Review of Ancient Aliens S19E14 “The Top Ten Alien Craft”

7/21/2023

I can’t think of an Ancient Aliens topic I could care less about than a list of the ten most popular shapes for alien spaceships. Triangles! Circles! Rectangles! Maybe this will be a helpful primer for the legislators busy preparing for next week’s UFO hearing in the House of Representatives. Or maybe it will just be another reminder that Ancient Aliens is less sophisticated than Sesame Street and spends more time repeating the same material over and over again than any given children’s program. Maybe Congress can use the remedial help. Rep. Tim Burchett, an erstwhile Ancient Aliens talking head who will co-chair the hearing, accused “the intelligence community” of somehow scuttling an amendment he offered to require the FAA to prepare a UFO report, only to have it come out that Burchett helped accidentally spike his own amendment by voting for a change in rules that prohibited a vote on it. We have real geniuses working on UFOs.

Frankly, the only reason I am reviewing these all-rerun episodes is because the History channel and Ancient Aliens have decided to list them as official episodes of the series and not, as in years past, special episodes under a different title. (For Nielson ratings purposes, they are designated as “specials,” not episodes, however.) The show is attracting about 650,000 weekly viewers for these reruns, which is very sad because this is about on par with episodes of new material and they have more viewers than most programming on CNN.

This episode is in large measure recycled from a 2020 episode called “The Ultimate Guide to UFOs,” with some segments swapped out for very similar ones from other episodes.

10. The Flying V. A segment from a season 14 episode previously recycled in the Top Ten Alien Encounters clip show in 2021 and an episode just this year. The show references the so-called Nuremberg UFO of the 1500s, which it compares to a V-shaped craft, despite having previously called it a cigar-shaped craft.

9. Orbs of Light. A segment on foo fighters I can’t place; I don’t really pay a lot of attention to their UFO episodes because they are rather dull. I recognize the animations, but I don’t know which episode they came from.

8. Stealth UFOs. I’m not sure. This segment likely comes from a 2020 episode or else the 2013 one it drew from.

7. The Benben Stone. From a 2022 episode, partially excerpting a previous episode.

6. Rocket Ships. A discussion of Pakal of Palenque’s coffin lid, a subject discussed regularly since the pilot episode, and Buddhist stupas. This seems to be from a 2022 episode, based on Tsoukalos’s clothes and hair in the clip, but I’m not sure which one.

5. Jet Packs. The brief clip of a likely fake statue of the “Rocket Man of La Venta” comes from a 2019 episode and was previously recycled in a 2021 clip show.

4. Acorn-Shaped Craft. A segment on the Kecksburg UFO similar to one seen in a previous 2021 top-ten clip show, recycling a 2018 episode, itself recycling previous episodes. The specific segment used here is, I believe, the version that aired in a 2022 segment.

3. Floating Cities. This segment continues a discussion of vimanas and other Sanskrit material begun in the 2022 segment just referenced. It’s from the same episode and the same segment of that episode.

2. Cigar-Shaped Objects. The fourth segment of a 2020 episode uncritically accepting a misunderstood 1870 photograph as recording an alien spaceship, a claim repeated in a 2021 segment.

1. The Flying Saucer. I’m pretty sure this is excepted from the first and second segments of the 2020 episode used throughout this edition of Ancient Aliens, but frankly Kenneth Arnold and Ezekiel’s vision are covered so often, it’s hard to tell. It matches my notes from the 2020 episode, though.

43 Comments

Sceptic

7/22/2023 12:45:34 am

Let's not forget who was responsible for starting this Flying Saucers From Outer Space Ball rolling - it was the pilot Kenneth Arnold. David Fravour is only the latest manifestation of this craze.
Just because they are pilots does not mean they are susceptible to belief in arrant nonsense.

An Over-Educated Grunt

7/23/2023 12:08:31 am

I want you to read your last sentence again, very slowly, until you figure out why I'm saying this.

Doc Rock

7/23/2023 09:22:47 am

Over a century of countless bone headed friendly fire incidents by some of the best trained combat pilots in the world. Highly conditioned elites with perfect vision and cutting edge visual technology who suddenly couldnt distinguish between things like one of their own side's tanks and a pickup truck full of guys in robes waving AK47s. With some of those kills amphetamine assisted. Or their civilian counterparts, some of whom can't seem to fly a jet worth tens of millions without several shots of Jack daniels and a couple lines of Peruvian Marching Powder as a pick me up after partyin all night with stewardesses. The big surprise would be if there were no claims by pilots of seeing freaky stuff in the sky.

Ps: let's assume all the stewardesses are over 18 and are NOT also prostitutes and strippers in order to avoid stoking up the kiddie table.

Kent

7/25/2023 04:01:52 pm

Dude.
Do you have ONE FAA license?
Are you certified in ONE type of aircraft?
Are you an alcoholic? Nevermind, we already know that.
Do you know anything about flying or combat? Do you know how prevalent "wide-awake" pills were/are?

And the PS. When people try to persuade me that they're not child molesters, I open a file.

You really come across as the worst sort of homosexual. Just stupid.

A Concerned Citizen

7/26/2023 08:25:45 pm

What is up with your fixation on children? It's like when Chef in South Park came back from the Super Secret Explorers' Club.. "I'm gonna make love to you in your rectum children!"

7/29/2023 12:17:18 pm

No doubt that Kent has some interesting "files" that he has accumulated in the course of conducting his own investigations into such matters. But beyond that, I'm not sure why he would take issue with someone pointing out that pilots are not necessarily unimpeachable witnesses when it comes to reporting seeing spaceships. Answer: because it is Kent.

That should keep the off their meds crowd occupied for the rest of the weekend. Now i'm off for a couple drinky drinks and cheese fries at my 3rd favorite watering hole.

Ps: I went to college in the 70s and had some fun in the sun before UA became a big deal in the military. So a big smiling 10-4 on the pep pills thingy and seeing weird things despite technically being wide awake.

7/31/2023 03:44:18 am

"I'm not sure why he would take issue with someone pointing out that pilots are not necessarily unimpeachable witnesses when it comes to reporting seeing spaceships."

Lie. Show me where I ever "took issue" with blah blah blah. I've never said that, typed that, or even leaned that way. In fact I take issue with the myth that pilots and cops are "trained observers". Don't lie.

7/31/2023 07:46:35 pm

That mysterious whistling noise over your head isn't a wired to the gills pilot in an experimental aircraft whizzing above. It is a quite clear point that you either managed to miss or did a clumsier job than usual of pretending to miss to fabricate an argument.

As lame as most of your recent efforts. Gonna have to step up your game if you want me to keep paying attention.. Chop chop, Donnie....

8/1/2023 11:52:13 am

"I'm not sure why he would take issue with someone pointing out that pilots are not necessarily unimpeachable witnesses when it comes to reporting seeing spaceships."

Hmm, the same lie again. Please don't lie. 'Splain to me what i missed, Lucy. In the meantime can I offer you some water for your pants? Because they're on fire, and I don't mean the penicillin kind you're used to. Don't lie.

"I'm not sure why he would take issue [I didn't, LIE] with someone [Who? If you can't name the person I score that as a LIE] pointing out that pilots are not necessarily unimpeachable witnesses when it comes to reporting seeing spaceships." [Did you see my list of very accomplished pilots who were/are crackpots? Gonna have to score that as a LIE too].

Flight surgeon obvious

8/1/2023 01:08:57 pm

Joe Kent needs to get his story or aliases straight regarding Doc Whiskey on the Rock's preferences. This week he is supposed to be homosexual. Next week he will be back to perving on young waitresses.

Where does one go to earn a degree making them a trained observer of something that doesn't exist? Is the training to make one a trained Bigfoot Observer offered there as well?

Perhaps it is best to stick with the obvious. Pilots are highly trained at operating aircraft and observing their surroundings. But even highly trained people screw up and misidentified things or see things that aren't there. I will defer to others more personally aquainted with drug and alcohol abuse to argue about the role of substances in such occurrences.

8/4/2023 09:34:37 pm

Mr. Flight Surgeon Guy,

I don't profess to being an expert on amphetamine use. Just pointing out that the stuff has been pretty common over the years and that tired guys wired on stimulants can be just as prone to various errors in observation as tired guys not wired on the stuff.

Bottom line is that even trained professionals who should be at the top of the game in terms of figuring out what they see in the sky while flying or sitting in their back yard can make mistakes. Sometimes with a little chemical inducement.

And yes, the kiddie table has been all over the board in terms of my presumed sexual preferences. On the other hand, I haven't been the only one to point out that he has been pretty consistent in telegraphing what tickles his fancy. Will leave it at that.

Horton Saw A Flying Wing

7/24/2023 02:32:17 pm

Kenneth Arnold saw a squadron of flying wing designed craft being test flown. Apparently without computerized stabilization these craft would bounce or skip while being flown. According to the former test pilot who was being interviewed on the Military Channel. Interestingly that was the same night I first saw Jason Colavito. A different show the same channel

Ezekiel is talking about four specific points on the ecliptic.

The ancient alien interpretations have gotten ridiculously dumb.

7/27/2023 06:51:00 am

Yes, because it was common to build a squadron of things that don't work and then test fly them in a group.

I once had a job where a common phrase was "Are you stupid or just new?" That phrase applies here.

Last Day of Job

7/28/2023 11:33:47 am

"I once had a job where a common phrase was "Are you stupid or just new?" That phrase applies here."

Yep! It most certainly does, Tucker Gump. In your haste to put others down, you really didn't think things through. Hmmm...German technology being test flown in the United States??? Think that through, Genius.

Kent link

7/30/2023 06:54:32 am

ONE prototype does not a squadron make.

Pulling A Paul

7/30/2023 02:49:24 pm

You assume only one was captured.

7/31/2023 06:16:35 pm

The best information I have is that ONE was brought to the U.S. and ONE was sent to England. Don't tell me what I assume.

So you call yours "Paul"? No one needs to know that.

Oh Honey

8/1/2023 01:35:06 pm

"Apparently without computerized stabilization these craft would bounce or skip while being flown. According to the former test pilot who was being interviewed on the Military Channel."

What part don't you get. Kenneth Arnold's description matches the Flying Wing in every way. From the description of the craft itself to how it "skipped like a saucer". See above quote.

You are having an even more epic public fall than Scotty. You've become more irrelevant than his blog. At least the two of you always have Jim. You'll have to introduce Scotty to EP and the Buddhist. Get a group together and go public. Call yourselves FBI. FaceBook Idiots.

Don't forget to pick up your copy of EP's book, or to invite Paul into the group. He assumes he's already a member.

Have a blessed day

Fravour is chummy with Bob Lazar

7/22/2023 12:47:23 am

He said so himself on YouTube and refers to him by only first name and feels sorry for him because he considers he's "wasted his life" in disclosing the rubbish about Area 51.

Bob Jase

7/22/2023 09:39:05 am

Not to forget pink hearts, yellow moons, orange stars, green clovers & blue diamonds!

Jim

7/22/2023 10:21:33 am

I'm waiting for the top ten Giorgio Hairdos episode.
It's my understanding that his grooming regimen includes licking his finger and sticking it in a light socket.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgio_A._Tsoukalos#/media/File:Giorgio_Tsoukalos_2016_(cropped).jpg

Spalding McSphincter

7/23/2023 09:35:14 am

Just seen a preview of next week's episode, Ancient Aliens S19E15 Top Ten Ancient Aliens Presenters. Can't wait to find out whose at the number one spot, Hatchet Chilldross, von Donkeykong, or adorable Geo Geo. So excited I can hardly contain my Whitley Strieber!

Clotty Fingargle

7/23/2023 09:46:08 am

Ever wondered what Giorgio's favourite past time is? Ancient astronaut theorists say chess.

A better top 10

7/24/2023 02:25:38 pm

Klingon Bird of Prey
The Millennium Falcon
Borg Cube
The Pegasus
The Galactica
Cylon Base Star
Nina
Pinta
Santa Maria
Vger

Clete

7/24/2023 04:25:05 pm

How come when the flying alien cigar appears it is the only one. Where is the flying alien cigar box? Where is the flying alien match to light it? These questions need to be answered by congress.

Sigmund Freud

7/26/2023 03:07:22 am

Ah, cigars and cigar-shaped objects! Now, let me explain...

Joseph Craven

7/24/2023 07:16:59 pm

Their barrel must have a sturdy bottom indeed for all this scraping.

7/25/2023 11:14:50 am

Edgar Mitchell, pilot.
John Lear, pilot.
Eugene Hasenfuss, pilot.
G. Gordon Liddy, pilot.
John McCain III, pilot and nearly North Vietnamese Ace.
Guy who crashed his Cessna into the White House, pilot.
Charles Lindbergh who apparently killed his son in a practical joke gone wrong, pilot.
Amelia Earheart, woman driver.
E.P. Grondine, nullity.

E,P, Grondine

7/28/2023 08:03:36 am

The morning's aggravation. And another chance to get my left hand working.

Dear Kent - -

I have never seen a UFO. I am also not a pilot, and with my stroke damage I never will be.

I do have about an hour at the yoke, entirely GA, and have met many of the world's best pilots over the years.

You mention Lindberg. He once met with Carl Jung, and talked with him about UFO's. That is in his biography. I do not know where you got your information on the kidnapping. It looks bogus tp me.

When I was writing my history of cosmonautics I went through Truman's classified papers. I hit the Mongoose cover story about three months before the Air Forces broke it.

7/29/2023 12:15:36 pm

Sure you got those last two names right Chief? (I'm scoring "Air Forces" as a typo.)

7/26/2023 08:45:34 pm

New comment entirely: Note to Christopher Mellon: When you go or goo on TV, maybe a shave beforehand rather than looking like a lying hobo.

Christopher Bledsoe on Fox News Jesse Waters Primetime said he has made 25,000 videos of UFOs in the last 24 months. Basically 300 videos a day. He can summon them on command, you see.

The host had the presence of mind to ask "Is there something wrong with you?" Best. Moment. Ever.

Then Mitch McConnell had a stroke or at least a TIA on live TV so control of the Senate lies with the Democrats. I don't control the universe, just watch the wheels go 'round and throw occasional snide remarks at dewshes and obvious child molesters. Who knew following the news could be this much fun?

7/26/2023 10:11:47 pm

Mr. Bledsoe also claimed he was living in the Ft. Bragg area and had 70(?!) homes under construction but "9/11 man, it put me out of business". Because after 9/11 the military budget was completely cut off, right?

9/11 is the eternal all-purpose excuse for failure in life and insanity.

I think we all know it was an Israeli job with prepositioned explosives and and an insurance angle (extra coverage for terrorism of course). The planes were just a lagniappe. Weird how that passport flew out of that plane and landed on the ground, huh? And Building 7 just Jeffrey Epsteined itself for no reason, _after_ it was announced on the BBC. No Doc Rock, it's not what your imaginary waitresses enjoy, it's the British Broadcasting Corporation.

Bezalel

7/28/2023 09:13:52 pm

Kent
Just out with it, stop pussy-footing around.

Trust me when I say we all know you’re a dyed in the wool alt-right conspiracy theorist who is just too cautious to fully admit it even in disguise on another’s blogpost. You desperately want others to believe the ravings of Uber-Catholic William Guy Carr and maybe Eustace Mullins, etc while sympathizing with QAnon Trumpsters and January 6 fucktards; forever obsessing your little head over child sex abuse for some REALLY odd reason. Yes honey, there is a secret liberal cabal who drinks the blood of fear-laced adrenochrome-ripe children and who runs an underground underage sex trade (with pizza!!), andddddddd who also suicided Epstein to cover their tracks. Bill Clinton! Obama! The Mossad! Jews! Masons! Liberals!

Why will no one grant you cred?
So sad but funny, your Joe Scales is showing.

If only you would Jesuit. They were blaming Jews for eating children in the 14th thru 19th centuries my schizophrenic friend, you’re way behind.

Mac N. Fromage

7/29/2023 01:49:12 pm

"...who also suicided Epstein to cover their tracks."

All of that seemed to begin shortly after New England Patriots owner, Bob Kraft was arrested coming out of one of the massage parlors. I bet he sang louder than Whitney Houston at a super bowl halftime show.

7/30/2023 05:08:03 am

"If only you would Jesuit. They were blaming Jews for eating children in the 14th thru 19th centuries my schizophrenic friend, you’re way behind."

A neat trick since the Jesuits were founded in 1540 (16th century). You're in Wolter territory now.

Eustace Mulins and the other guy? Don't know who those are.

Q-Anon? Don't know what it is, didn't seek out their posts. My best guess is it was one or two guys pranking.

I first heard of adrenochrome in Hunter Thompson's "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" back in the 70s. I'm not aware that it has any actual use as a drug or a medicine.

January 6, pizza parlors? What are you on about? My only comment there is I think it's nice that the Capitol Police go easy on murderers.

The 9/11 passport is the new Magic Bullet.

7/30/2023 07:07:49 am

Followup:

If you're fine with child molesting, that's cool, I can't control the universe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_of_Freedom_(film)

$140 million and counting.

John Stevens

7/28/2023 05:10:09 pm

Perhaps many UFO sightings are indeed anything but UFOs, and perhaps reports that the government has crashed UFOs and “biologics” in its possession is a bunch of hog wash. But I know that what I saw with my parents in NH in October, 1966, was truly strange, a story I’ve told many times since that leaves most people scratching their heads for an explanation.

Paul

7/29/2023 07:54:31 pm

Why would a group of aliens, or groups, if coming from different who knows where, quantum jump or whatever it is they do, halfway across a universe, just to crash into an insignificant planet full of technologically backwards and aggressive idiots. Sure makes sense. Maybe they are pretending to be comets in the Younger Dryas.

The Assumptions of Paul volume 1

7/30/2023 10:20:13 am

You assume only humans make mistakes. How many vehicles has Russia crash landed on Venus? The Hubble telescope was put into orbit with a focal point more bent than your logic.

7/30/2023 09:18:00 pm

The Russians are drunk with defective equipment and your logic is non existent. So, beings navigate through interstellar space, through dust clouds, through debris fields, through galaxies, through black matter and millions of other things but get to earth and crash in the middle of a fricking desert with no traffic. Yeah, you have some good logic there. Go see if you can hit the toilet.
Hell, appears we can’t even get off the planet and these other fellows only crash after traveling how far? Get a brain.

The Assumptions of Paul Volume 2

7/31/2023 04:03:05 pm

There you go again with your assumptions. The Russian people are just as capable as anyone else. Pile on even more assumptions about space travel.

'So, beings navigate through interstellar space, through dust clouds, through debris fields, through galaxies, through black matter and millions of other things but get to earth and crash in the middle of a fricking desert"

You sure are stuck on the assumption of going "through' something. Just out of curiosity. Where do you think we crash land on Mars? Hint: There's a lot of sand and it gets really cold at night.

Then you ultimately reveal yourself as a moon landing denier.

"Hell, appears we can’t even get off the planet"

Go jibber jabber about jibber jabber to your Tinker Toys and watch your Rockford Files. I'd tell you to see if you could go hit the toilet but, wearing diapers, you hit it every time.

8/1/2023 12:06:57 am

Assumptions of Kent 3, come back after you see the Wiz. I hear he has brains available for those that don’t have one.

8/8/2023 01:50:14 pm

Apparently the aliens don't come to earth for fear of being eaten by cannibals.

Gary Nolan says they are crashing because the craft are not piloted by aliens but drones or other alien manufactured artificial intelligence.
He explains that if there was a tribe of cannibals in the Amazon you wanted to study you wouldn't go yourself lest you yourself become dinner.
That doesn't explain why they are mutilating and eating the cows though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2DqdOw6Uy4&t=948s

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