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Review of Ancient Aliens S12E14 "A Spaceship Made of Stone"

8/11/2017

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​Tonight’s episode, “A Spaceship Made of Stone,” focuses on the Ishi-no-Hōden (“Stone Treasure-House”) megalith in Japan, a large roughly cubic rock carved out of the side of a hill between 500 and 700 CE, and it is said to hold the spirit of the deity of the Jinja Shinto shrine in which it sits. It weighs about 500 tons, and its most impressive feature is the clever way its base was carved into a narrow pedestal to give the illusion that it floats above the water atop which it sits. The monument has been known to the West since at least 1832, when Philipp Franz von Siebold, a German who disguised himself as a Dutchman in order to sneak into an isolationist Japan, published a picture of it in the first volume of his Nippon. The monolith appears on tonight’s show because last year, when the current batch of episodes was being planned out, an article and video about the cube made the rounds of the fringe history message boards and spam sites, where Ancient Aliens gets all its ideas.
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Drawing by Philipp Franz von Siebold of Ishi-no-Hōden (1832)
​Segment 1
The first segment starts with current Japanese technological breakthroughs, and the show contrasts Japan’s high-tech culture with its traditionalist ways and ancient monuments. The show then reviews a flap from a decade ago in which some Japanese officials announced that they believed in aliens and that UFOs are real. Two years later the prime minister’s wife said she was abducted by space aliens and taken to Venus. Nick Pope says that Americans don’t take this seriously because of an ethnocentric bias (which is true) and that if an American official said the same thing it would be news on every channel. Maybe that would be the one thing that Trump could say to actually make his Republican enablers think something wasn’t quite right with him.
 
After this, the show introduces us to Shintoism and alleges that the Shinto deities are space aliens. This leads into the Ishi-no-Hōden, but not until the commercial break has passed.
 
Segment 2
The second segment takes Giorgio Tsoukalos to Japan to visit the Ishi-no-Hōden in the company of a Japanese ancient astronaut theorist from Mu Magazine. The show chooses not to share with viewers the fact that house-shaped stone coffins were popular in the sixth century, and this is merely the greatest example of the type. Informed speculation holds that it might have originated as the planned coffin for Mononobe no Moriya, a clan leader, and that it might have remained unfinished upon his assassination. Instead, we hear that the Japanese believe that a god flies around in a giant stone spaceship. The god of this monument was a flying rock god, but more correctly, the myth they cite holds that a different god, Nigihayahi no Mikoto, descended from heaven in a boat carved from rock called Ama no Iwafune. The story, though, is less than it seems: It was likely inspired by a rock that resembled a ship at the Iwafune Shrine, where Nigihayahi no Mikoto is worshiped. Of course ancient astronaut theorists argue the reverse—that actual flying ships led them to choose this rock to represent them.
 
Then Ancient Aliens shows us the ancient Jomon statues of bug-eyed humanoids, which have been part of ancient astronaut lore since the 1960s. Somehow the ancient astronauts needed goggles like a World War I flying ace in Japan, but elsewhere they didn’t need goggles. Odd. Odder: The Jomon also made realistic phallic statues, so obviously the aliens were well-endowed. Spending no time on this, Giorgio Tsoukalos demands to know why the public cannot see the imperial regalia of Japan, three objects that the Nihon Shoki, written in 720 CE, says that Ninigi no Mikoto (a god not to be confused with the deity in the paragraph above) gave to the first emperor of Japan.
Segment 3
In the third segment, we get a repeat from earlier episodes of claims that imperial and aristocratic tombs have a keyhole shape so that aliens can see them from space. Jason Martell tells us that there is “definitely a connection” to a random geological formation on Mars, which he says is probably to tomb of “a lost extraterrestrial god.” Tsoukalos visits a sixth century megalithic tomb, and he denies that wooden sleds could have been used to transport its heavy blocks, arguing that the stones’ weight would crush any wood it sits atop. (He doesn’t seem to understand the idea of distributing weight. How does he think a person can lay atop a bed of nails?) I’m also a little amused by the claim of everyone on this show that such tombs are from “prehistoric” times when the gods walked the Earth—a period when Justinian reigned in Constantinople, when Gregory of Tours was writing in France, and we have acres of documents in which Europeans and Near Easterners recorded no interactions with gods or aliens. Apparently the aliens are allergic to literacy and stay far away from anyone who can write.

Segment 4
The fourth segment tells the story of Japan’s most famous ancient UFO, a round disc-shaped object known as Utsuro Bune that descended in ancient times and carried a god within, or so Ancient Aliens says. In reality, the story actually is from 1803, repeated twice in subsequent decades, and is a folktale about a beautiful girl encountering foreigners in a strange ship that washed ashore. The style of the ship is a traditional Japanese round boat, embellished with Western details like glass windows to sound exotic. The location where the ship allegedly floated ashore is fictitious. Again: The story is from 1803.
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1825 drawing of the Utsuro Bune incident.
Tsoukalos visits the Iwafune Shrine, which is a ship carved from stone. Tsoukalos thinks that it looks like a spaceship, but I don’t see it.

​Segment 5
The fifth segment alleges that a Japanese legend of a giant crow, sometimes depicted in a circular disc, which guided the first emperor on his journey across Japan was a winged jet of some kind just because anything with wings must be an airplane. We then hear that the Japanese legend that the imperial family descended from the Shinto goddess Amaterasu via Ninigi-no-Mikoto is actually the story of space aliens fathering a master race of royals. David Childress tells us that the Meiji Restoration led to Japan’s technological progress and rapid industrialization by reconnecting the country to space aliens and their superior technology, a connection that has created Japan’s current cutting-edge progress in robotics and other technologies today. I guess the aliens just decided to skip the whole World War II period.
 
The segment finishes with claims that UFO sightings around Japanese nuclear plants represent the aliens’ “concern” over the use of atomic power and the narrator’s speculation that the UFOs are under the control of the emperor’s distant space alien cousins.

Segment 6
The sixth segment suggests that Japanese scientists are purposely targeting the star Altair with messages because they are trying to reach one of their ancient gods, who was symbolized by that star. Several talking heads conclude that the Japanese can only have better transportation and robots and machines than America because space aliens are giving it to them. There is a lot of subtext there about American anxiety about not being number one, but it’s late. Let’s just leave it there.
57 Comments
TheSmartestGuyInTheWorld
8/11/2017 10:12:10 pm

Japanese babes are hot! But not enough babes in this episode, so I lost interest in these AA losers again (except for little Giorgio) and spent most of the rest of the hour on the crapper. The title of this episode did remind me of one of my favorite movies: ZARDOZ! Spent another hour looking through my VHS liberry but couldn’t find my copy. I think Jr. borrowed it in the ‘80s and never brought it back. Good boy, just not to bright.

Great movie ZARDOZ! That I can tell you. And that Charlotte Rampling! She’s was in such good shape. Not so much now but she was beautiful then. I really understand beauty and I will tell you, she was HOT! I would definitely do her. Then, not now.

Not sure about stone spaceships and faces on Mars but that floating stone head in that movie was creepy!

Hey little Giorgio, I’m looking for a science advisor. Interested? You will have to wear a tie of course.

Did I mention how HOT Charlotte Rampling was?

#HOTCHARLOTTE #VHSLIVES #AAS12E14

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BigNick
8/12/2017 02:36:47 pm

You're like a tv show that's been on a couple of seasons after it ran out of ideas. Maybe in your next post try to spice it up with a little alien only you can see

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Only Me
8/11/2017 10:26:50 pm

What, no mention of Momotarō?

I shouldn't be surprised. This is what happens when all cultures must be discounted in favor of aliens. The flotsam and jetsam that are the pundits of Ancient Aliens are incapable of accepting our ancestors could do what they can't...accomplish great things.

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Americanegro
8/11/2017 11:13:12 pm

"Nick Pope says that Americans don’t take this seriously because of an ethnocentric bias (which is true)" NO ONE takes what the wife of a head of state says seriously. There's no ethnocentric bias here. Think Prince Phillip.

Segment 5: Japanese industrialization started looooong before WWII. Catch up.

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Jim
8/11/2017 11:15:36 pm

Is there any country or people that the aliens didn't visit ?
I'm waiting for Ancient Aliens to claim the inuksuit made by the Iniut are statues representing aliens ! (if they haven't done so already)

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Jim
8/11/2017 11:17:57 pm

oops " Inuit "

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TONY S.
8/12/2017 12:15:58 am

"Apparently the aliens are allergic to literacy...." - LOL!

That's at least one undeniable connection the AAT's have to their gods.

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bear47
8/12/2017 03:13:23 am

I may have misheard parts of this episode, but I think the AA types said that these doGs protected the country of Japan. Well, they did't do so very good. Witness the dropping of two A bombs on Jpan in August 1945. Some protection there by the doGs.

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bear47
8/12/2017 03:16:34 am

Oops, that second to last sentence should read Japan, NOT Jpan. Darned old fingers.

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AAA
8/12/2017 11:23:20 am

Regarding claims by Japanese officials and wife of the prime minister, no matter how many people will claim UFO contact, deniers will still deny and humiliate people who make such claims.

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Only Me
8/12/2017 12:00:10 pm

It's an unrealistic expectation to demand people accept such claims as true without question. By your standard, if I tell you I have a leprechaun living in my house, you /must/ accept it as the truth.

Until irrefutable evidence of a clearly extraterrestrial origin is provided in conjunction with a claim of UFO contact, such claims are anecdotal.

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AAA
8/12/2017 12:18:30 pm

OK, what would be irrefutable evidence to you?

Only Me
8/12/2017 12:36:38 pm

Did you miss the "of a clearly extraterrestrial origin" part? That means the evidence can't be explained by natural or mundane causes, e.g., misidentification, night terrors, materials manufactured by a means beyond our current technology, etc.

Americanegro
8/12/2017 02:24:44 pm

"deniers will still deny and humiliate people who make such claims"

And in the words of George Will, they are right so to do.

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SDO
8/12/2017 12:39:28 pm

"OK, what would be irrefutable evidence to you?"
Physical evidence would be a good place to start. A "UFO" or body.....

Burnt grass, "anomalous" EMF readings, claims made by people, etc aren't exactly "proof" of anything.

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AAA
8/13/2017 03:16:28 pm

And who would certify that the UFO or body is for real?

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AAA
8/12/2017 12:43:45 pm

Relax, relax. Nearly everything can be explained by natural or mundane caused if one tries really hard. Would an admission by a former president of Russia Medvedev do if you google "medvedev aliens"?

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Only Me
8/12/2017 12:55:43 pm

No, it wouldn't and I'll explain why.

You think aliens are here, watching over humanity like interstellar stewards. You think they're here trying to guide us towards a better future? If so, why not present themselves to all of humanity?

You would most likely argue, "We're not ready for that." So, the aliens are willing to accept violations of their Prime Directive when it comes to warning, communicating or interacting with random humans at random times, BUT, announcing themselves to the very species you say they care so much about is a big no-no.

And you wonder why no one takes such stories seriously.

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AAA
8/12/2017 02:09:51 pm

The picture is more complex, because there are aliens around here who have a positive attitude towards humans and those who have a negative attitude. The agenda of both is better served by hiding. What comes to positive ones, then it is not so much that we are no ready for contact, but one of the cardinal rules of Life is that "always allow the other soul to walk its path". Therefore indeed they try to nudge us here and there in the positive direction, but ultimate responsibility to make choices, including believing or not believing that help is here, is left to us. And this is so because they care about us.

Americanegro
8/12/2017 02:27:33 pm

The problem here is that the poster AAA is insane. He's only posting here to impress Jodie Foster.

BigNick
8/12/2017 02:41:15 pm

Jodie Foster is only impressed by men of action.

Only Me
8/12/2017 03:44:27 pm

Serious question, AAA.

How, in any way, is your comment about the agenda of positive aliens different from the Christian view of a benevolent God and his angels trying to accomplish the same goal?

Your explanation only differs in ascribing WHO is actively guiding or opposing humanity. Maybe you should realize your comment is an article of faith.

AAA
8/12/2017 04:10:44 pm

ONLY ME, this is quite a complex question to address in an online comment. The way I see it there is no God as Christianity postulates it (I would also not see God that would send humans to hell as very benevolent). I prefer to use word Life and Life is all around us and therefore there is nothing that is not Life. Both aliens and humans are Life/God.

What comes to faith then at least to me there is overwhelming evidence toward existencs of aliens. Put together ancient stories, archeological record, latest scientific advances, whisteblower testimony, abductee stories, eyewitness reports, etc. present a compelling story even if only 10% of it all is true. Also pure logic would suggest considering the amount of planets in the Universe that there is a very small probability that we are alone.

Only Me
8/12/2017 04:30:42 pm

>>The way I see it there is no God as Christianity postulates it..I prefer to use word Life and Life is all around us and therefore there is nothing that is not Life.<<

Replace "Life" with the name of any deity you prefer. You're still basing your view on a form of faith.

>>What comes to faith then at least to me there is overwhelming evidence toward existencs of aliens.<<

Let's examine your evidence, then.

>>ancient stories...whisteblower testimony...abductee stories...eyewitness reports<<

Anecdotal evidence that alone can't prove the existence of aliens. You're falling back to the point I made earlier: you want us to accept such stories as true without question or proof.

>>archeological record<<

Provide evidence that has been confirmed as extraterrestrial in origin and not the misunderstood/misidentified work of human hands.

>>latest scientific advances<<

Please provide which advances could only come from alien intervention or technology that couldn't be the product of human ingenuity.

Until you can provide what I'm asking, your last point about not being alone in the galaxy is irrelevant. It does not follow that because there is the possibility of evolved life on another planet, that life has come this one and decided to become humanity's shepherd.

Weatherwax
8/12/2017 04:57:01 pm

AAA: "... present a compelling story even if only 10% of it all is true."

Is there any reason to accept that any of it is true, even 1%?

SDO
8/12/2017 10:11:31 pm

"a very small probability that we are alone."

Mutually exclusive issues. I firmly believe that given the size of the universe there is other life out there somewhere. I also believe that there is not enough evidence to say that "aliens" have purposely come to this planet at any recognisable time. Maybe a million years ago there were lifeforms here or Earth was visited, but no evidence remains or has been found.

TONY S.
8/13/2017 07:37:44 am

SDO, I could not agree with you more about the issues being mutually exclusive.

One of the biggest tools in today's UFOophile's playbook is conflating the idea of ancient astronauts/UFOs with the possibilities of life in outer space and all that it entails. The defense to "there is no evidence whatsoever for UFOs" is always "What?! You don't believe in life in outer space?!"

AAA
8/13/2017 07:41:00 am

_Let's examine your evidence, then._

Trouble is, that there is enough evidence to write a book. We clearly cannot go through all of it here. Just bits and pieces like Medvedev confession.

Only Me
8/13/2017 01:43:20 pm

>>Trouble is, that there is enough evidence to write a book.<<

A book with a front and back cover, but no pages. You're avoiding the issue: there isn't any evidence. Archaeological evidence? You didn't provide examples. Technological evidence? You didn't provide examples.

The only evidence you keep returning to is eyewitness accounts, which can't prove anything by themselves and require the physical evidence you won't provide to give them credibility.

You're whole argument is based on faith in the existence of physical beings who, miraculously, leave no traces of their very existence for the rest of us to examine.

AAA
8/13/2017 03:14:43 pm

As a final comment if you want a book read works of Harvard psychiatrist John E. Mack. During more than a decade he studied more than 200!!! (not 1 or 2) people who had been abducted by aliens and became convinced that phenomena is real.

Of course if work by Harvard scientist will also not suffice as even some evidence, it is futile to even try to provide any evidence. And so it maybe should be. Some people choose to keep their blinders and fight hard toward that goal.

Only Me
8/13/2017 03:57:01 pm

>>During more than a decade he studied more than 200!!! (not 1 or 2) people who had been abducted by aliens and became convinced that phenomena is real.<<

Once again, you return to your original argument: we must accept personal accounts as true, despite the absence of physical evidence that would give them credibility, solely on the basis of numbers. Argumentum ad Populum.

>>Some people choose to keep their blinders and fight hard toward that goal.<<

At least you finally admitted you won't change your mind in the face of valid criticism.

TONY S.
8/13/2017 06:52:25 pm

AAA... using that logic, you can take anyone's delusions written down by a mental health professional and cite them as evidence for whatever you want.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence... and what you've offered doesn't even meet the standard for ordinary evidence.

Americanegro
8/13/2017 06:57:45 pm

Ah, the old "if it's Harvard it must be right" argument. Harvard employed Timothy Leary and had a quota on Jews. Harvard can go screw.

TheBigMike
8/14/2017 09:39:01 pm

AAA... <<As a final comment if you want a book read works of Harvard psychiatrist John E. Mack. During more than a decade he studied more than 200!!! (not 1 or 2) people who had been abducted by aliens and became convinced that phenomena is real.>>
There is a lot to unpack here that shows a surprising lack of familiarity with the scientific method. First, while 200 is a fair sized sample and could potentially lead to statistically significant results in a proper study, what John Mack did was compile 200 case studies, which is qualitative, not quantitative in nature. No evidence beyond the eye-witness testimony is provided. Eye-witness testimony alone cannot be considered to be valid or reliable. Then there's the matter of how he "became convinced the phenomena is real." He did not compile data, analyze it, and draw a conclusion based on that data through a process that he and others were then able to repeat. He compiled a bunch of stories and came to believe something. He was reasoning through intuition, through his own feelings, not through evidence and data.

<<Of course if work by Harvard scientist will also not suffice as even some evidence, it is futile to even try to provide any evidence. And so it maybe should be. Some people choose to keep their blinders and fight hard toward that goal.>>
These statements are CLEAR use of the expert fallacy. "You have to accept the word of the expert because he is an expert." Neither you nor John Mack provided any physical evidence or statistically significant data from a repeatable study to back up claims. You simply expect people to take authority for authority's sake. The way science actually works, the difference between someone educated at Harvard from someone educated at a community college is the results they can provide. If the Harvard educated PhD and bumpkin with a PhD from Average State University are having a argument and the Harvard man cannot provide evidence to back up his claims but the bumpkin CAN, guess what: the Bumpkin wins the argument. Period.

This is BASIC stuff. This is CHAPTER ONE in how to do research. LITERALLY chapter one. I teach an undergrad course on research in behavioral sciences and intuitive reasoning and the authority fallacy are covered in chapter one as reasons why understanding the need for evidence and data are important.

AAA, You have demonstrated that you simply do not understand these concepts

AAA
8/12/2017 02:39:43 pm

It is a cheap trick of every good propagandist to call those with whome he/she disagrees insane.

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Americanegro
8/12/2017 04:42:41 pm

It is a cheap trick of every insane person to call those with whom he/she disagrees a good propagandist.

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Kal
8/12/2017 02:56:06 pm

Stone spaceships are a common scifi thing, and may only resemble stone, but are alloy, or the asteroid is stone on the outside. Tombs do not represent spaceships. Ancients were not seeing aliens, but making tombs, as they did not really see spaceships.

Jodie Foster is not interested in men really. In 2013 she came out, even though earlier she had been married to a man. She clearly prefers women, not that it's an issue in 2017.

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Americanegro
8/12/2017 04:39:26 pm

First, you are incredibly stupid. Second, you really do not follow the news. JOHN HINCKLEY TRIED TO KILL PRESIDENT REAGAN TO IMPRESS JODIE FOSTER. Like Wolter, you are an idiot.

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SDO
8/12/2017 10:17:34 pm

"may only resemble stone"

Or, stone was the only truly hard substance that they had to compare an unknown substance to. Before plastics pretty much any clear material was glass (in general) so would be described as such even only 100 years ago. Still waiting for transparent aluminum to be available.

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Kal
8/13/2017 01:54:39 pm

AN, we all got the reference about Hinkley, but it's not germain to the discussion about aliens. Neither is the fact that Jodie Foster would never have been interested in a mad man. Hinkley was obsessed with her character from Taxi Driver. It's not important. Don't tell us you defend Hinkley and is heas, because that is beyond the pale, and not relevant!

"The first sign of a poor debater is throwing insults and barbs because you cannot prove your point."

Stick to the topic of the episode, not personal attacks. Who are you to judge anyone on their intelligence?

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Americanegro
8/13/2017 07:23:35 pm

I defend Brooke Shields in Pretty Baby and you are stupid. I judge you because you are stupid and borderline insane. What are "Hinckley's ideas"?

People who've stepped on their dick and don't have a point often try to control the debate. I say eff that.

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Tina
8/22/2017 12:59:32 am

Kal, I thought your comments were actually kind of fun. :) I found myself snickering which is quite welcome, after being so down lately. It's disheartening to see decent people get so angry over interesting subjects like AA (w/Colavito's brilliant info). Even if I disagree with someone's opinion, I try to take away something positive from the conversation, even if it's just sheer entertainment. I am neither infallible, nor am I all knowing...but I really enjoy this website!

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El Cid
8/13/2017 01:59:47 pm

Plenty of fringe researchers declare the Olmecs to be a civilization founded by or influenced by African visitors. Mainly because the giant stone heads they carved had features that look Sub-Saharan African to many.

Theoretically possible, but so far not supported by real evidence.

Cowards!

Turns out, the Olmecs were carving *fish people*!

Literally, as in, the Creature from the Black Lagoon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkBq_Y37TeU

The still image of the Olmec head photo being compared side-by-side with a Hollywood still headshot of the Creature from the Black Lagoon is priceless, maybe should be the logo of this blog.

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Kal
8/13/2017 02:01:49 pm

In March 1981 that event happened, and it is not news, but history.

Nice use of google.

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Americanegro
8/13/2017 07:28:13 pm

When you say "that event" do you mean the time you molested a child?

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Zoroaster
8/19/2017 02:37:11 pm

Conservatism in its best, Right AN?

Kal
8/14/2017 01:47:34 pm

Regardless of whether or not AN has a fetish for John Hinckley Jr., incident in 1981, Reagan's shooter, etc, the topic was alien stone ships.

The government has become very interested in hate speech of late, so it is best to drop the trolling.

I was only 11 in 1981, but you are 11 mentally now. Shame on you. Don't yo have something better to do with your day, AN? Kee u the hate filled rhetoric. It will so help you in life, and get you many friends, (sarcasm). More is the pity.

Back to the topic, stone ships on AA.

"All we see is simple lies."

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kal
8/14/2017 02:14:44 pm

Regardless of Medvedev confession whether or not Medvedev confession AN has a fetish for John Hinckley Jr., incident in 1981, Reagan's shooter, etc, the Medvedev confession topic was alien Medvedev confession stone ships.

The government Medvedev confession has become very Medvedev confession interested in hate speech of late, so it is best to Medvedev confession drop the trolling.

I was only Medvedev confession 11 in 1981, but you are 11 mentally now. Shame on you. Don't yo have something better to do with your Medvedev confession day, AN? Kee u the hate Medvedev confession filled rhetoric. It will so help Medvedev confession you in life, and get you Medvedev confession many friends, (sarcasm). More is the pity.

Back to the topic, stone ships on AA.

"All we see is Medvedev confession."

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AAA
8/14/2017 02:09:40 pm

I like to say Medvedev confession.

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Residents Fan
8/14/2017 05:27:14 pm

Has anyone pointed out the title of this latest AA outing is very similar to a fine collection of short stories by Lisa Tuttle?

http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?1164

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Jean Stone
8/14/2017 11:24:44 pm

"Spending no time on this, Giorgio Tsoukalos demands to know why the public cannot see the imperial regalia of Japan, three objects that the Nihon Shoki, written in 720 CE, says that Ninigi no Mikoto (a god not to be confused with the deity in the paragraph above) gave to the first emperor of Japan."

Just because they have historic value doesn't mean that anyone is compelled to put them on display for all and sundry. I rather doubt that staple of fringe works the Ark of the Covenant would be put in a museum for public display and opened up for everyone to see what's inside, should anyone manage to find and authenticate the thing. Though in that case, maybe it's for our protection so we don't get melted. Anyhow, same thing here, not for public consumption =/= guv'mint conspiracy. But at least he didn't repeat that other fringe claim that the mirror contains Hebrew characters.

Also, an episode about Japan and they don't even mention the Tale of Princess Kaguya. Really? Woman from the moon, falls in love with a human, forced to return to the heavens, involving an elixir of immortality? The fringe theory practically writes itself. And it's not like it's an obscure tale that's never been presented in English-language media; I learned the story from Sesame Street almost thirty years ago...

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Shane Sullivan
8/15/2017 11:15:29 am

I think the Takenouchi documents would be more their speed... and by "their speed" I mean recently produced, totally fabricated, valued only by lunatic nationalists, etc.

But I guess they only had an hour, so I forgive them.

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JaredMithrandir link
8/15/2017 08:52:56 am

Did they seriously do a whole episode on Japan and not talk abut Princess Kaguya?

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ElCuco
8/30/2017 03:17:47 am

I was really annoyed by Giorgio when he said "na, I dont believe wooden sleds were used and that is end of this silly argument."

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TARIS link
10/18/2017 05:28:57 am

Spaceships made out of stone! This is the same fairy tale that Corey Goode made when he said he had been aboard stone starships flown by the breakaway Mayan civilization. Tsoukolas still runs around claiming aliens did everything for mankind. I can imagine him saying "Man went from taking a dump in the bushes to taking a dump in a toilet-overnight! How can this be? Unless...their was extraterrestrial intervention from up there."
The first part of the episode waffled on about robots and other technological developments, however they forgot to mention that the Japanese are developing humaniform robots as an alternative to immigration as a solution to their aging, and declining population.
Tsoukalos eventually digs up the old Utsuro Bune story. Earlier on his fellow UFO 'researchers' claimed the Utsuro Bune woman was a chononught from the year 8000 as the symbols were the same as those on the timeship that landed at Rendlesham Forest in 1983...
I am surprised Tsoukalos can say all this bullshit with a straight face, and fro ten years running! Stone starships, magic rocks, parks and memorials designed to be seen from orbit. Pure science fiction.
Still, Ancient Aliens and its associated tin foil hat nuttery is still entertaining-if viewed as science fiction. Episode 14, season 12 an still not one scrap of scientifically acceptable evidence.

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Erica
11/6/2017 05:01:33 am

"Giorgio Tsoukalos demands to know why the public cannot see the imperial regalia of Japan."

If we were to take Tsoukalos seriously, then we would have to conclude that just about every shrine in Japan is hiding some secret alien artifact. It's not unusual for an object, such as a mirror or sword (which are two of the imperial treasures) to be placed in the inner sanctum where no one except priests are allowed to go.

Not to mention they're priceless millennia year old artifacts. Letting just about anyone see them is inviting trouble.

Five minutes of research would've let them learn this.

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          • W. Scott-Elliot >
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          • Termier on Atlantis
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          • Fossils and the Supernatural
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          • Man During the Stone Age
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          • Fossils and Myth
          • Fossil Origin of the Cyclops
          • Mastodon, Mammoth, and Man
        • Fragments on Giants
        • Manichaean Book of Giants
        • Geoffrey on British Giants
        • Alfonso X's Hermetic History of Giants
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        • Book of Howth
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        • The Giants of Sardinia
        • Giants and the Sons of God
        • The Magnetism of Evil
        • Tertiary Giants
        • Smithsonian Giant Reports
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        • Jewish Encyclopedia on Giants
        • Index of Giants
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        • The Holy Grail as Lucifer's Crown Jewel
        • The Mutinous Sea
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        • Fabulous Zoology
        • The Origins of Talos
        • Mexican Mythology
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        • Maqrizi's Names of the Pharaohs
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        • England, the Remnant of Judah
        • Historical Chronology of the Mexicans
        • Maspero on the Predynastic Sphinx
        • Vestiges of the Mayas
        • Ragnarok: The Age of Fire and Gravel
        • Origins of the Egyptian People
        • The Secret Doctrine >
          • Volume 1: Cosmogenesis
          • Volume 2: Anthropogenesis
        • Phoenicians in America
        • The Electric Ark
        • Traces of European Influence
        • Prince Henry Sinclair
        • Pyramid Prophecies
        • Templars of Ancient Mexico
        • Chronology and the "Riddle of the Sphinx"
        • The Faith of Ancient Egypt
        • Spirit of the Hour in Archaeology
        • Book of the Damned
        • Great Pyramid As Noah's Ark
        • Richard Shaver's Proofs
    • Alien Encounters >
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        • Fortean Society and Columbus
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        • Soviet Search for Lemuria
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        • "Flying Saucers"? They're a Myth
        • UFO Hypothesis Survival Questions
        • Air Force Academy UFO Textbook
        • The Condon Report on Ancient Astronauts
        • Atlantis Discovery Telegrams
        • Ancient Astronaut Society Telegram
        • Noah's Ark Cables
        • The Von Daniken Letter
        • CIA Psychic Probe of Ancient Mars
        • Scott Wolter Lawsuit
        • UFOs in Ancient China
        • CIA Report on Noah's Ark
        • CIA Noah's Ark Memos
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        • Congressional Ancient Mars Hearing
        • House UFO Hearing
      • Ancient Extraterrestrials >
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        • The Moon Hoax
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        • Aerolites and Religion
        • What Is Theosophy?
        • Plane of Ether
        • The Adepts from Venus
      • A Message from Mars
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      • Orville Wright on UFOs
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      • Flying Saucers Are Real
      • Report on UFOs
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      • The Devils of Loudun
      • Sublime and Beautiful
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      • Transylvanian Superstitions
      • Defining a Zombie
      • Dread of the Supernatural
      • Vampires
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      • Science and Fairy Stories
      • The Cursed Car
    • Classic Fiction >
      • Lucian's True History
      • Some Words with a Mummy
      • The Coming Race
      • King Solomon's Mines
      • An Inhabitant of Carcosa
      • The Xipéhuz
      • Lot No. 249
      • The Novel of the Black Seal
      • The Island of Doctor Moreau
      • Pharaoh's Curse
      • Edison's Conquest of Mars
      • The Lost Continent
      • Count Magnus
      • The Mysterious Stranger
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      • The Lost World
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      • H. P. Lovecraft >
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        • The Call of Cthulhu
        • History of the Necronomicon
        • At the Mountains of Madness
        • Lovecraft's Library in 1932
      • The Skeptical Poltergeist
      • The Corpse on the Grating
      • The Second Satellite
      • Queen of the Black Coast
      • A Martian Odyssey
    • Classic Genre Movies
    • Miscellaneous Documents >
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      • A Problem in Greek Ethics
      • The Migration of Symbols
      • The Gospel of Intensity
      • De Profundis
      • The Life and Death of Crown Prince Rudolf
      • The Bathtub Hoax
      • Crown Prince Rudolf's Letters
      • Position of Viking Women
      • Employment of Homosexuals
      • James Dean's Love Letters
      • The Amazing James Dean Hoax!
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