Case file · High strangeness
El Enladrillado 'landing platform'
A high plateau in the Altos de Lircay reserve paved with about 200 flat, regular volcanic blocks, which some ufologists call an ancient construction or a landing field for spacecraft.
2008 CE · -35.60, -71.02 · status: explained
The account
The site is the centrepiece of San Clemente's UFO route (opened 2008, the year used here). Its 'bricks' look strikingly man-made, and visitors report lights, compass anomalies and a sense of presence there. The claims of an artificial origin circulated in Chilean esoteric literature well before the route existed.
The sceptical view
Geologists explain the blocks as columnar jointing in a cooled lava flow, the same process that makes the Giant's Causeway in Ireland. Its regular cracks need no builder.