No they’re not crop circles. Actually, they’re more like sage circles. Sage and earth. And while they’re made by humans, they mark a ‘return point’ for travelers in the future from other places in the universe. This particular set of interlocking circles and diamonds also happen to match the logo of the Church of Spiritual Technology.

The Washington Post currently features this report about a small Albuquerque TV station, it’s discovery of these markings, and the ensuing drama vis-a-vie the Church of Scientology. Apparently it marks a mountainside vault protecting titanium etchings of the works of L. Ron Hubbard, the late science-fiction writer who founded the church in the 1950s. Read the full story.

Would Christian theology be rocked to the core if science someday found a distant orb teeming with little green men, women or other intelligent forms of alien life? Would the church send missionaries to spread the Gospel to aliens? Could aliens even be baptized? Or would they have had their own version of Jesus and have already experienced his universal or galactic plan of salvation? The Catholic News Service reports.