaceman... and he appears
to have a space helmet or something on his head, and he's
got one arm up and he's waving.
And it would seem this is one of the sky gods.
Or if he's not one of the sky gods himself, he's one of the
Nazca people who's waving to the sky gods and saying,
"Hi, we're here. Come and land.
We know you came here before. Come back."
You have a figure that looks like E.T.,
with the big eyes and the big head, and one hand is pointing to the sky
and the other is pointing to Earth, as if it was some type of a message:
"Hey, something happened here; we were visited by beings from above.
Is the mysterious figure known as El Astronauto
evidence of an extraterrestrial visitation in the distant past,
as some researchers believe?
And if so, might this suggest a reason why extraterrestrial
visitors may have landed at Nazca in the first place?
We send scientists from the University of Dresden to Nazca.
They measured the magnetic field, and they found a change
in the magnetic field under some of the lines.
And also, we measured the conduction, electricity along
the lines, and right next to it, the ability to conduct currency
was 8,000 time higher on the lines.
And they found that eight feet below one of these lines,
the magnetic field definitely changes.
So we have the result.
There is something in the ground, but we don't know what it is.
Is it really possible that something in the
earth might have attracted an otherworldly species to Nazca?
Could it have been an outpost
for a mining operation of precious metals?
Or perhaps minerals needed for rocket fuel?
It's been said that, if any extraterrestrial wanted
to come to Earth, Nazca would be a great place for them to land.
Nitrates and various things that
we use in our modern propulsion are found in abundance.
Maybe it's possible that extraterrestrials were aware of
this location as an energy source, and ancient man left
these depictions and runways as
a way to entice those beings to come back.
We find that the Nazca civilization was placed in
nitrate-rich environments.
They had no purpose for these nitrates.
The question might be, whether nitrate was indeed of importance
to the people who came to this area, maybe in prehistoric times.
Maybe an extraterrestrial civilization somehow had a
purpose for this nitrate.
Because nitrate is used in an awful lot of interesting
technological applications today.
Such applications as space travel.
But might the extraterrestrial contact
at Nazca have been designed to support an even greater presence
that we have yet to recognize?
And could Nazca have in time served its purpose, only to
be... abandoned?
With any visit, or with any project, the time
arrives when something is finished.
And that is why some of these contacts had ended, because
the extraterrestrials went on to different places.
So why would extraterrestrials be coming to Nazca?
Some of the lines at Nazca are going straight through the Andes.
The lines themselves directed you farther east.
But if Nazca was used as an ancient mining site
by extraterrestrials, might there be evidence of other,
similar sites around the globe?
According to ancient astronaut theorists, there are.
And they can be found hundreds of miles away at the ruins of
another lost civilization.
Western Bolivia.
400 miles east of the Nazca plain, near Lake Titicaca,
lay the ancient ruins of Tiahuanaco.
According to archaeologists, this ancient city was the
capital of the Tihuanaco culture that thrived more than 1,000 years ago.
But ancient astronaut theorists believe that Tiahuanaco is also
the place where the mysterious Nazca Lines seem to be pointing to.
But if so, why?
When we consider the Nazca Lines in
Peru, we have to consider them in their context.
They're not isolated phenomena.
There might not be other examples exactly like the Nazca Lines,
but they would be embedded in a larger ritualized
or ceremonial landscape that might include other famous
places from ancient cultures, such as Tiahuanaco.
At Tiahuanaco, we can find hundreds of glyphs.
We can find faces.
We can find carvings of all sorts of different things.
According to legend, Tiahuanaco was created
as a tribute to beings called Sky People,
under the direction of Viracocha, the Inca god linked to Nazca.
But might these Sky People be the same extraterrestrials who
helped create the Nazca Lines thousands of years ago?
According to ancient astronaut theorists, the answer is yes.
Nazca, in a sense, is really a way station along the coast of Peru.
There's an indication there
that once you arrived in Nazca with your airship, the lines
themselves directed you into the Andes to the giant megalithic
cities of Tiahuanaco and Pumapunku.
But is there other evidence of an extraterrestrial
presence at Tiahuanaco?
Evidence that may give us
insight into the true nature of the ancient aliens who allegedly
visited Nazca in the remote past?
There are many connections between the Nazca
culture along the west coast of Peru, and the inland cultures,
the Andean cultures of Tihuanaco, Pumapunku and Cuzco.
All throughout this area, they found evidence of these unusual
elongated skulls in all these different places, not just in one area.
And so, it seems like they were the builders of these sites.
Found in numerous gravesites in the region,
these elongated skulls have a cranial
capacity 25% larger than human skulls.
But where did they come from?
You will find academic
critics who will say it was because there were some Incas
who wrapped their baby's heads in some kind of blankets or
cloths to make them grow long. A kind of cosmetic procedure.
There's a lot of argument on the other side that there is not one
single piece of cultural evidence that the Incas ever bound the heads.
So, you've got a conflict there among archeologists,
even looking at the Peruvian heads.
I suggest the extraterrestrials who were here
thousands of years ago... they had elongated heads,
and our ancestors simply wanted to copy it.
They made it in the beginning. They hoped that they would
become similar to the extraterrestrials they have seen a long time ago.
They are physically
changing the appearance of their children to resemble the
physical appearance of the deities.
For the Nazca people to have done that, it means that these
people somehow preserved the memory of such physical contact with a deity.
But if there is no
evidence of the skulls being created by means of binding,
or other man-made means, then how can they be explained?
Could there be another, perhaps more extraterrestrial, explanation?
Might they be evidence of some kind of human-alien hybrid race,
a race that not only lived in western Peru
but who may have also inhabited ancient Egypt?
According to ancient astronaut theorists,
the answer is a profound yes.
And they also cite a link
between the people of Nazca and the god Viracocha.
What's most interesting is the fact that
Viracocha was also said to be the builder of all these sites.
So was he part of the race of the elongated skull people that
came to this land and built all these amazing megalithic
temples as well as the Nazca Lines?
What is perhaps as mysterious as the origin
of the elongated skulls is the fate of the Nazca people.
According to most archaeologists, both Nazca and
Tiahuanaco were suddenly abandoned at about the same time
approximately 1,000 years ago.
Those civilizations, I think, are connected to what
was going on in the Peruvian desert with the Nazca.
To what extent? I don't think we know.
There's not enough information that has been gleaned from those
civilizations, but they both disappeared around the same time
for whatever reasons.
But there was some
shift in the earth right then, either some massive earthquake
that even caused Lake Titicaca to flood the whole area
or perhaps it was some kind of cosmic war between the extraterrestrials.
But once that mining center...
the, in a sense, the capital of this area... was destroyed
and no longer functioning, Nazca became this backwater where nothing was
really happening anymore.
And it was during that period
probably that many of the lines were drawn and the figures,
trying to attract the extraterrestrials.
Might the elongated skulls found at sites
surrounding Nazca really be evidence that extraterrestrial
beings once visited Earth thousands of years ago?
And, if so, is it also possible that these otherworldly beings
came to mine precious minerals until they were mysteriously
destroyed, as some ancient astronaut theorists contend?
Perhaps further evidence can be found hidden in plain sight
at mysterious mounds and crop circles found all over the world.
Pleasant Hill, Ohio, 1848.
The Smithsonian Institute
surveys a 1,350-foot long, three-foot high effigy mound
built in the shape of a coiling serpent.
Like the lines and geoglyphs of Nazca, this reptilian motif
known as the Serpent Mound can only be seen from high above the Earth.
Similar to Nazca, what we have with these earth
mounds is that they're put into easily recognizable symbols,
but unless you're looking at them from some altitude,
they don't look like anything.
In the Native American legend, we call
it the plume serpent, which is probably the same
as the Quetzalcoatl down in the tribes in Mexico.
The plume serpent theory is probably related to something
that came from the sky.
It came from the extraterrestrial territory.
Serpent Mound and other places of what the Indians used to
call places of worship are very important to study these things.
There are certain things that are connected for the well-being
of the planet, whether it be the magnetic system, whether it be
the ley lines, whether it be observance points from other
worlds that existed here before.
According to historians and anthropologists,
an indigenous Native American culture called the Fort Ancient
people built the mounds nearly 1,000 years ago.
But, if so, why?
Serpent Mound is an extraordinary site.
It is one of the most important sites in North America.
It's almost as if somebody is trying to point out, that for
anybody passing from above, he or she or it is about to
approach a site of importance.
Why would a so-called primitive people have
constructed a massive earthwork that, like the geoglyphs and
lines in Nazca, went unnoticed and undetected by those on the
ground for hundreds of years?
Perhaps a clue can be found in the fact that the Serpent Mound
was constructed on the edge of a meteor crater that was formed
approximately 300 million years ago.
Coincidence?
Or was the mound's proximity to a meteor site intended to mark
the presence of a very rare and precious
element often found in meteors...
iridium?
Iridium has great conductive abilities.
It's one of the rarest elements we have, and it tends to be
concentrated in unique areas for two reasons:
Either a meteorite crashed at some point in the past
or volcanic activity and lava flow.
Looking at locations like the Serpent Mound in Ohio
and various other sites, we see some type of energy source that
either was powering these locations or is still offering
some type of energy source today, like iridium and other
exotic elements.
And if extraterrestrials are aware of these locations,
were they tapping into this energy?
The concentration of iridium on that site is ten
times higher than what would be expected.
Serpent Mound is some kind of memorial to the presence of
another world involved in mining of this iridium at some point in
the remote or maybe not-so-remote past.
There's even gravitational anomalies such as
you get at the Serpent Mound in Ohio
which has magnetic and gravitational effects.
And it can really affect your consciousness.
There's a whole preponderance of possibilities that these sites
were built on these particular spots.
Could the Serpent Mound be a marker where
extraterrestrial beings mined iridium as an energy source,
as some ancient astronaut researchers believe?
And, if so, might there be a connection between energy in the
ground here and that found in the Nazca plain?
Perhaps more clues can be found by examining the mysterious
crop circles discovered throughout the world.
Wiltshire, England, 1978.
Here, in this tranquil countryside 90 miles west of London,
strange crop circles begin to appear overnight in
fields of wheat and corn.
Like the geoglyphs found at Nazca, the designs are geometric
shapes seen only from above.
Crop circles, they are described as some type
of energy ball that whizzed through the field and all of a
sudden there's this intricate diagram.
We also have to wonder if
extraterrestrials potentially were involved in Nazca,
maybe they're also trying to get us messages today through crop circles.
There is a correlation between the ancient
glyphs and the modern crop circles in that they're both
being presented to the Earth from what we would call star
people using a higher technology.
Mainstream scientists have yet to
acknowledge an extraterrestrial connection to crop circles.
But ancient astronaut theorists remain convinced that there is
more here than what meets the skeptical eye.
While some crop circles are undoubtedly the work of farmers
and others trying to pull off a hoax,
many cannot be explained so easily.
They appear to be made too quickly, too perfectly.
Some magically appear within a few hours, accompanied by
strange lights in the sky.
Could there be a connection between these unusual shapes and
the mysterious designs found at Nazca?
Now, people suggest that crop circles are
made by either extraterrestrials or some sort
of non-human intelligence, some sort of non-human entity
that's possibly trying to give us a message.
If we draw the parallel between the crop circles and the Nazca
Lines, one, yes, is made in, like, a sandy desert-type
terrain; the other's made in corn, but the actual designs are
somewhat similar, and maybe even the message is a similar one,
but it's just been upgraded for a new era and a different country.
In the past, we set the communications in stone.
And what's happening now, today, in fields all over the world but
especially in England, the crop circles are so much more complex
than the designs at Nazca.
There definitely seems to be
some sort of communication taking place.
Somebody is trying to communicate with us,
and we are too stupid to understand the communication.
One morning, you have a simple circle in a crop field.
Now, the humans think,
"Okay, circle, it happens by the wind or by animals overnight or whatever."
We all are too arrogant, so we don't try at communication.
Is there really a profound connection between
the Nazca lines and crop circles, as ancient astronaut theorists believe?
And might they contain messages that we have yet to decode?
If so, what are they trying to tell us?
Perhaps answers can be found by examining other, equally strange
geoglyphs, recently discovered after nearly 2,000 years.
2011, the Middle East.
Satellite and aerial photography reveals high numbers of
mysterious stone wheels carved
into the earth in Syria, Saudi Arabia, and Jordan.
First discovered in 1927, these stone circles are believed to
number in the thousands, and date back more than 2,000 years.
Ranging in size from 80 to more than 200 feet in width,
ancient astronaut theorists believe these designs fit a global pattern.
Seems to me that there was high intelligence behind
everything that has been constructed and built, and that
it has all been built for a reason.
Somebody decided to make these amazing circles with spokes.
The same thing in Peru, and look at how far apart we are.
Peru is in one hemisphere, and
Jordan and Syria and Saudi Arabia are in another
hemisphere, and they're on two sides of the planet, but you're
talking about a similar kind of, shall we say, communication.
Thanks to Google Earth, we now have a vehicle by
which we can see some of these glyphs.
They're being called Nazca-like phenomena.
I think we are opening the first page of a chapter that deals
with glyphs and structures which can be seen from the air.
It's not only at Nazca that ancient man was
trying to communicate to the heavens, but around the world we
are finding new monuments and glyphs that raise the question,
"Was there a connected geodetic presence of sites that the
extraterrestrials used to navigate around our planet?"
What is the purpose of the strange shapes and
geoglyphs found at Nazca and all over the world?
Were they used as navigational markers,
intended to guide space travelers?
Or might they contain a more profound message for humanity?
In 1972, cosmologist Carl Sagan
stated that if an extraterrestrial intelligence
exists in the universe,
the means of contact would be mathematics.
If you think about this as communication, as Carl
Sagan was quoted as saying, it is certainly true that this
would be the way we'd probably have to start.
A circle is a circle,
and that's just a universal feature of geometry.
And it would be the same no matter where you were in the universe.
Is it possible that otherworldly beings have been
using basic mathematics and geometry in an effort to
communicate with us?
And might the proof of this be found in the many geoglyphs at
Nazca and throughout the world?
Could mankind have been receiving extraterrestrial
messages for hundreds and even
thousands of years...
messages that have gone unread and undeciphered right before our eyes?
Imagine you wanted to reveal a truth about the
higher world to humans.
You would lay down one card at a time.
Each of these cards would be a glyph or a crop circle image,
and it would reveal something about the spiritual world.
Not just knowledge.
It would provide an experience of the actual reality it was describing.
What we have in the Nazca culture is something which
our ancestors knew that what
they were making was gonna have a lasting effect.
Hundreds of years afterwards, it is still there.
And it might be very ironic to realize that they were shouting
out for the deities, saying,
"Please come down and visit us."
And that 100 years later, the Nazca Lines have become
the billboard for the ancient alien theory, whereby they really are
interpreted as, indeed, a landing place for the deities.
And so we might find that across time and space and culture,
really the core of the message of the Nazca Lines
is maintained, even though maybe slightly placed in a different context.
When you look at some of the glyphs at Nazca,
they would seem to be just simple things...
animals and figures and things like that.
But then other of the figures and the lines seem to
be so incredibly complicated.
Mathematical, and they're-they're following energy lines.
So, there seems to be a much deeper meaning in all of the
figures and the lines, and where they're going and why they intersect.
But we can't figure it out.
Is it possible, as ancient astronaut theorists
believe, that the lines and geoglyphs of Nazca are part of
a worldwide communications
network... a network that is directly connected to
otherworldly visitors from the remote past?
And if so, might this form of alien communication
be intended for us or for something, or someone not of this world?
Perhaps these strange shapes and symbols provide clues to
mankind's not-so-distant future, or serve as an invitation for
other alien visitors to return.