Living in Roswell I probably have a bias here but I genuinely don't know where I land on this one (no pun intended). The landing strip theory always felt a bit too neat to me, like it was retrofitting modern aviation logic onto something ancient and that never sat right.
But I also photograph a lot of strange aerial phenomena out in the desert and there's something about flat, highly visible ground markings that makes you wonder. Not necessarily for craft landing, but maybe for signalling? Visibility from above for something that isn't necessarily a physical aircraft?
The mainstream archaeology crowd seem pretty settled that its ritual or astronomical, and honestly their evidence is solid. But does solid evidence for one purpose rule out it also having another purpose we havent considered yet?
Has anyone here actually been to Nazca and photographed the lines up close? I'd be curious what your gut feeling was standing there.