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News Roundup: Second Sphinx, Ancient UFOs, North Korean Alien Tech, and More!

4/27/2026

It’s been a busy couple of days across across the world of lost civilization, ancient astronaut, and UFO conspiracies. Scott Wolter put out a new conspiracy theory on Facebook, bringing in the dubious Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis to now claim that the comet that believers imagine struck the earth in the Ice Age separate a unified European-North American antediluvian civilization. It was this prehistoric foundation of shared symbols, he said, that let the Knights Templar communicate with Native Americans when Henry I Sinclair, Earl of Orkney arrived among the Mi’kmaq in the 1100s CE—an event that, of course, never happened but was invented by Johann Reinhold in the 1700s and promoted by Richard Henry Major in the 1800s.

But that wasn’t all that happened this weekend.

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Social Media Influencer Claims Space Aliens Helped Egyptians Colonize Kentucky

4/14/2026

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Social media user Scott Whitehead made headlines earlier this month when he posted a short video to Facebook and YouTube falsely claiming that Roman helmets had been discovered in North Carolina. Whitehead has 877,000 followers, so his prank, which was posted April 1, spread faster than many social media users were able to process what day it was—prompting an article from Snopes debunking the claim. However, this April Fool’s Day prank is not Whitehead’s only video making outrageous claims about history, and it is distinguished from the others only by how obvious he made the lies. Most of his content is sensational clickbait made up of AI-generated videos, conspiracy theories, and animal videos—much of fake, and all voiced with borderline illiterate narration. And every so often he throws out a false history claim with implications of conspiracy.

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JD Vance Settles on "Demons" as the Explanation for UFOs

3/30/2026

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Over the weekend, Vice President JD Vance sparked a bit of a social media storm when he told rightwing podcaster Benny Johnson that he believes UFOs to be demons. Vance added that he has long been obsessed with UFOs, but despite the presence of Satan’s minions in America’s skies, he has simply been too busy to take measures to prevent the infernal forces from buzzing military bases and abducting hapless Christian farmers.

“I don’t think they’re aliens. I think they’re demons anyway, but that’s a long discussion,” Vance said. “When I came in, I was obsessed with the UFO files, and you start getting really busy worrying about the economy and national security, and things like that. But I’ve still got three years left as vice president,” Vance explained, without explaining why demons invading the sky is not a serious national security issue.

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Filippo Biondi Claims to Have Found Second Sphinx Under Giza

3/26/2026

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Regular readers will remember Filippo Biondi, the Italian researcher who claims to have discovered massive structures beneath the Giza pyramids using a controversial scanning technique that archaeologists say can’t yield the results he claims for it. Well, Biondi appeared this morning on The Matt Beall Podcast to discuss his claims, and he added a new one. He now claims to have discovered a second Sphinx buried beneath the Giza plateau.

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Capsule Review of Ancient Aliens S22E06: “Mysterious Monuments”

3/6/2026

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Another week, another Ancient Aliens clip show. As with the past few episodes, this “Special Edition” episode is composed of clips from episodes that aired over the last few years. Consequently, there isn’t much to say about this episode other than to note that the segments are vaguely themed around the idea of stone monuments, though the word “monument” is used a bit loosely, especially for sarcophagi. The segments recycled were as follows:

A segment from “Mystery of the Lost Civilization” (2023) on Göbekli Tepe.
A segment from “Mystery of the Stone Spheres” (2024) on Bosnian stone “spheres.”
A segment from “Egypt’s Giant Tombs” (2024) on the Serapeum in Egypt.
A segment from “The Secrets of Japan” (2025) on the Ishi-no-Hōden of Japan.
A segment from “Mysteries of the Aztecs” (2025) on the so-called “La Venta astronaut.”
A segment from “Beneath the Sacred Temples” (2022) on Sacsayhuaman.

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In Brief: Italian Ancient Astronaut Theorist Claims Radical New Date for Giza

2/4/2026

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An Italian engineer claims that his own personal methodology for studying erosion has proved that the Great Pyramid of Giza is as much as 40,000 years old. The claim circulated last week thanks to a report in The Daily Mail, Alberto Donini claims to use his own "relative erosion method" to compare stones and estimate how long they have been eroding, which led him to the conclusion. His erosion study assumes linear erosion rates, which probably cannot be assumed given that the original surfaces he measured, mostly flat paving stones, were in use for thousands of years, whereas the inner blocks exposed when the cladding fell off around 700 years ago were not subject to the same level of daily wear. Donini's claims are not doubtful on their surface, since he is not a geologist, his area of expertise is machines and concrete, and he is also an ancient astronaut theorist who also claims to have found evidence for space alien contact in Mexico on stones he dug up (on a half-day trip!) with pictures of UFOs and aliens on them, i.e. modern fakes.

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Tucker Carlson and A. J. Gentile Spread Rehashed Archaeological Conspiracies

2/3/2026

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This week, UFO-curious right-wing podcaster Tucker Carlson, a former guest on Ancient Aliens, devoted a ninety-minute episode of his eponymous streaming show to the threadbare “mysteries” of giants, pyramids, psychic spies, lost civilizations and the other detritus of History channel pseudo-documentaries. Carlson interviewed A. J. Gentile of The Why Files and the two began the discussion by complaining about the “extreme hostility against alternate (sic) archaeology,” with Gentile expressing outrage at archaeologists for opposing the claims of Graham Hancock, “whose work I admire.” The two men defended Hancock against charges that his work supports white supremacy and then claimed that the accusation was a “slur” designed to “destroy” Hancock as part of a “sinister” effort by archaeologists. This set the tone for the rest of the discussion.

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Graham Hancock Claims Ancient Secret Society “Is Involved in Making Civilizations”

1/19/2026

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In a new interview with Randall Carlson, Graham Hancock claimed that “secret societies” survived the Great Flood, maintain the traditions of the antediluvian world, and continue to influence civilization today. “The mysteries in our past that remain to be exposed do concern secret societies,” Hancock said. “They do concern a behind-the-scenes organization that is somehow involved in making civilizations.” Carlson and Hancock agree that “someone” had “foreknowledge” of the Flood and therefore took precautions to save knowledge.

Graham Hancock reveals that a secret society of elites knows the truth about an ancient flood that wiped out civilization.

But they don’t just know the truth.

They survived the flood.

They’ve controlled civilization for thousands of years.

And they’re preparing to control… pic.twitter.com/KDDxzRlxQt
— Holden Culotta (@Holden_Culotta) January 19, 2026

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Review of The UnXplained S08E01 “Impossible Ancient Structures”

1/17/2026

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It’s hard to believe that William Shatner is 94 years old, or that he is currently the oldest person hosting a cable TV series, but the eternally young Star Trek star is both things—and launching a news season of The UnXplained, its eighth, the same week that Trump advisor Stephen Miller appealed to the actor to “save” Star Trek from “wokeness,” fundamentally misunderstanding the humanist nature of Star Trek. Back on cable TV, The UnXplained, sister program to Ancient Aliens, with whom it shares both a network and a production company, opened its new season with an episode about archaeology, so I figured it was a good time to check in. Shatner, after all, has been promoting pseudohistory about aliens and ancient lost civilizations since the 1970s, so I was curious how his show would treat “impossible” ancient structures supposedly too large or too perfect for humans to have built without modern technology.

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Object Claiming to Be So-Called "London Artifact" Sold in Online Auction

1/7/2026

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An object claiming to be one of the most famous “out of place artifacts,” or OOPARTS, in the ancient mysteries genre went up for sale on January 5 at an online auction and brought a surprisingly low $330. However, the object is almost certainly a fake.

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News Roundup: Second Sphinx, Ancient UFOs, North Korean Alien Tech, and More!

Social Media Influencer Claims Space Aliens Helped Egyptians Colonize Kentucky

JD Vance Settles on "Demons" as the Explanation for UFOs

Filippo Biondi Claims to Have Found Second Sphinx Under Giza

Capsule Review of Ancient Aliens S22E06: “Mysterious Monuments”

In Brief: Italian Ancient Astronaut Theorist Claims Radical New Date for Giza

Tucker Carlson and A. J. Gentile Spread Rehashed Archaeological Conspiracies

Graham Hancock Claims Ancient Secret Society “Is Involved in Making Civilizations”

Review of The UnXplained S08E01 “Impossible Ancient Structures”

Object Claiming to Be So-Called "London Artifact" Sold in Online Auction

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