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Review of Ancient Aliens S13E09 "The Taken"

8/3/2018

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​I usually try to open a review of Ancient Aliens with some sort of thematic discussion of the week’s topic, but I will confess that it is increasingly hard to find something new to say about topics that the show revisits over and over again. This episode, “The Taken,” explores claims of alien abduction, with a focus on modern abduction claims. If this sounds familiar, it’s because the show has dipped into this well many times over the preceding twelve seasons. Some notable examples include “Strange Abductions” from season five,  “Alien Breeders” from season seven, “The Vanishings” from season nine, and “The Returned” from season eleven. (All numbering follows the post-2016 revised official History Channel listings.) And these were only the episodes that were explicitly about alien abduction; many others touched on it in passing. I have written at length about the dubious origins of the alien abduction trope—from Theosophical-style summits with Nordic space brothers to Betty and Barney Hill’s Outer Limits-induced hypnotic fantasies. This episode isn’t going to change any minds.
​Segment 1
The show opens with this past June’s Alien Con, the three-day convention the History channel put on to promote Ancient Aliens as a fringe science and science fiction lifestyle brand. The first scene shows the stars of Ancient Aliens asking the audience how many felt that they had been abducted by aliens, and a disturbingly large number of people raised their hands, though of course there is no way to know how honest they are being. We listen to a number of audience members share their abduction stories, which reflect the same pattern seen in other so-called abduction narratives, patterns that reflect the sort of waking dreams people experience near sleep. Linda Moulton Howe provides a description of a typical abduction, including sleep paralysis, the sensation of floating away from one’s bed, and waking up after the dream ends. Nick Pope says that there are only two possibilities: that alien abductions are real or a mass delusion. I don’t really know how to take this as seriously as the show wants me to since I have had had the same experience, and recognized it as a dream. I woke up and the dream ended without me actually having ever left my bed.
 
Giorgio Tsoukalos claims that Abrahamic accounts of patriarchs meeting with fiery chariots and flying godly thrones are in fact extraterrestrial encounters. The show illustrates this with an image of Muhammad riding his heavenly horse Buraq to Jerusalem during his Night Journey, and I am not sure if the show recognizes that this is what they are showing, or if it means to say that Islam’s prophet was abducted by aliens or rode what I guess must be the UFO version of a motorcycle. 
​Segment 2
The second segment features Mike Barra interviewing a self-described abduction experiencer in Massachusetts who claimed to have been abducted in September 1969. It’s difficult to say anything about this since the story is fifty years old and made of a number of different parts that may or may not be related. Two hundred and fifty people claimed to see a UFO that day, but seeing a light in the sky doesn’t necessarily mean that Thom Reed was abducted by space aliens. The governor of Massachusetts issued a proclamation to recognize the supposed importance of the incident.  Cool story, bro, but the pieces don’t add up to proof.
​Segment 3
The third segment returns to Alien Con to hear more stories of abductions, this time focusing on the phenomenon of missing time, and Caroline Cory endorses the long-debunked idea that hypnotic regression can “recover” suppressed memories of alien abduction. Modern research has found that this kind of hypnotic regression can create false memories when the therapist and the subject unconsciously work together to generate false narratives, as happened in the satanic ritual abuse panic of the 1980s. We then watch a session where Cory helps a client to use hypnosis to describe his decade-old abduction event. To be totally honest, the subject doesn’t seem terribly hypnotized, and he speaks rather fluidly, gesturing, and holding on conversation where it seems in the brief clips we see as though he is creating the narrative on the fly. It’s a story, but without proof, it is just a story.
​Segment 4
The fourth segment has Nick Pope take an experiencer to have his brain waves measured. The idea is supposed to be that the EEG would prove whether the experiencer’s memories of his abduction are consistent with genuine memories rather than imagined stories. But this does not, as the narrator suggests, prove that the memories reflect actual alien abduction events. Instead, at best, they prove that the experiencer believes he was abducted by aliens and has processed whatever happened as an alien abduction. But I have very deep memories of dreams that I have had, and in recalling these dreams, they would almost certainly appear as memories since I would be accessing my memories of the dream, not speculating about the fantasy that created them. Unless we can distinguish somehow between memories of mental events that someone genuinely believes are true and memories of events that happened in the real world, this is another useless pseudoscientific attempt to give the cover of science to the unproven. 
​Segment 5
The fifth segment recounts the infamous Betty and Barney Hill abduction, which I mentioned above as the product of the couple’s exposure to science fiction programs including The Outer Limits, whose episodes in the weeks before their hypnosis sessions contained all of the elements that Barney Hill alleged under hypnosis had occurred not on television but to him. Betty Hill was quite the fantasist, often creating new claims seemingly at will. We hear that Betty’s sister and other family members also imagined themselves alien abductees. The show suggests that this proves that aliens are monitoring human bloodlines, though more likely it suggests that the fantasy-prone personality trait has a genetic basis.
 
The show then suggests that aliens are the same as demons and therefore incubi and succubi are really aliens. Somehow this spirals into the conspiracy theory that “Rh-negative” blood is a marker of alien hybridization. The show covered this a few times in season 11, with only indifferent attention to detail, and here Tsoukalos claims that “Darwinian” evolution can’t account for the transition from Homo sapiens to Homo sapiens sapiens, and he adds a third “sapiens” to describe the alien hybrids he feels are coming soon. The show never bothers to explain its ideas, and it seems to assume that its viewers are already believes in the alien nature of Rh-negative blood.
​Segment 6
The final segment takes us back to Alien Con to hear from another self-described abductee, who sadly describes his family as all being abductees and his childhood as full of missing time and frightening events. There is clearly something going on there, but I don’t think it was alien abduction, and it seems cruel to expose these people on television. Another abductee speaks of the relief he felt in sharing his story. Tsoukalos says that it is “a very difficult thing” to admit to abduction publicly, and I can’t help but feel sad that so many people stood up to confess to alien abductions and felt relief at talking about their beliefs. It’s hard not to think that a country with a more robust mental health system and more readily available services would ease their burden more than a for-profit convention of celebrity alien enthusiasts. 
22 Comments
Shane Sullivan
8/4/2018 01:32:41 am

Segment 4 seems to be missing.

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Jason Colavito link
8/4/2018 06:51:59 am

Sorry about that... Somehow the text box ended up blank. I've fixed it.

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A Buddhist
8/4/2018 08:39:11 am

Jason Colavito: Shouldn't "aliens are the same as demons and therefore incubi and succubi are really demons" be "aliens are the same as demons and therefore incubi and succubi are really aliens"?

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Jason Colavito link
8/4/2018 08:55:43 am

Yeah, it should be. It's fixed.

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Biglino
8/4/2018 09:34:40 am

Finally you said something about Mauro Biglino - of course not on this blog, but only on twitter, putting his words out of context. So if you finally really understand his massive popularity in Italy and in Europe, then you should just try to read one of his books and show us when he is wrong about ancient aliens in the Bible. I mean, that's an easy task, isn't it? Or maybe not because both italian scientists and church people failed on many discussions? Or is it better to pointing out for his other claims, not connected with ancient aliens, because you want to put him a mark of 'anti-semite' (despite the fact that he thinks that Jews are super-humans, most intelligent etc.) and not bother his other claims because of that? That's really disappointed. He is the most important AA theorists since 30-40 years, making completely new original points, not repeated by anybody. Of course Ancient Aliens crew won't invite him on the show, because they don't like talk about Yahweh, Jesus and connection to aliens, because of massive christianity in USA.

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An Anonymoous Nerd
8/4/2018 10:21:35 am

This person has been dealt with before on this site, in reply to someone who posted under a different name but seemed to have similar tastes in Fringe History.

Here is a link
http://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/vices-motherboard-explores-ancient-astronauts-claims-2001-as-spiritual-ancestor-of-ancient-aliens
and here is my reply, copied/pasted.

[I didn't have much time to research this, plus I don't read Italian or understand it, but what I found wasn't encouraging.

I note that Biglino's Wikipedia entry compares him to Sitchin and Von Daniken, as though it were a good thing. He seems also to be plugged into the giants/Nephilim circles. There's a degree to which that's all you need to know.

I note further that the Wikipedia page and various Youtube videos suggest that he claims to translate the Old Testament text "literally" from the ancient languages, which is a Hell of a claim given how different the ancient world's frame of reference was from ours. (Here's a not-so-ancient example: the term "double teeth," which Jason has dealt with the misinterpretation of elsewhere on this site.) Not helping matters is that his "literal" translations are read in a modern light. (To see an "alien" in an ancient text requires a modern understanding of what an "alien" is, and a great stretching of the ancient language.)

Finally, I note that from the little I could find in English, like everyone else I can think of who claims that aliens are found in the Bible and other ancient texts, the claims require that what's described in those texts wasn't a cool story or a religious experience but, rather, something that literally happened. And if that were true there'd be archaeological evidence for them as well. And there isn't, at least not as the ancient aliens folks would need to prove even a tenth of their claims.

Jason's right: This fellow says what a lot of others have said, he just says it in Italian and he misuses a PhD to say it.

-An Anonymous Nerd]

Nothing seems to be any different now.

I mean honestly a lot of this Fringe stuff is so much alike that once you've debunked one thing you've debunked an entire category.

-An Anonymous Nerd

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Biglino
8/4/2018 10:39:19 am

What are you even talking about? It's like saying that Pink Floyd is equal to Rihanna, because you know, they both make music. Yes, Daniken or Sitchin made claims about ancient astronauts, but does it mean everyone who will make something after them is only repeating same arguments? You clearly didn't read any of his books, that's why you claim, so arrogant btw, that 'there is no proof', 'one thing is enough to discredit all stories' etc.

I repeat - he made hundreds of new arguments which were never said by anybody, not just Daniken or Sitchin. This guy doesn't even believed in ancient aliens, he just translated what was written and he compared this to other sacred texts from all over the world. He specifically make argument after argument, supported by claims of theologians, priests, rabbis, scientists, scholars, there are hundreds of references even to articles in Nature etc. This guy is an expert, he has no agenda to do that, he even lost a lot of money for translations before he got famous after years of talking on universities. I'm very sceptical but his work on Yahweh, Jesus and few ancient prophets is just insanely accurant and logical.

But yeah, it's better to pretend that he is just another weird guy like Tsoukalos or Childress, so we can dismiss his claims. That's pathetic statement. Colavito always read other books and then he can make a point why are they wrong when they lie or manipulate facts. But in this case it's impossible because Biglino is giving you exact quote from the Bible, exact theological or rabbi explanation. Just read his books and stop comparing him to Daniken or Sitchin because it's like comparing Beethoven to Katy Perry.

An Anonymous Nerd
8/4/2018 12:33:43 pm

Hello everyone.

Sorry for spelling "anonymous" as "anonymoous" in my earlier post, by the way.

Anyway.....

[It's like saying that Pink Floyd is equal to Rihanna, because you know, they both make music.]

No, it's not.

You are correct that, as I clearly admitted, my exposure to this fellow is quite limited as I don't read Italian. However, based on secondary sources, I was able to conclude that there wasn't much there that wasn't in other places and already debunked.

This is not the same thing as the misrepresentation of my argument that you made and I quoted earlier.

I'll try rephrasing things and see if that helps.

The two claims that are central to this fellow's notions are as follows.

1: The Biblical accounts actually happened, in some form, and the most-likely explanation for them is aliens.

2: He translates the Bible "literally" and when you do that, you see aliens.

Firstly I hope it's obvious to all readers of this blog that neither claim is any way new and, hence, if you debunk another who made the same claim with similar or identical "evidence," for want of a more appropriate term, you also debunk the other.

Now let's get more specific.

Regarding argument 2.

A) You can't translate ancient languages "literally" into modern ones, because the perspectives are too different. It's hard enough to understand earlier forms of English in light of modern English, as anyone who's read Shakespeare's plays or read Beowulf can attest to.

B) When you see "aliens" in an ancient text you're by definition reading the modern understanding of what an "alien" is into the ancient text. You're reading a modern understanding of something that you have no proof exists at all into a text that was written thousands of years before that understanding existed.

Which brings me to......

Regarding Argument 1. There would be more archaeological evidence of more of this stuff if any of it, let alone all of it, were literally true. If we even got to the "alien" part of Argument 1, then we'd run into the problem we discussed above. But fortunately we never get there. Instead we're left with that the Bible, shock!, is a collection of cool stories designed to teach folks moral and theological lessons.

I hope that helps.

-An Anonymous Nerd

E.P. Grondine
8/4/2018 10:53:01 am

"Of course Ancient Aliens crew won't invite him on the show, because they don't like talk about Yahweh, Jesus and connection to aliens, because of massive christianity in USA."

Let's see - avoid controversy with Christians and at the same time not share money from television show - sounds like a win-win for David and Giorgio to me.

If you're working the European market, that is outside of Jason's interests - he pretty much sticks to English language products, and there is enough there to keep him occupied.

Let me clue you in - as Ancient Aliens runs out of material, they will just find someone to rip off Miglino's work, leaving out the Christianity part of it.

In other words, you can expect a new "expert" to show up on the show.

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Machala
8/4/2018 12:34:56 pm

"....the stars of Ancient Aliens asking the audience how many felt that they had been abducted by aliens,..."

I'd have raised my hand.
Back when in my younger, partying days ( or was it smoking and drinking haze & daze ? ) I often woke up feeling that I'd been abducted by aliens.
Sometimes, I even find one, still laying next to me, in bed !

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titus pullo
8/4/2018 06:41:57 pm

Missed the episode (watched Johnny Football go down in flames). On memories, sometimes I have dreams where I'm remembering other dreams and it of course all seems real when I first leave sleep and I'm in that twilight zone. A few minutes after I wake what little memory I have of the dream seems ridiculous.

I have a friend who earned a physics degree with me and later got a PhD in neuroscience...she still says after 30 years of reseach that we really don't understand consciousness at all let alone dreams. My money is on quantum mechanics at the root of dreams not aliens...

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GodricGlas
8/4/2018 06:59:37 pm

Hey Buddy,

You:
“It’s hard not to think that a country with a more robust mental health system and more readily available services would ease their burden more than a for-profit convention of celebrity alien enthusiasts.”

I know, right?

Did you read the Wiki entry that I posted for “Sleep Paralysis”? I put that in quotes because that’s the go-to name that is in circulation most, whether I agree with the naming or not.

Here, look:

“The condition may occur in those who are otherwise healthy, those with narcolepsy, or may run in families as a result of specific genetic changes.”

So there’s that, but also:

“The pathophysiology of sleep paralysis has not been concretely identified, although there are several theories about its cause.”

So there really is no psychotherapeutic framework to support these folks. There are way many more of them, too, than you might expect, because the “condition” exists on a spectrae of severity.

So, when seeking answers, it’s anyone’s best guess. Except for Tsoukalos and his ilk. They think they know the answer, and they are so hungry to deliver it. And, of course, folks like him have probably never experienced it.

Did you have nightmares? Or have you actually experienced “Sleep Paralysis”?

I like to post this link when discussing this subject. It’s as least as fun as “The Doom That Came To Chelsea.

https://cdn.preterhuman.net/texts/alien.ufo/UFOBBS/1000/1580.ufo

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G.G.
8/4/2018 09:19:56 pm

BTW,

H.P.’s migraines make him a very special blessing when it comes to understanding all of this.

His birthday is this month.

8/20

😊

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G
8/4/2018 09:32:27 pm

Something fun because I posted heavy sh#:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Otmq80677V0

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G
8/5/2018 12:31:44 am

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDwotNLyz10

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David Wallis
8/5/2018 08:49:46 am

Well, this episode was a waste. Why didn't they have that "preacher" David Wilcock and his silly Ancient Mysteries on the show to answer all the abduction questions? He certainly believes he has cornered that market.

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G. Glas
8/5/2018 11:05:37 pm

Keep going, Jason.

https://www.quora.com/Is-the-Egyptian-hieroglyph-Ankh-somehow-related-to-sandals

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G
8/5/2018 11:31:47 pm

There’s noone else like you.

Sincerely,

See you next week,

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G.Glas link
8/8/2018 12:30:22 am

Okay,

My hypothetical list of those that will be eaten first by Great Cthulhu (Yes! Apple knows how to spell that!) on this blog:

• AN
• Jason Colavito
• Me
• Anonymoose Nerd
• Ignorant/Over-Educated Grint
• Machala
• V
• Joe Scales

I would appreciate your updates and suggestions.

😃

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G
8/8/2018 12:54:26 am

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lXWq3f01e2U

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G
8/8/2018 01:09:23 am

P.S.

HARTE will certainly be eaten amongst the last.

😳

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Jeremy
4/8/2019 02:27:55 am

Caroline Corey isn't even a hypnotherapist, she's an actress and director. She was awkward and not calming and she was like "hey relax. Now you are hypnotized."

Wat

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