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Review of Ancient Aliens S06E18 "Aliens and Insects"

3/8/2014

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When you scrape the bottom of the barrel as Ancient Aliens has been doing for so long, eventually you break through to what lies beneath. If you’ve ever turned over a barrel left outdoors for a long time, you know what is underneath: bugs. In this very special episode of Ancient Aliens, S06E18 “Aliens and Insects,” we turn over the barrel and root around in the dirt to ask what aliens want with insects—but pointedly not arachnids. Nope. They’re not aliens. Not at all. You’d think the fact that having an exoskeleton would make it virtually impossible for a human-sized bug-man to exist might give ancient astronaut theorists pause, but no. In fact, they ignore the exoskeleton issue for pretty much the whole run time and focus instead on superficial characteristics like the wraparound eyes of Grey aliens that resemble those of some insects.
We open in Egypt to watch a dung beetle roll dung. It is a metaphor for Ancient Aliens, as the show continues to roll dung uphill. The dung beetle uses the light of the Milky Way to navigate, Then we look at some statues the Egyptians made of beetles and hear from Gene Kritsy, the co-author of Insect Mythology, who explains that the Egyptians likened the movement of the sun across the sky to a dung-beetle rolling its dung ball. Graham Phillips, fringe theorist, then claims that the bug was seen as a spaceship rather than a metaphor, and you can see where this was going. Giorgio Tsoukalos says that the Egyptians were too “proud” to carve fake things on their walls; therefore, aliens had bug heads, like on the Outer Limits.

The narrator wonders why the Egyptians made King Tut a scarab out of green glass produced by a “comet strike,” blithely unaware that this green glass was once David Childress’s evidence for prehistoric nuclear war! You can’t have it both ways, but the show tries. Mike Bara thinks that scarabs were mechanical devices for trans-dimensional travel, and William Henry thinks that aliens taught the Egyptians to believe in an afterlife when they met with a bug-headed alien.

Bara suggests that mummification shares “incredible” similarities to the cocoons of moths and butterflies, and David Wilcock agrees. But here both are obviously wrong since the purpose of a mummy was to preserve the corpse, while a cocoon exists to destroy the larva in preparation for its reconstitution as an adult. While the show recognizes that the Egyptians saw scarabs as immortal because they didn’t know that the new beetle that emerged from the dung ball was the result of eggs hatching within rather than a resurrected original beetle, it somehow refuses to see this as symbolic even after explaining how it happened. Instead, David Childress tells us that extraterrestrials underwent metamorphosis and/or emerged from spaceship cocoons.

After the break, we look at the Issus, a plant-hopping insect whose exoskeleton has a geared structure. Despite the fact that the show likens them to manmade objects, specifically cars and watches, Popular Mechanics made quite plain that “they look nothing like what you’d find in a car or in a fancy watch.” In fact, scientists suggest that this completely new kind of gear might have applications for future human technology. Additionally, while the show takes its cue from an article in Smithsonian magazine claiming this to be the only known natural gear, that isn’t the case; some reptiles have cogwheel gears, as do other insects, though for different purposes. All of the material I just referred to can be found here.

This leads in a discussion of ants, which the show calls the most populous of all earth’s creatures. I guess bacteria don’t count as creatures.

The show then asks how it is that ants and humans both have social structures. Could ants and humans be “more closely related” than we think? To answer that they go to “ancient Greece” to read the Iliad and Ovid’s Metamorphoses, a work that is Roman, not Greek. Hilariously, they show a French translation of the Metamorphoses listed as “D’Ovide” (of Ovid) and mistakenly take this for the title, calling the work “the Ovid.” Now here is where things get tricky. Ovid discussed an etiological myth back-forming the name of the nation of Myrmidon from the word murmedon, or ant’s nest. The relevant text is found in Book Seven:
To Jove, restorer of my race decay’d,
My vows were first with due oblations paid,
I then divide with an impartial hand
My empty city, and my ruin’d land,
To give the new-born youth an equal share,
And call them Myrmidons, from what they were.
You saw their persons, and they still retain
The thrift of ants, tho’ now transform’d to men.

(trans. Garth, Dryden et al.)
The trouble is that the Greeks didn’t consider the Myrmidons to be ant-people (Homer knows nothing of this), at least not before the Roman Ovid recorded a late version of the story back-forming their name (as the Greeks and Romans did, often spuriously, with virtually every place name). Nevertheless, Mike Bara declares that Zeus (Jupiter) crossbred humans and ants to produce the Myrmidons.

The Hopi believed that there were godlike ant people who lived below ground, but the show wants us to believe that despite the subterranean nature of these creatures we should nevertheless assign them to the sky because “large buggy eyes” are associated with Grey aliens who come from the sky. The show asks if the Greeks fought alongside Grey aliens or Grey-human hybrids, and I again remind you that neither Homer nor Ovid nor Hesiod found anything unusual about the appearance of the Myrmidons, least of all bug eyes. And what of the exoskeletons? Why should insect people need armor?

The narrator wants to know what the San (!Kung) bushmen worshiped the praying mantis and believed that a praying mantis created human kind. Could it be a Grey alien? One might want to try proving Grey aliens exist first, since they only seem to show up after Betty and Barney Hill reported encountering them in a hypnosis session just days after similar aliens appeared on The Outer Limits, particularly in the episodes “The Bellaro Shield” and “The Children of Spider County.” The Outer Limits purposely used insects as the model for their aliens, so the process becomes quite circular. Naturally, the show ignores these complications and plows directly in to a discussion of alien abduction, drawn from hypnotically-recovered memories. The show makes much of a praying-mantis-like alien that abducted a teenager named Linda Porter in 1963 because that was before the Hills reported their abduction, but they bury in the narration the fact that the abduction was only reported three decades later, under hypnosis, and therefore is almost certainly contaminated with the hypnotists’ ideas, New Age beliefs, and science fiction.

The show speculates on the alien hierarchy, suggesting that praying mantises rule over Greys, and Linda Moulton Howe tells us that the aliens want to investigate souls and the afterlife—because this is all wacked-out religion. The aliens are like angels, and they’re all really concerned about making sure our souls move on to the next life in bliss. Moulton Howe then recapitulates that ancient astronaut catechism, that aliens manipulated our DNA, created humans, and will care for our souls in the kingdom to come.

After the next break, the show asks whether the plague of locusts in Exodus was the result of aliens controlling the insects as mini-drones. The show next describes the locusts from Revelation 9:1-12:
1 And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit.

2 And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.

3 And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power.

4 And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads.

5 And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man.

6 And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.

7 And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared unto battle; and on their heads were as it were crowns like gold, and their faces were as the faces of men.

8 And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions.

9 And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle.

10 And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and their power was to hurt men five months.

11 And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon.

12 One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.

Mike Bara, however, takes this prophecy of the future as something that happened in the past, and Jason Martell and William Henry seem to follow suit. Both refer to them in the past tense and talk of them as though they actually attacked people in the past as advanced alien robotic mini-drones targeting humans. It seems the producers are unfamiliar with Revelation when they miss the fact (or seem to; my DVD froze up here and I missed about 10 seconds) that the passage begins by describing a star falling from heaven—obviously a UFO! Surely, this would have been good evidence in favor of their idea, had they taken the time to pay attention to their own material.  Instead, the show tells us about the way the government and industry are modeling robots on insects, as though this proves that the author of Revelation was pestered by clouds of these robots. Again: The show confuses Revelation for events that occurred in the past; it was a prophecy of the future.

The show has run out of ideas at this point, so it concludes by telling us that Area 51 houses a crashed flying saucer and a living alien named J-Rod who worked with the government from 1953. This is all part of a conspiracy theory created in the last decade by Bruce Burgess and Dan Crain (a.k.a. Dan Burisch). The latter claims to be a PhD, but records show he was a parole officer in Las Vegas during the years he said he was in New York earning his doctorate, according to reports published in the Skeptical Inquirer. Childress tells us that J-Rod was really a future insectoid human, not an alien. My DVD dropped some audio near the end and cut off the last 30 seconds, but I did not feel compelled to seek out the full discussion of whether there are genes that humans and insects swap between each other. The show never did seem to decide whether the aliens were insects or just looked like insects, and this made the discussion somewhat confusing.

It’s rather strange to me that the show, particularly Childress, seems to be pushing toward a circular view of history where the future bleeds into the past, and what will happen has already happened in a closed loop. I’m not sure what kind of philosophy this is, reflecting I suppose the ancient concept of the eternal return and cyclical time, like the wheel of time found in Hinduism, Buddhism, Hopi mythology, and elsewhere. Cynically, it lets them claim the future as part of the past and prophecy as events that have already occurred. Philosophically, it turns the ancient astronaut theory into a mystery school of sorts, where we do not die but are destined to live again, where all that was will be once more, and all that is to come has already happened. This is, I imagine, a comforting philosophy for uncertain times, placing the events of today into a safe pattern where the outcome is assured. All will be well because it once was in the past and therefore must be again.
31 Comments
Matt Mc
3/8/2014 03:02:49 am

I gave up after a few minutes when I was thinking the show was going to say that Aliens traveled across the Universe to bio engineer the Dung Beetle or that the dung beetle was in fact some descendent of some Alien Race.

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KIF
3/8/2014 04:24:03 am

There you go, probably what was in the minds of the terrorists in relation to 9/11 wasn't the Telephone Emergency Number, but rather Revelation chapter 9 verse 11 (Abaddon = The Destroyer)

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Only Me
3/8/2014 03:22:41 am

And during all of this, they failed to mention that the genome of fruit flies matches about 60-75% of known human disease genes and 50% of their protein sequences have mammalian homologs? Seems like a pretty important bit of information to omit if AA pundits are suggesting human-insect hybrids, to further link back to insectoid aliens.

Is it too late to scream, "Kill it with fire!"?

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Scott Hamilton
3/8/2014 03:41:08 am

I though the aliens looked like owls, and implanted that imagery in people's mind to cover up the abductions. I see a schism between the Owl Alien believers and the Insect Alien believers!

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Prone
3/8/2014 01:52:05 pm

I swear I had never heard of the whole owl screen memory thing until I watched The Fourth Kind. Did it exist as an idea before that movie?

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Matt Mc
3/8/2014 02:17:07 pm

Wasn't at some point there a owl connection to the mothman story?

I cannot remember but I think there was.

Owls however always make me thing of TWIN PEAKS

nablator
3/9/2014 11:51:41 pm

In Budd Hopkins' books, certainly.

Irna
3/8/2014 03:53:39 am

"It is a metaphor for Ancient Aliens, as the show continues to roll dung uphill" Excellent! :D

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Zach
3/8/2014 04:00:49 am

This whole episode was like if you took all of H.G. Wells works, put them together, and then turned it into a bad documentary. Thats Ancient Aliens.

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charlie
3/8/2014 05:32:47 am

Having scraped the bottom of the barrel, they over turn the barrel and check what is under the old barrel. Yep, and this episode proves it without any doubt. This series has gone past its sell by date for sure.

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Jessica
3/8/2014 06:23:49 am

Small error - the bugs as our souls' caretakers lady is Linda Moulton-Howe not Linda Morton-Howe. Considering how AA is progressing, I wouldn't be surprised if we have 'Aliens and Fish' and 'Aliens and Worms' to look forward to in the near future.

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Jason Colavito link
3/8/2014 06:38:22 am

My mistake. I've corrected the spelling of Ms. Moulton Howe's name.

Don't encourage them on aliens and fish: Tsoukalos already had an episode (Aliens and Dinosaurs) where he claimed that aliens made a peace treaty (!) with the coelacanth (!!).

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Shane Sullivan
3/8/2014 06:58:16 am

"... David Childress tells us that extraterrestrials underwent metamorphosis and/or emerged from spaceship cocoons."

I love how anything exiting anything else, even in nature, is a metaphor for aliens. I suppose when a volcano erupts, all that lava and gas is just imitating the spacemen emerging from their ship, huh?

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abductedbyaliens
3/8/2014 07:13:52 am

Since you mentioned The Outer Limits and insects, the absolute best were the Zanti misfits.

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DAN D
3/8/2014 07:42:57 am

+1 on the Zanti critters. I remember watching that episode when I was about 12 yrs old.........Creeped me out.....lol

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Richard "Dick" Neimeyer
3/8/2014 08:49:25 am

I was taken by the Hopi legend of a catastrophe causing people to escape underground. The legend brought to mind "The Time Machine" where the human race split into two races (species?) after hundreds of thousands of years, one of which lived underground.

This episode was in part educational. I learned a bit about insects I didn't know about. I'm not referring to their alien connections.

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Mandalore
3/8/2014 10:01:17 am

Was there no discussion of the Crab People and the Kindling Wars when they were driven underground by early humans? No doubt there were a lot of aliens involved in the whole thing. Or was AA intending to save other arthropods for a different show?

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Only Me
3/8/2014 06:39:18 pm

Oh, swell. That's all we need...Giorgio & co. telling us about how our ancestors were afflicted with alien crabs. : )

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Clint Knapp
3/9/2014 05:32:52 am

Deep One STD? Byproduct of their efforts to genetically manipulate the residents of Innsmouth?

Margaret lux
1/27/2016 10:22:19 pm

Crab headed are parasites living beneath in the subterranean below us. Parasitic race. Watch 1956 Invasion of the Body Snatchers. This idea odd demonic possession is walking around now amongst us. Clones drones etc. Read Donald Marshall ex Illuminati whistle blower. Profile pic, Megadeath album cover. Read all proboards. Please. The awakening of lies is here.

Gunk Sincere
3/8/2014 06:17:46 pm

I demand that everyone quit hijacking this thread! The real topic is KRS!

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Pat
3/9/2014 12:59:55 am

"We open in Egypt to watch a dung beetle roll dung. It is a metaphor for Ancient Aliens, as the show continues to roll dung uphill". This is exactly what I was thinking as I watched this episode! LOL

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RLewis
3/10/2014 02:58:26 am

It seems as though your DVD player is finally rejecting all of the dung you're making it record. I suggest you take it out back and hose it off after the series is completed. Or better yet, just put a bullet in it and end its misery.

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charlie
3/10/2014 03:01:34 pm

RLewis,
As a retired machinist, I agree with you. Even machines can only take so much abuse, and machines do deserve a bit of respect, in particular, those machines that have preformed over and above their design limitations. Certainly the poor DVD player Jason has been using has suffered incalculable abuse from all those episodes of AA and AU over these years.

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The Other J.
3/11/2014 08:09:21 pm

If they're trying to mix their alien insect theory with new-age religion, they missed a trick with claims that the Gnostic archons were like praying mantises.

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EP
5/9/2014 12:38:58 pm

Also, the giant gold-digging ants of India from the Histories of Herodotus (III.102ff).

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Jeremy
12/31/2014 05:30:46 pm

Insectoid humans? Really? EVOLUTION COULD NOT AND WOULD NOT PRODUCE THAT!

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Joshua Winter link
3/29/2015 12:00:41 pm


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This is a completely true but amazing experience, and I strongly feel it will interest you. It’s another strange thing that’s going on with some people, a twist of things happening in recent years, worldwide. It was Wednesday, October 12 1994. In what follows a name is changed withholding a man’s identity. Everything else is exactly as it happened. That day around 9:00 p.m. we arrived at Okeechobee from our day's work in Boca Raton. Okeechobee is a Seminole Indian name meaning Big Lake. Joe was with me. We are computer engineers developing an important product for a big client. It was a difficult job. We needed a change of scene and he was glazed over too from the day’s problems. A ride in the country would give us a change to rest our heads. Escaping our noisy hotel was part of the answer, so driving eighty-five miles to Big Lake was welcome. The beach is usually good but typically it’s a parking problem. At Okee there’s cool clean air with a chorus of wild creatures to hear all around ... Relaxing. There‘s no stress or tension. What a place!

We arrived with just time enough to fix a drink and walk outside by the rim canal. It felt so fine being there on a perfectly clear cool moonless night. The air was wonderful and stars were bright. Looking to the right we immediately saw a light coming. It was over the canal about 800-feet in the air a quarter-mile away. Something close was flying our way. I was thinking This ought to be interesting. Little did I know!

It seemed like a helicopter by its speed and height, with a big light under it. At the same time there was a twin engine plane flying out over the lake just behind it about two miles away. The plane was noisy and gaining altitude from take off at Okeechobee Airport. So it’s natural that I wouldn’t hear a helicopter coming our way. Only it wasn’t a helicopter, not a plane either, and it’s coming along in the air too quietly. We’re near Route 441 with some distant sounds of traffic going by. But I couldn’t hear this thing coming and it’s getting close. We saw a steady bright glow under it, like a big searchlight playing into the canal. Whatever it is, it had no flashing lights of any kind. But all aircraft are required to have strobe lights at night. As it came from behind a nearby tree into clearer view, we saw it’s a brightly lit disk and still moving toward us.

I said What the hell is that? Joe was glued. I just watched without a thought and looked hard trying to decide what it was. The disk was still flying toward us, slowly, maybe 20-mph. It flew the same way over the canal until about 300-yards away. Then it went gradually higher to about 400-yards, almost over head. It’s changing direction slightly now, moving to the opposite edge of the canal and over a point about 100-yards in front of us. It slowed, descending as it went by. It’s absurd not being aware that it’s a UFO but it never entered my mind. A UFO is exactly what we saw, the real thing. I never saw one before and this one is really close. It didn’t get closer than 200-yards to where we stood. As the craft flew by, it was perfectly circular, about 35-feet in diameter give or take five. At that height it looks bigger than, say, a full moon rising on the horizon and it’s brighter. As it moved it made a bright white glow with a hint of yellow, bright but without a strain... easy on the eyes.

No sound, I said – it was totally silent. By then there’s no noisy plane nor any road traffic being heard, no more distractions anywhere. The craft was coming down, low, slowing to a stop and moving east 100-yards toward Nubbin Slough. In five seconds it flew from high over head to where it’s hanging in the air over the levee. We saw it clearly, parked a little above the levee up a 20-degree angle. As it descended the disk-glow was harder to see the lower it came, because the angle was s

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Linda
5/21/2015 02:27:06 pm

Some very valid points. But in regards of Barney and Betty Hill, the first Outer Limits show was on March 26, 1995. The reported dates of abduction were Sept 19 and 20 of 1961. On September 21, Betty telephoned Pease Air Force Base to report their UFO encounter, though for fear of being labeled eccentric, she withheld some of the details. On September 22, Major Paul W. Henderson telephoned the Hills for a more detailed interview. Henderson's report, dated September 26, determined that the Hills had probably misidentified the planet Jupiter. (This was later changed to "optical condition", "inversion" and "insufficient data.") (Report 100-1-61, Air Intelligence Information Record) His report was forwarded to Project Blue Book, the U.S. Air Force's UFO research project.
Within days of the encounter, Betty borrowed a UFO book from a local library. It had been written by retired Marine Corps Major Donald E. Keyhoe, who was also the head of NICAP, a civilian UFO research group. On September 26, Betty wrote to Keyhoe. She related the full story, including the details about the humanoid figures that Barney had observed through binoculars. Betty wrote that she and Barney were considering hypnosis to help recall what had happened. Her letter was eventually passed on to Walter N. Webb, a Boston astronomer and NICAP member.
Webb met with the Hills on October 21, 1961. In a six-hour interview, the Hills related all they could remember of the UFO encounter. Barney asserted that he had developed a sort of "mental block" and that he suspected there were some portions of the event that he did not wish to remember. He described in detail all that he could remember about the craft and the appearance of the "somehow not human" figures aboard the craft.[15] Webb stated that "they were telling the truth and the incident probably occurred exactly as reported except for some minor uncertainties and technicalities that must be tolerated in any such observations where human judgment is involved (e.g., exact time and length of visibility, apparent sizes of object and occupants, distance and height of object, etc.)."[16]
And so forth...as you can see they reported in detail well before Outer Limits ever aired and before 1963. Looks like Outer Limits and the 1963 report copied the Hills experience! :)

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Marcus
11/10/2016 03:34:43 am

The only time scarabs and aliens should make any sense is if you're reading Blue Beetle comics from 2005 onwards.

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Nancy
1/4/2017 09:43:57 pm

This theory has been around for a long time. One day while observing a thatcher ant mound I thought the same thing. It inspired me to write an opera about the colonization of earth. Would not an insect from another planet that emploded ride inside a comet or meteor to earth. Don't forget insect have been injecting us for a long time. They have parasites the same as we do. Which insect we come from dosen't matter since they adapt and change body parts very fast. This is observation of the ants is to support youth.

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