Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00789R001200060007- ‘et SECRET /NOFORN 3 PROJECT SUN STREAK WARNING NOTICE? INTELLIGENCE SOURCES AND METHODS INVOLVED PROJECT NUMBER ee (Trg? SESS TOM NUMBER: 1 DATE OF SESSTON: OL MAR GO DATE OF REPORT s OS MAR FO START: 14a? EMD s Lae METHODOLOGY s CRY VIEWER IDENTIFIER: O32 l. (S/T) MISSION: To describe the target gite (The Nazca lines, Ferw in Stage 2 terminology. (2/87TD) VIEWER TASKING: Encrypted coordinates only. (S/8To3 COMMENTS: No Physical Inclemencies. O32 had many accurate perceptions of the site and no discernable incorrect ones. Stage 1 gestaits included “water” (which 16 mot at the site), bub there appears to be sumething at this site which drives that gestalt, ag it is a common mistake toa this site. G32 at one point perceived "grapes". —Fosh session feedback found that the original pages include a page from another article-am Ttalian Post session discussion included “viewing the site, not the j je and an overview of how to break oneself from the habit. Ql eo wondered about an impression of a distorted hand {shown on page 725 im the feedback!, which registered, but did mat drive the desire to write it dawn, Again, stress was placed on writing down everything. 4, (S/5TO) EVALUATION: on (5/570) SEARCH EVALUATION: N/A MOMDTORs O16 HANDLE VIA STIPPLE CHANNELS ONLY. SECRET /NOFORN CLASSIFIED BY: DIA (DT: DECLASSIFYs CADR Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00789R001200060007-6
N THE PAMPA FLOOR birds fly, whales swim, and other crea- tures crawl] and creep. Many of their forms closely resemble the fig- ures on Nazea pots. Ceramic representation of a killer whale (below), created near the end of the third century A.D., shares the sinuous form of a figure scribed in the desert (right). Stylized human heads, trophies of a Nazca head- hunting cult, band the side of the potter's whale. Other pots render a head dangling below the whale’s body, as the drawing does. A few of the figures have been identified as pre-Nazca. Miss Reiche walks the outline of a wide-eyed hillside figure (right). Pottery and textile similarities link it with the Nazcas’ immediate predecessors, people of the Paracas culture. Approved
CPB erdVed For Release 200 ESERT AVIARY contains 18 / bird figures, including that of a hummingbird (left), an apparent duckling (right), and a sea bird al- most 450 feet long (below), whose beak is only partly shown. “We can’t be sure what their meaning was, but we can be sure they had meaning,” says art his- torian Alan Sawyer. “Most figures are composed of a single line that never crosses itself, perhaps the path of a ritual maze. If so, when the Nazcas walked the line, they could have felt they were absorbing the essence of whatever the drawing symbolized.”
CPYRGHT RAFTED with uncommon care, the Nazca Lines remained much as their makers made them. For perhaps two thousand years a spi- der 150 feet long lay clearly in the sand, its out- line almost undisturbed in a photograph taken in 1963 (right). Now it bears ‘the scars of dune buggies, jeeps, and sightseers on foot (below). A similar fate threatens many of the markings. For years Miss Reiche has crusaded to preserve the lines, an effort acknowledged last January when the Peruvian Government allotted one mil- lion sols (about $23,000) for the purpose. “I would like to see a viewing tower erected near the Pan American Highway,” she says, “so that visitors will not be tempted to walk on the lines. I used to direct people to the sites. Now I direct them away, before all the ruins are ruined.” 728 0 BATES LITTLEHALES, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC PHOTOGRAPHER, AND SERVIC{O AEROFOTOGRAFICO NACIONAL (BELOW) Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00789R001200060007-6
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