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12 Blame It On The Aliens!

Blame it on the Aliens! 10

Mysteries From the Nazca
Lines to Crop Circles

Aliens have an unfortunate reputation.
When they aren’t abducting humans they
seem to be joyriding around space,
flashing their bright lights and making a
racket.

But sometimes aliens may also perform
miracles.

Here, we examine 10 mysteries that may

have had a bony helping hand from outer
space.

1. Crop Circles:
Crop circles popped up in England

in the 1970s and quickly spread
worldwide, from the cornfields of
Colorado to China’s Mount Qiyun. More
recent examples incorporate elaborate
designs and mathematical equations,
indicating the work of a team - human or
otherwise. Some blame pranksters but
Horace Drew, the molecular biologist
with a Ph.D from the California Institute
of Technology, believes they either
between Florida, Bermuda and Puerto
suggest alien life or could be made by
Rico. Some claim a paranormal or 5. The Utah monolith:
human time travelers from the distant
supernatural explanation, or they link the The Utah monolith is gone but not
future. Drew said he has decoded crop
lost city of Atlantis to the tragic events. forgotten. Biologists discovered it in
circle symbols and messages such as
Others believe in geological or November 2020, but it vanished quickly
‘Believe’ and ‘There is good out there’,
hydrological explanations but that only to be replaced by replica monoliths
indicating the alien time travellers speak
wouldn’t explain why wreckage wasn’t shooting up around the globe. Some
an earthly language.
found. The US National Oceanic and wonder if the structure was planted by the
Atmospheric Administration, responding late artist John McCracken and later
2. Easter Island's Moai statues:
to questions about a missing vessel and stolen. The San Juan County Sheriff's
Easter Island’s Moai statues have its 20 passengers in the Bermuda Triangle Office distributed a ‘Most Wanted’ poster
been a mystery since Europeans landed in 2021, suggested “the combined forces suggesting nine possible suspects in the
on the island in 1722. The giant statues - of nature and human fallibility outdo disappearance of the Utah monolith,
some as tall as 40 feet and weighing up to even the most incredulous science including ET.
75 tonnes - may have been erected by fiction”.
Polynesian settlers as tributes to their
6. Sloan Digital Sky Survey:
elders, then ‘walked’ into place with the 4. Nazca lines:
help of ropes. But UFO-ologists point out Canadian professor Ermanno
Peru’s Nazca lines are mysterious Borra was exploring a theory that
that shaped rocks can also be found on
drawings found in an arid coastal area advanced aliens might want to connect
Mars, pointing to the Mars Exploration
covering about 170 square miles. with earth using directed lasers, so the
Rover snapshots as evidence. In fact,
Thousands of designs are etched into the Laval University researcher and a grad
Scott Waring, a conspiracy theorist and
ground, depicting real and imagined student searched the 2.5 mn stars
self-appointed UFO expert, said Mars
worlds. Many are animals - a documented by the Sloan Digital Sky
tells us everything we need to know
hummingbird, monkey, lizard, pelican Survey. They found 234 candidates - in
about Easter Island. So mystery solved,
and a whale among them. Trees, flowers other words, 234 possible alien
then?
and geometric shapes are common. But civilizations. Borra believes there must
where did they come from? Scientists be extraterrestrial intelligent life but he
3. The Bermuda Triangle: believe the lines were made by the Nazca and other scientists plan to take his

Bermuda Triangle stories began in people around 10 to 700 AD using grids research to the next level to see if the
1945 when five US Navy planes made of ropes and stakes. Others see hypothesis can be validated.
disappeared during training exercises. By messages in the art. Why would humans
the mid-1980s, 25 small planes had create oversized drawings unless they (Continued on Page 12)
vanished in the same area, a triangle wanted to signal those above?