2. The Badlands Guardian is NOT a deliberate hill formation depicting an alien chieftain who was worshiped by Canadian Natives
Discovered only in 2005 by Lynn Hickox via Google Earth, the Badlands Guardian – also known as Indian Head – is a geomorphological feature situated near Medicine Hat in south-eastern Alberta, Canada. Viewable only from an aerial perspective, the Guardian resembles the appearance of a human wearing an Aboriginal headdress.
Within only a couple of years of the Guardian’s discovery alien conspiracy theorists began making claims about the site, including that it depicted either an Indian Chief’s face or that of a visiting alien leader, evidenced by the crown or headdress signifying a royal status. Suggesting the hills and mountains were deliberately crafted to construct the image, placing the erection at least hundreds of thousands if not millions of years ago, ancient astronaut theorists contend it was either created in veneration of the advanced alien visitors or upon the orders of a Native ruler seeking approval from extraterrestrial deities.
However despite such claims the Guardian is in fact a concave valley, not a convex protrusion as the image and theorists suggest, and a perfect example of the “Hollow-Face illusion” in nature. Consequently, we know that the “structure” is in fact a drainage feature formed by wind and water erosion on the malleable clay surface, occurring as a result of the arid badlands characteristic intense rain showers over a period of at least several hundred million years, with the resultant image merely a happy coincidence.