Scott Wolter Talks Aliens on His Blog as "America Unearthed" Sheds Viewers

6/6/2019

The ratings are in for Tuesday’s episode of America Unearthed, and the show’s audience ticked down a notch this week. Total viewers fell by 9,000 viewers to 431,000 live plus same day viewers, with a total rating of just 0.06 among the advertiser-coveted demographic of adults 18-49. The 10 PM ET broadcast of this week’s new episode was trounced in the ratings among that demographic by the 9 PM rerun of, yes, America Unearthed, which brought in a 0.09 rating against 372,000 viewers.

As much as I would prefer not to keep talking about Scott Wolter’s conversion to ancient astronaut theorist, his performance on Tuesday’s America Unearthed was so mind-numbingly stupid that I feel compelled to talk a bit more about it. Also, ancient astronauts are kind of my area of expertise and I would be remiss if I did not cover this thoroughly. First, I want to note that the producers were perversely clever in giving Wolter nine-tenths of the episode to debunk fake alien artifacts to bolster his bona fides before he dropped the hammer and declared the prima facie fake carving of the alien from Alien to be more than 9,000 years old. It was effective propaganda.

But on his blog, Wolter delivered a confused discussion of the “alien” artifact that belied the claims he made for it on TV. He now says that a few days after he filming the scenes in which he claimed to have found proof of alien contact in the remote past, he now says that he has determined that there are ways to make adhesive seem older than it is. But in the weeks since, he let the wrong conclusions go to air anyway because he is friends with Giorgio Tsoukalos of Ancient Aliens and now entertains the possibility that aliens impregnated Templars, or something like that:

I have come up with possible ways to make a glue that would date that far back and I hope to have the opportunity to test my idea. Setting [aside that] the artifacts might not be as old as the testing says, what if they really are that old? If so, then we have to seriously consider the possibility that ancient cultures in MesoAmerica did interact with extraterrestrial beings as my friend Giorgio Tsoukalos of "Ancient Aliens" fame has been telling us for the past two decades.

It seems that even Wolter recognizes that his conclusions from the episode are unlikely to be correct. I think it’s a pretty big ask to tell us to simply set aside the obvious problems with the artifacts in favor of fantasizing about what if. It’s a bit like planning your financial future based on the potential that your Mega Millions ticket will hit the jackpot.

What followed was an even more depressing display of ignorance:

I've never given the idea aliens visiting us from other planets a serious thought. That is, until now... I'm not ready to jump on the bandwagon yet, but until we get to the bottom of how old these artifacts really are, who made them, and if the obvious reference to aliens, spaceships and the interaction of apparent aliens with early native cultures, we must maintain an open mind to these possibilities. Irronically, the week before the episode aired, curious articles like this one appeared on news feeds: https://www.yahoo.com/news/navy-ufos-reporting-guidelines-updated-202515828.html Was this a coincidence, or something else?

The articles Wolter went on about were those related to the efforts of To the Stars Academy of Arts and Science to promote their current History Channel series Unidentified. To the Stars pushed the government to do more with UFO reporting and happily hyped the results to bolster the new series. The only “coincidence” is that both the Travel Channel, where America Unearthed airs, and the History Channel, where Unidentified airs, both began their summer seasons the week after Memorial Day, the traditional start of the summer TV season, allowing Wolter to imagine that his own efforts to copy Ancient Aliens have a deeper significance.

62 Comments

Jim

6/6/2019 10:39:45 am

One has to wonder if his guests feel betrayed, being invited to the show to be intentionally submarined and debunked to make the king of fakery look legit.
Speaking of fakery, where are the giants ? His guest on the first episode was asked to relay this story in filmed casual conversation :

http://www.lostshipofthedesert.com/giants-of-tiburon-island/?fbclid=IwAR10g6VOr3Wj79DszdKa5ULjZeHO5Yj2N91fncyJCoLZ4yB84TuIdXiGhMY

"Here is the source of the story I was asked to tell Scott as we walked to the petroglyphs from the car,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
,,,,,,,,,,We did three takes (re-walking the path) to get it just right for the director plus walked that section a fourth time as the drone filmed us from above."

http://forums.bajanomad.com/viewthread.php?tid=92242&page=4

(That is page 4 of 4 on David Kier's site describing his experience on the show, complete with photos, if you are inclined to read.)

Joe Scales

6/6/2019 11:09:38 am

"... his performance on Tuesday’s America Unearthed was so mind-numbingly stupid..."

You could probably have stopped right there. Kinda says it all.

6/6/2019 12:00:14 pm

"I have come up with possible ways to make a glue that would date that far back and I hope to have the opportunity to test my idea."

Grab a brain Scott, why retest using the same test that the glue was designed to beat ?
I have 99.9% confidence that if properly used Wolters new XRF scanner would show the fakery. Of course Wolter lacks the expertise to analyze the results.
Maybe he is saving that for a later "aha
I an a genius moment".

6/6/2019 05:53:27 pm

If you read this article and can't figure out how to fake the ancient glue, you have an IQ lower than Wolters.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/british-columbia/article-footprints-found-in-bc-confirmed-as-earliest-known-of-their-kind-in/

Accumulated Wisdom

6/6/2019 12:20:40 pm

https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YyNSe2RnvzM/XPL1GymwLDI/AAAAAAAABg4/MahONIyiHL0Qi2Bt-6fpXh5hT59TuXs-wCLcBGAs/s1600/IMG_2060.JPG

The body language of the dude standing in the background of this photo, says it all. Reminds me of a scene from the TV series "Fringe".(Dude looks like a wax figure of Rudolph Giuliani in disguise) Zoom in on the man's hands. He is literally holding himself down, against the table. He has effectively cut off blood flow in his hand. The tip of his middle finger is red, and his index finger and ring fingers are white. He has trapped blood in his middle finger, and cut off blood flow to the other two. There are other hints of falsehood in this photo, however, this is the most blatantly obvious example.

Kent

6/6/2019 12:59:32 pm

I'm not going to ask you to explain the mechanism for that, because of course you can't. Anthony you imbecile (sorry Joe, I got here first), you're comparing the fingernails on the first and ring fingers with the meaty distal section of the middle finger. Did I mention imbecile? Oh yes, I did.

6/6/2019 01:43:00 pm

It is the exact same body language, displayed by college girls, attempting to use a fake ID. To keep the body from nervously shaking, people will hold themselves down. Part of the fear of being caught. Some people are really good liars,and you have to look for the micro expressions. As your interactions with people seems limited to the internet, you probably will have no idea what, I'm talking about.

6/6/2019 02:03:45 pm

I don't think it's necessary to be insulting you imbecile. What books did you read yesterday and the day before?

Do you identify as a college girl?

Now I'm going to ask you to explain the mechanism: How does the guy concentrate the blood in the tip of his middle finger and drain the blood from his ring and index fingers? Take all the time you need.

Isn't it more likely that you're comparing fingernails to suntanned skin you imbecile?

I think it's super keen that you came in here with what you thought you could sell as some insight derived from your attention to detail and as usual turned out to be soooo wrong.

6/6/2019 07:37:40 pm

I can't believe, I need to explain hand pressure to a narcissist. Maybe, the self-love specialist should explain it to me.

He is putting slightly more pressure on his middle finger than the rest of his hand. Very easily duplicated.

Reading body language is an acquired skill. A skill which has not only made me money but, saved money as well. Comes in real handy, talking to a car salesman.

Hint:

Salesman: Yep. The car has new tires all around. While shaking his head no...LIAR.

Salesman: Yep. The car has new tires all around. While nodding his head yes...Truth

Be careful though. Some liars are good enough to disguise their body language.

Salesman: Yep. The car has new tires all around. While shaking his head yes, look for a quick twitch of the mouth, off to one side, or the other...LIAR.

The quick little twitch is called a "micro expression".

Silly

6/6/2019 07:56:46 pm

Maybe just look at the tires.

6/6/2019 10:09:46 pm

Pressure on the middle finger lightens rather than reddens it, because it pushes blood OUT, so that's wrong for a start. You are truly the imbecile that keeps on giving.

Still interested in hearing about your [imaginary] reading.

6/6/2019 10:35:52 pm

"He has effectively cut off blood flow in his hand. The tip of his middle finger is red, and his index finger and ring fingers are white. He has trapped blood in his middle finger, and cut off blood flow to the other two."

Also waiting for the explanation of how he cuts off circulation to the index and middle fingers, you quick little twitch.

Hipolita Bolivar

6/7/2019 08:39:08 am

Salesman: Yep. The car has new tires all around. With arms and hands. LIAR.

Salesman: Yep. The car has new tires all around. No arms, legs or hands. True.

DOH!

6/6/2019 12:44:07 pm

“I don’t like what I see here. I’ve examined countless ancient inscriptions and one thing they all have in common is there edges are worn down by centuries of exposure to the elements. The edges of these carvings look sharp and crisp which cazn be a tell tale sign they are not very old.”

“These carvings might be a modern hoax. It doesn’t happen often but sometimes people fake archaeological discoveries for attention or even profit.”

Everybody chuckle and nod in unison.

6/6/2019 01:15:54 pm

Doc Rock

6/6/2019 04:10:54 pm

I wonder if one of the conditions of picking up the series was taking the woo down a notch. It seems to me that in both of the new episodes and on the blog, there is more of a façade of attempting an objective perspective. The crazy still comes out eventually, though.

And....

6/6/2019 10:41:50 pm

And the wheel has been invented since the time when you were a toilet cleaner. Who cares about the past history of slavery when rough sleepers are dying like flies in 21st century Britain.

Tudlaw

6/6/2019 11:25:13 pm

That seems unnecessarily rude and far off-topic.

An Over-Educated Grunt

6/7/2019 12:09:03 am

Two clauses that describe that particular oxygen pirate quite neatly, I'm afraid.

Didn't answer my question

6/7/2019 05:20:23 am

Grunt didn't answer the question about Rights of Man and Freedom of Belief being more powerful than Judeo-Christianity. Grunt can only rant about Freemasonry,

Some people want to take us back to the Dark Ages of Throne and Altar. Before the days of American Independence.

Not off-topic

6/7/2019 05:23:39 am

Merely demonstrating that Doc Rock had similar shortcomings to Scott Wolter in other areas.

6/7/2019 07:59:58 am

Nor am I required to. I could either spend my days arguing with you, over increasingly stupid and irrelevant points, or I could do literally anything else. I chose anything else.

6/7/2019 08:43:04 am

"Grunt didn't answer the question about Rights of Man and Freedom of Belief being more powerful than Judeo-Christianity."

You did not pose the question.

6/7/2019 09:38:12 am

If I recall correctly my shortcoming(s) is that I am capable of having an intelligent conversation about 19th century slavery and colonialism and engaged in a discussion of those issues within the context of a discussion of the Victorian era. I believe that my critic felt that I should have instead been discussing the plight of the working class in jolly olde England who evidently don't always get a potty break when they want it while on the clock. That quite obviously puts me in the same class with someone who thinks that Minoans mined a jillion pounds of copper from the Great Lakes region over the course of thousands of years without leaving a single artifact.

AND...

6/7/2019 10:01:57 am

Who cares about 19th century slavery a subject matter about something that is dead and gone and instead ignoring today's realities. Typical upper class ineptitude and ignorance,

Grunt's Grunting

6/7/2019 10:06:24 am

Avoiding the point, American Independence was all about introducing freedom of belief, republicanism and democracy and destroying the shackles of the Church and the constitutional monarch George III, puppet king of the British Government..

6/7/2019 10:35:08 am

Who cares about those fixated on whining about the plight of people in societies where stroking out because of obesity is probably the biggest risk that they face.

6/7/2019 10:48:37 am

Shocking evidence of ineptitude from a cerebral lecturer

6/7/2019 10:52:57 am

I don't have time for this nonsense. My time will be better served sitting on the veranda sipping a bloody mary while berating the crew of illegal aliens doing my yardwork for sub-minimum wage.

Homer Sextown

6/7/2019 11:00:29 am

"I don't have time for this nonsense." Clearly you do.
"But you ARE in that chair, Blanchr!"

Bloody Marys: They're not just for breakfast anymore!

6/7/2019 11:10:46 am

Glad to see that you are hanging in there with the meds and keeping it limited to occasional short attempted zingers rather than long tirades.

Thoughts and prayers for your progress.

6/7/2019 11:51:33 am

Time is indeed on your side. God bless your liver. I'm halfway thru my daily fifth but fortunately stop and go traffic is relatively safe. Can't wait to get to the course and take advantage of one of the pivotal inventions of the 20th century, the drinks cart. Sure hope Tabitha's working today.

6/7/2019 12:10:01 pm

Just remember that the drinks cart both giveth and taketh away, especially if you are hitting line drives at ducks on the pond by the 11th hole. Always best to pack a hip flask of the Irish for Plan B.

6/7/2019 11:03:19 am

"Let Them Eat Cake"

6/7/2019 12:33:50 pm

Who doesn't like cake? You seem grouchy.

You know it doesn't actually mean cake, right?

6/7/2019 03:26:30 pm

You know what you are doing - right?

6/8/2019 12:38:08 pm

Would someone please go and make a comment on Scott's blog.
Poor Scott is getting lonely waiting for a second comment.

http://scottwolteranswers.blogspot.com/2019/06/america-unearthed-season-4-episode-2.html

6/8/2019 01:28:05 pm

You mean he didn't post the one about how the guy was lying with his middle finger in the picture?

I personally enjoy the way Wolter "presents" in that photo.

My friend who posts there from time to time with some success says there's really nothing to talk about on the latest show. That might not be an uncommon assessment.

Baja Boys

6/8/2019 05:11:20 pm

Things went sideways very quickly with the discussion of the Viking episode. Even his mouth-breathing sycophants don't feel compelled to try to make lemonade out of the alien artifacts episode. Either nobody wants to waste time posting or he is back to censoring comments heavily because any new comments are calling him out as a Double D.

Hans

6/9/2019 12:44:38 am

The problem with the C14 date is that we don't know what the adhesive is made of. Maybe Scott does? If the adhesive has any petroleum based components, then the C14 dates are meaningless.

6/9/2019 01:45:00 am

Wolter only seemed interested in replicating the test that had already been done and showed the date he wanted.
On the previous episode he had an XRF analyzer, why not use that to find the content ?
Look what a competent scientist like Dr. Christa Brosseau at Saint Mary's University in Halifax did in her testing of the fake Roman sword of Oak Island.
Wolter knows full well it is a fake, but that does not work when they are following a scripted show looking for oohs and aahs.

6/9/2019 10:36:47 am

" That’s because fossil fuels can shift the radiocarbon age of new organic materials today, making them hard to distinguish from ancient ones."

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/carbon-dating-crucial-scientific-technique-jeopardy-thanks-our-pollution-heres-easy-way-fix-it-180961345/

Of course, Wolter may think this is a plot by the Smithsonian to discredit him.

6/9/2019 03:39:08 pm

That struck me as quite ironic that Wolter now believes science has to be replicated. Now who was it that replicated his tomb stone/KRS study again???

6/9/2019 04:02:30 pm

If he's come around on reproducibility, which I've always understood to be important, what are the chances he'll come around on actual peer-review? Nah.

6/9/2019 04:39:32 pm

"If he's come around on reproducibility,"

Meh, he just cherry picks the data that he can use.

In this case the replicated carbon dating data supports the 9000 year old dateline even though it is easily faked.

In the case of the KRS, replication of his tests by competent people prove his errors and incompetence. At which point it suddenly becomes a conspiracy.

6/9/2019 04:54:19 pm

It would take a damaging mold and an unauthorized core sample to reproduce his work on the KRS. He talks about "court of law" but had an adverse judgement against him for selling dodgy agates.

And always remember and never forget the falsification of the resume.

But, but, he worked on the Pentagon after 9/11! As a subcontractor (hat tip Joe Scales I think). Well I used to work for the Treasury Department. Painting offices.

6/10/2019 10:54:26 am

"In the case of the KRS, replication of his tests by competent people..."

Not so fast there buddy. The very nature of replicating Wolter embraces incompetency. So you'll have to find other people.

6/9/2019 01:50:23 am

Hans:

" If the adhesive has any petroleum based components, then the C14 dates are meaningless."

I was wondering if you could expand on that ?,,,thanks.

6/9/2019 02:07:28 am

Jim,

From what I understand, bone ground down to a powder, can be used as an adhesive base. I am wondering...Did this idiot destroy a really old bone?

Have you ever heard of bone used for gluemaking?

They call the wind Mariah

6/9/2019 06:34:26 am

All bone fragments everywhere must be preserved!

You used to post frequent'y on Wolter's blog "Ooh Scott! Listen to my latest idea!" and now he's an idiot?

6/9/2019 10:34:44 am

"I was wondering if you could expand on that ?,,,thanks."

I'll jump in here. Due to petroleum's extreme age, even though it has a lot of carbon it is not subject to 14C dating. If the non-petroleum-based ingredients of this hypothetical glue cannot be separated from the petroleum-based ingredients, the sample will test "old" due to the large proportion of 12C from the petroleum-based ingredients.

6/9/2019 10:54:39 am

Kent, ,,, You beat me by 2 minutes,,,lol

Wolter:

"We don't know anything yet about the adhesives composition yet, but we will."

I guess it just wasn't important enough for Wolter to establish the actual date of this obviously fake artifact.
Watch him pretend he knew this all along.

6/9/2019 11:28:04 am

I thought that was funny too! [ Insert story about my superiority and many successes here. :) ]

I see that Hans has (successfully) posted his qualm over at Wolter's blog. I am also interested in seeing the wriggling.

Bang the Drum Slowly

6/9/2019 08:08:33 am

See, Anthony? Hans is an example of someone who can (successfully) post both here and on Wolter's blog, while raising a good point.

6/9/2019 05:11:51 pm

Yikes !

https://ancientalienartifacts.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDMPE6KOPlM

Credit goes to the fine folks at:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/149844915349213/permalink/916089748724722/

6/9/2019 05:35:23 pm

Looks like more Russian UFO nonsense:

http://elhistoria.ru/

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=488529144979590&id=100014675261916

I am pretty sure I have identified the UFOs as Klingon.

http://elhistoria.ru/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/img_1195-side-jpg.jpeg

6/9/2019 05:53:13 pm

Carbon dating test results:

http://elhistoria.ru/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/ElistratovO.AA111236-AMS-Analytical-Report-14C.pdf

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Felhistoria.ru%2Fresults_of_geological_examination%2F

http://elhistoria.ru/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/doc008b.pdf

6/9/2019 06:05:27 pm

http://elhistoria.ru/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/doc008b.pdf

"The product bears obvious signs of both machining with a rotary tool and traces of manual turning.
Deep patination of the surface and cracks in the mass of the ore aggregate can be of both natural and artificial origin.
Both that, and another allows to doubt authenticity of the given artifact.

6/9/2019 06:09:47 pm

Oops wrong link above use this one

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Felhistoria.ru%2Fresults_of_geological_examination%2F

6/9/2019 07:51:53 pm

Here is a deal !

Buy your own fake alien artifact for only $65,000.00.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Ancient-Pre-Columbian-Ojuelos-de-Jalisco-Alien-Axe-Black-Marble-FINE-CARVING/123671905199?hash=item1ccb6b83af:g:A54AAOSwVehcermh

6/9/2019 10:40:38 pm

Holy crap on a cracker Batman !

The mysterious Russian researcher Oleg Elistratov seems to be at the heart of all this nonsense, trying to sell artifacts for up to $65,000.00. Seems to be quite the operation.

Get a load of this !

https://www.trinfinity8.com/tag/oleg-elistratov/

"Elistratov also verifies that the stone tablets have a counter-clockwise negative spin. He claims being around them has slowed down his aging process."

"I called in a team of expert remote viewers and intuitives with a good track record to see,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,The beings connected to these artifacts and stone tablets come from the binary star Cygnus. Deneb, the brightest star in Cygnus, was the Pole Star going back to 15,000 B.C."

"The beings from Cygnus invaded the Earth,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,in the aftermath chaos following the third and final upheaval of Atlantis, which resulted in a massive planetary flood."

"The Ojuelos de Jalisco area is one of several large vortexes. Because of this alien race’s advanced electromagnetic technologies, they entered these inter-dimensional portals and could easily come and go."

And on, and on,,,,,,,,, this is hilarious, way more entertaining than Wolter.
They had a local guide (dowser) to show the Gringo exactly where to dig to find the artifact. Hahaha

Charles Rector link

6/14/2019 05:34:41 pm

What I'd like to know is what happened to all the old timers who made the comments sections of this blog such a neurotic war zone?

Whatever happened to Nobody Knows, Pam, Only Me, Time Machine, Over-Educated Grunt, Scott Hamilton (was he the guy who was a radio talk show host in Little Rock during the 1990's?) and all the rest of them? these days, David Bradbury is the only one left of the old timers and he was always too polite to make much of an impression.

Oh for the thrilling days of yesteryear aka 2015 and thereabouts.