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Heather Lynn Is Upset with Me

7/17/2026

Not many of you read my recent piece analyzing H Files creator Heather Lynn’s conspiracy theory about Zecharia Sitchin, Jeffrey Epstein, and an alleged Israeli effort to use the ancient astronaut theory for propaganda purposes. But Lynn did, and last night she appeared in a 5-hour X Spaces conversation in which she complained not about my criticisms of her poor scholarship but rather about how offended she felt that I mentioned the undertones of antisemitism in her conspiracy theory. The irony was rich because Lynn—who uses a pseudonym—did this in the X Space of a social media personality who goes by the name Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum’s character from Jurassic Park) and who (ironically, given his handle) focuses on promoting conspiracy theories about Jewish influence in media and politics.

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Review of Ancient Aliens S22E11: “Alien A.I.”

7/10/2026

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I suppose it was inevitable that Ancient Aliens would eventually get around to artificial intelligence. It’s a bit surprising that it took this long, but it takes time for the lazy producers at Prometheus Entertainment to wait around until they can rip their copy from online articles without having to do any real work. The conceit of this episode is that the A.I. tools that archaeologists and historians have begun to use to analyze artifacts and data might also be used to identify evidence of an extraterrestrial presence on Earth. But most of the show is devoted to discussing recent A.I. analysis of archaeological sites without any real alien connection until the end of the episode. It’s a fine line Ancient Aliens needs to walk in this episode since it might encourage its audience to ask ChatGPT about the show and discover it is B.S., which makes it all the stranger that Ancient Aliens doesn’t bother to distinguish between ChatGPT-style large language models and machine learning—or just “computers,” for that matter.

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Lue Elizondo Claims NASA Has Photos of Alien Monoliths on the Moon

7/8/2026

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In a live interview with former and current Japanese government officials on a Japanese podcast yesterday, UFO proponent Lue Elizondo claimed that the U.S. government has photographs of monolithic extraterrestrial towers on the moon and that these photos may be released soon. “There’s also photographs that I don’t believe have been made public yet that show on the lunar surface what appear to be large monolithic structures with right-angle cuts that appear to be on the lunar surface,” he said. “And I believe those photographs, if they have not been released yet, may be released soon.” One wonders why he does not know, but it is almost certainly because he is repeating secondhand information he gleaned from a different podcast rather than anything he saw firsthand.

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Unpacking Heather Lynn's Bizarre Zecharia Sitchin and Jefferey Epstein Conspiracy

7/7/2026

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For the past few days, I’ve been thinking about a piece by H Files creator and occasional Ancient Aliens talking head Heather Lynn, and I confess to finding it difficult to find a way to discuss this without running headlong into deeply uncomfortable territory. Lynn asserts that Zecharia Sitchin’s claim that the Anunnaki are space aliens is actually part of an Israeli propaganda campaign to support the state of Israel and combat Western intelligence agencies’ antisemitic efforts to control ancient history and deny the legitimacy of the Jewish god. Along the way, Lynn buts up against antisemitic stereotypes in positing a vast Jewish conspiracy to perform a hostile takeover of ancient history that somehow involves control of academic and Jeffrey Epstein, and the interpretations she places on the facts tend to spin increasingly far from the evidence.

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Review of Ancient Aliens S22E09 “The Wars of the Gods”

6/26/2026

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Do you remember last week’s Ancient Aliens? Well, the show sure hopes you don’t, since they repeat a chunk of last week’s episode in this one, rehashing the same material about Vedic texts and nuclear bombs from last week. In fact, most of this episode is made up of repeats, rehashes, and outtakes from previous episodes, sometimes featuring dead people and sometimes strung together so poorly that Giorgio Tsoukalos occasionally changes clothes and his age while he talks! If putatively the topic is the “wars of the gods,” it is treated as nothing more than a vague theme, with “war” taken to be anything from an all-out nuclear battle to two beings having a disagreement to popping a balloon. One gets the feeling that the producers needed an extra episode and decided to construct one out of leftovers.

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Review of Ancient Aliens S22E08 “Secrets of the Vedas”

6/19/2026

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One week ago, Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day opened to modest box office returns but massive media coverage. This has apparently excited all of the worst people in ufology, who spoke to the Wall Street Journal about how excited they are to see their favorite UFO lore up on the big screen, right down to the tabloid story about Richard Nixon taking Jackie Gleason to see some aliens. Danny Sheehan even claimed, preposterously, that this movie would finally get Congress to take “disclosure” seriously. The comment amused me since multiple members of Congress have now appeared on Ancient Aliens, which is the gold standard for taking nothing seriously, and it would entirely appropriate for the debased and degraded rump of a legislative branch we still possess to take its cues from a sci-fi film and a cable TV pseudo-documentary. It is the fruit of our era of cultural decline.

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Review of Ancient Aliens S22E07 “Underwater Alien Bases”

6/12/2026

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Oh, my, we’re back again. After a months-long hiatus, Ancient Aliens resumed its twenty-second season with … well, another episode that rehashed material from a decade ago. You can pretty much guess what the topics of an Ancient Aliens season will be based on what topics were in the news and on social media about nine months before air time. Underwater bases were a big theme for a time in ufology last year, until the conversation shifted to orbs and now “sentient plasma.” (Coming next year to Ancient Aliens!) Viewers with a long memory might remember that Ancient Aliens did an episode on “Underwater Worlds” back in Season 2 in 2010, but the closer similarity is to the 2019 episodes “They Came from the Sea,” which covered underwater alien bases better than the episode bearing the name of “Underwater Alien Bases,” an episode with almost no underwater bases in it.

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

4/27/2026

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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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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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Lue Elizondo Claims Vatican Showed Him an Ancient UFO Account (But It Didn't)

2/25/2026

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Glenn Beck interviewed Lue Elizondo by phone for his podcast yesterday, and Elizondo made an unfounded claim that the Vatican showed him evidence of ancient flying saucers. Beck—who has used his platform in the past to claim a lost white race inhabited ancient America—promoted the supposed revelation online with hyperbolic headlines: “Former UFO official saw ANCIENT EVIDENCE of aliens at the Vatican?!” Meanwhile, the supposed “evidence” is (a) not secret, (b) well-known, and (c) has nothing to do with aliens except in the minds of ufologists, as I will show you below. This, though, is yet another example of what ignoramuses who don’t know what they are talking about do not actually create knowledge by bouncing their ignorance off one another.