They drove giant cars on Earth

A Russian academic has claimed an ancient non-human civilisation drove giant cars on the Earth's surface 12 to 14 million years ago—with the tracks still visible today.

Dr. Alexander Koltypin, a leading geologist in his home country, claims that mysterious groove-like markings in the Phrygian Valley of central Turkey were artificially made by all-terrain vehicles and not created by any natural process.

The scientist, a director of the Natural Science Scientific Research Centre at Moscow's International Independent University of Ecology and Politology, has just returned from a field trip to the site in Anatolia with three colleagues. 

He described the markings as "petrified tracking ruts in rocky tuffaceous deposits" made from compacted volcanic ash.

He said: "We can suppose that ancient vehicles on wheels were drove on soft soil, maybe a wet surface. Because of their weight the ruts were so deep. And later these ruts—and all the surface around—just petrified and secured all the evidence. 

"Such cases are well known to geologists, for example, the footprints of dinosaurs were 'naturally preserved' in a similar way."

Describing what could have made such tracks, he added: "All these rocky fields were covered with the ruts left some millions of years ago... we are not talking about human beings. We are dealing with some kind of cars or all-terrain vehicles." 

The age of the ruts is between 12 and 14 million years old, the academic believes. 

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