On a remote, windswept ridge high above the treeline in the Coast Mountains of southwestern B.C., the dull hues of a brownish-green plateau suddenly give way to a bright-white, 50-metre-wide circle of stone.
It’s the kind of sight that fires the imaginations of archeologists and UFO enthusiasts alike: Did some prehistoric aboriginal culture create a place of worship or a primitive astronomical observatory amid the clouds and jagged peaks of the Chilcotin Range, about 300 kilometres northwest of Vancouver?
Or — why not? — did an away party of alien explorers build a signal station there or even a spaceship landing site?
Two scientists from Canada and Britain were sufficiently intrigued by the “unusual, near-circular ring of stones” and its “uncertain origin” that they probed the strange feature and have just published their findings in the Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences.
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