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Review of In Search of Aliens S01E02 "Nazi Time Travelers"

8/2/2014

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In only the second episode of In Search of Aliens, it has quickly become clear that the “aliens” in the title are little more than window dressing for what is otherwise a rather amorphous program that orbits around two foci: Giorgio Tsoukalos’s cult of personality and the broadest definition of fringe culture. This episode, S01E02 “Nazi Time Travelers,” focuses on the so-called Nazi Bell or Die Glocke, a device with which I was not familiar before Ancient Aliens started going on about it on various episodes. Tsoukalos, however, descended into the disturbing in this episode, explicitly citing an anti-Semitic book banned in many Europe countries as a source, and asking a man with documented racist opinions to discuss the Nazi Master Race and their achievements. The sad thing is that I don’t think anyone involved on this show—from Tsoukalos himself down to the production staff—has any idea what kind of material they are putting out on the air.
It turns out there was a good reason I hadn’t heard of the Bell. The story of the Bell begins in 2000 when a Polish journalist named Igor Witkowski claimed that a Polish military official showed him secret documents describing the so-called Nazi time machine in 1997. The Bell does not have any independent evidence to confirm its existence, and these alleged documents have never been revealed because, conveniently, Witkowski said he was not allowed to make copies. From here, the story entered fringe culture through the work of Nick Cook, Joseph P. Farrell, and Jim Marrs. The Discovery Channel, the Science Channel, and Ancient Aliens all broadcast speculative claims about the device, culminating now in In Search of Aliens devoting a full hour to a device few outside of fringe culture think actually existed. In short, it looks to be a hoax, or at least a wild exaggeration.

Tsoukalos is devoting this hour to Nazi occult interests and so-called Wonder Weapons, particularly the Bell, using recycled animation from Ancient Aliens. Tsoukalos asks whether aliens were behind the Nazis’ wonder weapons. If so, they did a piss poor job of it.

Tsoukalos opens the show by claiming that some believe the Nazi scientists who were brought to the United States after World War II were “diabolical minds” who brought “secret knowledge that may have had an extraterrestrial origin.” He meets with Witkowski and simply accepts Witkowski’s version of events at face value, which is sad because there is no documentary proof that anything Witkowski says is actually true. The show does not give the audience enough information to understand the threadbare evidence for Witkowski’s views.

According to Witkowski, the Nazis were engaged in Project Chronos, which Tsoukalos says is named for “the Titan god of Time,” and thus refers to time travel. He is following late Alexandrine confusion in which Chronos (Time) was conflated with the Titan Kronos (Cronus), the king of the gods before Zeus. Chronos was a personification of time and not one of the Titans. Although it is a very small point, the confusion over the word Titan shows that Tsoukalos (and his researchers) know very little of the mythology they claim to have mastered.

Witkowski and Tsoukalos travel to “The Henge” near the Wenceslaus mine, a famous 1943 or 1944 concrete ring vaguely resembling Stonehenge that fringe theorists suggest was used as a launch pad for the Bell. The structure is almost certainly the remains of a planned industrial cooling tower at a Nazi research base. “I’m speechless right now,” Tsoukalos says. “I don’t even know what I’m looking at.” Witkowski claims that there is an entire buried city beneath the Henge, and the two men explore various tunnels and bunkers.

Witkowski claims that the Bell was an anti-gravity device caused by a “high energy vortex,” whatever that is supposed to mean. Tsoukalos says that the vortex can be caused by spinning balls of mercury, which he likens to floating UFOs. The show gives us a shot of Witkowski’s book, open to the page where there is a drawing (known to me only from internet postings) of a flying saucer labeled the Vril 9, named for Theosophy’s adaptation of the science fiction substance vril, from Bulwer-Lytton’s novel, The Coming Race. Here’s the hilarious part: Tsoukalos refers to vril as a form of “power in ancient Tibetan and Sanskrit texts.” Yes, the “ancient texts” written by Helena Blavatsky in the 1870s and 1880s, based on an 1871 sci-fi novel. Great work, Giorgio! Witkowski agrees that vril is an antigravity power source.
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The alleged Vril 9, from a widely-reproduced internet image. It's the same one used in Witkowski's book.
After the break, Tsoukalos visits a gorgeous building in Lower Silesia that I would very much like to have known more about. Instead, Tsoukalos tells us that it “has been widely reported” that the Nazis were obsessed with obtaining religious artifacts and studying the occult. Well, Heinrich Himmler was for sure, but the Nazis in general? Not so much.

The more Witkowski talks the more obvious it is that his ideas are just a recycled reflection of 1960s fringe claims about Nazi occult science, such as those from Morning of the Magicians. He asserts that the Nazis incorporated ancient secrets into their technology and that they were searching for alien life. Tsoukalos likens the Nazi UFO to vimanas from “ancient Hindu texts.” Just as he did on Ancient Aliens an hour earlier, Tsoukalos conflates the actual Sanskrit epics with a fake one written in the early 1900s. My criticism from the previous hour still stands: Claims for Hindu flying saucers come from the “Vaimanika Shastra, an early twentieth century fraud that falsely claimed to be an ‘ancient’ text channeled psychically from the past. The Mahabharata has no flying UFO-like spacecraft. It has flying chariots and floating cities, and the Ramayana even has flying palaces transporting monkeys.” Tsoukalos sees the flying palaces and flying cars with giant wheels as uncannily similar to modern UFOs. He also likens the shape of the Bell to Buddhist stupas, a claim he made long ago on Ancient Aliens.

This is all silly stuff, but suddenly the show takes a very dark turn. Tsoukalos cites Jan Van Helsing’s 1993 book Secret Societies, and this is extraordinarily disturbing because, as I reported in reviewing an episode of Ancient Aliens years ago, “Van Helsing’s name is a pseudonym, chosen in honor of the famous vampire hunter, because van Helsing believed Jews were bloodsuckers who used the Brotherhood of the Snake to control the world.” The author, whose real name is Jan Udo Holey, had his books banned in France (where he was convicted of inciting anti-Semitic hatred) and other European countries for their anti-Semitic claims. (Van Helsing claims he is not anti-Semitic, just opposed to the stranglehold Jews have over global finance and culture.)

Let us very clearly state this: Giorgio Tsoukalos is citing an anti-Semitic conspiracy theorist who believes in the Protocols of the Elders of Zion to “prove” that the Nazis captured a flying saucer in the 1930s. More bluntly: In a show about Nazis, he is citing an anti-Semitic author on the glorious achievements of Nazism. What is wrong with the H2 network? Why do they keep going into the depths of racism and anti-Semitism?

I’m also uncomfortable with Tsoukalos returning to Switzerland (well, let’s be frank: they filmed all the Swiss scenes in the series at once) to speak with Erich von Däniken about Nazis. I am uncomfortable again because von Däniken has expressed wildly racist views. In Signs of the Gods (1981) he once wrote, “Was the black race a failure and did the extraterrestrials change the genetic code by gene surgery and then programme a white or a yellow race?” Asking a racist to comment on the Master Race is rather awkward in the best of cases. I don’t think Tsoukalos has ever though through his sources deeply enough to realize that he’s working with racist and anti-Semitic material.

Von Däniken asserts that stupas are stone copies of flying saucers, but the stupas did not originate as bells but rather as burial mounds. The bell shape is a stylization of the original “heap”-shaped burial mound. Von Däniken bizarrely asserts next that Lord Pacal of Palenque’s famous coffin lid depicts a stupa (!) despite not being bell-shaped. It is, he said, “a flying machine.” You can only make it look triangular by picking and choosing which lines to highlight on the rectangular coffin lid.

“This is all garbage,” von Däniken says. Sadly, he’s not referring to his own ideas but rather to a straw man version of skeptics’ claims that mythology is fictional rather than a literal account of history. So does he accept that vimanas transported monkeys, as the Sanskrit texts claim? Or are those more of the Black people he thinks are a failed alien experiment. As he once wrote, “…in his new environment the black man would also have to lose his curly hair, his prominent dark eyes and protruding lips, otherwise he could never become a white man.” Translation: Blacks are primitive!

Von Däniken asserts that Nazi rocket scientist Hermann Oberth and his colleagues “were studying the Hindu and the Vedic texts, definitely.” He claims Oberth told him that the Nazis were working on a bell-shaped device, but nothing von Däniken claims Oberth said supports the idea that they were actually adapting prehistoric technology.

After the break, Tsoukalos decides to investigate whether time travel is possible. I don’t care about this because it has nothing to do with ancient history, but it’s worth noting that physicist and ufologist Stanton Friedman shows up to give Tsoukalos a lesson on time travel, at a diner in Pittsburgh. This quickly descends into allegations of a U.S. government UFO cover-up, though Friedman claims to have no knowledge of how any of this could relate to time travel.

Tsoukalos wants to know if the Bell is aerodynamic—even though there is no Bell, no proof it existed, and no genuine documents to tell us what its exact shape (if it existed) actually was. Honestly, I skipped this segment because I did not care about watching wind tunnel tests of an imaginary version of the Bell—which doesn’t even match the computer graphics version used elsewhere in the show!

This leads to the Kecksburg UFO event. Why? Because Joseph P. Farrell speculated that the 1965 Pennsylvania fireball was the Nazi Bell shooting forward in time. Ancient Aliens let Jim Marrs ramble on about this in S04E09 “The Time Travelers.” The allegation is that the object that crashed was cone-shaped. Some news reports claimed NASA said in 2005 that the object was a crashed Russian satellite, though those stories have since disappeared. Most skeptics and scientists believe it was a fireball meteor. Tsoukalos does not mention this and allows Stan Gordon to give a wide variety of fringe explanations, including antigravity technology and time machines. In a bit of fringe television circularity, the pair travel to view a model of the Kecksburg “object” that was actually created by Unsolved Mysteries and then gifted to the community. The model, located near the local fire station, is shaped like an upside down acorn, and Tsoukalos says it’s “sort of blowing my mind” because it looks somewhat (but not exactly) like the Nazi Bell (as most rounded cones do). No one mentions that the model was from Unsolved Mysteries, all the better to make it seem to be a quasi-official acknowledgement of the truth behind the crash event.

So, as we sputter to a conclusion, Tsoukalos asks if a Nazi time machine crash landed in Pennsylvania in 1965. “I’m not saying this is what happened, but just the possibility is mind-blowing.” Unwittingly, Tsoukalos seems to have uncovered the raison d’être for science fiction. As H. P. Lovecraft said in the Whisperer in Darkness, “To shake off the maddening and wearying limitations of time and space and natural law—to be linked with the vast outside—to come close to the nighted and abysmal secrets of the infinite and the ultimate—surely such a thing was worth the risk of one’s life, soul, and sanity!” Some people find this release in fiction; others insist that fiction is fact in order to achieve that same level of mind-expanding bliss. And some people pretend that anti-Semites and racists have some good ideas about what the Nazis were really up to.



Note: This post has bee
n edited to remove the name of a Prometheus Entertainment staffer because she informed me she did not work on this particular episode.
88 Comments
666
8/2/2014 04:47:21 am

Time Travel is only something relevant to the fantasies of homo sapiens

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666
8/2/2014 04:50:35 am

Time Travel scripts that have destroyed films

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120738/

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0796366/


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Titus pullo
8/4/2014 11:02:18 am

The final countdown or better called the final letdown

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Lee Walker
2/10/2021 04:35:29 pm

Correct on both.

I saw the "Lost In Space" at a dollar theater when it came out. That was about a quarter to a third of the cost of first-run theaters in my city. That was about right, since only the first quarter to a third of the movie was worth watching.

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666
8/2/2014 04:51:54 am

They could do a spoof Terminator film where John Connor fathers himself

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Gregor
8/2/2014 05:22:27 am

The actual Terminator was odd enough: "Hey, Kyle, you're a rock solid dude - I'm gonna send you back in time to before you were born so you can plough my mom, create me, then die so we don't have any weird "Two Kyles, One John" thing. Awesome. Bon Voyage, etc., <hits teleporter>"

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666
8/2/2014 08:16:09 pm

Time Travel is homo sapiens bullshit brain disease

Shawn Flynn
8/2/2014 04:55:03 am

I thought I saw the crazy haired bastard in town a while back. I remember thinking it wasn't him because why the hell would he be in Pittsburgh? I guess I shoud have known the answer was the obvious, "hindu alien time traveling Nazis". Do they have a fringe theory madlib book or something?

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spookyparadigm
8/2/2014 04:55:41 am

So fictional archaeologist Indiana Jones punches Nazis.

But History Channel pays bodybuilders and former archaeologists to dress up and pretend to be archaeologists, and apparently promote them?

Wonderful. Just wonderful.

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Jason Colavito link
8/2/2014 04:58:29 am

It did seem to be pro-Nazi propaganda in places, didn't it?

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spookyparadigm
8/2/2014 05:07:09 am

I'm going off your description on this. You provide a valuable service because honestly, I can't stand tv at this point. I can handle bizarre and idiotic claims, but not at the glacial pace of television with its never-ending repetition and padding.

Gregor
8/2/2014 05:17:49 am

>> It did seem to be pro-Nazi propaganda in places, didn't it?

Yes.

Also, I find it hilarious that an ethnic Greek so horribly mangled Greek mythology. Yes, EP, I know that's insensitive - I still find it hilarious.

.
8/2/2014 05:58:46 am

tv is going downhill.
i stick to PBS and
lament its heyday...

Gregor
8/2/2014 05:30:59 am

Anyone else angry that NASA was even tangentially connected to a display of 2 grown men (both AA regulars) failing to understand even the most basic concepts of aerodynamics?

No doors, no windows... ok, so how did Hans Kämler (that's still who we're claiming flew to 1960s Pittsburgh, right?) get in? Maybe there are engines, but they're on the flat side, and you "tested" it as if it was flying upright (horizontal movement)...and those smooth walls... so, wtf is pushing it? Or does it just sorta hover while the earth moves below it (thus invalidating any need for aerodynamics in the first place)?

And for that matter, just how much space is in this bell? I'm assuming the anti-gravitic-warpo-zapp-collende-nazi-drive is bigger than a breadbox, so...?

-sigh-

Also, this being the first episode I bothered to watch... I *do* think it's kind of weird how little of an accent Tsoukalos has... though now it makes me wonder if he just uses the accent to screw with people (and / or seem "mysterious") and can speak English perfectly well.

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EP
8/2/2014 05:50:59 am

Jason,

I have a few small corrections to your presentation of the Hindu myths.

"The Mahabharata has no flying UFO-like spacecraft. It has flying chariots, floating cities, and flying palaces driven by monkeys.”

Concerning monkeys: Are you actually thinking of the Ramayana (which is where monkeys are mentioned in connection with the Pushpaka vimana), not Mahabharata? If so, then I think the monkeys are actually passengers on the Pushpaka, not its drivers. Passages in the Ramayana have the monkeys entertaining the other passengers. The only time any drivers are mentioned at all, it's geese. The passage you discuss here:

http://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/vimana-aircraft-of-india-more-sloppy-scholarship-from-david-childress

has a monkey "ascending" the Pushpaka, but that's in the sense in which we speak of ascending a staircase, not the sense of a pilot ascending an aircraft.

In the same post, you say:

"The very first of these is the flying chariot of the earthly king Ravana called Pushpaka. By the time of the Mahabharata (c. 400 BCE), these flying chariots had grown in size--one was now described as 12 cubits in circumference--but they never lost the large wheels that marked them as derived from earthly horse-drawn chariots."

Describing Ravana an "earthly king" is misleading at best. He is a monstrous demon (albeit with a human father), possessing godlike powers. He ruled not just over earthy, but also over demonic realms. The Pushpaka was actually built by Brahma himself and taken by Ravana as spoils of victory.

The Pushpaka, contrary to what you imply, did not have wheels. Nor was it smaller than 12 cubits. In fact, it seems to have variable size and shape. Here is the most detailed description of it that I'm aware of:

"Pushpaka, the car... furnished with golden pillars, gateways set with lapises, covered with networks of pearls, having trees yielding the fruits of all seasons, endowed with the celerity of thought, ranging everywhere at will, wearing forms at pleasure, capable of coursing in the sky, with golden and jewelled staffs, and daises of polished gold, — the vehicle of the gods — undeteriorating, bringing delight to the mind and sight; wonderous exceedingly; painted with images designed to fill the mind with reverence, — constructed by Brahma, containing all objects of desire, charming and nonpareil, not cold and not yet hot, granting gratification in every season, and graceful to the view."

Ironically, Pushpaka as it is actually described in this Ramayana passage, is a much better fit for an alien craft than the Vaimanika Shastra monstrosities. (Assuming, as I think we should, that trees and other palacial features are housed inside it.)

Speaking of Vaimanika Shastra, it's not quite correct that "no evidence of this text exists prior to 1952". The existence of the manuscript at least a decade earlier has been independently confirmed.

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Jason Colavito link
8/2/2014 06:13:19 am

I've corrected the references to Pushpaka. A few million words between all the Sanskrit texts, and it becomes too easy to confuse them!

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EP
8/2/2014 06:41:13 am

Even if you're a Hindu scholar of scribe, apparently. Some of the confusion surrounding 'vimana' may have to do with the fact that no one can tell anymore whether some passages are corrupt or ungrammatical, nevermind whether they are literal or metaphorical.

Scott Hamilton
8/2/2014 06:01:03 am

Wait, is Van Helsing now claiming that the Nazis (or their precursors) captured a flying saucer? That seems like a new development I haven't heard about. It's been a while since I read Secret Societies, but as I remember it he was claiming that the Thule society (or whoever) had acquired the plans for flying saucers via channeling, and were flying them around in the 1920s.

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Jason Colavito link
8/2/2014 06:16:00 am

I've never read the book. On this show, Tsoukalos says that the book claims that the Nazis recovered a crashed UFO.

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EP
8/2/2014 06:37:41 am

It does. The Black Forest incident of 1936.

Zach
8/2/2014 11:10:13 am

@ EP

Isn't that the same incident that they referenced in Ancient Aliens a while back in their episode on Nazis as well? Cause if it is, then they used that anti-Semitic garbage for their material for that as well. It's only now that they are open about it.

EP
8/2/2014 12:24:28 pm

@ Zach

To be honest, I don't know whether our vampire hunter is the original source of this story... But he is the one everyone refers to on this matter, and since I doubt Team Tsoukalos has looked into it deeper than other loons, your supposition is sensible... Could be worth a look, though - what DID go down in Black Forest in 1936? Were time-travelling, vril-powered vimanas involved? Stay tuned...

Zach
8/2/2014 05:30:29 pm

@ EP

Either way it's not gonna matter. It's still going to be nonsense some ufologist made up by taking the Nazi's and their pseudoscience at face value. No matter what, that says everything about them.

And If I had a choice I'd vote for it to be telepathic reptilians. Can't take my chances.

EP
8/2/2014 05:38:16 pm

As you can see below, it's actually nonsense some Nazis made up because they wanted to get in on the UFO action... Which is much worse, I'd say...

Scott Hamilton
8/3/2014 03:59:55 am

It didn't sound right to me that Van Helsing claimed that the Nazis found a crashed saucer, so I dug up my copy of Secret Societies. The claim is not Van Helsing's. He mentions the alleged 1936 Black Forest crash twice, once in the introduction, and once in chapter 33, but he is dismissive of the claim, saying, "there is practically no proof of that, and no living eye witnesses are known." He attributes the story to Herbert G. Dorsey, and when he writes about it he puts "extraterrestrial" in scare quotes, presumably to keep open the possibility of fitting it into his preferred mythology as a crashed Thule saucer.

Jason Colavito link
8/3/2014 05:56:06 am

If the claim isn't supported by the book, that makes it even stranger that Tsoukalos would cite the anti-Semitic author as a source. Did he just want to get Van Helsing's name on the air? He could easily have made the claim without mentioning him at all. Heaven knows he makes up enough stuff on his own.

EP
8/3/2014 06:40:20 am

@ Scott Hamilton

Van Helsing is using the same technique so many of them do (Ralf Ettl is another good example, in his Z Plan). They say, in effect, "there is no way to confirm or deny conclusively, but sources indicate..."

That said, the idea of the 1936 crash appears in Van Helsing. Usually the Aldebaranian-Atlantean-Aryans just share tech with Thule-Vril via mystical channels. Because of their "long term plan for the Master Race".

EP
8/3/2014 06:49:25 am

Van Helsing says: "According to Herbert G. Dorsey and other researchers they had, beside the construction plans the Vril-Gesellschaft had received through telepathic contact with extra-terrestrials, a non-terrestrial saucer that had crashed in the Black Forest in 1936 and whose undamaged drive had proved a great help to the Germans. But there is practically no proof of that, and no living eye witnesses are known."

I'd not say he's being dismissive. Just "skeptical". Tsoukalos may be ingoring Van Helsing's caution, since otherwise all he'd be left with is Nazis from Outer Space.

spookyparadigm
8/2/2014 06:31:47 am

I have heard/read that as one version, but don't ask me where. Once I hear someone talking about the "Bell" I stop listening as they're obviously full of shit.

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spookyparadigm
8/2/2014 06:38:58 am

There are a number of topics I have on that list. The first one was probably chemtrails, though more have been added. Red Mercury of course. People still going on about the TR-3 Black Manta (as anything other than a misunderstanding of long-since obsolete UAV programs). I've had to take Nephilim off the list simply because they're too important to understanding the trajectory of pseudoarchaeology.

cdlefhcie
8/2/2014 07:45:56 am

The best (and only good) part of the show was near the end when Giorgio was narrating his trip to look at trees and he said, "This is highly speculative..." I just had this moment where I wanted to see Giorgio break down in tears as he realized his entire career was based on ridiculous speculation and thus was meaningless. Of course, I shouldn't have held my breath. Giorgio isn't nearly self-aware enough to have that kind of existential crisis.

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spookyparadigm
8/2/2014 08:57:53 am

Yeah, about that

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GO0JaecRWy0

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Gregor
8/2/2014 09:04:19 am

The "money" bit I buy... the "beautiful ladies" bit... not so much.

spookyparadigm
8/2/2014 09:11:30 am

Unless it involves being a former head of the American Nazi party or similar activities, I don't really care about the personal lives of these folks.

Well, reading about Graham Hancock's constant drug use and the ensuing battles with spirits and warlocks is pretty funny, but not what I'm talking about.

EP
8/2/2014 12:26:58 pm

@ Gregor

I don't know what you're talking about. Clearly this man is a hetero sex fiend:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/23/Tsoukalos_NOLA_Comic_Con_2012_A.JPG

Zach
8/2/2014 05:48:42 pm

@ EP

Unbelievable. I work my ass off at my job and at school taking all the illustration and production classes just to be able to have a large enough reputation to have my work shown at one of the smaller comic cons, and this ass clown can just walk right in one of the larger cons cause he's the stupid hair guy on Ancient fucking Aliens? I hate Giorgio Tsoukalos so much it's not even funny.

EP
8/2/2014 05:55:08 pm

AND he gets to do that in spite of openly relying on Neo-Nazi mythos on network television! :)

Zach
8/2/2014 06:41:54 pm

@ EP

Don't forget that he also brings on his racist right-wing boss who was convicted of embezzlement, who plagiarized others works, and who also lied to an entire country about a story he claimed was true about a "cave of gold", later admitted that he made it up, and came on TV years later just to lie about it again.

EP
8/2/2014 06:49:57 pm

Von Daniken is still a million times better than Ralf Ettl, Norbert Jürgen-Ratthofer, Jan Van Helsing, and the rest....

At least he doesn't, to the best of our knowledge, run a prominent Neo-Nazi cult...

Gregor
8/2/2014 09:43:48 pm

@EP

I stand corrected - clearly he's exposed to so much rampant estrogen that it's begun to affect his sense of style.

Regarding von Däniken... doesn't he? At least a little? He's creating his own pseudo-religion... he believes only white people ever did anything of value... the NAZIs have *never* been shown in a negative light (that I've seen) in his works or AA...

I dunno, all I'm saying is that if there was a leaked candid vid of him saying "deez juden, dey do NOT unter-stahnd... vee muss re-ED-oo-cate dem! ALL HAIL ZE ALIEN GOTTZ!"... I wouldn't be as surprised as I probably should be.

@Zach

Yes... I can feel your anger... it gives you focus! MAKES YOU STRONGER!

Sadly, that's the way things are in this modern society of ours. Cure a disease? Develop a new technology? Uncover a cache of ancient texts filling in gaps of human history? You'll never be as famous, rich, or "loved" as the next pre-teen pop-music Idol to "go bad".

Richard "Dick" Neimeyer
8/3/2014 09:50:11 am

I would doubt Giorgio makes enough money to afford a bunch of beautiful ladies for his bed of money.

Graham
8/2/2014 01:48:58 pm

As far as I can tell, the Nazi Time Machine idea may (and I stress may) have originated in the 1988 novel "Lightning" by Dean Koontz, though from memory his time machine bore no resemblance to Die Glocke.

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Gregor
8/2/2014 09:52:03 pm

First off - one of my favorite books, and easily my favorite Dean Koontz novel.

As for the rest... enh, I'd be inclined to disagree. As you suspected, the device used in the novel bears no resemblance to Die Glöcke. In fact, "Lightning" refers in-text to the name the NAZIs gave the device: the "Lightning Road" as it was a track that one walked from end to end... starting in their lab within Germany and ending at whatever location they had selected (with violent thunderstorms heralding their arrival).

Just a cursory glance (i.e. wikipedia) cites one "Igor Witkowski", a Polish national who claims he 'discovered' this device's existence in 1997 from derelict Polish (wouldn't it have been Soviet? NVKD? KGB??) intelligence records. Admittedly, while this guy was *my* first exposure to the idea (and on the "History" channel, no less!)... it's certainly possible that he's outright lying about its origins and was himself influenced by previous works (including Lightning)... but I have no data to that effect.

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EP
8/3/2014 07:08:46 am

You know Poland was an independent country, right? In fact, probably the most independent of all the Warsaw Pact countries.

As for Koonitz, I'm pretty sure the Tempelhofgesellschaft crowd didn't get the Nazi time travel idea from him. They seem to base it on the Philadelphia Experiment, which they suggest the Americans performed on the back of stolen Nazi tech. The same tech the 1965 UFO was using.

Gregor
8/3/2014 07:41:19 am

They were all "independent countries". You know, right up to the point that Russia felt they weren't being sufficiently Communist. No Warsaw Pact country was beyond the reach of the USSR, and it strikes me as misleading to imply they had the authority to act with anything approaching true autonomy.

For whatever it's worth, the Polish Government-in-Exile existed until 1990, when "Poland" was reformed.

EP
8/3/2014 07:47:33 am

I never claimed they weren't within the Soviet sphere of influence.

More to the point, they all had their own intelligence and secret police agencies, which would have their own records, which is what your post seems to doubt.

Read more history. That's all I can say.

Josh
8/2/2014 01:59:50 pm

Should have mentioned the wind tunnel testing of the Nazi Bell as if it were going to move sideways rather than forwards, as in the top would the front.

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EP
8/2/2014 02:16:35 pm

Zach asked whether AA references to Nazis recovering UFOs are all based on Jan Von Helsing's anti-semitic wiritings. I have nothing better to do on this Saturday night, so I found some potentially interesting answers. As usual with the these people, the truth is quite depressing.

There are two stories that are often confused: the Schwartzwald (Black Forest) crash of 1936 and the Czernica crash of 1937. I suspect that the latter is a creative adaptation of the former, since the names of both locations include the word for black. The Czernica version is derived from shitty Polish journalists and shittier Russian psychics, so I won't bother going into details.

The Schwartzwald version is known to the English speakers from Van Helsing's 1993 book on secret societies. What isn't well known is that it is a variant of the general myth of the Vril Society, which itself grew out of the myth of the Thule Society, which in its most influential manifestations is Neo-Nazi propaganda thinly veiled as fiction (think Left Behind, but with Nazis in place of Evangelical Christians). The main perpetrator is Wilhelm Landig, a former SS officer who wrote a trilogy of straight-up, no qualifications, Neo-Nazi fantasy novels, where he popularized such notions as the Black Sun.

The UFOs (including their famous Antarctic iteration), Aryans-Atlanteans-Aldebaranians, and other pure fantasies were propagated by the likes of Norbert Jürgen Ratthofer and Van Helsing, who combine the worst of Landig and Bergier & Powells. Ratthofer is a co-founder of the most recent interation of Tempelhofgesellschaft - a straight-up Neo-Nazi cult with their own creepy version of Christianity, leaflet distribution, and everything. (Their version of Apocalypse is combined asssault of aliens from Aldebaran and Nazis from Antarctica, followed by Aryan mastery of Earth.) Ratthofer's Das Vril-Projekt predates Van Helsing's Secret Societies by about a year and differs from it primarily in details.

Let me make this clear: These guys are not "maybe, maybe not" sorta kinda naive misguided Nazi sympathizers. We are talking about an organized and well-connected Neo-Nazi group, with roots in the WWII-era Nazi and SS cadres.

In other words, the AA crowd is popularizing the key tenets of the ideology and the propaganda materials of some of the most despicable and most active direct descendents of the Nazis. Moreover, the wacky bits that interest them are essential elements of the ideology these motherfuckers are trying to spread.

This is arguably no better than a US network advocating The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

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spookyparadigm
8/2/2014 03:32:48 pm

Good post.

There is a long history of this sort of thing. A quick spin through Contacteeism will find a few fascists and Nazi types, we've already had Jason post about Frank Collins. And then by the 1980s, it seemed like it became de rigeur to reprint the Protocols alongside other "documents" (the internet's form of received "wisdom" I guess) in fringe conspiracy books, most famously Behold a Pale Horse.

Thule arose out of the mystical soup of the fringe in the late nineteenth century,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esotericism_in_Germany_and_Austria

UFOs arose out of the same soup, but were given a science fictional sheen by various authors before they became "real."

They share the fringe community effect of "once you're through the looking glass, all forbidden things are more easily believed.

This shouldn't really surprise anyone.

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EP
8/2/2014 03:35:46 pm

You know what would be really cool? If someone went through the relevant AA shows to see if they can find any allusions to the works of Ernst Zundel (another Neo-Nazi UFO popularizer). Zundel is SO notorious as a vicious anti-Semite and Holocaust denier that it really could get A&E to take notice.

spookyparadigm
8/2/2014 03:51:16 pm

Considering how many shows History has done on Nazi wonder weapons, UFOs, etc., I doubt it would phase them in the slightest.

Where would the outrage go? People used to call it the Hitler channel, and it would be laughed off. Like the bit in Ronson's The Men Who Stare at Goats, about how torture of POWs in the Gulf War ended up being a joke story because the torturers had used the Barney song, and that was the viral news hook. Of course, Ronson's whole book was using a small nugget of weirdness (see the title) as the hook for similar material, but I don't think he's that coolly meta.

EP
8/2/2014 03:54:22 pm

Zundel is one of the two or three most notorious living Holocaust deniers. It would totally raise a stink no one wants to deal with (especially if Jewish groups got wind of it).

StrongStyleFiction
8/2/2014 02:33:06 pm

I'm sure if the Nazis had a time machine then the entire universe would be speaking German now, even the ancient aliens. Unless they just really suck at time travel. They can't kill Hitler, so what exactly are the Nazis supposed to do with a time machine?

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EP
8/2/2014 02:44:07 pm

It's even stupider than that. These people claim that during Gulf War I Saddham Hussein was aligned with the trans-temporal Greater Third Reich... Yet somehow managed to be utterly humiliated by the US and allies...

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spookyparadigm
8/2/2014 03:24:13 pm

A war of course fought over the stargates in Mesopotamia.

My favorite along those lines was the claim by Rosemary Guiley and Phil Imbrogno that US military forces in the Middle East more recently were trying to capture a jinn. At least according to an interview they did on The Paracast. Before they parted ways when some of Imbrogno's past became a problem.

EP
8/2/2014 03:28:47 pm

"A war of course fought over the stargates in Mesopotamia."

More precisely, a war to destroy Iraqi saucer bases, which the Nazis constructed for their Middle Eastern bffs.

StrongStyleFiction
8/2/2014 09:26:04 pm

Do these people even read the shit that they write? I cannot fathom how anyone can take these ideas seriously enough to actually find them credible. This has to be a giant scam. There is no way anyone can actually believe that. It is beyond absurd and beyond parody.

I at one time considered writing a parody book, but there is no way to parody this. How do you comically exaggerate and satirize what is already beyond laughable? It's extraordinary.

Gregor
8/2/2014 10:02:47 pm

@StrongStyleFiction

Sadly, you vastly underestimate the average person's willingness to forgo logic and reason for comforting or 'adventurous' lies. Besides, by some point it practically becomes a matter of counter-culture; the harder one works to eradicate it (and those who accept it), the more galvanized the adherents become.

Don't get me wrong, I'm sure there are shysters and hucksters out there who do just spin yarns to turn a buck (my bet would include Steven M. Greer)... but the far more disturbing truth is that a lot of these people actually believe what they say, even when it's 100% untenable. Straw Man arguments, appeals to ignorance, appeals to authority, "looks like, therefore is"... the arsenal of the Fringe is broad and varied.

spookyparadigm
8/3/2014 07:21:14 am

Gregor, I think the truth is even sadder than that.

A lot of fringe promoters (authors, etc., not just believers) I think start out with naive adventure in their mind. Then they go and do research, or something that visually looks like it. They may find something interesting. They start to make a name for themselves in these circuits.

They get social capital (they're an expert, they talk to reporters, they're asked to do tv, conferences, etc.), and occasionally even a little financial capital. But a lot of them, I think, start to realize that it isn't all what they once thought. They meet enough wild-eyed believers, con-men, and crazy people. Or they see too much evidence.

But now they're trapped in it. And the emotional appeals that got them into it all in the first place are still there. So they get less sophisticated, and go back to a naive version of the story, one that sells books, sells conference venues, and gets you on the History Channel.

Yes, there are the obvious hucksters. And some idealogues. But if you look at a lot of Fortean writers, you'll recognize the pattern I describe above.

charlie
8/2/2014 02:42:08 pm

I know it is only two episodes in but, is EVD going to be on ALL of them? Is this really a co-production between our "favorite" hair guy and EVD? Just wondering, I do not think it aids Giorgio in any way to keep having EVD on every episode, but that is just my opinion, others may vary of course.
How "nice" of our "host" and newest TV "star" to promote anti-Semitic views on US cable TV. We do NOT need that in any way, shape, or form. FYI neither myself nor any family member going back 5 generations have ever bee members of the Jewish religion. Personally, I have zero use for any religion at all.
By using myth as truth, the person doing so destroys the myth. The scholar of myth, Joseph Campbell stated that more than once. I'd trust Campbell on myth before I'd give any credit for real, serious thought to any of the AAT's, Giorgio and EVD in particular, though I'd not trust any of the Ancient Aliens "personalities" any further than the wifes' great-grand daughter could throw a pregnant elephant, or even an ET. By the way, Abigail, the ggd is 5 this year.
Great review Jason, many thanks for all you do.

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EP
8/2/2014 03:09:27 pm

If you want to get a taste of what Van Helsing is really all about (and he isn't the worst of the bunch, mind you), here three passages from a recent book discussing esoteric Neo-Nazism (Goodrick-Clarke's Black Sun):

"Arriving on earth 735,000 years ago, Aldebaran colonists bred “slaves” for menial tasks... but these inferiors revolted and mixed with other races. When the Aldebarans revisited earth much later, they saw that the race-mixing slaves had caused wars, revolution and political upheaval. The Aldebarans decided to breed up the race on earth by means of the Germans as their closest relatives. They therefore helped the Germans develop advanced technology during the 1930s... the ongoing Aldebaran project for a German master race."

"he denies the charge of anti-Semitism, claiming Jewish friends and colleagues, before making the disingenuous distinction between Semitic Hebrews and Ashkenazi Jews or Khazars, who are his real antagonists... He then reprints several pages of Dr. Johannes Pohl’s vicious translation of the Talmud that was published by the Nazi Party in 1943 as anti-Semitic propaganda. On the Protocols, Helsing simply denies that their authenticity is an important issue: they exist and they are being applied."

"Helsing repeats the neo-Nazi adage that the German Reich did not capitulate, but only the German armed forces under Grand Admiral Dönitz. The German Reich is still legally in existence and the present regimes of Poland, Austria and the German Federal Republic are merely provisional governments. The German Reich presently controls huge areas of sovereign territory in Antarctica and the San Carlos de Bariloche province of Argentina. Helsing also claims contacts with members of the Black Sun. One such interviewee was allegedly born in Neuschwabenland and lives today with three million other Reich Germans in a subterranean city. Further bases exist on the Canaries, in the Bermuda Triangle and in the Himalayas. In all, the Reich Germans today have a standing army of 6 million soldiers, including immigrant Aldebarans, and an armada of 22,000 flying saucers. This “Third Power” may prove mankind’s only defense against Illuminati enslavement."

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spookyparadigm
8/2/2014 03:13:05 pm

We've come full circle. History got the Nazis back into the "Hitler Channel." Just now, they're helping create content for the channel, rather than being the content of the channel.

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EP
8/2/2014 03:17:27 pm

And David Childress & co. are creating content for the Neo-Nazis. (Seriously, Van Helsing even references Childress and everything.)

spookyparadigm
8/2/2014 03:46:16 pm

I used to read a well-known conspiracy theory aggregration site in the 2000s, which had the same effect, the anti-Semitic and other creepy elements becoming clearer with time.

It was honestly the one time I felt that phenomenon you see people write or talk about in horror fiction, of reading stuff that could drive you mad. I stopped visiting the place.

EP
8/2/2014 04:01:35 pm

That's how the Nazis win. (I know it sounds like a bad joke, but unfortunately it's true.)

Gregor
8/2/2014 10:08:34 pm

I know it's a serious matter... but I laughed out loud when I read:

"he denies the charge of anti-Semitism, claiming Jewish friends and colleagues..."

EP
8/3/2014 06:43:28 am

Unfortunately the passages I quote do not adequately capture the full extent to which these people are despicable scum.

Only Me
8/2/2014 03:41:00 pm

This is the most stupid garbage - that was shat out by radioactive rats with rotten assholes - I've read since looking into the claims of Billy Meier.

Seriously, you'd have to be at a level of retarded that would snuff out the power of 10,000 suns to believe this.

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EP
8/2/2014 03:45:08 pm

Only these people are most likely not retarded. They are insidious and cynical cult leaders.

Van Helsing's publisher is registered in an offshore zone to escape being charged under German anti-Nazi laws, while his books are bestsellers in Germany and Austria, with scores of imitators.

EP
8/2/2014 04:41:13 pm

Also, the clearly know how to appeal to maladjusted young males. A lot of their visual material just screams "If you join us you get to have sex with hot blonde Nordic alien babes from Aldebaran!"

Only Me
8/2/2014 05:24:31 pm

And then you have the other head of the hydra, folks like Kyle Bristow, pumping out fiction that feeds the white nationalist movement...which also appeals to maladjusted young males.

EP
8/3/2014 07:11:21 am

Does Kyle Bristow run his own NAZI CULT?

Only Me
8/3/2014 07:56:33 am

No, but just like most of fringe theory, both angles become a circular, self-supporting ideology.

kal
8/2/2014 03:20:08 pm

OMG there is so much wrong with this episode! I also saw this travesty and wondered about that goofy time travel connection too, but since I think others have already been there about it, eh why not again.

The Nazi time travel bell does not exist. Never did. If it did is not material.

The thing that crashed in the 1960's was indeed a downed Russian bird. It's not any more alien than an illegal alien. Humans made it.

That old factory mill they found that looks like Stonehenge is not an alien site. It's an old factory mill thing.

The rest is Greek to me. Ha.

I'm surprised they haven't quoted from the farce film Iron Sky yet. It's about moon Nazi's who come back to invade Earth in 2018 when a Sarah Palin like lady is president of America. It's so demented that it should end up mentioned on one of these fringe shows, but the film is played for laughs. It has Otto Keir as the Fuurer of the moon. This is because why not? Ja. Well if time traveling space Nazi's exist, why have they not taken over? Because they do not.

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Sue Johnson
8/2/2014 03:40:43 pm

I like the way you wrapped things up in the last paragraph. Ever since I first stumbled across Art Bell reruns (which I love) I've been struggling to understand the mindset that takes fiction as reality. I think you're right - there's an unmet desire for mind-expanding bliss that factors in here which can provide cover for malign agendas.

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666
8/2/2014 08:15:21 pm

The whole subject matter is bullshit without having to think about it.

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Robert Sheaffer link
8/2/2014 09:13:39 pm

Actually, the Kecksburg "UFO crash" had nothing to do with any satellite. It was the Great Lakes Fireball of December 9, 1965, widely seen across the eastern U.S. and Canada; many observers mistakenly thought that it has crashed nearby.
http://debunker.com/Kecksburg.html

I'm not aware of any statement by NASA about this being a crashed satellite. Probably this is an incorrect news report; in any case, it is an error.

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Richard "Dick" Neimeyer
8/3/2014 09:55:59 am

Did anyone notice from Stan Friedman's body language that he wished he was somewhere else? I trust all of Giorgio's interviews were much longer than five minutes long. Perhaps H2 can provide the full interviews on its website. Jason, there are a lot of references to the "bell" including several books on the subject. I share your skepticism on the actual existence of the so called "de glocke" or however it's spelled. Needless to say the 1965 Kecksburg event is to a degree interesting. I had to laugh at Giorgio's reaction to the perhaps inaccurate replica of the Kecksburg object.

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.
8/3/2014 09:46:35 pm

i held back... i was very patient...

just had to say this... the "nazi bell' is a

(((drumrolls))) diving bell... peroid

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EP
8/4/2014 04:01:32 am

"period"

I see what you did there...

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.
8/4/2014 12:08:40 pm

i was too lazy to correct my typo...

i was tired. very exasperated. i'm a fan

of H.G WELLs... but the time machine

in the 1953 version of his classic novel

THE TIME MACHINE is a prop and nothing

more. i think its a diving bell design they had.

*
9/10/2014 04:35:25 am

Project Paperclip and or otherwise, lets also rule out
church bells for DIE GLOCKE and can we ask if the
project header has nothing or something to do with the
contents page of the given project? even a few letters
is a slew of difference, ULTRA in the U.K from '42 to '46
Is not MK-utlra under IKE, JFK, LBJ + RMN in the USA.
The hull design suggests a diving bell or a UFO saucer
shape. Werner Von Braun was often at White Sands N.M!

CHV
8/4/2014 10:33:53 am

>>>“I’m not saying this is what happened, but just the possibility is mind-blowing.”

Let's play a drinking game. Every time that GT says the above in reference to aliens, Bigfoot, lake monsters, 3-card monte dealers, et al., take a shot.

You'll be hammered in no time. Plus, it enables GT to make ridiculous statements without explicitly endorsing them. In his world, as long as something is "possible" (even by the most extreme standards) they are worth consideration.

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BB
8/8/2014 08:08:08 pm

Or in the case of AA: " As ancient alien theorists believe......."

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Campblor
11/2/2016 09:58:06 pm

Ancient astronaut theorists say "Yes"

BB
8/6/2014 10:59:41 am

I have been to Kecksburg. Pretty country but NOTHING there and I mean nothing. The acorn sits atop a platform on a small slope behind the fire hall which has a bar and the UFO museum. There is nothing else in this town. The "museum" is a broom closet with a bunch of Stan Gordon books, some overpriced mugs, tumblers and shot glasses and a slew of hoodies and tee shirts promoting the local FD. That is it. Also a few DVD's. Mainly it's the focal point for the UFO days festival held in July to bring tourists in. Been there. done that.

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Greg
9/8/2014 08:09:10 am

Well, it's quite diappointing episode. Nothing new and nothing surprising.
The only thing I may say is that area in Poland shown in this episode is pretty much interesting. I live around 100km away from there and I've been there a couple of times.
Indeed, the underground complex "Wlodarz" is huge, and very interesting. All these corridors had been mined by war prisoners. It was enormous hard work and extremely difficult conditions.
That's in fact the most interesting part of this story.
All you're welcome to visit Poland and those mines.

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Chris walkup
3/11/2018 02:37:36 pm

Well your whole article seems to be just race baiting and judging other peoples statements from years ago. Anyone can take anything out of context.. I truly believe there are no aliens and all of the technology has come from humans which the government perpetuats as aliens to not let the public know of out technology.

Most 50's contactees state that "aliens" spoke German or high geman .

But your complete article is just race baiting learn how to write more provocativly and you will be more successful.

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