Ancient Aliens
Created by Kevin Burns
Did intelligent beings from outer space visit Earth thousands of years ago? From the age of the dinosaurs to ancient Egypt, from early cave drawings to continued mass sightings in the US, each episode gives historic depth to the questions, speculations, provocative controversies, first-hand accounts and grounded theories surrounding this age old debate. From TMDB
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The program had 1.676 million viewers in late October 2010, 2.034 million viewers in mid-December (for the "Unexplained Structures" episode), and in late-January 2011 the series had 1.309 million viewers. The series has been criticized by historians, cosmologists, archaeologists and other scientists for presenting and promoting pseudoscience, pseudohistory and pseudoarchaeology as fact. Episodes are frequently characterized as "far-fetched", "hugely speculative", and "expound[ing] wildly on theories suggesting that astronauts wandered the Earth freely in ancient times." Many of the claims made by guests are not commonly accepted as fact by the scientific community. In 2009, history…
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60 of 221 · most liked firstOK, Star Wars in-universe documentary series, which would you want to see? - Podracing sports doc focusing in an infamous rivalry - Ancient Aliens-style conspiracy show about ancient Jedi stuff - Behind the music: Figrin D'an and the Modal Nodes - Secrets Superweapons of the Empire
neutral · AI labelView post →"Cleopatra was born closer in time to the first episode of Ancient Aliens than she was to the building of the Great Pyramid".
neutral · AI labelView post →another great show was when Vice had Action Bronson get super high with his friends and watch Ancient Aliens and they’d only kind of pay attention to it so occasionally Action Bronson would see a giant centipede building a pyramid and go whoa hey the fuck is that thing doing stop him
neutral · AI labelView post →oh yeah remember when the Ancient Aliens people asked to use my art on the show and told me they would pay me but then they never did, what happened with that
negative · AI labelView post →Had a blast filming with the Ancient Aliens crew again in London today (I can hardly moan about others on the show if I’m not willing to step up and keep my bar high). Got to walk them through some of my footage from Mexico, Brown Mountain Lights, and Colombian Andes. Thanks for having me along!
positive · AI labelView post →Taking a month out of my monster kissing series to read an academic book about Ancient Aliens.
neutral · AI labelView post →You all know Kieran's love for the Ancient Aliens/Curse of Oak Island voiceover narrator. But he also loves the old show Finding Bigfoot. Four goofy nerds hang out in the woods making weird noises & loving nature. What more could a husky want? #UglyDogs
neutral · AI labelView post →That's why "Ancient Aliens" became its most-watched show.
neutral · AI labelView post →I've changed channel to some insane show called "Ancient Aliens" and somehow this one is all about comics? I don't know what's going on. They've just recapped the transformers comics and talking about how it all ties to ancient astronauts.
neutral · AI labelView post →A really good idea for a tv show was when Vice had Action Bronson smoke weed and then sort of watch Ancient Aliens
neutral · AI labelView post →In another high point in human culture, it’s also the 16th anniversary of the first showing of The History Channel’s Ancient Aliens series which gave us the meme of the programme’s co-producer Giorgio A. Tsoukalos
neutral · AI labelView post →Blood Incantation - Hidden History Of The Human Race. Second full length by Blood Incantation, released in 2019. I bought this one from them at the album release show in Denver. Insanely good progressive death metal. This is the album that really broke them through after having a lot of underground buzz coming off of the previous album “Starspawn”. If you like sick riffs and getting high and watching “Ancient Aliens”, this is the fucking band for you! Are you looking for an…
neutral · AI labelView post →#FridayPurple "Ancient Aliens," was created by Elizabeth Baratta and inspired by a TV show of the same name. "There Is a door in the universe, and beyond that is a promise of truth." Most planets look as if they were cut from marbled fabric. The dark blue background might be Aboriginal fabric.
neutral · AI labelView post →These gentlemen watched "Ancient Aliens" and drank every time anyone said "alien" or "extraterrestrial" on the show They are all dead of alcohol poisoning www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCiQ...
neutral · AI labelView post →Like... The series BEGAN as Ancient Aliens bullshit... but of course they see no issue with THAT since it's a theory that humors white supremacy...
neutral · AI labelView post →Say what you will about Ancient Aliens being my guilty pleasure TV show, but I just managed to spell Teotihuacán on my first attempt
positive · AI labelView post →My wife is watching the latest season of Ancient Aliens and I'm left wondering how much longer they can keep this show going. It's so ridiculous.
negative · AI labelView post →All too often, I think back to my Ancient Aliens phase. Granted- I was young when watching it and thought the idea of Aliens visiting us in the past was cool. I completely detest the racist sediment the show pushes
negative · AI labelView post →Does the History Channel show anything *besides* Ancient Aliens? 👽 It feels like the moment for evening programming about the Roman Empire.
neutral · AI labelView post →How serious a movie takes itself is *everything*. *** Take **Disclosure Day.** That was not a 3/5, it was the **worst** movie I’ve seen in years *specifically* because of how self-important it presented itself as. I hated it. It expected you to be wowed, and moved, even though the characters make nonsensical decisions, the scenes are random, its plot makes no sense, and its depiction of aliens have precisely zero scientific or speculative grounding. It should have been up my alley: I love…
neutral · AI labelView post →In my interview with Ancient Aliens, I got to talk about "Kaguya Hime" ("The Moon Princess") and I just remembered I read a version of it on the show ages ago. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JLy...
positive · AI labelView post →Are you saying the channel that brought us the groundbreaking show Ancient Aliens might not be reliable? Ancient astronaut theorists believe you're wrong.
neutral · AI labelView post →If she listens to podcasts or you have Nebula I can't recommend @scottniswander.bsky.social @probsnotaliens.bsky.social @stepback.nebula.tv "It's Probably (not) Aliens" enough. They do a great job debunking the whole Ancient Aliens show and also done this series too. nebula.tv/probablynota...
neutral · AI labelView post →Ancient Aliens returns tonight. Naturally, they are starting with a spliced-together clip show of past episodes. I'm too old for this crap, so I think I'll wait and review it sometime on Saturday, so I can skip through a recording rather than waste an hour watching live.
negative · AI labelView post →The hilariously sad part is, this reminds me of that dumbass TV show Ancient Aliens, in which the "expert" claims that Egyptian pharaohs may be biblical giants because they look huge in illustrations. ... Just typing that out hurts me in the soul.
neutral · AI labelView post →What do you want to see? ::: spoiler it's very finely categorized: ├── Animals │ ├── Bumblebee Butts │ ├── Cats │ │ └── Cats Without Teeth │ ├── Dogs │ ├── Raccoons │ └── Tentacles │ ├── Diagrams │ ├── Economic+Political │ ├── Gifs │ ├── Acrobatics+Dexterity │ ├── Colorful+Geometry │ └── Machinery │ ├── Internet+Tech │ └── Sagas │ └── PolySexDoll │ ├── Life+Culture+Personality │ ├── Fashion │ └── Vintage Memes │…
neutral · AI labelView post →As an Egyptologist, I hate Ancient Aliens w/ a passion that outshines the sun. I liked the mermaid show, the dragon one even more, because I knew they were fake and enjoyed the craft and storytelling of it. Ancient Aliens has no such caveat, so a student wanted to do a paper on ancient light bulbs.
negative · AI labelView post →I've realized I like Ghost hunting shows because they make me feel smart for understanding that dust passing in front of a camera isn't a "ghost orb", but I don't like Ancient Aliens because the inherent racism makes that show not nearly as fun.
negative · AI labelView post →This documentary takes an in-depth look at the claims in the series Ancient Aliens. Take a look. youtu.be/j9w-i5oZqaQ?...
neutral · AI labelView post →Omg. I’m at a hotel chilling, waiting for some food to show up, so I turn on the TV. How did Ancient Aliens get this stupid?
negative · AI labelView post →There's gonna be a History Channel in like the year 8000 with a show called Ancient Aliens about how aliens must have wiped out our civilization because it was obviously so thorough and deliberate that there's no way we'd have been able to do it ourselves.
neutral · AI labelView post →And honestly, X-Files wasn't the only place that was popularizing conspiracies, but the cultural phenomena of the show was really big. And if you weren't directly exposed to it, you missed it. Mainstreaming UFO conspiracies lead to the racist Ancient Aliens conspiracies. And there's so much more!
neutral · AI labelView post →Chariots of the God's? and Ancient Aliens sounds compelling until you learn anything about basic architecture. There use to be this great show on the History Channel (lol) hosted by Peter Weller (Engineering an Empire) and it went into the actual methods of making those great buildings
neutral · AI labelView post →Ff you watch "Ancient Aliens" series, they raise the question of whether the Egyptian pyramids were built by Aliens or with their help. However, there are also pyramids in Mexico and no one questions who built those: Mexicans, the hardest working people on the planet. www.yahoo.com/news/article...
neutral · AI labelView post →Apparently I was featured on the last 2 new episodes of Ancient Aliens, titled, "Top Ten UFO Crashes" and "Top Ten Secret Projects." Catch em on repeat or on Demand wherever you get the show! 👽
positive · AI labelView post →TV on all day tuned to everything but FOTUS47 inauguration. Ideas: Antiques Roadshow America's Test Kitchen PBS Nature Ancient Aliens PBS Nova Game Show Network
neutral · AI labelView post →I've never been a supporter of David Wilcocks work because most of it involved making things up for money, so much so he was eventually ostracized by a community it is hard to be ostracized from- UFOs and Conspiracy. I always enjoyed him on Ancient Aliens when I used to enjoy that show, before -
neutral · AI labelView post →I was having a late night bite at a bar in Memphis and holy shit, I didn’t know that Ancient Aliens show and that guy are real and not actually a parody. Holy fuck, “History” Channel, that show is a crime against history, the present, and quite possibly the future.
negative · AI labelView post →This one made me mad because the show completely mangled medieval texts that I have taken great pains to make available in English. Review of Ancient Aliens S22E02 Egypt’s Lost Pyramids. www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/review-...
neutral · AI labelView post →THIS WAS AN ANALOGY TO HELP A CONVERSATION ABOUT HOW I DONT LIKE THE TV SHOW "ANCIENT ALIENS" AND NOW IM GETTING FACT CHECKED ABOUT "NARUTO" IN THE REPLIES
negative · AI labelView post →It's hilarious, though, that even in a show about the history of the show "Ancient Aliens," the producers still get their own facts wrong. The narrator announces that the show has been on for "nearly two decades." It's been on for 14 years--15 if you count the 2009 pilot special.
neutral · AI labelView post →Someone asked me what I thought about the “Ancient Aliens” show. Then they got mad that I said it shows how stupid some modern white people who have never tried building something themselves can be. If kids hosted the show, there would be no mention of aliens since they can envision what it takes.
negative · AI labelView post →✨ 10 shows to get to know me! • One Piece • Naruto / NS • Ancient Aliens • Guardian: The Lonely and Great God (Goblin) • House • Lost • Sasaki to Miyano • Forensic Files • New Journey to the West (KR variety show) • Dr. Romantic
neutral · AI labelView post →Reasons why I disrespect Ancient Aliens, and especially why I disrespect the History Channel for playing that garbage. The big problem with that show; is the conclusion to their theories are always the same. "How could this (insert group of brown people here) build this, they were too primitive?"
negative · AI labelView post →And in-depth look at the claims made in the Ancient Aliens series. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFVb...
neutral · AI labelView post →Some more: “Ancient Aliens” but it’s a straight doc series about all the actual ancient aliens that have been encountered. A “Spare Change” doc trying to account for all the bad science Trek writers have forced into plots over the years. Ken Burns’s “Romulan War” with obligatory Ashokan Farewell.
neutral · AI labelView post →Mike Lee is the same guy who is on Ancient Aliens and on every Aliens show he can jam his face on. Just saying
neutral · AI labelView post →Anyone know of an episode of Ancient Aliens that focuses on eastern NA? Since most students are more familiar with that show than Hancock, I want to review the show's episodes on the region. I cover the show's arguments about the Maya but not sure what they say about eastern NA.
neutral · AI labelView post →its the entire Ancient Aliens Gullibles and most of the presenters on that show that resurected that pish. Eric Von Daniken was a nazi cunt, Brien Foerster same, David Wilcox exact same. The White Nordic "good guy" alien mythology goes way back and thanks to Gorgio on AA it infiltrated TV land.
neutral · AI labelView post →TIL that Ancient Aliens (the TV show specifically) is actually a portal that imparts alien activity into the lives of its audience 🤔
positive · AI labelView post →In 2014 a History Channel producer called me about being an expert on an episode of Ancient Aliens. After hearing my creative differences they decided I wasn't right for the show. 🔭
neutral · AI labelView post →With no context or further explanation, I give you the funniest minute of Ancient Aliens. This is when the show peaked as comedy that also makes you angry.
neutral · AI labelView post →Wow, I had no idea there was a new Ancient Aliens spinoff series that's been airing for the past three months. The History channel did terrible press on that.
neutral · AI labelView post →Some person on Discord said they believe in the ancient aliens hypothesis. I immediately flashed back to the Ancient Aliens episode about the Norse gods, the only episode of that fucking show I've ever seen or plan to see. I pretty much laughed for the entirety of the show.
negative · AI labelView post →Why some people still believe that aliens shaped ancient civilisations [conspiracy tuesday]. >The idea that aliens assisted the builders of ancient monuments was promoted by the Swiss author Erich von Däniken in his bestselling book Chariot of the Gods – published in 1968. Von Däniken died in January 2026, but his vision of ancient astronauts still captivates millions. >The author had pointed to ancient structures such as the pyramids, along with enigmatic ancient artefacts, as supposed…
neutral · AI labelView post →My favorite Googledebunker YTber Milo Rossi did an episode making fun of the show Ancient Aliens. Lo and behold there's a tiny mst3k logo at the bottom of his 'TV set'. I love it!
neutral · AI labelView post →I kinda love how stupid he is lmao. Have you ever watched this show? (Traveling the Stars: Action Bronson and Friends Watch Ancient Aliens) It’s great and insane lol.
neutral · AI labelView post →Ah 10-4, and yes, every time he's on a certain MSNB...err MSNOW (wtfe!) show, CLICK, back to Ancient Aliens!!!
neutral · AI labelView post →My review of Ancient Aliens S21E14 “Aliens in Our Midst”--a total embarrassment in which Travis Taylor humiliates himself by claiming some balloons are actually a Grey alien flying with a jetpack. www.jasoncolavito.com/ancient-alie...
neutral · AI labelView post →#WIPSnips “groan” "You're watching Ancient Aliens?" I suppress a groan by shoving an entire chicken nugget into my mouth. I haven't been paying much attention, so I had no idea what was playing. "The TV's just background noise," I say. "The quiet makes me nervous, I think." (Resignation)
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