THE EXTRAORDINARY NAZCA PREHISTORIC BALLOON

Jim Woodman writes:

“Nazca is one of South America’s most perplexing archaeological riddles and one of the world’s most beautiful works of art. Etched upon Peru’s vast, barren Nazca Plains are hundreds of long, ruler-straight lines, immense geometric symbols and giant drawings of curious birds and animals, the work of pre-Inca Peruvians 1,500 years ago. From the ground, Nazca is totally incomprehensible, yet from the air, one gasps with astonishment.”

Nott writes:

“When Jim Woodman approached me with his idea that the people who created the Nazca lines could have seen them from hot air balloons I was intrigued but skeptical. Yet we successful flew in a balloon that could have been built by the Nazca people a thousand years ago. And while I do not see any evidence that the Nazca civilization did fly, it is beyond any doubt that they could have. And so could the ancient Egyptians, the Romans, the Vikings, any civilization. With just a loom and fire you can fly! This raises intriguing questions about the development of science and, most of all, the intellectual courage to dare to fly, to dare to invade the territory of the Angles.”