Review of Ancient Aliens S18E14 “The UFO Investigations”

​Once again, Ancient Aliens is passing off a clip show as a new episode. Today’s theme is UFO sightings, so it is of some interest that Ancient Aliens and Secret of Skinwalker Ranch star Travis Taylor, formerly on the government payroll studying UFOs, said during a live stream for paid members of the Skinwalker Ranch super-fans site that during his time in government employ, he used his position to provide “cover” for the ranch and prevent “Men in Black” from visiting the ranch. In short, he apparently confessed to being a double-agent actively undermining his government employer’s efforts in order to benefit a cable TV show. Meanwhile, Lue Elizondo told a podcast that officials and governments that do not disclose the truth about UFOs are “not a legitimate government” and said that he “fought” against the ”tyranny” of such governments his whole life. I guess he’ll be at the next January 6-style insurrection.

Here are the segments making up this episode:
 

1. Art’s Parts. A 2020 segment about Art Bell’s alleged Roswell wreckage.
2. Remote Viewing. Two 2019 segments on remote viewers who claim to view aliens and UFOs follow. The repeated footage from the 2019 episode took up two full segments of the current episode.
3. Chilean UFO. A 2020 segment on a Chilean UFO sighting, notable for including Travis Taylor’s baffled analysis of a 2014 video otherwise explained as an airplane flying away from the camera while he was clandestinely serving as the easily baffled “chief scientist” to the government’s UFO investigation.
4. Antarctica. The next segment was originally the second segment of a 2019 episode on Antarctica in which Linda Moulton Howe interviewed an alleged whistleblower.
5. Alien Artifacts. Part of a 2016 segment on alien implants and abductees’ scars finishes the show.