CIA-RDP96-00789R001500440001-7 cy ye fit : : Halattisy 7 : ms powers: duh itis RE a . Bcd POR MORE PAN 25 YEARS Marts sUpeatey are an oe Rg, Retche has photographed said chanted! : BRS es ASE Cee : : ’ pe las Haeus, striving ta complete a inaye ” : é ol the hundreds of designs and tieures thet seare a tableland sume 30 nile. done, threaded by the Pon American Higtiw os Qnapvupper lefty A National Geovraoht Socieiy grant new aids her wark. 3 Ather desk in Lima defan the German 4 born mathematician glances up from A chart, where azimuths of Hines dart off in i ae 4 ehnest all the directions of the campus fiuvineg fieldwork Miss Reicha sleeps on a camp cot behind bor caran the rocks wraealess Poruviaie “pampa tice he fore fiest lisht tor a beeakfast of gape tras amd esatnned mak. Despite her 72 years. she i i. ak : then scts fa work with a zeae redenth ss 1 as the hognday san : : With the reel of tape in her ere hand ; che hee nisi competed: memurtay ene of ; . (he sides of ct trapevordal flehd crfelst: F : : whee seca trons the are dahbewes if ney ctlare. 4 i Hilogk, then Dranebes other tepar i ates 3 Ue pautpa i Missy Reiche scorns the suyeee cian thot i such markites: ray have beoa airfields ; for ouferspace visitars fo carth in pre: } historic Unes “Once sou remove the ‘ stolies, (he ground is quite seft.” she save Pe | “Po afraid Cie spacemen would lute aoatten stuck, | Mwatiendl Geopraphic, May ites 56 ac tae tee “Tt —_ on Breen te SN. teh a Ee ost CRAB IE era ee ase 2000/08/08 CIA-RDP96-00789R001500440001-7
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Pe arektoe, SbF ODESIGNEL? AND DRAWN by a mad geomeirioaan. markings wreat and simall litter the peamypr. in configurations that defy explana- tion, They sometimes igmore copagra- phy as well. ‘Trapezoids congregate or a plateau that overlooks the Ingeue Valles: (above). Others march up-- or is it down?e—the slopes of an old wash beside farmers’ fields Gight), accom- pautied by platoons of lines that appear to go newhere. The loaped pattern below them: lacks the precision of Many anoent dines aad mw be fae romalns of an irrigation svsten “Phrouphout the parva,” sacs Miss Reiche. Vifnes stretely for nilies, crass ing valleys and traverstay bills, mw. cer swerviay from flere courses. Survey: Ors have been astonished by Cheir straightriess.” How did the Nazcis achieve such exactitude? Along sorae faces the re- mains of posts have been found at intervals approaching a mile. Perhaps sightings staGens with men standing in dine behind then? Perhaps.
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