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Review of Ancient Aliens S13E06 "Area 52"

6/1/2018

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​Tom DeLonge’s work with To the Stars Academy of Arts and Science has been a godsend to Ancient Aliens. DeLonge’s efforts to publicize U.S. government UFO research, carried out at the behest of billionaire space enthusiast Robert Bigelow, has accidentally refreshed the aging History Channel series by painting it with a fresh coat of varnish. Ancient Aliens is still recycling the same material, but now they have a reason to claim that it is relevant again. Indeed, the Washington Post ran a puff piece about DeLonge the other day, containing no new information of note, but legitimizing the idea that all of this old material is relevant and even important. For the first time I can remember, the Post’s publicist sent me a press release asking me to write about their article and share it with my readers. UFO conspiracies might not be exactly newsworthy, but there is no doubt that the media think they will grab audiences.
​Segment 1
Tonight’s episode, “Area 52,” is yet another in a growing string of recent episodes that focus on modern events rather than the show’s titular ancient history. As such, it is a boring episode for me. I have never been terribly interested in modern UFO conspiracies and listening to uninformed fantasists speculate about U.S. government activities is tiresome. The first segment describes the CIA’s acknowledgement of the existence of Area 51 in 2013, which was somewhat anticlimactic since the base has been an obvious U.S. government facility and test site for decades. The CIA did not have anything to say about space aliens, and to my mind the fact that U.S. military tested planes at the site explains much of the so-called “UFO” activity at the site. The show repeats unproven claims by alleged Area 51 workers that the base reverse engineers crashed UFOs, but these are just stories, from people without facts.
 
Ancient Aliens sent Giorgio Tsoukalos—still described as the “publisher” of the defunct Legendary Times magazine, and still dressing as Indiana Jones on the brown acid—to Nevada to scope out Area 51. His elocution lessons seem to be taking hold, however, since his conversations about flying saucer research at Area 51 are much less accented than when he did similar field pieces for In Search of Aliens four years ago. You can tell how interesting I found this speculation since I paid virtually no attention to the wild claims about whether Area 51 has been superseded by even more secret military installations, and whether Area 51 is now a “decoy” used to lure ufologists to the wrong location.
​Segment 2
The second segment sends Tsoukalos to Area 51 on snowy March day to descend into an abandoned mine to look for evidence that the U.S. government has used such mines to create an underground tunnel network and series of subterranean facilities for research into extraterrestrials. The segment mixes fact and fiction. There are certainly some underground U.S. facilities. But the idea that they are all connected through a web of underground train systems (i.e., subways) all across the country is speculative at best and outright fictional at worst. It seems to be a modernization of the earlier claim from ancient astronaut theorists that space aliens built a network of tunnels to connect power centers across the Americas, which in turn was derived from speculative material Helena Blavatsky willed into being in Isis Unveiled, attributing a network of tunnels to people from Atlantis. (It was a heavily exaggerated version of stories that circulated in the Spanish colonial era about tunnels the Inca had used to transport treasure.) Only now the U.S. government has taken the place of Atlantis and the aliens. Anyway, the segment is notably low on content, basically repeating the same single idea—there are underground tunnels!—over and over again.
​Segment 3
The third segment discusses Wright Patterson Air Force Base, where Linda Moulton Howe alleges some of the most important experimentation on aliens and their craft occurred. This, of course, demands another discussion of the supposed Roswell crash, which even many ufologists now admit was not an alien spacecraft, since the classic form of the Roswell crash story had the crashed debris brought to Wright Patterson for analysis. You mileage with this segment will vary depending on how much credence you give to the decrepit Roswell story, debunked so many times that it really seems like Ancient Aliens is trying to say something by defiantly refusing to engage with logic and reason at all. Wright Patterson was also the home of the Air Force’s midcentury investigation of UFOs, including Project Blue Book, which determined that there was nothing extraterrestrial about them. We hear from a supposed whistleblower that there are aliens at Wright Patterson, and we hear that their bodies are used for paranormal investigations into psychic phenomena—an indication that the underlying motive behind fabricated stories of aliens isn’t scientific but rather supernatural, to touch, however imperfectly, a power beyond the earthly.  
 
I do want to mention, though, that in these segments Ancient Aliens mixed genuine footage, recreations, and computer-generated images promiscuously, without clearly identifying which pieces of footage are real and which are artistic impressions. This is deceptive and should have been better clarified.  
​Segment 4
The fourth segment recycles material about the Montauk, Long Island military facility that once existed there before being decommissioned in 1981. According to conspiracy theorists, there are secret underground facilities beneath the rotting superstructure of the former base. I can’t recall offhand if Ancient Aliens has covered this before (though they must have), but it did appear in the History Channel’s Time Beings time travel conspiracy theory show two years ago. Since no one on the show bothers to provide evidence that any facility exists beneath the Montauk base, much less that alien technology being researched there can be used to create psychic phenomena, there is really nothing to say other than the fact that Ancient Aliens talking heads are willing to accept whatever anybody says, so long as it promises to be a secret that some vague they don’t want you to know.
 
At this point, 42 minutes into the hour, the producers remembered that they need to connect this to ancient history in some way, so they suggest that the experiments in Montauk resemble the flying feathered throne of Ptah, upon which Ptah created reality with the power of his mind. I am not familiar with any myth that said Ptah’s throne flew, or had feathers, but I am not familiar enough with all of the literature to know for certain. The standard sources don’t make immediate mention of it in the limited research I could do in the few minutes after the segment aired. Ptah was a demiurge, so he did indeed think reality into existence in the Memphite theology.
​Segment 5
The fifth segment reaches back (again) to the first episode of this season to review the Pentagon’s UFO investigation with Bigelow Aerospace, and we get a shorter version of what the series took two hours to discuss back in S13E01. They add a new spin this time, a new layer of conspiracy. According to the show, Bigelow wasn’t the recipient of government largess because of the influence of a powerful friend. Sen. Harry Reid; instead, Bigelow was “cleverly” assigned UFO research to avoid the Freedom of Information Act, since private companies are not subject to FOIA. But FOIA also has exemptions for national security, which, if there really were aliens invading us, would certainly apply. This seems like a post hoc rationalization. We get some references to the supposed alien alloys Bigelow is investigating, mixing together claims made by Jacques Vallée for a supposedly different set of space rocks having unexpected isotopic ratios with claims made by DeLonge’s group about their fantastical or propulsive properties that have never been confirmed. It’s all mixed together and attributed to no source, presented instead as obvious and plain fact. 
​Segment 6
The final segment talks about private space exploration, and it suggests that these companies are secretly operating at the behest of the American government. According to the show, the government has secret evidence that Mars was once the home of ancient space aliens, and to hide this, they have parceled out the research among these private corporations so that no one has the complete picture or could therefore figure out that aliens are involved. Stop and think about what that means—the best scientists in the private and public sectors can’t figure out what the motley crew of ancient astronaut theorists are able to see instantly. Ancient astronaut theorists think a lot of themselves.
 
… And that’s a wrap on the first half of season 13. Ancient Aliens is taking a good chunk of the summer off and will return on July 20. That means I will get some time off, too. Enjoy your Friday nights.
45 Comments
Hal
6/1/2018 10:05:02 pm

Ancient Aliens just keeps getting better and better. Awesome show.

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Not the Comte de Saint Germain
6/2/2018 12:26:45 am

Are you some kind of parody of a troll?

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Hal
6/2/2018 01:21:50 pm

Maybe. Can you rephrase the question?

Only Me
6/2/2018 12:23:01 am

How weird! I was watching Mysteries at the Museum Thursday night and UFOs: The Lost Evidence followed, discussing Area 52. UFO Hunters also had an episode on Area 52. Doesn't surprise me to see the same claim popping up repeatedly.

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Kal
6/2/2018 01:38:57 am

The story is going to pop up elsewhere in order to sell the narrative of thios new made up hypothesis of area 52, but it reminds me of a cheesy 80s movie for the b52s band somehow.

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A C
6/2/2018 10:36:51 am

There's not even a real 'rumour' about alien space ships at Area 51. In 1989 Bob Lazar claimed to have worked on UFOs at a top secret base called S-4 nearby Pampoose Lake. People with far more skill at creating hoaxes then connected it to the nearby real base at Groom Lake formerly known as Area 51 between the 50s and 70s.

Secret UFO research bases go back a bit longer in American Folklore, but Groom lake was never a center of UFO reports, possibly due to it attracting more knowledgeable and down to earth plane spotters. While SR-71 and U2 test flights operating out of Groom Lake may have been behind a number of 50s and 60s UFO reports that's largely coincidental to the Area 51 name becoming definitively attached to the UFO mythos in the mid to early 90s.

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A C
6/2/2018 11:13:12 am

Ptah doesn't 'think' the universe into existence in the Memphite theology, he speaks Atum into existence who in turn creates the earth and the gods (through divine masturbation because that's how Atum worked in the earlier mythology that the priests of Ptah were trying to make more highbrow).

The Memphite theology is an important predecessor to the concept of the divine first thought in Platoism, Gnosticism and Hermeticism as well as the Logos in Philo and the Gospel of John. Its clear that a multistep process is going on behind the cosmology's opaque poeticism so despite the philosophical and theological mileage that people have gotten out of this story it basically just boils down to "Ptah thought about what he was going to do before he did it" (wow, much profound, so insight).

Ptah also thinks with his heart, not his mind because you know, bronze age anatomical understanding and all that.

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An Anonymous Nerd
6/2/2018 11:15:20 am

I guess it really is a conspiracy theory/lifestyle show now.

Regarding Ptah, which as Jason describes the show is the only "ancient" connection, Google image searches on the term "Ptah throne" (without quotes) reveals nothing with this being having a flying throne, but it would prove nothing if such an image or idea existed. Gods or powerful Kings with flying thrones is a common motif in the ancient world, presumably for the same reason we have lots of flying superheroes in modern myths: It's wicked awesome and shows a power mere normal mortals do not have.

-An Anonymous Nerd

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Clete
6/2/2018 11:26:39 am

About ten years ago in the neighbor were I live a house was being re-modeled after being sold by its owner. I walked by it on day and a second floor bathroom was being worked on. As I watched the old toilet came flying out of the window into the trash hauler parked on the property. I guess it could rightly be classified as a flying throne.

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Hal
6/2/2018 01:03:30 pm

Wow. What a relevant and meaningful comment. The very things you accuse me of doing are the things you do. At least I comment on the show or the so-called review.

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David Bradbury
6/2/2018 04:46:05 pm

The point is that Clete's flying throne may be at least as relevant as the programme's invocation of the name of Ptah ...

Clete
6/2/2018 06:11:32 pm

Correction, you never comment on the show. At best all you do is troll and complain about Jason.

Americanegro
6/2/2018 09:51:07 pm

Correction: It commented about the show 6/1/2018 10:05:02 pm.

Hal
6/2/2018 10:11:37 pm

Thank you Goober. It’s about time my contribution is recognized.

Hal
6/2/2018 10:13:54 pm

And I’ve added another peer reviewed publication to my vast vita.

Americanegro
6/4/2018 08:00:32 pm

"Thank you Goober. It’s about time my contribution is recognized."

We recognize you like Chris Hansen recognizes a predatory pedophile.

bezalel
6/9/2018 11:16:19 am

Chris Haaaaaaaansen

Machala
6/2/2018 08:38:57 pm

Fact: "Area 51" is a military testing area in Nevada used to test prototype weapons and aircraft. The U2 trials were run there, as were the Stealth Fighter and Bomber tests and the ongoing drone program. It was and still is a DIA ( Defense Intelligence Agency ) work station.

Logical Speculation based on evidence: There are "tunnels" and underground "chambers". In all probability used to store documents and materials in a secure, climate controlled environment. There are probably laboratories as well. Utilizing the already existing old mines and converting them to storage and work space solves several logistical and security problems that buildings above ground would create.

Fiction: There are alien spaceships and alien body parts secreted in Area 51.

Areas 51 & 52 has proven lucrative to the fantasy writers, conspiracy theorists, UFOlogists, crystal crunchers, and the assortment of wing nuts who publish and perform.
While they all might think that the truth is boring, and uninteresting to their fans, if they really understood what was going on in Areas 51 & 52 they'd be surprised and impressed - because what in actuality going on, is really, truly futuristic.

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Americanegro
6/3/2018 03:27:30 pm

"what in actuality going on, is really, truly futuristic."

And you know that how?

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Machala
6/3/2018 09:29:07 pm

If I told ya, then I'd have to kill ya !

Americanegro
6/4/2018 10:32:09 am

However often it's used that never starts not being lame.

Machala
6/4/2018 08:41:59 pm

I've been called the Lord of Lame, more than once.

In all sincerity, over the years, I have developed contacts and sources within various U.S. government and military agencies. I have been privy to some information not readily available to the general public.
One of the things I learned was about, was the ongoing scientific research and development - which has NOTHING to do with UFOs or Space Aliens - is going on in all of the Southwestern States - not just in Nevada.
I can't and won't - even if I could - go into any specifics, but I will leave you with this little tease....There are projects being carried out, that for the good of the country, and the safety of its citizens, the current POTUS knows nothing about, and hopefully, never will.
That's not a Deep State Conspiracy. It's just a healthy combination of common sense and caution, when dealing with the Commander in Tweet !

Bob Lazar
6/4/2018 10:09:31 pm

That's what I've been saying!

Lob Bizzare
6/9/2018 11:22:24 am

Futuristic yes
Not alien

CHF001
6/3/2018 02:01:33 am

It appears that Hangar 1 and Ancient Aliens have combined forces. I have no problem with that.

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Riley V
6/3/2018 06:45:31 am

Enjoy the time off. You deserve it.

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La raza unida
6/3/2018 07:44:09 pm

Yes Aztlan is real. Aliens gave us this land so Europeans Asians blacks go back and let us live in our native land alone! We will take over and throw you out.
Visit our facebook page la raza unida to see our victory!

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Americanegro
6/3/2018 08:46:30 pm

We get that you hate black people but don't you Mexis come from Spain? Shouldn't you go back to Europe?

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Shane Sullivan
6/3/2018 11:12:43 pm

You beat me to it. I was going to ask, which parts of my cousins should go back to Europe? The arms? The legs? Are their heads Native enough to stay? How about their spleens?

La Raza Unida
6/4/2018 06:26:40 pm

No negro we are Native to this land. You are not slave to the white man. And to the red man you were our slaves to.

La Raza Unida
6/4/2018 07:56:05 pm

As a demonstration of our might and the justness of our cause we shall take back our ancient Northern Aztlan ritual center, spanning the areas now known as Long Beach to Compton. We shall perform the ceremonial dances of our people wearing our traditional Azootl Suits with chains of the finest gold plate.

An Over-Educated Grunt
6/5/2018 08:05:56 am

ZULU WARRIORS! ON ELEPHANTS! DEFEATING THE ROMANS!

I have to hand it to you, you're privy to the second-worst one-man mangling of history I've ever seen. And that's without touching "the finest chains of gold plate." Is it plated in gold? If so, how is it the finest? If not, is it a chain or a plate?

Seriously, I'm laughing my ass off over here.

La Raza Unida
6/5/2018 12:26:16 pm

Eductate yourself on the way out, gouk.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pachuco
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoot_Suit_Riots

La Raza Unida
6/3/2018 07:47:58 pm

Fact: CNN and La Raza member Simin Moya Smith is right when he says if the Mexican border was north Apache Sioux Cheyenne Arapaho would be called "latinos."
We are taking over. All you gringos go back to Europe.
Blacks go back to Africa.
Asians go to Asia.
Aliens are coming to give us back Aztlan.
Visit our facebook page and support us and Mecha.

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Brady Yoon
6/4/2018 02:42:24 am

Go back to Siberia.

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La Raza Unida
6/4/2018 06:27:38 pm

Go back to Asian gouk. We have been here for 13000 yrs! Native you are not. Idiot.

An Over-Educated Grunt
6/4/2018 05:44:23 pm

Son, I've been supporting mecha for so long my oldest BattleTech books could drink before they burned. I still haven't gotten my giant fighting robot, and neither will you.

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La Raza
6/4/2018 06:28:45 pm

Laugh white man your days are coming to an end. We have planted Aztlans flag of our new nation in San Diego. Revolucion is coming

La Raza Unida
6/4/2018 06:30:23 pm

We thousands of soldiers waiting to take back our land. Support the cause visit our facebook page and see the support grow!

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Mandalore
6/5/2018 02:11:57 pm

We'll purge you all from our land! All shall burn!

If you like, hit that subscribe button and visit our Facebook page for some delicious purge-time recipes!

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An Over-Educated Grunt
6/5/2018 03:15:25 pm

Tacos for the Taco God! Tortillas for the Tortilla Throne!

Finn
6/6/2018 03:47:31 am

Salsaanesh is pleased.

TOM MELLETT
6/6/2018 05:47:09 pm

*****BREAKING GNN NEWS*******.

GIORGIO’S ASTOUNDING CLAIM ABOUT GOD
DELIVERED TO ENRAPTURED CONTACT IN DESERT AUDIENCE

MAKES NEWS ALL THE WAY ACROSS THE POND IN UK EXPRESS

“The reason we have religion today is because of misunderstood visits of extra-terrestrials.”
— Giorgio Tsoukalos, Ancient Aliens


https://www.express.co.uk/news/weird/970172/Alien-news-Giorgio-Tsoukalos-ancient-aliens-UFO-conference-Contact-in-the-Desert

Aliens created GOD when they left Earth - TV history presenter claims

ANCIENT alien civilisations were once mistakenly venerated by humans, creating the base for modern-day religion, it has been spectacularly claimed by History Channel presenter Giorgio Tsoukalos.

BY SEBASTIAN KETTLEY

Mr Tsoukalos presented his incredible theory about the origins of religion at the annual Contact in the Desert UFO conference in Indiana Wells, California, this weekend.

The TV conspiracy theorist known for hosting Ancient Aliens on the History Channel gave an impassioned two-hour talk about ancient encounters between humans and extraterrestrial astronauts.

The UFO-hunter alleged early people misrepresented alien visitors as deities and their technology was interpreted as magic.

He said: “The reason that we’re in the crap that we’re in today is because of misunderstood technology.

The reason we have religion today is because of misunderstood visits of extra-terrestrials.”

According to Mr Tsoukalos, examples of the misrepresented technology are evident in the Egyptian and Central American Pyramids as well as ancient literature and art.

The TV host blamed archaeologists for dismissing evidence of alien visitors in ancient relics as artwork of gods, magic and other fantastical beings.

Among other things, the Ancient Aliens host claimed the Earth is round and not flat, humans will one day explore the far corners of space and aliens do in fact need space suits when travelling through space.

He said: “If the alien guy says that the Earth is round, trust me, it’s round.”

Mr Tsoukalos is a vocal proponent of the idea alien astronauts interacted with ancient humans in the past.

His offbeat theories came to prominence and online fame thanks to his appearances on the History Channel series Ancient Aliens.

The TV host has since appeared on the Travel Channel, the Sci-Fi Channel and National Geographic.

However, his work on Ancient Aliens has been described by audiences to be farfetched and extremely speculative.

Historian Ronald Fritze criticised the “pseudo-history” presented by the show’s experts.

He said: “The producers provided the window dressing of giving both the true believers and the skeptics some screen time.

“In the end, however, the final presentation was heavily stacked in favour of those who believe in ancient astronauts.”

The Contact in the Desert Expo is an annual UFO and alien conference held in the US.

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Inigo de Loyola de Ricalde
6/9/2018 11:55:28 am

The glorious and correct Catholic Church will once again reign supreme. Aliens are demons or beings in need of salvation. They colluded with ancestral technologists and wisdom elders, Temple builders, hedonistic worshippers of mathematics and geometry and eventually freemasons, who teach heretical atrocities like church state separation, women's emancipation and the supremacy of science and reason.
All this will fall 20 years after the peaceful arrival when our programmed "aliens" will eat your children.
Then the world will hate the sons of Tubal-Cain: freemasonry....and learn to distrust freedom, relinquishing their so called personal sovereignty back to the Mother Church.
Giorgio is our unwitting pawn.

You will see
All will become clear
It begins April 2034

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STEVE WARDLE
12/10/2022 12:41:31 pm

WHAT CONSTANTLY GETS ME ABOUT THIS CRAP SHOW, APART FROM THE FACT THAT ITS CRAP, IS THE IRRITATING CLOTWORTHYS STATEMENTS THAT "PERHAPS ANSWERS OR FURTHER CLUES CAN BE FOUND IN.." ...... WHATEVER IT IS.... BUT THAT'S THE POINT.... THE ANSWERS NEVER ARE FOUND!.... BECAUSE, DICK HEADS THERE WAS NEVER A MYSTERY IN THE FIRST PLACE!!!.... DUH🙄🙄🙄... ITS ABOUT TIME THAT THIS BULLSHIT SHOW WAS TAKEN OFF THE AIR, AND THE MONEY GRUBBING PRESENTERS WERE MADE PERMANENTLY REDUNDANT..... THIS UNSCIENTIFIC BULLSHIT HAS GONE ON TOO LONG..... START PUTTING TRULY EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMES ON THAT TEACH REAL SCIENCE AND ARCHAEOLOGY.... 🙄🙄🙄🙄.....

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