Review of Ancient Aliens S21E04 “The Top Ten Unexplained Technologies”

​Ancient Aliens clip shows are boring, but what gets my goat is that this show has been on the air for more than 15 years (Robert Clotworthy’s narration misleadingly says it was merely “over a decade”) and yet the clip show episodes, which have been running for five years under the Ancient Aliens banner (previous clip shows were officially a separate spinoff series) keep using the same clips from previous clip shows! Why don’t they just go all the way up their own asses and run a clip show of their best clip shows? Anyway, this week’s episode about the “Top Ten Unexplained Technologies,” which somehow include living beings and an entire city on the list. The episode bears a strong resemblance to a 2021 clip show with which is shares four of the same clips.

​10. The Dendera Light Bulb. Seriously? I’m not sure which of the many versions of this segment that have aired they took this from, but it previously appeared in a 2014 episode and a 2013 episode.
9. The Baghdad Battery. This appeared in the same segment of the same two episodes linked above.
8. Greek Fire. Although this was covered back in 2011, Tsoukalos’s grey hair tells me this is from a later recycling, apparently from an episode about angels, but I didn’t write about this brief segment.
7. The Ark of the Covenant. Probably from the 2013 episode devoted to the Ark rather than the 2022 episode about the Ark.
6. The Manna Machine. This bit appeared in both the 2013 episode linked in #7 and in a 2019 episode. The contexts suggests the 2013 episode as the source as it references the previous segment as in the previous episode.
5. Ancient Astronauts. Well, now, that could really be any episode. In fact, it’s a bit from a 2019 episode about the Maya featuring an alleged Olmec winged figurine that the show claims is in “the Museum of Natural History in New York City” and appears all over the internet, variously claimed to be located in New York, Mexico, and Guatemala and attributed to the Olmec, the Maya, etc. Cliff Dunning of Earth Ancients Radio claimed that he found it on eBay in 2009.

The figuring claimed to be an Olmec astronaut with jetpack.

​4. King Pakal’s Tomb. Another frequent flyer—this might be from a 2024 or 2021 episode, among other episodes that touch on it.
3. Teotihuacan. Probably or the 2017 episode devoted to Teotihuacan or the 2014 episode the previously covered the same material about gold spheres found in the city.
2. The Wedge of Aiud. From a 2017 episode, previously clipped for a 2021 top-ten episode devoted to alien artifacts.
1. The Great Pyramid Powerplant. Another topic that occurs too frequently to identify at a glance the specific episode from which it was extracted, but based on Tsoukalos’s still-black beard and his hairline, I’d guess it’s from the 2013 episode on alien power plants or else the frequently clipped “Earth Station Egypt” from 2018.