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Review of Ancient Aliens S21E08 “The Glowing Orb Phenomenon”

3/28/2025

This week, my family and I had to say goodbye to our beloved cat Dakota, a couple of months shy of his seventeenth birthday. He had a big personality and strong opinions about everything. He was active, friendly, and loving and was brave throughout his battle with cancer. After his diagnosis, the vet had given him two weeks to live; however, he survived for four months and enjoyed his final weeks as much as he could, with plenty of affection and all of his favorite foods. He is loved and will be missed.

As you can imagine, it’s a difficult time, and I’m mostly writing this review of Ancient Aliens to distract myself after a very long day. Unfortunately, Ancient Aliens did not give me much worth writing about tonight. The topic—glowing orbs—is one of those vague, UFO-themed subjects I have no interest in. You will forgive me if I am not particularly inspired to opine in depth about whether blurry blotches caught on tape are really dust, bugs, balloons, or alien spaceships.

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Apple Lands UFO Disclosure Thriller with David Grusch Attached as Producer

3/25/2025

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Deadline reports that Apple Productions has acquired a UFO disclosure thriller movie from producers Joseph Kosinski and Jerry Bruckheimer, on which so-called UFO whistleblower David Grusch will serve as an associate producer and consultant. Grusch is also now an employee of Republican congressman Eric Burlinson of Indiana, who hired Grusch to advise him on UFOs after the House Oversight Committee rejected an effort to have Grusch hired as a staffer.

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Review of Ancient Aliens S21E07: “Mysteries of the Aztecs”

3/21/2025

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After six weeks of clip shows, Ancient Aliens returns with original—well, let’s say “newly filmed”—material this week. Since the show has already done episodes devoted to the Maya, the Tiwanaku people, the early peoples of South America, and Teotihuacan, it’s only natural that they would eventually get around to the Aztecs. I am surprised that it took sixteen years, but I guess there isn’t as much to say about a culture that flourished for only two centuries and overlapped the start of the Renaissance in Europe. They seemed a little too recent and too well-known from the records of the Spanish conquest, which is probably why they were more likely to show up on History’s treasure-hunting shows than on its alien shows.

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Italian Fringe Researchers Claim to Find Massive Structures Beneath Giza

3/20/2025

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Social media blew up over the last two days with a wild claim that Italian archaeologists discovered a massive underground series of structures beneath Khafre’s pyramid on the Giza Plateau. Numerous postings alleged that ground-penetrating radar had discovered eight cylindrical spiral structures stretching around 650 meters beneath the pyramid and are connected to two vast cube-shaped rooms eighty meters on each side. On the upper end, they connect to a series of five chambers identical to the King’s Chamber in Khufu’s pyramid, but hidden in Khafre’s. According to the researchers behind the claim, this was merely a part of a massive underground city.

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Review of Ancient Aliens S21E06: “The Top Ten Mysterious Mountains”

3/14/2025

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This episode isn’t even worth the effort of writing a full introduction. We’ve reached the point in Ancient Aliens clip shows when they are clipping parts of clip shows that recently aired and showing us the clips again. This week’s episode is putatively about mountains. This, however, is also the subject of a 2013 episode with nearly the same title—“Aliens and Mysterious Mountains”--and many of the sites featured here appeared in that episode or in a 2024 clip show which had previously recycled the same material, including some of the same clips.

For the sake of completion, here are this episode’s clips:

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IN BRIEF: Sol Foundation Launches $25,000 Annual Memberships

3/13/2025

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Only days after The Age of Disclosure UFO documentary premiered to mediocre reviews (most critics found it unconvincing and boring), the Sol Foundation launched its own effort to capitalize on the ongoing UFO publicity campaign swirling around Congress. The foundation, which is run by many of the talking heads from Age of Disclosure, including Garry Nolan, debuted four tiers of paid membership, ranging from $350 per year to an eye-watering $25,000 per year. At the highest level, the massive cost gives members a private dinner and an annual symposium with "key UAP figures." And to think, you usually have to pay $65 for a ticket to their convention panels to see them in person. According to Sol, your deep pockets go to support "deep thinkers," who, after all, need to be paid well to afford to sit around doing nothing all day. After its first year and a half of operations, Sol has done little more of note than to hold a conference where the same set of talking heads gave the same stories to a paying audience.

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Review of Ancient Aliens S21E05: “The Top Ten Secret Projects”

3/8/2025

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It’s been a slow year for UFO news, with very little action on Capitol Hill thanks to the chaos of Donald Trump. The military is currently more focused on purging photos of Black and gay people from its archives than with strange objects in the sky. (Hey, ufologists: If you want to get the government to hunt down UFOs again, tell Sec. Pete Hegseth that the aliens are diverse and queer.) Congress’s top ufologists are busy doing other things. Rep. Luna is seeking out superannuated JFK assassination witnesses. Rep. Burchett was in the Oval Office laying on hands to cast out demons. Sen. Gillibrand is still looking for the moral courage to say Andrew Cuomo’s sexual harassment was bad. Even the History Channel’s parent company, A+E Networks, rebranded this week as A+E Global Media and announced a pivot away from cable TV toward prioritizing short-form internet videos.

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"Age of Disclosure" Filmmaker Teases Supposed Revelations Ahead of Film's Debut

3/5/2025

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Age of Disclosure, a UFO documentary by filmmaker Dan Farah, will have its premiere at SXSW this weekend, and in advance of the film's debut, Farah sat down with The Hollywood Reporter to tease the movie's supposedly mind-blowing revelations. The film features appearances by UFO luminaries like Luis Elizondo and Jay Stratton, both of whom scored book deals through Farah's intervention with publishers, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio. The promotional efforts to gin up interest in Age of Disclosure from a distributor are, frankly, frustrating. Farah teases revelations that apparently are both world-changing and also not important enough to reveal before the weekend, for maximum publicity and the best chance at a distribution deal--you know, as you do with proof positive of space aliens.

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Review of Ancient Aliens S21E04 “The Top Ten Unexplained Technologies”

3/1/2025

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Ancient Aliens clip shows are boring, but what gets my goat is that this show has been on the air for more than 15 years (Robert Clotworthy’s narration misleadingly says it was merely “over a decade”) and yet the clip show episodes, which have been running for five years under the Ancient Aliens banner (previous clip shows were officially a separate spinoff series) keep using the same clips from previous clip shows! Why don’t they just go all the way up their own asses and run a clip show of their best clip shows? Anyway, this week’s episode about the “Top Ten Unexplained Technologies,” which somehow include living beings and an entire city on the list. The episode bears a strong resemblance to a 2021 clip show with which is shares four of the same clips.

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Review of Ancient Aliens S21E08 “The Glowing Orb Phenomenon”

Apple Lands UFO Disclosure Thriller with David Grusch Attached as Producer

Review of Ancient Aliens S21E07: “Mysteries of the Aztecs”

Italian Fringe Researchers Claim to Find Massive Structures Beneath Giza

Review of Ancient Aliens S21E06: “The Top Ten Mysterious Mountains”

IN BRIEF: Sol Foundation Launches $25,000 Annual Memberships

Review of Ancient Aliens S21E05: “The Top Ten Secret Projects”

"Age of Disclosure" Filmmaker Teases Supposed Revelations Ahead of Film's Debut

Review of Ancient Aliens S21E04 “The Top Ten Unexplained Technologies”

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