9. The Palpa Flat Mountain was NOT created by ancient alien astronauts as a landing strip for interplanetary spacecraft
Related to the Nazca Lines, a few miles away and high above the desert plains exists an enormous mountain with an atypically flat top. Known colloquially as the “Palpa Flat” the mountain possesses no surrounding debris at its base, such as fallen boulders, and contains similar albeit thicker lines to the plains floor; in conjunction with its’ location near the Nazca Lines, the mountain has generated speculation regarding the origin of its unusual shape by ancient astronaut conspiracy theorists.
Contending the top of the mountain was deliberately sheared off and the resultant debris carefully removed, either by ancient man or by alien technology, such conspiracy theories assert the mountain served as a landing site for extraterrestrial spacecraft with the lines serving as runway markers. Piles of stones scattered across the plateau surrounding the mountain are also included in these theories, alleged to be hidden writings in the Phoenician language from the ancient Mediterranean.
Whilst there is no way to definitively prove either way it is far more likely natural geological forces shaped the mountain into its current form, with similar rock formations identifiable at the base of almost every cordillera mountain range including the Himalayas. Instead, the Nazca plain most probably contained a now dried-up braided river, into which colluvial fan-deltas gradually dispersed tiny portions of the mountains eroded debris via feeder streams. In fact, the debris from the mountain top is most likely the gravel coating over the clay under-surface from which the Nazca Lines were able to be created.