Category: Ufos

Marco Rubio Distances Himself from "Age of Disclosure," Cites Lack of Evidence

12/3/2025

Last night Secretary of State Marco Rubio appeared on the Fox News Channel show Hannity, and the first question was about the interview with him seen in the recent documentary The Age of Disclosure. Rubio, who has vacillated in his public statements about UFOs over the last eight years, distanced himself from the documentary, accusing producer Dan Farah of “selective editing” and conceding that there is no evidence to support the claims of the so-called UFO whistleblowers.

15 Comments

Review of "Age of Disclosure": An "Ancient Aliens" Episode with Better Lighting

11/22/2025

17 Comments

For all the bluster surrounding Age of Disclosure, the new UFO disclosure documentary, the most telling part of the entire film comes in the first few minutes, when we plunge into a bunch of storytelling valorizing Lue Elizondo’s now-familiar story of leaving the Pentagon to promote UFO research. In other words, you know from the very first moments that if this documentary had anything other than the same old stories we have heard for nearly a decade, filmmaker Dan Farah would have put it first. Instead, we get an episode of Ancient Aliens with better production values—but the same amount of evidence, and, indeed, in most cases, the same supposed evidence that already appeared on Ancient Aliens.

17 Comments

Review of Ancient Aliens S21E17: “Secrets of Japan”

11/7/2025

1 Comment

The History channel moved Ancient Aliens yet again following its week off, shifting the show from 8 PM to 9 PM, sandwiched between reruns. I suppose there must be some ratings reason for it, but since Nielsen stopped reporting cable ratings (highlights for sports and cable news are released a week after), I’m not sure how Ancient Aliens currently performs. Not that many people would notice much of a difference between new episodes and reruns anyway. This week’s episode is a case in point. “Secrets of Japan” follows the season’s pattern of organizing episodes by geographic region but otherwise remaking past productions. “Secrets of Japan” calls to mind the 2017 episode “A Spaceship Made of Stone,” which similarly was devoted to Japan, though the former episode leaned more into ancient material and this week’s episode into modern UFO sightings. (Some of the same Japanese talking heads even appear in both.)

1 Comment

In Brief: Vice President Vance Thinks UFOs Could Be "Demons" or "Angels"

10/30/2025

5 Comments

In an interview with the New York Post, Vice President JD Vance said that he believes UFOs could be either angels or demons and speculated that flying saucers may be supernatural forces that intend to harm humanity. "I’m a big believer that there are things out there that we can’t explain. And so if another person sees an alien, maybe I see an angel or a demon. So, I’m a big believer that there are like spiritual forces working on the physical world that a lot of us don’t see and a lot of us don’t understand and a lot of us don’t appreciate."

Vance made the comments to the Post's Pod Force One podcaster Miranda Devine, who described herself as a "mad UFO-lunatic," a description Vance said also applied to him. Vance, a Catholic convert, added that he does not know the origin of UFOs but interprets them through a religious lens.

“Is it aliens or is it our guardian angel, or is it aliens or is it a not so guardian force that doesn’t care about us or in fact actively wishes us harm?” Vance continued. “I don’t know the answer to that question. What I try to do is I try to say my prayers, I try to be as good of a person as I can be and I try to do a good job. And, hopefully, that’s all I need to do.”

Religious believers have interpreted UFOs as demons or angels since 1947, when Kenneth Arnold reported that a pastor had warned him that flying saucers were demonic only days after his famous UFO sighting kicked off the flying saucer craze. Derived from the Biblical description of Satan as the "prince of the power of the air" (Ephesians 2:2), the idea of flying sky demons traces back to the Nephilim, whose souls, in the apocryphal texts like the Book of Enoch and Jubilees, were turned to demons and allowed to fly through the air to menace humanity.

5 Comments

Review of Ancient Aliens S21E15 “Britain’s UFO Files”

10/17/2025

5 Comments

Ancient Aliens struggles to find new ways to repackage old material, and it seems that its most recent strategy has been to move away from thematic topics toward focusing on individuals or geographic locations. Last year, they devoted an entire episode to Scotland, and this year they expand their focus to the entirety of the United Kingdom, turning this hour over to a rehash of the British UFO files. If the subject seems familiar, well, it should. It already covered many of the most famous British UFO cases investigated by the U.K. government, including a 2022 episode that covered a 1955 sighting on Lord Mountbatten’s estate and several episodes that looked at the Rendlesham Forest sighting. Most fully, they devoted an entire hour in 2017 to “The Mystery of Rudloe Manor,” a British estate rumored to be connected to secret U.K. government UFO investigations. The episode was partly an excuse to rehash—surprise!—the British UFO files, which are the putative subject of this episode. But this time they added a new wrinkle, turning the show into an apology for the British Empire and a bizarre celebration of the aliens’ supposed plan for white people to rule the world.

5 Comments

Review of Ancient Aliens S21E14 “Aliens in Our Midst”

10/9/2025

13 Comments

Of all the genres of Ancient Aliens episodes, those devoted to modern UFO sightings rank low down on my list of favorites, but a whole episode devoted to cellphone footage of supposed aliens and monsters must be at the bottom. Not only is it boring, but the lack of any real interest or curiosity on the part of the talking heads or the production leaves this feeling like a YouTube reaction video sapped of half the energy. I have very little to say about these videos, many of which were debunked, some of which are hoaxes, and many of which have too little context to draw any firm conclusions. In the case of the blurry camera artifact in the 2024 Miami “shadow monster” case covered in this episode, police addressed this incident by saying, “There were no aliens, UFOs or ETs. No airports were closed no power outages,” and yet here we are.

13 Comments

James Lacatski Publishes Book with New List of Skinwalker Ranch Monster Sightings

9/29/2025

9 Comments

On Saturday, former Pentagon UFO-hunter James Lacatski published the third volume in the Skinwalkers at the Pentagon series, entitled New Insights: Inside the U.S. Government UFO Program. As with previous books in the series, this one is an amateur affair, from the awkwardly designed cover to the bizarre choice to open the book with a first line reading, “Welcome! Congratulations! and Thank You!” According to Lacatski, the book draws on official Defense Intelligence Agency documents related to the now-defunct AAWSAP investigation of Skinwalker Ranch that were subsequently cleared for publication.

9 Comments

Review of Ancient Aliens S21E12 “The Abduction Files”

9/19/2025

9 Comments

Of all the genres of Ancient Aliens episodes, those focused on modern ufology are my least favorite. Those that focus on ancient history or mythology at least have the benefit of allowing for some meaty critical analysis by reviewing the original sources and artifacts and evaluating how the ancient astronaut theorists distort facts to create their claims. By contrast, ufology episodes tend to lack even the patina of argument and are instead dull exercises in listening to people relate their subjective experiences and claim them as fact.

This is not the first time Ancient Aliens has devoted an episode to alien abduction. Some notable examples include “Strange Abductions” from season five, “Alien Breeders” from season seven, “The Vanishings” from season nine, “The Returned” from season eleven, “The Taken” from season thirteen, and “The Chosen” from season twenty. I am not sure what more I can add to any discussion of abduction than I have already covered in these reviews.

9 Comments

Third Congressional UFO Hearing Bores with Same Old Stories, Little Evidence

9/9/2025

14 Comments

In a mostly empty congressional hearing room today, five witnesses offered evidence-free stories about witnessing UFOs or hearing about other people’s experiences allegedly examining otherworldly artifacts. It was the third House UFO hearing since 2022, when David Grusch claimed the government had alien “biologics.” When Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.) directly asked U.S. Air Force veteran Jeffrey Nuccetelli to name a piece of solid evidence, Nuccetelli straightforwardly admitted, “There is no evidence.” (He was trying to imply the government is hiding it all.) He then cited the current hearing as his evidence.

Dylan Borland testified that he witnessed a giant triangular UFO made of a “fluid” or “dynamic” material hovering 100 feet above him at a military base for fifteen consecutive minutes, though no one else on the base saw it and it went unrecorded by any instruments.

14 Comments

Review of Ancient Aliens S21E10 “The Volcano Factor”

9/5/2025

7 Comments

There is a secret myth about aliens and volcanoes whose revelation is apparently so sensitive that only the highest-ranking members of a controversial sect are allowed to hear of it. Millions of years ago, a space alien named Xenu brough billions of extraterrestrials to Earth in a spaceship shaped like a DC-8 airplane, affixed them to volcanoes, and then killed them all with H-bombs, releasing their souls to pester humans. Of course, this is the secret teaching of Scientology, in Operating Thetan Level III, so there is no chance that Ancient Aliens would risk the wrath of the alien gods’ lawyers by talking about the most notorious story of aliens and volcanoes on a show dedicated to … checks notes … aliens and volcanoes.

No, this episode is about public domain volcano myths and legends, along with a retread of the episode about why UFOs are attracted to mountains, rebranded with volcanoes.

7 Comments

<<Previous

Marco Rubio Distances Himself from "Age of Disclosure," Cites Lack of Evidence

Review of "Age of Disclosure": An "Ancient Aliens" Episode with Better Lighting

Review of Ancient Aliens S21E17: “Secrets of Japan”

In Brief: Vice President Vance Thinks UFOs Could Be "Demons" or "Angels"

Review of Ancient Aliens S21E15 “Britain’s UFO Files”

Review of Ancient Aliens S21E14 “Aliens in Our Midst”

James Lacatski Publishes Book with New List of Skinwalker Ranch Monster Sightings

Review of Ancient Aliens S21E12 “The Abduction Files”

Third Congressional UFO Hearing Bores with Same Old Stories, Little Evidence

Review of Ancient Aliens S21E10 “The Volcano Factor”

Author

Newsletters

Categories

Terms & Conditions

Archives