Ancient Aliens on the History Channel

The documentary “Ancient Aliens” focuses on the possibility that aliens have visited ancient civilizations and bestowed their knowledge and technology. In 1968, a year before Neil Armstrong arrived on the Moon, Erich Von Daniken wrote Chariots of Gods? In which he makes controversial claims that extraterrestrials had influence on early human cultures and society. Von Daniken’s literary works excited the already space centered society, explained things that archeologists couldn’t and created a storm of controversy.

The documentary gives the Nazca Lines of Peru as example of extraterrestrial interaction:

The lines atop the mountains are almost 23 kilometers long, long enough, Von Daniken believes,   to be airstrips. The gigantic figures of spiders, apes and monkeys are so large that they can only bee seen from the air as being something significant. If it was art, why would the people of this  ancient civilization create something they couldn’t see. If extraterrestrial’s did visit the mountains of Peru, why would they make Peru their stop. The documentary believes that the area around the Nazca Lines is rich in raw materials like gold, uranium, and nutrients in the soil. This would be the ideal place for any extraterrestrial activity or research into the earth.

If extraterrestrial’s were here wouldn’t these ancient civilization try to document it? The contributing scientist on ‘Ancient Aliens’ believe that there is proof:

In the Book of Ezekiel in the Old Testament of the Holy Bible, theologically significant for Christians around the globe, it reads that a wheeled device descended from the sky. In Sanskrit, the Rukma Vimana are mythical flying machines piloted by a King and imitated the motions of a butterfly.

In Kimberley, Australia and Sego Canyon, Utah there are similarly depicted helmeted drawings of beings donning attire considered strange for the time.

Kimberley, Australia

Sego Canyon, Utah

 Puma Punku, Bolivia is another example of extraterrestrial encounters. The ruins are megalithic rock formations that seem to have appeared out of nowhere. 

The stone is cut perfectly to fit together in it’s formation but questions arise from guessing its origins. The rock is extremely strong and hard to cut, the quarry nearby is so far away, and there is no logical explanation of significance to the people around the region that would warrant the building of such a massive formation. Human ingenuity is hard to comprehend especially from a people who lived 5,000 years ago. The documentary believes that these cases are explained due to the encounters early civilizations had with extraterrestrials.

The documentary ends with this statement in the hopes that the mainstream will keep an open mind about the possibility of extraterrestrial encounters past present and future. “ We are not alone. We want to believe that someone is out there watching us and will come to our rescue when we need them."

Meg Singer